Archives for March, 2019

Makinde To Deliver Maris Annual Lecture April 24

Posted by on Sunday, 31 March 2019 in Education         3353 Reads
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Christopher Odamah Warri       The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Olorogun Williams Makinde will on Wednesday, April 24 2019 deliver the 1st Maris Annual Lecture. In a press statement signed by Chief Kenneth Olise and Comrade Fidelis Egugbo,  Chairman and Secretary respectively of Maris Trust Council, the organisers ...

COMPLAINT ON BEDC’S INCOMPETENCE, POOR SERVICE-DELIVERY – THE NEED FOR PROMPT ACTION BY FG

Posted by on Saturday, 30 March 2019 in News         2734 Reads
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By Zik Gbemre It is an established fact that no nation across the globe has ever attained any significant measure of development that has greatly improved the Standard of living of its citizenry, without having steady and reliable power supply. There cannot be any meaningful investment in any sector of the country without reliable power supply. ...

Wike’s Ban of Peaceful Protest Empty Air Signifying Height of Folly – Rivers APC

Posted by on Saturday, 30 March 2019 in News         2446 Reads
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The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the ban on protests announced by the Rivers State Government as the “height of absurdity” by a government. The APC in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Port Harcourt today by the party’s spokesman, Senibo Chris Finebone said, the party believe that ...

ON PRESIDENT BUHARI-LED FG NIGERIAN GAS FLARE COMMERCIALIZATION PROGRAMME

Posted by on Saturday, 30 March 2019 in News, Opinion         2980 Reads
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President Muhammadu Buhari By Zik Gbemre With recent reports that the new Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialization Programme (NGFCP), initiated by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government will monetize the volume of gas flared in Nigeria’s oil fields, and is expected to ensure that wasteful practice ceases to exist in the country within three years from when ...

WHEN WILL DELTA STATE BE FREE FROM POLITICAL CAPTIVITY?

Posted by on Saturday, 30 March 2019 in Opinion         2781 Reads
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By Zik Gbemre It is very painful that that since the inception of Democratic Rule in Nigeria from May 1999, of all the States in the country, Delta State has turned out to be one State where fraudulent electoral practices of great proportions that have robbed the people’s desire in the mandate, they wanted, and electoral ...

Okowa: Issuance of Certificate of Return, assurance of greater Delta -Tidi

Posted by on Thursday, 28 March 2019 in News         2629 Reads
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Chairman of Warri South Local Government Area, Dr. Michael Tidi, says the issuance of Certificate of Return to Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa and his Deputy, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Wednesday March 27, is assurance of the emergence of a greater Delta State. Dr. Tidi who made the ...

Ambode dragged to court over revocation of Lekki land

Posted by on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 in News         2495 Reads
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……Lagos leaders protest The story is being told in Lagos State of the hard nose treatment Governor Akinwunmi Ambode handed close friends of a former governor in South-West. Allegations of nepotism and impunity flow freely just like tears for many selected for witch hunting. Governor Ambode and one of the associates of the former governor are locked in ...

Rivers politics: Yeeh’s induced decampment, a plot ‘dead on arrival’ – Eze

Posted by on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 in News         2463 Reads
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... Plot exposes Wike as the loser of guber polls   A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the alleged bribing and eventual defection of former deputy governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Mr. Akpo Bomba Yeeh, as the height of Governor Nyesom Wike's desperation. Eze, ...

Rivers State Election: Fraud, Facts, Questions and Answers

Posted by on Wednesday, 27 March 2019 in News         2518 Reads
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By R. B. Dagogo-Jack FACTS: In the 2015 elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), controlled the Federal Government of Nigeria FGN, and the All Progressives Congress APC was in opposition. The Military was heavily involved during the elections which took place in Ekiti , Rivers and others. In spite of the huge Military involvement in that election , ...

Delta Assembly Passes Private Health Care Bill

Posted by on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 in News         2957 Reads
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Christopher Odamah, Asaba The Delta State Private HealthCare Registration, Operations and Prohibition Bill has been passed into law by the Delta State House of Assembly at plenary presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori. The bill was sponsored by member representing Ukwuani Constituency and Chairman House Committee on Health, Hon (Dr) Alphonsus Ojo and five ...

THE URGENT NEED FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE BEDC’S LICENSE FOR ITS GROSS INCOMPETENCE

Posted by on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 in News         2425 Reads
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By Zik Gbemre It is an established fact that no nation across the globe has ever attained any significant measure of development that has greatly improved the Standard of living of its citizenry, without having steady and reliable power supply. There cannot be any meaningful investment in any sector of the country without reliable power supply. ...

Dutch-Nigerian Activist Proffers Solution To Water Crisis In Nigeria

Posted by on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 in News         2412 Reads
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Comrade Sunny Ofehe A Netherlands-based Nigerian activist and Founder/Executive Director, Hope For Niger Delta Campaign, (HNDC) Comrade Sunny Ofehe has proffered solution to water crisis in the country. Ofehe, who spoke at a United Nations backed Inter Eco Forum conference on Global Water Sustainability in Spain, said that despite the huge water resources, there have been ...

DTHA Passes Freedom of Information Bill

Posted by on Thursday, 21 March 2019 in News         2503 Reads
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  By Christopher Odamah, Asaba The Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA) today passed the Freedom of Information Bill. The passage of the Bill followed the consideration of the report of the Joint House on the Delta State Freedom of Information Bill at a Committee of the Whole following a motion moved by the Majority Leader, Hon Tim ...

EJENAVWO RAISES CONCERN OVER DWINDLING POLITICAL FORTUNE OF URHOBOS

Posted by on Thursday, 21 March 2019 in News         2487 Reads
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OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO 21/03/19 A Warri based Urhobo born businessman and community leader, Mr. Lucky Ejenavwo has raised serious concern over what he described as dwindling political fortunes of the Urhobo ethnic nation just as he warned that Urhobos may lose relevance in the political calculation in Delta State with emphasis on determining who becomes Governor of ...
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