Archives for August, 2016 - Page 6
EDO 2016: Alleged Assassination attempt on Guber-Candidate foiled, APC fingered
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
An alleged assassination attempt on the Accord party flag bearer Dr. Don Pedro Obaseki has been foiled in Benin City by vigilant and resilient aides and neighbors.
Personal Assistant of Don Pedro Obaseki, Mr. Ferdinand Orumwense with blood all over his face due to matchete cuts inflicted on him by the hoodlums.
It was gathered that the alleged assassins invaded his private residence on Sunday ...
Tompolo Says He has No Business With Avengers
By Francis Sadhere
Embattled former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Epkemupolo, alias Tompolo has denied having anything to do with the Niger Delta Avengers.
Tompolo who spoke through his media consultant, Paul Bebenimibo, in a press statement made available to our correspondent in Warri said nobody should take the allegation serious.
Bebenimibo who was also fingered to be among the Avengers by a splinter militant group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, described the allegation as a mistaken identity.
A splitter group of the NDA, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, had named former President Goodluck Jonathan, Tompolo, Bebenimibo, Ann Kio-BriggsKio-Briggs and other prominent individuals as sponsors the Avengers, which have wreaked havoc on ...
Flood destroys 5,300 houses in Kano
By Our Correspondent
Disaster has hit Kano state as flood destroyed over 5,300 houses in six local government areas of the state.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the executive secretary of the State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, Alhaji Aliyu Bahsir disclosed this in an interview in Kano on Monday, August 8th.
Bashir also said that the affected ...
EFCC BOSS WHO ARRESTED BLOGGER ABUSIDIQU DEMANDS FOR TWO DIRECTORS AS SURETIES TO SET HIM FREE
Contrary to press release issued by the spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Wilson Uwujaren that Mr Abubakar Sidiq Usman who was harassed and picked up in his home on Monday morning by armed men from the agency has been released; we can report authoritatively that it is not true.
President ...
My life is in danger – GEJ cries out
By Our Correspondent
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, ex-president of Nigeria has raised an alarm that his life is under threat by militants.
Goodluck Jonathan
Jonathan has said that the group MEND is after his life.
In a statement made by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze on Sunday August 7, Jonathan said the list of sponsors by the splinter group Reformed Niger ...
ON MERGER OF MDAs IN STATES – A GOOD STEP IN CUTTING HIGH GOVERNANCE COST
By Zik Gbemre
It is generally known that the Nigerian democratic system is perhaps one of the most expensive democracy in the world. Beside the perennial systemic corruption, there is “duplication of supposed statutory functions” across several Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), Other Agencies of Government; this actually is one of the reasons why the Recurrent Expenditures ...
Pay your workers, Oshiomhole tells LG Chiefs
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has directed the Heads of Service of Local Governments to prioritize the payment of Local Government workers’ salaries, adding that they must look inwards to generate revenue to meet their wage bill and block all loopholes.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.
Speaking during a meeting with the ...
INEC, IRI, ASSURES PWD’s OF INCLUSIVE PARTICIPATION AHEAD GUBER-ELECTION
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
People Living With Disabilities, PWD’s will no longer be over look in the scheme of things in any electioneering procedures says Independence National Electoral Commission in partnership with International Republican Institute, IRI, and political parties across board.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.
The assurance was made at a sensitization workshop ...
INEC must release Tai election results – APC
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, said they have taken notice of a press statement by the Chairman of the Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic People (PDP), Felix Obuah, signed by his media aide, Jerry Needam in which reference was made to a petition by the PDP chairman threatening dire consequences ...
Group Clears Kachikwu Of Alleged Extravagant Lifestyle
**** Says Minister Did Not Chatter Flight To China
By Francis Sadhere
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has cleared the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Emmanuel Kachikwu of alleged extravagant lifestyle.
Dr. I've Kachikwu
The group also insisted that the Minister never spent #182 Million on Chattered Flight to China as it equally ...
Gov. Obiano, Umeh, Maku, Others, Woo Support For Onaiwu
By Eben Kingsley Enasco
Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Willie Obiano, Senator Victor Umeh, former Minister of Information and National Secretary of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Mr.Labaran Maku and others, have wooed voters to vote for the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, Mr. Osaro Onaiwu to continue with the developments strides of the All Progressives Congress in ...
I’m Most Qualified Governorship Candidate For Edo-Adviser Nowamagbe
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Governorship candidate on the platform of United Progressive Party, Mr. Sheddrach Nowamagbe, a musician by profession who goes by the stage name, Adviser Nowamagbe has said as an entertainer, he is the most qualified candidate for the governorship election come September 10.
Mr. Sheddrach Nowamagbe gave the hint while fielding questions ...
ON DELTA STATE IMMORTALISES EX-GOVERNOR FELIX IBRU – NOT JUSTIFIABLY DONE BY GOVERNOR OKOWA
By Zik Gbemre
Despite our advice that the Delta State Government should immortalize late Olorogun (Senator) Felix Ovuodoroye Ibru, CON, whose funeral rites started on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 and to end on Sunday, August 7, 2016, by naming the Delta State University after him, it is appalling to note that all that the Delta State Government ...
DESIST FROM YOUTH RESTIVENESS, ISAWHE CHARGES YOUTHS
By Ovedhe Jerry
The administrator of Delta State Vocational Education Board, Ozoro Skill Aquisition Centre, Mr Isawhe Augustine has called on Youths of Isoko Nation to desist from youth restiveness and key into any of the vocational courses available at the centre for self empowerment.
Mr Isawhe Augustine The administrator of Delta State Vocational Education Board, Ozoro Skill ...
Driver Killed in Failed Robbery attempt at Government House Warri
By Francis Sadhere
Suspected dare devil armed robbers today shot dead a driver working with the Government House, Annex, Warri in what seemed to be a failed robbery attempt.
Zanna Mohammed, Delta State Commissioner of Police.
Our correspondent gathered that the driver who was shot was believed to be carrying huge sum of cash from a bank ...