Archives for July 16th, 2015

Group Wants Okowa To Appoint Ofa As DESOPADEC Chairman

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 2707 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 1175 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 1279 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 1210 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 959 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in Crime 1264 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 1156 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 16 July 2015 in News 1286 Reads

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 ...