Archives for February, 2016 - Page 6
Isoko North PDP Passes Vote of Confidence on Okowa, Ogor, Macaulay, Others
Ovedhe Jerry
People's Democratic Party PDP members in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta have passed a vote of confidence on leaders of the party for their leadership qualities, good governance and effective representation.
Governor Ifeanyi Okow of Delta State
The vote of confidence was passed at an enlarged meeting of the leaders and stakeholders of ...
Utomi, good role model from Delta State, says Okowa
By Our Correspondent
Delta State Governor, Sen Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has described Prof Pat Utomi as a good role model from Delta State. Governor Okowa stated this in Lagos at the weekend during the grand finale of activities to mark the 60th birthday celebration of the Ibusa, Delta State born academic of many parts.
Delta State ...
ACD CHIEFTAIN CALLS ON OGBORU, EMERHOR, TO JOIN HANDS WITH OKOWA
By Francis Sadhere/Stella Peredu
A chieftain of the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD), Hon. Johnbull Okoro has called on Chief Great Ogboru, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and members of other political parties that have contested in the 2015 elections to join hands with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State to move the state forward.
Hon. Johnbull Okoro
Hon. ...
Wike’s public holiday is aimed at putting on the toga of a deity – Rivers APC
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has vehemently condemned the decision by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike declaring today Friday, 5th February, 2016 as a public holiday, describing it as a “poorly conceived attempt at self-adulation” that belong to the past.
The party in a statement signed by ...
Maritime University: Etoromi Charges Buhari to Call Amaechi to Order ..Says Tompolo Not Involved In Recent Bombing of Oil Facilities
By Tejiri Ebikeme/Francis Sadhere/Stella Peredu
National Chairman, Niger Delta Forum for Good Governance, Chief (Col.) Satchie Etoromi, (rtd) has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to call the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi to order over his recent comment in which he rooted for the scrapping of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, emphasizing that Hon. Amaechi ...
“I Cannot Judge Fr. Mbaka”- Anglican Vicar
Okpalaume Mary, Sapele
An Anglican priest, Venerable Oghenekaro Nelson Emibeyo has stated that he cannot judge the actions of the embattled Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Enugu who spoke up against former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration during last year’s electioneering period and who have been accused by many people ...
Army Nabs Five Suspected Kidnappers in Sapele
By Our Correspondent
Soldiers attached to 19 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, have arrested five suspected kidnappers over the abduction of a popular wood merchant identified as Johnbull Iboyikporo.
The suspects, Henry Osibo, Samson Ojiwo, Kingsley Okpako, Efe Odjigba Ogbeyen aka Ogbes and his girlfriend, Miss Mercy Iwari were ...
Supreme Court Judgment: Delta APC Vows To Kick Out PDP In 2019
…Ogboru, Omo-Agege Will Decamp to APC Soon -Latimore
By Francis Sadhere
The Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has accepted the Supreme Court judgment that has affirmed the election of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, saying that they will start mobilizing the citizens to kick out the Peopple’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019.
Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe
Speaking ...
ESSAY COMPETITION: SPRINGFIELD INT’L SCHOOL SAPELE STUDENT EMERGE OVERALL BEST WINNER
By Our Correspondent
A JSS3 female student of Springfield Int’l High School Sapele, Delta
State, Miss Izibili Bella has emerged the overall best student in the
Chris Ikomi Memorial Essay Competition organized by Chevron/NNPC Joint Sponsorship at the Government Model Secondary School, Asaba, Delta State.
Miss Izibili Bella came first out of over 5,400 students across Delta
State who participated in ...
CEPEJ tasks Delta Govt on Ekpan crisis
By Our Correspondent
Foremost Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) in Delta state, has been called on the state government to find a lasting solution to the intractable intra-communal crisis bedeviling oil rich Ekpan community in Uvwie Council of the state.
Comrade Sheriff Mulade
National Coordinator, CEPEJ, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, made this appeal in ...
THE ITSEKIRI NATION, OGIAME AND THE LEBENSRAUM
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
Polymorphous systematization and the orchestration of strategic maneuvering remain cardinal adjuncts and imperative constructs in political engineering processes. The collectivity’s indices are multi-dimensionally structured to the economic, socio-political organic fibre of singularity giving the arrow-head its pungency.
Demographically, the Itsekiri people constitute a minute minority – a kind of microcosm in a macrocosm in ...
ANTI-CORRUPTION JIHAD AND BACKWARD INTEGRATION
By BOBSON GBINIJE
“The greatest incitement to crime
Is the hope of escaping punishment”
Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Corruption as an institution and a hydra- headed vampiric monster glories in the gory of its recidivistic propensities. Whosoever declares war against this metastatic malady must be prepared for death, martyrdom or outright consignment to the dunghill of history, because corruption will ...
THE NEED TO ADDRESS THE DEPLORABLE POWER SUPPLY SITUATION IN DELTA STATE BY BEDC GROSS UNDER-PERFORMANCE
By Zik Gbemre
Having endured countless months of untold hardship and anguish, which still persists till today, as a result of the poor, pathetic, deplorable and unexplained power supply situation in the oil city of Warri and environs being provided by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), we consider it expedient to “cry out” and draw ...
SUPREME COURT VERDICT: Okowa Urges Emerhor, Ogboru To Apologise To Deltans
By Our Correspondent
DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has called on the All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in the last general elections and his counterpart in Labour Party (LP), Olorogun O’Tega Emerhor and Chief Great Ogboru respectively to apologise to Deltans for distracting them with legal battles they knew were not justifiable.
Governor ...
Supreme Court Judgement: Brilliant and straightforward, says Delta Speaker
By Fidel Njamanze
The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya, on Tuesday described the Supreme Court judgement as brilliant and straightforward.
Governor IfeanyiOkowa of Delta State
He also said Governor Okowa’s victory at the apex court was well deserved as “it is the will of a democratic majority”.
Igbuya in a statement issued in ...