Archives for August 28th, 2015

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 ...