Archives for August, 2015 - Page 2

DESOPADEC: Okowa Inaugurates 14-Man Governing Board

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...Challenges members on Prudent Management of Resource By Our Correspondent Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated a 14-man Governing Board for the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission charging them to ensure prudent management of resources for the benefits of the people. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State The inauguration ceremony which was ...

Ijaw people reject composition of DESOPADEC’s board, Vows to go on mass protest on streets

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By Francis Sadhere Ijaw people in Delta State have rejected the composition of the new board of the State intervention agency, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Commission (DESOPADEC) and carpeted Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over what they described as bias in picking members of the board. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State The board has 13 members with ...

EDO CP DECLARES WAR AGAINST CRIME, AS 117 ARRESTED, 82 CHARGED, 35 OTHERS PARADED, 40 ARMS RECOVERED

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By: Eben Enasco Kingsley (Benin City) In a more determined bid to rid the society of crime and criminality, the Edo State police Command have arrested 117-suspected syndicates over crime related offences between July and August 2015. Solomon Arase, IGP, Nigeria The disclosure was made known to newsmen during a press briefing held  at the State police ...

Justice Omereji Commission Illegal – Rivers APC

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……Says it is a kangaroo court which cannot investigate Amaechi or his administration By Besieging Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared the Rivers Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the administration of former Governor Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as illegal, saying that it lacks constitutional powers to do the work ...

Lucky Odili’s appeal still pending and alive – Rivers APC

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By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, says its attention has been drawn to grave misrepresentation of facts by some electronic media in Port Harcourt concerning the Wednesday ruling of an Abuja Appeal Court on the appeal filed by Lucky Odili of the APC seeking to upturn the decision of the ...

DELTA AT 24: EMERHOR DECRIES SORRY STATE OF INFRASTRUCTURAL DECAY AND HIGH DEBT PROFILE.

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By Our Correspondent All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the April 11 governorship election, Olorogun Otega Emerhor  has decried the sorry state of infrastructural decay, acute poverty, ever increasing debt profile, high rate unemployment and gross underdevelopment in Delta State, particularly in the past 16 years of reckless looting of financial resources by the successive administrations ...

DESOPADEC board: Mulade accuses Okowa of lopsided appointments

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By Our Correspondent A prominent Niger Delta activist, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, has accused governor Ifeanyi Okowa of lopsidedness in the appointment of the board members of DESOPADEC, stating that Ijaw nation has been short changed in the scheme of thing. Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State Governor. Comrade Mulade who stated this today in Warri, while interacting ...

100 Days of Okowa in Delta

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By Oghenejabor Ikimi My score card of President Muhammadu Buhari's 100 days in office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces is very high in terms of his anti corruption crusade, fight against impunity and insecurity as he has used the above period to tirelessly lay the ...

NPDC Entry Into Jones Creek Oil Field is Fraudulent – Mulade

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Comrade Sheriff Mulade is the Coordinator, Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) and the Spokesperson for Jones Creeks Communities, host to the National Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, in the Jones Creek Oil field. In this interview with Francis Sadhere, he bares his mind on the reasons why the communities decided to shut down the ...

DELTA TRIBUNAL TRIALS: PDP HOLDS RED ALERT MEETINGS TOWARDS POSSIBLE RE-RUN ELECTION.

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By Our Correspondent The political struggle for the “Soul of Delta State” is tensed as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hope of sustaining its tradition of winning legal battles to retain its stronghold in the power game dims by the day. Olorogun O'tega Emerhor (middle) addressing newsmen precently in Asaba.   A source close to the State Party ...

THE BAYELSA GOVERNORSHIP  ECHOES– THE 2016 DARKENING PLAINS

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By Willy Bozimo When some weeks back I read a reasoned piece by Lindsay Barret, a veteran journalist who had sojourned for many decades in Nigeria since the ‘infamous’ Civil War (1967-1970) fought by Nigerian soldiers and their brothers East of the Niger. Mr. Lindsay Barret, who can be described as an authority on the dynamics ...

Okowa Says MSME, Best Way To Tackle Youth Unemployment … Flags Off Training Programme For 1, 645 Delta Youths

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By Our Correspondent DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has flagged off a training programme for one thousand, six hundred and forty-five youths saying his administration's interest in Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) was because it is the best way to tackle youth unemployment. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State According to Governor Okowa, ...

Youth Empowerment Scheme: Envirumedic Tasks Okowa to Monitor Youths

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By Francis Sadhere A Non-Governmental Organization, Evironmental &Rural Mediation Centre,ENVIRUMEDIC has tasked the Delta State Government on the need to put “monitoring mechanisms” in place to check youths Undergoing various training programmes at Songhai who may want to divert funds and starter packs that will be given to them after the programme. Chief Monday Ogheneruona Itoghor, Chief Executive Officer,Envirumedic ...

WAR LOOMS AT UGBENU- OGHARA COMMUNITY AS POLICE GETS ALERTS OF IMPENDING DANGER

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War seems to be looming at Ugbenu- Oghara Community of Ethiope west local government area of Delta State as short changed youths who were robbed from contesting their election calls on the Area Commander, Ughelli Area Command Nigeria Police force for the immediate investigation of the activities of those fanning the amber of war In that peaceful community. Solomon Arase, ...
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