25,000 Medicated Eye Glasses For Grabs In Delta LGAs: Dame Okowa Insists 05 Initiative Free Grassroots Medical Outreach Is For All Deltans

25,000 Medicated Eye Glasses For Grabs In Delta LGAs: Dame Okowa Insists 05 Initiative Free Grassroots Medical Outreach Is For All Deltans

-By Albert OGRAKA: Wife of Delta state governor, Dame (Mrs.) Edith Okowa has reiterated the commitment of the 05-Initiative and Restore Sight Africa to ensure that the ongoing Grassroots Medical Outreach gets to the 25 local government areas of the state. Twenty…

World Bank Ups Counterpart Funding Of Community Projects In Delta **As Ojoko Reels Out SEEFOR Achievements, Decries False Allegations

World Bank Ups Counterpart Funding Of Community Projects In Delta **As Ojoko Reels Out SEEFOR Achievements, Decries False Allegations

-By Albert OGRAKA: In a bid to further boost the impact of the State Employment and Expenditure For Results (SEEFOR) in the development of Delta state economy, the World Bank has increased its counterpart funding of community projects in the state in…

Nigerian Soldiers Brutalize Delta Women On Peaceful Protest Against Marginalization, Neglect By Oil Companies

Nigerian Soldiers Brutalize Delta Women On Peaceful Protest Against Marginalization, Neglect By Oil Companies

“The Nigerian Army 222 Battalion from Agbaro-Otor unit command came and brutalized them with four women sustaining various degrees of injury and the women leader Chief Mrs Igbevia Erube forcefully thrown to their hilux van and taken to unknown destination. The placards,…

Corruption: Coalition Of Political Party Chairmen In Delta Seek Sen. Nwaboshi’s Replacement

Corruption: Coalition Of Political Party Chairmen In Delta Seek Sen. Nwaboshi’s Replacement

The coalition of state chairmen of registered political parties in Delta state has called for the replacement of the senator representing Delta North senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi come 2019, over multiple allegations of corruption and embezzlement running…

Exposed: Delta Govt Reveals How Ministry Officials Got Sanctions On Ex-Speaker Onwusanya’s Shoddy Constituency School Project

Exposed: Delta Govt Reveals How Ministry Officials Got Sanctions On Ex-Speaker Onwusanya’s Shoddy Constituency School Project

***Parents, Guardians, Concerned Deltans Plot Protest Against Okowa, Onwusanya   A Delta state legislator turned contractor representing Oshimili South Constituency at the Delta state House of Assembly, Hon. Peter Onwusanya may have got his fingers burnt out, following a grand exposure of…

Breaking News: Rains, Windstorm Devastate Alifekede Community In Delta —Indegenes Cry Out To FG For Urgent Assistance

Breaking News: Rains, Windstorm Devastate Alifekede Community In Delta —Indegenes Cry Out To FG For Urgent Assistance

*Hundreds Of Millions Lost *Houses, Markets Roof Blown Off, Many Injured The people of Alifekede Community, a border town between Delta and Edo state in Ika South local government area of Delta state, have been thrown into pitiable situation as a result…

Mace Stealing: Court Restrains Security Operatives From Arresting Embattled Senator Omo-Agege

Mace Stealing: Court Restrains Security Operatives From Arresting Embattled Senator Omo-Agege

A High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Jusice Ishaq Bello on Thursday granted Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central, an interim order restraining the Police, Department of Sate Service (DSS) and other law enforcement bodies from arresting him. Against the backdrop of…

Gov. Okowa Performs Ground-Breaking For 400 MW Power Plant In Delta

Gov. Okowa Performs Ground-Breaking For 400 MW Power Plant In Delta

DELTA State Governor,  Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has performed the ground-breaking ceremony for a 400MW combined cycle power plant, expressing joy that Delta State has become hub for investors in the gas sector. The Governor who performed the ground-breaking ceremony at Ekrokpe/Ekrejegbe, Ughelli…

EIB, AfDB To Support Private Sector Investment In Nigeria With Development Bank Of Nigeria Backing

EIB, AfDB To Support Private Sector Investment In Nigeria With Development Bank Of Nigeria Backing

The European Investment Bank and the African Development Bank have agreed to support the creation of the new Development Bank of Nigeria to strengthen lending for business and agriculture investment in the country. The European Investment Bank has finalized a US $20-million…

Dame Edith Okowa Flags Off Free Grassroots Medical Outreach In 25 LGA —As RSAI Reveals 40,000 Deltans Are Blind

Dame Edith Okowa Flags Off Free Grassroots Medical Outreach In 25 LGA —As RSAI Reveals 40,000 Deltans Are Blind

By Albert OGRAKA: The founder of 05-Initiative and wife of Delta state governor, Dame (Mrs.) Edith Okowa has formally flagged off the Grassroots Medical Outreach for the 25 local government areas of the state. This is coming against the backdrop of recent…

DELTA 2019 : OJOUGBOH TAKES ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE CAMPAIGN TO NDOKWA NATION ***Pledges Virile, Corrupt-Free Governance

DELTA 2019 : OJOUGBOH TAKES ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE CAMPAIGN TO NDOKWA NATION ***Pledges Virile, Corrupt-Free Governance

Governorship hopeful under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Cairo Ojougboh has again intensified his one-man-one-vote campaign across the state and further reiterated his commitment to building a virile and corrupt-free state if voted to serve as governor of…

Why Court Rejected Senator Omo-Agege’s Plea To Halt Suspension

Why Court Rejected Senator Omo-Agege’s Plea To Halt Suspension

The Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an ex parteapplication filed by the Delta Central senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, to stop his suspension by the Senate. He had, on April 3, filed the ex-parte application before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, asking the court to order that…

Election sequence re-ordering: Senate suspends Ovie Omo-Agege

Election sequence re-ordering: Senate suspends Ovie Omo-Agege

The Senate on Thursday suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who is from Delta State, for 90 legislative days. The lawmaker belongs to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Also, the Senate disbanded the Parliamentary Support Group for President Muhammadu Buhari led by Senator Abdullahi Adamu with…

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY GROUP ADVOCATES REPARATION FOR BORGU PEOPLE

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY GROUP ADVOCATES REPARATION FOR BORGU PEOPLE

The Niger Delta Environmental Sustainability Movement, a nongovernmental organization, has appealed to the Federal Government to make reparations for the Borgu people of Niger State over the displacement they suffered 50 years ago. The movement, in a letter made available to journalists…

Job Creation in Delta: More Persons with Disabilities Enrol in STEP

Job Creation in Delta: More Persons with Disabilities Enrol in STEP

The Delta State Job Creation Programme, Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) has received another boost with an additional twenty-nine (29) trainees comprising Persons with Disabilities (PwDs). This was made known at a one day orientation course organised for them by the…

Why President Buhari Must Re-Contest In 2019 –See (Full text)

Why President Buhari Must Re-Contest In 2019 –See (Full text)

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday announced his intention to re-contest for the post of the president in the 2019 general election. In a statement issued by his media aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, the president said his decision to contest was to heed…

GOV OKOWA PLEDGES GOVT’S SUPPORT FOR GENUINE INVESTORS… SAYS NWOKO’S STARS VERSITY ‘LL BE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA

GOV OKOWA PLEDGES GOVT’S SUPPORT FOR GENUINE INVESTORS… SAYS NWOKO’S STARS VERSITY ‘LL BE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA

The Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has declared his administration’s determination to continue to support and encourage individuals with genuine intention to bring development to the state. Dr Okowa made the declaration while performing the official ground breaking ceremony…

THE GAINS OF HELPING PEOPLE: Bashorun Askia Becomes First Non-Indigenous Senior High Chief of Olomoro Kingdom

THE GAINS OF HELPING PEOPLE: Bashorun Askia Becomes First Non-Indigenous Senior High Chief of Olomoro Kingdom

“Interestingly, Bashorun Askia Ogieh became the first Non-Indigene of Olomoro Kingdom to be conferred with the Chieftaincy Title of Senior High Chief. A honour done him for his good works..” OLOMORO – The proverbial golden fish that has no hiding place was…

2019 Guber: ANIOMA YOUTHS NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT THROW WEIGHT BEHIND OJOUGBOH

2019 Guber: ANIOMA YOUTHS NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT THROW WEIGHT BEHIND OJOUGBOH

Ahead of the 2019 gubernatorial election, a coalition of Youths from Delta North Senatorial District of the State have declared their support for the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr. Cairo Ojougboh. The youths made their declarations during a…

Delta Town Hall Meetings, Inspection, Commissioning Of Projects Berths In Warri North, South Tuesday, Wednesday 

Delta Town Hall Meetings, Inspection, Commissioning Of Projects Berths In Warri North, South Tuesday, Wednesday 

In continuation of the third phase of the Town Hall meetings, inspection and commissioning of projects by the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the team will visit Warri North and Warri South Local Government Areas on Tuesday and Wednesday,…

Breaking: Ceremony for First Sports University in Sub-Sahara Africa to Hold April 3rd, 2018

Breaking: Ceremony for First Sports University in Sub-Sahara Africa to Hold April 3rd, 2018

ASABA/Nigeria: The ceremony for the official opening of the first Sports University in Sub-Sahara Africa, Stars University,  is to hold April 3, 2018 in Idumuje-Ugboko, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. In a statement released by the Management of the Prince…