Archives for April, 2015 - Page 2
Agoda Calls on NA to Consider Bill to Penalize Erring Politicians
By Our Correspondent.
The Delta Central Senatorial Candidate,Hon.(Barr.)John Ochuko Halims Agoda OFR, has called on the National Assembly to consider a bill to penalize politicians who induce voters with money to buy their conscience during election.
Hon. Halims Agoda
The three time member of the House of Representatives made the call at his Jesse residence during the Senatorial ...
SEPLAT Commences Eye Care Initiative For Host Communities
Okpalaume Mary
As part of its commitment on bringing free, qualitative and comprehensive health care to members of its host communities, SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Limited, operators of the NPDC/ SEPLAT joint venture, has commenced fourth edition of the “Eye Can See” programme. the
One of the Doctors exermining a patient at the program
The eye care ...
Nigerian Army calls for civilian-military accord
Mary Okpalaume, Sapele
Nigerians have been urged to maintain cordial civil military relations and support the activities of security agencies in their host communities by providing precise information and intelligence reports as well as contributing to the welfare of security formations.
CEO of Solodems Nigeria and Ghana Limited presenting deeds and keys to Brigadier General O. ...
ON NNPC REFUND OF $1.48BILLION INTO THE FEDERATION ACCOUNT – WHY NOW?
By Zik Gbemre
With recent reports revealing that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has disclosed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has started refunding $1.48bn into the Federation Account as recommended by an audit firm, PriceWaterHouse Coopers (PWC), we cannot help but wonder how come it is now that the opposition has won ...
Peterside condemns Wike’s attempt to re-write history
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, the campaign outfit of Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, has condemned attempts by Mr. Ezebuwon Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State to re-write history by turning head-down the sequence and facts of pre and post-election events in the state. It has also said ...
Khan, INEC in Rivers State Block APC from Having Access to Evidence… As PDP Continues to Doctor Election Materials
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
INEC Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner has this morning barred the State Party agents for the All Progressives Congress from accessing the INEC premises to photocopy result sheets for the last elections in preparation for the party’s appearance at the tribunal. Since our agents began to visit the INEC they have been witnesses ...
Ofoeyeno Emerges Chairman of Delta NLC
Omos Oyinobde, Asaba
The Progressive Group for Change, a faction of the Delta State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), yesterday, swept the polls defeating the opposition group to
emerge overall winner of the keenly contested Delta State 2015 Congress of the NLC.
David Ofoeyeno, President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), emerged ...
Uduaghan Says Xenophobic Attacks Caused By Hatred for One Another
Francis Sadhere
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State yesterdayattributed the cause of xenophobic attack in South Africa and other parts ofthe world to bitter hatred for one another, appealing for caution when peopleare expressing their hatred for one another.
R-L: Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, His Deputy, Prof. Amos Utuama, Hon. Justice Z.A. Smith, Chief Judge and Hon. ...
GOVERNOR OSHIOMHOLE THE TRUE BASTION AND CITADEL OF CHANGE
BY: EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY, BENIN
Before the electoral victory in 2007 of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and eventual inauguration as Governor of Edo State, on November 12, 2008
the Edo challenges was peculiar, but then, abducted and held hostage with coven of political godfathers who privatized the public treasury, treated the people as slaves and spoke with the ...
Gunmen kidnap Ogbia LG Chairman in Bayelsa
PHILIP EKE, YENAGOA
Armed men, recently, invaded Otuasega in Ogbia Local
Government Area of Bayelsa State and abducted the council chairman,
Mr. Enaye Abah.
The incident occurred at about 7.05am, along the Otuasega-Okarki Expressway.
According to eyewitnesses, four men armed with sophisticated weapons,
blocked the official Prado Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, of the council
chairman with a blue Mazda car, believed to ...
Woman Dies In Hands of Her Kidnappers…As Another Woman Escapes From Her Abductors
By Francis Sadhere
A staff of the Delta Printing and Publishing Company Limited (DPPCL), publishers of THE POINTER titles, Mrs. Patricia Amitaye has died in the hands of Kidnappers, just as a house wife Mrs. Caro Botosan has escaped from her captors after spending a gruesome nine days in their den at Usie-ffurun forest in Ughelli ...
Delta NLC Election: Re-elected Chairman Calls for Collaboration Between Government, Labour, Employers
Francis Sadhere
Newly re-elected Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Delta State Chapter, Comrade Williams Akporeha has called for collaboration between Government, Labour and Employers, saying that successful economies in the world were driven by such collaboration.
Comrade Wilson Okorodudu (middle) addressing congress while the newly re-elected Delta NLC Chairman, Comrade Akporeha (2nd L) and ...
THE HIGHLY CONDEMNABLE XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WAY FORWARD
April 22, 2015
President Jacob Zuma,
Office of the Presidency,
Republic of South Africa,
Union Building,
Private Bag x1000
Pretoria, 0001,
South Africa.
Dear Sir,
THE HIGHLY CONDEMNABLE XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WAY FORWARD
We strongly condemn the ongoing xenophobic attacks being carried out by South Africans on Nigerians and other Africans residing in the country. The xenophobic attacks in South Africa directed ...
Speakership: Okpe leaders insist on Igbuya
By Njamanze Fidel
Okpe political leaders Tuesday recognized the contributions of the Majority Leader of Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Monday Ovwigho Igbuya to the progress of the kingdom, describing him as a distinguished politician and patriot.
Igbuya, who is also the national vice-chairman of Urhobo Political Forum, UPF, was re-elected on the platform of the ...
NLC HOLDS PARALLEL DELEGATE CONGRESS IN DELTA TOMORROW
By Tejiri Ebikeme
The ripples of the unresolved March 12th National Delegates Congress of the Nigeria Labour Congress that produced two national leadership led by Comrades Ayuba Wabba and Joe Ajaero is set to resonate in Delta state as the industrial unions in the state prepare to organise separate delegate congresses in Asaba and Warri respectively ...