Archives for July, 2015 - Page 4

Sallah: Muslim Clerics Preach Peace

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By Francis Sadhere As Muslims all over the world celebrate Ied al-Fitr to mark the end of Ramadan, Muslim clerics in Delta State have reiterated the importance of peace in the nation. Alhaji Abdul'Aziz Bello, Chief Imam of NPA Mosque, Warri, Delta State. Speaking to our correspondent after the morning prayers, the Chief Imam of the Nigeria ...

Group Wants Okowa To Appoint Ofa As DESOPADEC Chairman

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  By Tejiri Ebikeme   THE Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr.) Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa has been urged to appoint Chief (Dr.) Henry Ofa as the new Chairman of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC). Dr. Henry Ofa represented Ethiope West, Sapele and Okpe in the Board of the commission that was recently dissolved by the State Government. ...

Fed Govt Deliberate Refusal To Pay Ex-Militants Laying Ground For Insurgency – IYC

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By Francis Sadhere The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide has said that the non-payment of the tuition fees and allowances of former Niger Delta agitators especially those undergoing undergraduate and post graduate degree programmes within and outside Nigeria is a deliberate ploy by the Federal Government to create another round of insurgency in the Niger-Delta region. ...

Bloody Rival Cult Clash Leaves Scores Injured in Delta….As Police Arrests 42 Suspects

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By Francis Sadhere Pandemonium broke out yesterday at Orhowhorun community in Udu Local government area of Delta State as rival cult groups numbering over 50 held the community to ransom for several hours as they engaged in bloody cult clash. Alkali Baba Usman, Delta State Commissioner of Police. According to an eye witness who claimed anonymity for ...

46 Years Old Woman Commits Suicide in Ekiti

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A 46-year-old woman identified as Mrs. Ajibola, was found hanging in her residence located at 4, Ajebamidele Street, Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The death of the woman, a mother of three children, threw the residents of the area into deep mourning. She was suspected to have taken her own life around 6 pm on the ...

Boko Haram Kills 12 in Borno

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At least 12 people were feared dead as Boko Haram insurgents raided a border town and attacked another in Borno State, according to military and vigilante sources. The town of Damasak, a few kilometres from the Niger border, had been recaptured from Boko Haram by Chadian and Nigerien troops in March but the insurgents have attacked ...

Court Sentences 21 Year Old to Death for Murdering Judge

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High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, yesterday sentenced to death, 21-year-old David Idah, who murdered a retired 65-year-old Deputy Chief Registrar of the court, Mrs. Olufunlayo Cecilia Timeyin. The convict had on April 7 been arraigned before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrate’s Court, on a one-count charge of unlawful killing, an offence which according to the ...

APC matters at tribunals receiving favourable attention – Rivers APC

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By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says its attention has been drawn to attempts by the PDP and their agents to sell to the public the impression that the APC petitions before various tribunals at Abuja are on the verge of being thrown out on grounds of technicality. Governor Nyesom Woke of Rivers ...

Delta Council Workers Suspend Two Months Strike

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By Omos Oyinbode, Asaba After 65 days of arrested development occasioned by unpaid salaries, the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Delta State Chapter, Wednesday, suspended its two months old industrial action. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. Announcing the suspension of the strike which had crippled the activities of the 25 local ...

ICPC Drills Orubebe Over Alleged N605m Fraud

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Former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has been quizzed in connection with the ongoing investigation of an alleged N605 million fraud in the Ministry. Godsday Orubebe The cash was withdrawn from the Constituency Project account of the ministry by five officials without authorisation while Orubebe was in charge. The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related ...

Otuaro Harps On Diversification of State Economy

BY DAVID OBES Delta State Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro, has said, it is very important to diversify the Delta State  economy by harnessing its solid minerals in order to move the state and the  nation forward,  stressing that the sole reliance on oil and gas has been retrogressive, unproductive and can no longer sustain the ...

CONDOLENCE VISIT

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National Assembly member representing Ughelli/Udu Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Chief Solomon Awhinawhi (2nd left) flanked by Delta State PDP stalwarts, Prince Okiemute Oviri (left), Chief Ojoba and Mr. Friday Ijomoni (right), during a condolence visit to the family of late PDP chieftain, Barr. Jonah Ijomoni in Ughelli, Delta State recently. ...

OKOWA @ 56: OGOR EMPOWER CONSTITUENTS

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  By Ovedhe Jerry   As part of activities to commemorates the 56th Birthday of the Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Leo Ogor Okuweh, member representing Isoko Nation in the Federal House of Representatives has recently empowered his constituents in line with his avowed promise to ameliorate the poverty and pains of the people and specifically to mark ...

Delta CP Vows To Reduce Criminality … Parades 35 Cultists, 4 Armed Robbers/Kidnappers in Warri

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By Francis Sadhere  The Delta State Commissioner of Police, C.P. Alkali Baba Usman today assured people in the state that the police will not spare any effort in reducing all kinds of criminality to the nearest minimum. Some of the suspected cultists paraded at the Area Command Warri, today. The Delta State police boss gave this assurance ...

NUPENG Suspends Strike Action

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By Tejiri Ebikeme The industrial strike action embarked upon by the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and National Gas Worker NUPENG has been suspended following a resolution reached at the end of a conciliatory meeting. A communiqué at the instance of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity between the Labour contractors to Chevron Nigeria Limited and Nigeria ...