Bashorun Askia Ogieh Commissions Strings Of Projects In Isoko Nation

There was a plethora of projects commissioning in Isoko Nation today 30th March, 2022 as the MD/CEO, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh alongside the Member representing Isoko Ethnic Nationality on the Board of DESOPADEC, Dr. Barr Paul Owhe went round different communities and…

Diaspora Engagement: IOM Commends NIDCOM as Africa’s Trailblazer

Diaspora Engagement: IOM Commends NIDCOM as Africa’s Trailblazer

PRESS RELEASE: For the African continent to move to become a driving force on the global stage, it is important to tap into the enormous resources of its diaspora , both within and outside the continent ,and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission…

NDLEA Smashes Lagos Airport Drug Syndicate *Recovers N19.8mn cash from Kingpin

NDLEA Smashes Lagos Airport Drug Syndicate *Recovers N19.8mn cash from Kingpin

A drug kingpin, who heads a syndicate operating at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and six other members of his gang have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). According to a statement on Wednesday by the spokesman…

Inferno: NEMA, FFS Begin Sensitization Campaigns at IDP Camps in Borno

Inferno: NEMA, FFS Begin Sensitization Campaigns at IDP Camps in Borno

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Federal Fire Service have began a sensitization of internally displaced persons in camps in Borno State. The exercise is parts of effort to minimize incidents of Fire occurrence on internally displaced persons camp in…

U.S. Embassy in Abuja Begins Interview Waiver Program for Certain Visa Renewals

U.S. Embassy in Abuja Begins Interview Waiver Program for Certain Visa Renewals

The United States Embassy has began interview waiver for certain non-immigrant visa renewal applications. A statement from the US Embassy in Abuja on Wednesday said beginning fromMarch 30, 2022 (yesterday), it will begin processing certain non-immigrant visa renewal applications without requiring an…

Decentralize Supreme Court For Speedy Dispensation of Justice, Retired Justice Oniyangi advocates

Decentralize Supreme Court For Speedy Dispensation of Justice, Retired Justice Oniyangi advocates

A Retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi on Tuesday called for the decentralization of the Supreme Court to allow for speedy dispensation of justice in the country. Oniyangi, gave this advice in Abuja while celebrating his retirement from…

Okowa, Prevail On Isoko House Of Rep Aspirants, Save  Unity Of Isoko People – Iduh Amadhe

Okowa, Prevail On Isoko House Of Rep Aspirants, Save Unity Of Isoko People – Iduh Amadhe

Immediate past President General of Isoko Development Union (IDU), High Chief Iduh Amadhe, has implored the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to prevail on any House of Representatives aspirant from Isoko north local government area in the coming election to jettison…

UN seeks stronger media partnership to achieve SDGs, advocates for factual, evidence-based reporting

UN seeks stronger media partnership to achieve SDGs, advocates for factual, evidence-based reporting

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Matthias Schmale has called for a stronger partnership with the media in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He said the would enhance achieving the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development in…

BUNI: THE TRIUMPHANT ENTRY AND GLORIOUS EXIT OF A CHAIRMAN

BUNI: THE TRIUMPHANT ENTRY AND GLORIOUS EXIT OF A CHAIRMAN

-By Mamman MOHAMMED: He is either in white or blue colours. These are his two favourite colours. White represents peace while blue represents love. The two colours incidentally reflect the true character of Mai Mala Buni, the Yobe state Governor, a man…

DELTA GOVT KEYS INTO “EASE OF DOING BUSINESS” PROGRAMME

DELTA GOVT KEYS INTO “EASE OF DOING BUSINESS” PROGRAMME

As part of its drive towards promoting a business friendly environment, the Delta State Government has keyed into the Ease of Doing Business programme as stipulated by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC). The Chairman, Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA)…

IDU Pays Consultation Visit To Ijaw Ethnic Nationality Over Delta South Senatorial Seat

IDU Pays Consultation Visit To Ijaw Ethnic Nationality Over Delta South Senatorial Seat

-By Michael J. EKOKORUWE: The apex body and social cultural organisation of Isoko ethnic nationality, Isoko Development Union (I.D.U) led by its president general, Prof. Chris Akpotu and the executives of the union at the weekend, paid consultation visit to the Ijaw…

Job Creation Programme Has Shaped Mind-Set of Delta Youths, Says STEPreneur Egonu

Job Creation Programme Has Shaped Mind-Set of Delta Youths, Says STEPreneur Egonu

-By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: EGONU GLADYS hails from Oshimili South Local Government Area. She was unemployed for three years after graduation from the university till she got enrolled in the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) in the 2018/2019 Cycle,…

NIGERIAN POLITICAL PARTIES, IDEOLOGY AND POACHING

NIGERIAN POLITICAL PARTIES, IDEOLOGY AND POACHING

By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the earliest definitions of a political party I knew as a secondary school student was that of Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century British philosopher and scholar. He defined political parties as the body of men united to promote,…

NSCDC To Collaborate With US, France In Personnel Training

NSCDC To Collaborate With US, France In Personnel Training

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) is going to collaborate with both the United States of America and France in different areas of training and manpower development aimed at repositioning it to become a world class organisation. The Commandant General…

IWD: West Africa has highest rate of maternal mortality, low girl-child education, others – Wife of ECOWAS President

IWD: West Africa has highest rate of maternal mortality, low girl-child education, others – Wife of ECOWAS President

Wife of President of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), Mrs Jacqueline Brou has lamented the prevalence of high maternal mortality rate in West Africa. She equally lamented the low levels of female education, violence against women, early marriage and…

Ukraine Thanks Nigeria For Standing By Her …Alleges Russia is Planning Chemical Attack

Ukraine Thanks Nigeria For Standing By Her …Alleges Russia is Planning Chemical Attack

Ukraine has expressed appreciation to Nigeria and other nations that have stood by her in the ongoing war against Russia who invaded her territory on February 24. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, the Defence Attache to the Embassy of Ukraine in the…

2023 Presidency: Saraki Out To Bring Back Yar’Adua’s Political Attributes, End Buhari’s Bad Governance

2023 Presidency: Saraki Out To Bring Back Yar’Adua’s Political Attributes, End Buhari’s Bad Governance

Former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki has been said to be out to bring back the leadership attributes of late Nigeria’s President, Umaru Yar’Adua and undo the bad governance of the present leader, President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking in Maiduguri on Wednesday, the…

Empowerment: Elumelu Presents Starter Packs To Young Farmers (Photos Inside)

Empowerment: Elumelu Presents Starter Packs To Young Farmers (Photos Inside)

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu in consonance with his empowerment programme for the people of Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, Delta State, has presented starter packs to young farmers in Onicha-Uku. The starter pack which was in…

2023: Delta Exco Members With Interest To Contest Political Positions To Exit

2023: Delta Exco Members With Interest To Contest Political Positions To Exit

Okowa Urges High Level Of Decorum Palpable tension may have gripped politicians over the new move by the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led administration to ensure that members of the State executive council, who have indicated interest to contest in the 2023 general…

Dame Okowa Flags-Off Free Eye Care Outreach In Burutu, Commissions 17th Sickle Cell Center In Delta

Dame Okowa Flags-Off Free Eye Care Outreach In Burutu, Commissions 17th Sickle Cell Center In Delta

-By Albert OGRAKA: Wife of Delta State Governor and founder, 05 initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, has flagged off the 5-day Free Eye Care Outreach and commissioned the Delta State owned 17th Sickle Cell Center in Burutu. Dame Okowa, had promised to establish…

My Standard Of Living Has Improved, Says YAGEPreneur Atiamare

My Standard Of Living Has Improved, Says YAGEPreneur Atiamare

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: OGHENEBRORHIE ATIAMARE is the CEO of Luzniffy Lifestock Enterprise located at YAGEP Fish Farm Cluster, Ugbokodo-Okpe. He studied Agricultural Science Education in the Delta State University and, upon graduation, enrolled in the State Government’s Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme in…

Borno South Stakeholders Insist on Shift of Senate Seat to Other Local Govts

Borno South Stakeholders Insist on Shift of Senate Seat to Other Local Govts

Some stakeholders in Southern Borno politics have insisted on the need to give opportunities to another of the nine local governments in the senatorial district to present the next Senator. Since the return to democratic governance in 1999, only Gwoza has presented…

2015 Hajj Stampede: FG commends Saudi Arabia over Compensation

2015 Hajj Stampede: FG commends Saudi Arabia over Compensation

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commended Saudi Authority over compensation of Nigerians who died in the 2015 during the annual pilgrimage to Holy sites in the Islamic country. Five Nigerians lost their lives and two sustained various degree of injuries, however…

NDLEA Intercepts 1.9 Million Tablets Of Tramadol, Codeine At Lagos Airport

NDLEA Intercepts 1.9 Million Tablets Of Tramadol, Codeine At Lagos Airport

Operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the latest clampdown on drug trafficking, have seized over 1.9 million tablets of Tramadol and Codeine imported into the country from Pakistan and United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. A…

Police Must Produce Alozie’s Case File, We Can Not Shift Ground -IIP-SARS

Police Must Produce Alozie’s Case File, We Can Not Shift Ground -IIP-SARS

For the umpteenth time at the independent Investigative Panel on defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force, the orders of the panel were again flagrantly disobeyed by the Commissioner of Police Legal, Mr. Ogbeh Ochogwu, of the Force Head…

208 million people still openly defecate in Africa-UNICEF/WHO

208 million people still openly defecate in Africa-UNICEF/WHO

Two hundred and eight (208) million people still openly defecate in Africa with 839 million deprived of basic hygiene services, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)/World Health Organisation (WHO) special report focused on Africa. The report also revealed that 418 million…

NHRC Says ASUU Strike, Denial of Students Rights To Education

NHRC Says ASUU Strike, Denial of Students Rights To Education

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has described incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as deprivation of Nigeria’s students enjoyment of their rights to education. In a statement released to the media on Monday by spokesperson of the…

Junior Officer Used My Name To Deposit Obinna Jonah’s Corpse In Mortuary -DSP Jogbo Jogbo Tells IIP-SARS

Junior Officer Used My Name To Deposit Obinna Jonah’s Corpse In Mortuary -DSP Jogbo Jogbo Tells IIP-SARS

A Police witness, DSP Adebayo Jogbo Jogbo on Monday said his name was merely used to deposit the body of late Obinna Jonah at Wuse General Hospital mortuary after he was taken to hospital by one DCP Yari. Okechukwu Jonah, brother of…

North East Masterplan: NEDC Organizes Stakeholders Meeting

North East Masterplan: NEDC Organizes Stakeholders Meeting

The North East Development Commission (NEDC) on Monday took a mighty step towards developing a masterplan for the rehabilitation of the crisis-torn North East region with the convocation of a stakeholders consultative forum in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The forum was…

I Am Symbol Of Prosperity For All Deltans, Says STEPreneur Mordi

I Am Symbol Of Prosperity For All Deltans, Says STEPreneur Mordi

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: KINGSLEY MORDI hails from Oshimili North Local Government Area. Though he has a B.Sc. in Public Administration, yet he enrolled in the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) in the 2015/2016 Cycle when he could not get…

2023 Election: Aniocha-North PDP Leaders, Stakeholders Reject Consensus Option

2023 Election: Aniocha-North PDP Leaders, Stakeholders Reject Consensus Option

Leaders and stakeholders of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State have rejected concensus arrangements for aspirants to the House of Assembly. This move is contained in a 10-point communique issued at the end of…

YAGEPreneur Atsepoyi Thanks Gov. Okowa For Providing Opportunity For Self-Employment

YAGEPreneur Atsepoyi Thanks Gov. Okowa For Providing Opportunity For Self-Employment

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: ATSEPOYI TOLA BILLY, from Warri South West Local Government Area, is a graduate of the Delta State University where he studied Biology Education. He was unemployed for two years till he got enrolled in the 2017/2018 cycle of the…

Dame Okowa Flags Off Free Grassroots Medical Outreach In Delta

Dame Okowa Flags Off Free Grassroots Medical Outreach In Delta

Wife of Delta State Governor and founder, O5 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa has flagged off the free grassroots medical outreach for the Warri Federal constituencies. During the ceremony which held on Wednesday 16th March, 2022 at the Central Hospital Warri, Dame Okowa…

FG, EU, UNODC Celebrate Decade Collaboration in Drug War

FG, EU, UNODC Celebrate Decade Collaboration in Drug War

Nigerian government, European Union and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday celebrated a decade collaboration to advance drug use prevention and control in Nigeria. The Government of Nigeria and the European Union, to mark the occasion, organized a…

NAPTIP Begins Renewed Clampdown on Human Traffickers

NAPTIP Begins Renewed Clampdown on Human Traffickers

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has began a renewed clampdown on all child traffickers including those involved in buying and selling of human beings. The agency in the last one year has rescued no fewer than…

28 Years After, 1994 Super Eagles Set Get Promised Houses for Winning Nations Cup

28 Years After, 1994 Super Eagles Set Get Promised Houses for Winning Nations Cup

Twenty-eight (28) years after winning the African Cup of Nations, the Federal Government has redeemed it’s housing pledge to the Super Eagles 1994 Set. Speaking at the official commissioning of the Housing Project under the National Housing Programme (NHP) Phase 1 in…