Archives for December, 2019 - Page 3

WUEDA VOWS TO CREATE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT IN WARRI, ENVIRONS FOR BUSINESS TO THRIVE

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Comrade Chief Ovuozourie Macaulay OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO/GODWIN AYOBAMI RACHAEL The Warri Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency (WUEDA)has vowed to create a healthy business environment where investors can grow their businesses and in turn give way for rapid development of the once booming oil city of Warri and environs just as it has promised to carry ...

NUJ holds press week December 10-13

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The annual press week of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, has been scheduled to hold this week from Tuesday 10th to 13th December, 2019. A statement signed by the Council Chairman, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu and Secretary, Comrade Churchill Oyowe, said the week will commence with sensitization campaign on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 ...

Buhari Appoints Muhammad Nami as New FIRS Chairman

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Muhammad M. Nami The Presidency, on Monday, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Muhammad M. Nami as the new chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). This put to an end to much speculation about whether or not the tenure of Babatunde Fowler would be renewed. A statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior ...

ON SOWORE’S RE-ARREST IN THE COURT FLOOR BY THE DSS – A SLAP ON THE NATION’S DEMOCRACY

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By Zik Gbemre With the appalling drama that took place in the High Court, when the officials of the Department of State Security Service (DSS), brutally violated the constitutional rights of a citizen, Omoyele Sowore, inside a Court hall, and desecrated our Judiciary as an Independent Arm of Government, we believe there is urgent need for ...

OPINION: MY TAKE ON HON. FRANCIS EJIROGHENE WAIVE’S MOTION ON ILLEGAL DISPOSAL, BURNING OF SEIZED BADGES, BOATS, VEHICLES 

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By Zik Gbemre With regards to the posted video showing Hon. Francis Ejiroghene Waive, Representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituencies in Delta State, who moved the subject motion on the floor of the House of Representatives on November 28, 2019, I consider it expedient to lend my voice, clarify some points he raised, ...

RIGHTS GROUP CALLS ON FG TO PROTECT ONYEMA OVER ALLEGATIONS OF MONEY LAUNDERING

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RIGHTS GROUP CALLS ON FG TO PROTECT ONYEMA OVER ALLEGATIONS OF MONEY LAUNDERING OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO/IGBIVWIE RACHAEL The Federal Government has been called upon to “protect” Allen Onyema, the embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace on the allegations of bank fraud and money laundering leveled against him by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). This call ...

JDPC HONOURS ASKIA WITH AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

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The Bishop of Warri Catholic Diocese, Rt Revd John Aferegha presenting an Award of Excellence to the Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh. By Ovedhe Jerry Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) has over the weekend honoured the Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development ...

OPINION: WHY I RESPECT THREE FORMER NIGERIAN LEADERS OF THEIR ERAS

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By Zik Gbemre It is no news that majority of Nigerian politicians who are in Government, do not understand what it means to lead as Public officers. While some of them are there for the wrong selfish reasons, others were scripted or dragged to occupy sensitive political leadership positions they were never ‘PREPARED’ to handle, or ...

OPINION: ON THE ABUSE OF OFFICIAL POWER BY OKOWA OVER APPOINTMENT OF DESTIMA DG

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... THE NEED TO ALLOW THE EXISTING DESTMA BOARD TO RUN ITS TENURE By Zik Gbemre With the established fact that section 12(1) and 12(3)  of the Delta State Traffic Management Agency (DESTMA) law 2013, states respectively that “there shall be a Director General of the Authority (DESTMA) who shall be appointed by the Governor SUBJECT to ...

Kogi West Senatorial rerun: Adeyemi oust Melaye

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        Following the conclusion of the Court of Appeal ordered rerun of the Kogi West Senatorial District rerun election, Senator Smart Adeyemi of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner. Adeyemi defeated the incumbent, Senator Dino Melaye of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who represented the Kogi West district in the seventh ...
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