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Delta PPA Adopts Okowa for April 11 Guber Election

By Omos Oyinbode, Asaba The Progressive Peoples Party (PPA) in Delta State has adopted the Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, as its candidate for the April 11 governorship election in the state. Speaking with THE UNION in Asaba, Delta State capital, leader of the party in Delta, Hon. Taju Isichei, said ...

UYMPC ENDORSES OLOROGUN O’TEGA EMERHOR FOR GOVERNOR…..says Chief Great Ogboru a betrayer

By Harriet Anetor   The All Progressive Congress governorship candidate in delta state Olorugun O’Tega Emerhor has been unanimously endorsed by a cross section of Urhobo youths under the umbrella of Urhobo Youth Movement for Progressive Change (UYMPC). Speaking recently at the event held at Ughelli town in Ughelli North LGA of Delta State, the group co-coordinator comrade ...

Bayelsa Senator- Elect Lauds Electorate…Dedicates Victory To Almighty God

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By Philip Eke, Yenagoa The great Sagbama born politician in Bayelsa State, Evangelist (Hon.)Foster Ogola, Former Chairman Bayelsa State Scholarship Board, who has created a niche for himself in educational, political development and the social circle in Bayelsa State and Nigeria at large, is undoubtedly undisputable, who was recently elected into the senate representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal constituency. The first timer ...

April 11 Polls: Lawyer Lauds INEC for Insisting on Use of Card Readers

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Tejiri Ebikeme The Executive Director of the Centre for the vulnerable and the underprivileged, (CENTREP), Barrister Oghenejabor Ikimi, has lauded Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for insisting on the use of Permanent Voters Card and the Card Readers for the April 11 Governorship and National Assembly polls nationwide. Speaking to our Correspondent in Warri, the human rights ...

Mulade Calls for Sustained Peace in April 11 Polls

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By Our Correspondent The Coordinator/CEO of Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), Comrade Sheriff Mulade has enjoined all Nigerians to replicate the peaceful atmosphere which characterized the Presidential and National Assembly elections on the 28th of March, 2015, in the forthcoming Governorship and State Assembly elections on April 11, in the interest of national development. In ...

Delta Police Recover N450,000 Stolen from Biz Man in Delta

  By Omos Oyinbode, Warri A business man, one Agbarah Benawariebi, has cause to rejoice as the Enerhen Division of the Delta State Police Command, weekend, swooped on a three man robbery gang who dispossessed him of N450,000 he withdrew from his First Bank Account. Delta Police Public Relations Officer, Celestina Kalu, told journalists that the recovery ...

Mallam-Obi tasks Isoko undergraduates on peaceful polls

By Harriet Anetor Undergraduate students in Delta State University, Abraka under the umbrella of Nation Association of Isoko Students, have been enjoined to re-dedicate themselves and join hands with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure peaceful, free and credible general elections in the state. The Political Adviser to the Delta State Governor, (Delta South) Charles ...

April 11 Guber Poll: Amaechi, Peterside Will Crush Wike and PDP, Says Rivers APC

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Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its gubernatorial candidate, Chief Nyesome Wike, will be mercilessly crushed during the April 11 governorship election, the State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared. Rotimi Amaechi, Governor of Rivers Sate “Wike and PDP are doomed, as they cannot stand the combined ...

PHOTO NEWS: APC DELTA CHURCH SERVICE OVER BUHARI’S VICTORY

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All Progressives Governorship Candidate in Delta State, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor led party faithful and supporters in their thousands for a thanksgiving Church service at the Unity Parish of the Redeemed Church of God,  Asaba,  Delta State capital on Sunday April 5, 2015. It was worship and praise at its peak. Photo shows Chief (Mrs)  Rita Emerhor (right) and her husband, ...

Delta Police Arrest Two Robbery Suspects

By Omos Oyinbode, Warri Delta State Police Command has arrested two notorious armed robbers, one Josiah Apoi and Oghenechuko Lucky, who were operating along Olomu Street in the city of Warri, Delta State. The arrest was made following a distress call to the B’ Division of the Police in Warri, leading to the deployment of Anti-Robbery ...

Groups Celebrate President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari’s Victory In a Grand Style

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Christopher Odamah, Warri The Buhari Campaign Organisation and Warri South Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have joined millions of Nigerians across the country to celebrate the victory of the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28, 2015 Presidential/National Assembly elections. The ceremony took place recently at the private residence ...

Why I am Against Ejele Over Pipeline Surveillance Contract – Omolubi  

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Comrade Omolubi Newuwumi, a Niger Delta activist and President of the Iwere Development Association, IDA, is known for his outspokenness, saying it the ways it is no matter whose ox is gored. A Commissioner for Youth Development in Delta State, Comrade Omolubi recently stir the hornet nest when he accused his fellow tribesman, Hon. Micheal ...

LP Will Not Merge With APC – Ogboru

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Francis Sadhere The Labour Party (LP) Governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru weekend said his party is going to form the next government of the state, adding that the party had no intention of merging with the All Progressives Congress (APC) or any other party. The LP candidate said this at his residence in Abraka, ...

KIDNAPPER OF WIFE OF JURIST TO DIE BY HANGING

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BY OMOS OYINBODE, ASABA A High Court sitting in Ughelli Judicial Division, Delta State, has sentenced one David Tamarakpo Pade to death by hanging and two of his accomplices to a total of 19 years in jail with hard labour for armed robbery and kidnapping of the wife of a retired Judge of the Court of ...

CEPEJ Joins Millions of Nigerians To Congratulate Buhari

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By Francis Sadhere The Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), has joined millions of Nigerians across the country to congratulate General Mohammadu Buhari, the President-elect in the just concluded presidential elections. Comrade Sheriff Mulade, Coordinator/CEO, CEPEJ. The group made this known in a press statement signed by its Coordinator/CEO, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, and made available to ...
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