Archives for June, 2017 - Page 3

UBE FUND : DELTA ASSEMBLY APPROVES  GOVERNOR OKOWA’S  N1Billion LOAN REQUEST

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Right Hon Sheriff Oborevwore, Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly. By Our Correspondent The Delta State House of Assembly has  approved the loan request of One Billion Naira for the State Government to enable it access the Universal Basic Education Fund. The One Billion Naira is the 50% counter-part contribution of Delta State Government required to access the Two ...

Ukah enjoins journalists to promote peace

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Mr Patrick Ukah, Delta State Commissioner for information (middle), Comrade Michael Ikeogwu, Delta State NUJ Chairman (5th Left) and his executive members in a group photograph during the courtesy call to Commissioner. By Our Correspondent Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Patrick Ukah has enjoined media practitioners in the state to promote peace and help build ...

OKOWA PROFFERS WAYS TO STRENGTHEN NIGERIA’S UNITY

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Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa (2nd left); his Deputy, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro (left); Chairman, South-South Monarchs forum, His Royal Majesty, King Dr. Edmond Daukoru, Mingi XII Amayanabo of Nanobe Kingdom(2nd right) and Dr. Emmanuel Efezuomor the II, Obi of Owa Kingdom, during a courtesy call on the Governor, in Government House Asaba. BY OGHENENYERHOVWO TEJIRI Senator ...

AHEAD 2019: GROUP RALLY SUPPORT FOR OKOWA, OBORO

  OGHENENYERHOVWO TEJIRI Gate-to-Gate, Uvwie chapter, a political pressure group has called on Deltans, people of Delta Central Senatorial District and Sapele/Okpe/Uvwie Federal Constituency to give their support for the re-election bid of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Hon. Evelyn Oboro respectively. In a statement issued at the end of a meeting attended by members in Effurun signed by ...

URHOBO GROUP BERATES AREWA YOUTHS OVER QUIT NOTICE

OGHENENYERHOVWO TEJIRI The 90 day quit notice handed down by Arewa youths to Igbos living in the North has been described as reckless, unAfrican, cruel, hostile as well as inimical to the continued corporate existence of Nigeria just as Urhobos and other southerners resident in the North have been called upon to act proactively to avoid ...

Gov. Dickson inaugurates SUBEB members, warns parents against irresponsible behaviour

  PHILIP EKE, YENAGOA Bayelsa‎ State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has called on parents in the state to take advantage of the robust policies of his administration in the education sector and ensure their children obtain sound and formal education. The governor made the call on Monday in Yenagoa, while inaugurating an eight member State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). He said ‎it ...

Relocation of oil companies: Activist fumes over delay

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By Our Correspondent A Niger Delta Activist, Comrade Sheriff Mulade has frowned at the delay by multinational oil companies to relocate their headquarters to their host states in the region. Recall that Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, during his visit to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State in continuation of Federal Government's peace overture to Niger Deltans, ordered oil firms ...

NSCDC  Commandant General Warns Journalists Against Peddling Fake News 

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The Commandant- General Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Abdullahi Gana Muhhamadu. The Commandant- General Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu has advised journalists and other information handlers to refrain from  Journalism based on gossip or rumours which he said is capable of destroying a nation and individual. According to a statement signed ...

Okpe Is One And United – Oborevwori

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THE SPEAKER DELTA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RT HON SHERIFF OBOREVWORI, SOME LAWMAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE AGHALOKPE AXIS POLITICAL FORUM WHEN THEY PAID THE SPEAKER A COURTESY VISIT IN ASABA. THE Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has affirmed the indivisible unity of Okpe Local Government Area, urging ...

RE: DEATH PROCLAMATION AND GENOCIDE, HON. IVWURIE RAISES ALARM OVER THREAT TO LIFE

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By Christopher Odamah, Abraka The Hon. member representing Ethiope East Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Evance Ochuko Ivwurie has raised an alarm over threat to his life and that of his constituency, and the several attempts to use various security agencies to muzzle and hound him, promising not to deter No amount ...

OKOWA HAS FAILED DELTANS-ACD CHIEFTAIN.

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By: Ovedhe Jerry. A Chieftain of the Advance Congress for Democrat party in Delta State, Hon Johnbull Okoro has said there is nothing to celebrate on the two years administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as Governor of Delta State noting that the Governor Okowa administration has failed Deltans. Hon Okoro made this assertion in Ozoro while briefing newsmen ...

Umahi, the New Zik and an Asset to His Generation – NGO 

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Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State. Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dave Nweze Umahi, has been described as a trailblazer, an asset to Nigeria and an example for others in leadership positions at all levels to emulate. A grassroots NGO, the David Umahi Nweze Akubaraoha Ebonyi Transformation Agenda (DUNAETA), stated this while reacting to Umahi’s emergence ...

HOSTCOM mourns departed national chairman

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LATE CHIEF DR. ALFRED BUBOR (JP) By Our Correspondent The national executive members of the Host Communities of Nigeria (HOSTCOM) producing oil and gas and the representatives of the nine oil producing states of Nigeria have paid a condolence visit to the family of the late national chairman of HOSTCOM, Chief Dr. Alfred Makaraba Bubor (JP) at his ...

Okowa Says Quality Education Should Not Be Compromised

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Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa; his Deputy, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro and the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori during the Gover nor’s Town Hall meeting the with people of Uvwie Local Government Area at P.T.I. Conference Centre, Effurun. By Our Correspondent GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said government should not ...