Archives for April 9th, 2015

Delta Spends N3.5bn On Asaba Flyover Bridge

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OnBy Omos Oyinbode, Asaba Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has warned contractors handling government projects to execute them according to specification and standards so that the people of the state would maximize the benefits accruable from them. Governor Uduaghan Commissioning the Asaba Flyover Bridge. Dr. Uduaghan gave the warning, Thursday, during the commissioning of N3.5bn Flyover ...

Guber Poll: Wike Loses Hope, Seeks Soft Landing •Asks Rivers State People to Vote out PDP – APC Reveals

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By Francis Nwaorgu Wirth defeat staring him in the face, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the April 11 governorship polls in Rivers State, Chief Nyesome Wike, has made overtures to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), seeking to negotiate his future after the expected victory of the APC candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside. Rivers APC Chairman, ...

Over 4million persons are suffering from Epilepsy in Nigeria – Mrs. Asemota

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By: EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY (BENIN) The need for government at all level and other stakeholders to support and collaborate with the Epilepsy suffers has been reemphasized in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Mrs. Angela Asemota This clarion call was made recently at a one day symposium to mark the purple day celebration with the theme “the ...

April 11 Guber Poll: Uduaghan Says PDP Will Sweep Polls Despite Presidential Defeat

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By Francis Sadhere The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan today said the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the state will be victorious in the April 11, 2015 Governorship election. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State. At a meeting in Warri with PDP members from Delta South Senatorial District, the Governor expressed gratitude to them for the ...

Governorship Polls: Uduaghan Cautions Electorate To Conduct Themselves in Peaceful Manner…Says Elections Not Do Or Die Affair

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By Francis Sadhere The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan today called on Deltans to conduct themselves in peaceful manner during upcoming governorship and State House of Assembly elections, saying people should not take the elections as a do or die affair. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State Governor Uduaghan who made this call in Warri during ...

NIGER DELTA AND THE IMPERATIVE OF INTELLECTUAL MILITANCY

CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE NIGER DELTA AND THE IMPERATIVE OF INTELLECTUAL MILITANCY “The fact that man knows right from wrong Proves his intellectual superiority to the Other creatures; but the fact that he can Do wrong proves his moral inferiority To any creature that cannot.” -          MARK TWAIN The anecdotal portrayal of Greek mythologist and substantiated by an Urhobo adage, explicitly ...

President Jonathan’s Aide Oronto Douglas Is Dead

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Oronto Douglas, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy, is dead. Oronto Douglas Mr. Douglas, 49, a presidency source said, passed on at the State House clinic at 4:58 a.m. Friday. The real cause of his death is unknown at this time, but the presidential adviser is said to have managed a ...

Roli Uduaghan Urges Delta Women to Vote For Okowa

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By Tejiri Ebikeme/Francis Sadhere Wife of the Delta State Governor, Deaconess Roli Nere Uduaghan yesterday urged all Delta Women to vote for the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa in next Saturdays election, saying they will benefit more from the government of Okowa. Deaconess (Mrs.) Roli Nere Uduaghan Deaconess Uduaghan made this call in Warri, Delta State, ...

DAKUKU PETERSIDE: THE AUDACITY OF THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE

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By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze Dictonary.com defines audacity as boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions, effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness. Defining audacity in action, Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian General and Military Theorist, said: “If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues ...