Nigerian President Buhari Must Ensure Release Of Journalist Jones Abiri –CPJ

Nigerian President Buhari Must Ensure Release Of Journalist Jones Abiri –CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit organization that champions press freedom internationally, and 18 other organizations, have called for the release of journalist Jones Abiri, who has been held by Nigeria’s Department of State Security (DSS) for nearly two years. A statement…

Stolen Billions: PDP Tells Oshiomhole To Submit Self To EFCC

Stolen Billions: PDP Tells Oshiomhole To Submit Self To EFCC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to immediately submit himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged humongous corruption allegations hanging on his neck. In a Press…

2018 World Sickle Cell Day: Delta Govt Determined To Establish World Standard Sickle Cell Centre In Asaba –Dame Edith Okowa

2018 World Sickle Cell Day: Delta Govt Determined To Establish World Standard Sickle Cell Centre In Asaba –Dame Edith Okowa

Wife of Delta state governor and founder of 05 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, has renewed her zeal and zest to increase the life expectancy of persons with sickle cell disorder by ensuring that a state of the art Sickle Cell Centre is…

Breaking: EFCC Re-opens Probe Into Delta N21.7bn IPP Project

Breaking: EFCC Re-opens Probe Into Delta N21.7bn IPP Project

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reopened its investigation into a N21.74 billion Independent Power Plant (IPP) project in Oghara, Delta State, New Telegraph is reporting. The contract for the project was awarded by the Delta State Government to an indigenous…

Isoko Nation Demands New GMOU From Heritage Energy Services

Isoko Nation Demands New GMOU From Heritage Energy Services

–By Michael EKOKORUWE Leaders of Isoko extraction, Isoko traditional ruler’s council, president -generals and chairmen of OML 30 cluster groups from Isoko communities, have demanded for a new General Memorandum of Understanding (GMOU) between Heritage Energy Operational Limited and host communities of…

Singapore Summit: Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Singapore Summit: Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Two Norwegian lawmakers have nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Christian Tybring-Gjedde and Per-Willy Amundsen, lawmakers with the populist Progress Party, told Norwegian news agency NTB on Wednesday…

Delta Emerging Political Pressure Group, “Hope Alive” Routing Grassroots Support For Okowa, PDP

Delta Emerging Political Pressure Group, “Hope Alive” Routing Grassroots Support For Okowa, PDP

-By Albert OGRAKA: Like a wildfire that arouses anxiety and like the caressing moonlight at night, “Hope Alive”, an emerging independent political pressure group, routing support for Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa in Isoko South and Isoko North local government areas of Delta…

Delta Govt To Renovate 107 Primary Health Care Centres, Reactivate Airfield Ground Lightning Systems @ Asaba Int’l Airport

Delta Govt To Renovate 107 Primary Health Care Centres, Reactivate Airfield Ground Lightning Systems @ Asaba Int’l Airport

The Delta State government has approved the renovation of 107 Primary Health Care Centres operating the Contributory Health Scheme in the state. In addition, the reactivation of Airfield Ground Lightning Systems at the Asaba International Airport and the renovation of the existing…

Nigeria: Atiku Warns Against Departure From Due Process To Authoritarianism

Nigeria: Atiku Warns Against Departure From Due Process To Authoritarianism

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned against what he called a consistent pattern of departure from constitutional due process to tendencies of authoritarianism. The former Vice President said in a statement marking the 25th anniversary of June 12 that there is…

Id-el Fitr: FG Declares Friday June 15, Monday June 18 Public Holidays

Id-el Fitr: FG Declares Friday June 15, Monday June 18 Public Holidays

The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 15 and Monday, June 18 as public holidays to celebrate the 2018 Id-el Fitr. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.) made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement…

OPL 245: Shell, ENI and Nigerian Ongoing Corruption?

OPL 245: Shell, ENI and Nigerian Ongoing Corruption?

The general thrust seems to be that a current OPL 245 contract tender has been rigged for corrupt purposes benefitting Shell, ENI and certain Nigerian parties. Shell has past expertise in such matters By John Donovan More information has arrived as a…

GROUPS ENDORSE TONY OKIRIKA FOR DELTA ASSEMBLY SEAT

GROUPS ENDORSE TONY OKIRIKA FOR DELTA ASSEMBLY SEAT

Two pan Niger Delta groups, the Pacesetters advocacy group and the Izon-Ebe in Diaspora, have thrown their considerable weight behind the House of Assembly aspiration of Mr. Tony Okirika, who is contesting for the Warri South West Constituency seat at the Delta…

Okowa Commissions Isoko Unity House  … Harps on Unity of Ethnic Groups in Delta   

Okowa Commissions Isoko Unity House  … Harps on Unity of Ethnic Groups in Delta   

Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi  Okowa has sued for the cooperation of the different ethnic nationalities in the state to enable him execute more people-oriented projects as encapsulated in his admiregistration’s SMART agenda. Governor Okowa was speaking on Saturday, June 9, 2018 in Oleh, Isoko…

2019: Ibori, Delta South Leaders, Others Endorse Okowa For Second Term … As PDP, Delta South Holds Mega Rally

2019: Ibori, Delta South Leaders, Others Endorse Okowa For Second Term … As PDP, Delta South Holds Mega Rally

FORMER Governors of Delta State, Chief James Ibori and Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, former Minister of Police Affairs, Alaowei Brodrick Bozimo, former Defence Minister, Dr Roland Orisejafor, President of Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Chief Solomon Ogba, among others, have endorsed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa…

GROUP WANTS BUHARI TO PROBE AWARD OF OPL 245 ZABAZABA PROJECT BY  AGIP/SHELL

GROUP WANTS BUHARI TO PROBE AWARD OF OPL 245 ZABAZABA PROJECT BY  AGIP/SHELL

*** CLAIMS OIL COMPANIES WORKING AGAINST RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT *** WANTS AGIP’S  MANAGING DIRECTOR INTERROGATED  A social crusader group, the Grassroot Movement Against Corruption (GMAC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately direct the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the National…

NAME Charges Members To Donate Towards Waziri Atiku Abubakar Nomination Form

NAME Charges Members To Donate Towards Waziri Atiku Abubakar Nomination Form

A political pressure group, the National Atikulate Movement 4 Emancipation – NAME, has charges its members home and abroad to donate towards the party nomination form for their grand master and principal, Waziri Atiku Abubakar, GCON. This charge came from the National…

Delta Speaker Hinges Gov. Okowa’s Experience On Legislature, Executive Harmony

Delta Speaker Hinges Gov. Okowa’s Experience On Legislature, Executive Harmony

**Tells Journalists To Be Guided By Professional Ethics -By Albert OGRAKA: Speaker of Delta state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has said the legislature and the executive are enjoying a harmonious working relationship because the Governor of the State, Senator…

NASS RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH  BUHARI HAS VINDICATED US, SAYS PDP

NASS RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH BUHARI HAS VINDICATED US, SAYS PDP

Press Statement NASS RESOLUTION ON BUHARI HAS VINDICATED US, SAYS PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the resolutions of the joint session of the National Assembly against President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency is a vindication of its stance on the Buhari administration….

PRESS BRIEFING: POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO OFFA BANKS ROBBERY, MURDER OF OVER 33 PERSONS

PRESS BRIEFING: POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO OFFA BANKS ROBBERY, MURDER OF OVER 33 PERSONS

PRESS BRIEFING UPDATE OF POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO THE OFFA BANKS ROBBERY AND GRUESOME MURDER OF MORE THAN THIRTY THREE (33) INNOCENT PERSONS INCLUDING PREGNANT WOMEN AND NINE (9) POLICE OFFICERS ON 5th APRIL, 2018, IN OFFA, KWARA STATE. • Twenty Two (22)…

IGP In Soup: National Assembly Passes Vote Of No Confidence Against Ibrahim Idris

IGP In Soup: National Assembly Passes Vote Of No Confidence Against Ibrahim Idris

Nigeria Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is in “hot soup“, as the National Assembly, on Tuesday, June 5, 20¹8 passed a vote of no confidence on the IGP. The three hours of closed door meeting is not unconnected with the fact…

South-South Govs’ Forum Chairman Commissions Multi-Billion Naira Projects In Delta

South-South Govs’ Forum Chairman Commissions Multi-Billion Naira Projects In Delta

CHAIRMAN of South-South Governors’ Forum, Chief Seriake Dickson has commissioned multi-billion naira projects in Delta State, describing Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as prudent manager of resources. Chief Dickson who is the governor of Bayelsa State, today (05/06/18) commissioned road projects at Jesse, Ethiope…

Delta APC Chairman Inaugurates State, LG Executives **Vows To Defeat Gov Okowa-Led PDP Govt In 2019

Delta APC Chairman Inaugurates State, LG Executives **Vows To Defeat Gov Okowa-Led PDP Govt In 2019

The Delta State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Cyril Ogodo, has inaugurated the state working committee and local government executives of the party with a vow to defeat Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led Peoples Democratic Party government in 2019. Ogodo, who…

NAME RALLIES SOUTH-WEST OF ITS CAUCUS TO UNSEAT BUHARI

NAME RALLIES SOUTH-WEST OF ITS CAUCUS TO UNSEAT BUHARI

A political pressure group, the National Atikulate Movement 4 Emancipation – NAME has said that the only Nigerian by the grace of God that is capable of unseating President/General Buhari in the coming 2019 general elections is the first former vice president…

World Cup: CPJ Welcomes FIFA’s Complaints Mechanism For Sports Journalists  

World Cup: CPJ Welcomes FIFA’s Complaints Mechanism For Sports Journalists  

New York/—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the launch of a complaints mechanism for media representatives and human rights defenders ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, which will enable journalists covering the World Cup and other official events to…

Political Crisis: ‘New PDP’ Shuns Dialogue With APC Led Fed Govt

Political Crisis: ‘New PDP’ Shuns Dialogue With APC Led Fed Govt

The leadership of a faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), known as nPDP, has announced withdrawal from dialogue with the APC-led federal government, accusing the Nigerian presidency of double-standard and lack of good faith in the dialogue it entered with…

African Development Bank President In São Tomé and Príncipe to strengthen alliances

African Development Bank President In São Tomé and Príncipe to strengthen alliances

São Tomé and Príncipe, June 5, 2018 – The first President of the African Development Bank group to set foot on São Tomé and Príncipe, Akinwumi Adesina has arrived in the country for a five-day official visit to strengthen alliances between his…

2nd Term: Bashorun Askia Salutes Deltans For Supporting Okowa ***Assures Of More Democracy Dividends

2nd Term: Bashorun Askia Salutes Deltans For Supporting Okowa ***Assures Of More Democracy Dividends

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Executive Director (Finance and Administration) at the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh JP, has commended the people of Delta state for supporting the second term bid…

JUST IN: Gunmen Kidnap Delta Monarch, Injure Two Palace Aides

JUST IN: Gunmen Kidnap Delta Monarch, Injure Two Palace Aides

The traditional ruler of Ogodor and Chairman of Aniocha North Traditional Rulers Committee, HRM Sunday Olisewokwu has been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen who invaded his palace over the weekend. Ogodor is an agrarian community in Aniocha North Local Government Area of…

Offa Bank Robbery: Senate President Saraki Reacts To Police Summon  ***Says IGP Idris Wants To Frame Me Up

Offa Bank Robbery: Senate President Saraki Reacts To Police Summon ***Says IGP Idris Wants To Frame Me Up

Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reacted to his invitation by the Nigeria Police Force over the recent bank robbery in Offa, Kwara State, describing it as baseless. He alleged that the plot was designed to embarrass him, and would fail. Force…

Encomiums Trail Delta First Lady Dame Okowa’s 57th Birthday Anniversary, As She Celebrates Among Children With Disabilities

Encomiums Trail Delta First Lady Dame Okowa’s 57th Birthday Anniversary, As She Celebrates Among Children With Disabilities

-By Albert OGRAKA: The wife of the governor of Delta state and founder of 05 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, on Friday, June 01, 2018 celebrated her 57th birthday anniversary with pupils at the Special Education Centre (School for the Handicapped), Agbor in…