Archives for May, 2020 - Page 2

BEBENIMIBO INSPECTS ON-GOING CONSTRUCTION OF BLOCK OF SIX CLASSROOMS AT KUNUKUNUMA

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  OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO   Dr. Paul Bebenimibo, representative of Ijaw Ethnic Nationality on the Board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Dr. Paul Bebenimibo has inspected the on-going construction of a six (6) classrooms block phase 1, at Ogeh Primary School, Kunukunuma Community, Warri South West Local Government Area. Speaking after the inspection, Dr. Bebenimibo disclosed ...

Activist hails Okowa for initiating Operation Delta Hawk

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Chief Mulade Sheriff The National Coordinator of Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, Chief (Comrade) Sheriff Mulade has commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State for initiating the move to create an Independent internal security outfit named 'Operation Delta Hawk' to secure the lives and property of Deltans, especially those in areas prone to ...

Oghenesivbe, A Resourceful Personality In The World of Communication Management – Esiso

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By Our Correspondent .......As Delta PDP Felicitates With Gov Okowa's EAC On His Birthday Anniversary. The Chairman of People's Democratic Party (PDP) Delta State, Olorogun Barr Kingsley Esiso, has Congratulated the Executive Assistant to the Governor of Delta State on Communication, Barrister Fred-Nuvie Latimore Oghenesivbe, as a highly resourceful personality in the world of Communication Management, as ...

Gbemre condoles with Odibo family over death of Vincent Odibo

By Our Correspondent National Coordinator of Niger Delta Peace Coalition (NDPC), Zik Gbermre has condoled with the family is Odibo over the death of their son, Vincent Odibo. Gbemre in a condolence message made available to National Reformer, said, 'This to express my sincere condolence to the Odibo family of Egini Town in Udu LGA of Delta ...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S UNCHANGED STATUS AS CURRENT WORLD CAPITAL OF POVERTY – A SHAME ON NIGERIA’S GOVERNMENT

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By Zik Gbemre It is no news that the issue of poverty in Nigeria, has become a ‘political tool and weapon’ used by the political class to exploit the people, so as to have their way in gaining access to power and remaining in that circle. As such, we have seen successive Nigerian Governments and politicians ...

Chief of Staff: Olu of Warri congratulates Gambari

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The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, on Thursday congratulated Professor Ibrahim Gambari, the new Chief of Staff of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Warri monarch described the news of Gambari's appointment as a good news noting that, 'we know the professor as an intelligent, well travelled, well read, and a detribalized Nigerian, with vast knowledge of the ...

Maritime Worker’s Union expresses shock over the arrest of 20 Dockworkers, others

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…..Says their whereabouts is unknown The leadership of the Maritime Worker's Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has received with shock and disbelief the arrest of 20 Dockworkers and others that their whereabouts is unknown because of their arrest by the RVSG on Saturday May 9, 2020 on their way from Essential service operation at the BUA/PTOL terminal, ...

Covid-19: Tidi commissions disinfecting tunnel donated to Delta market by Hypo

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Warri South Chairman, Dr Micheal Tidi on Monday commissioned a disinfecting tunnel built by the management of Hypo Homecare Products Limited and donated to Igbudu market. The Warri South Chairman commended the management of Hypo for the kind gesture amd advised market women and men coming to the market to take advantage of the tunnel and ...

World Press Freedom Day 2020: WSCIJ calls for independent journalism in Nigeria

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Motunrayo Alaka, Executive Director of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). The Executive Director of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Motunrayo Alaka alongside other media resource persons have called on journalists in the media sector to sustain media accountability by practicing journalism without fear or favour. The call was made at ...

COVID-19 COVERAGE: SURVEY REVEALS POOR ATTENTION TO JOURNALISTS’ SAFETY

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...............MEDIA/CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS DEMAND ACTION Journalists covering the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria have said they lack sufficient protection and are not adequately catered for. The journalists disclosed this in a survey conducted by a group of media and civil society groups between April 27 and May 1 this year “to assess the support available to journalists for ...

NBS’ RANKING OF DELTA AS NIGERIA’S SECOND RICHEST STATE DOES NOT REFLECT TRUE SITUATION – Says Activist…

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...Urges Governor Okowa to Create More Jobs to Reflect Prosperity for all Deltans The National Coordinator of Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, Comrade Sheriff Mulade says the Report of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ranking Delta as Nigeria's second richest State, does not reflect the economic realities in Delta State. The human rights activist ...

URHOBO BORN ONORIODE KNOCKS OUT ARGENTINE FOR INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE BELT

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OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO/GODWIN AYOBAMI RACHAEL Onoriode 'Godzilla' Ehwarieme of Delta State knocks out Argentine born Ariel 'Chiquinto' Bracamonte in one of the fastest boxing tournament of recent across the world in the World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Title Belt as the fight did not last up to two minutes. Onoriode aka Godzilla made the Argentine to surrender with ...

COVID-19: Joel-Onowakpo Doles Out Cash To Isoko Union

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The former Coordinator of Delta, Edo and Rivers States in Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, Hon Joel-Onowakpo Thomas has rendered financial supports to Isoko Unions in Lagos and Abuja branches to cushion the effects of the lockdown caused by the ravaging coronavirus pandemic that broke out in mid December, 2019 in Wuhan, the Capital of ...

Bring your experiences to sustenance of PDP victories, Ereyitomi urges newly inaugurated PDP Chairmen, Wards in Delta 

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...congratulates three Warri PDP Chairmen, others Representative of Warri Federal Constituency at Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Chief Thomas Ereyitomi JP has urged the newly inaugurated Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Chairmen in Warri South, Warri North, Warri South West Local Government Areas, Delta State and Wards Chairmen to bring in their wealth of experiences to the ...

Nigeria confirms 148 new cases of #COVID19; total rises to 2950

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Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed 148 new cases of the Coronavirus infection, taking the country’s total to 2950. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Lagos, the epicentre of the pandemic in the country, led in the number of new cases with 43, followed closely by Kano State with 32. The numbers of new cases in ...