–By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: VICTOR TAMARAKE-PREYE LOKOSI is a graduate of Political Science, but took to farming as an occupation when he could not secure a job. He hails from Patani Local Government Area and enrolled into the Delta State Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme…
Okowanomics Fact Sheet No. 3, July-B 2022 INTRODUCTION Okowanomics Scorecard Series is a semi-monthly bulletin of evidence-based “Fact Sheets” showing Governor Okowa’s spectacular achievements in the social, infrastructural and economic development of Delta State. The Scorecard Series is a “book of chronicles”…
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has felicitated the Asagba of Asaba, Asagba (Prof) Chike Edozien on his 98th birthday and 31st anniversary on the throne as the Asaba of Asaba kingdom. Elumelu in a Statement…
-By Sylvester Iloba: The Delta State Government in collaboration with the Stallion Auto Keke Ltd has trained more 50 Deltan Youths on the repair and servicing of the new improved Keke Bajaj. The Training/Empowerment Programme which took place in Aladja close to…
-By Austen Akhagbeme: In faraway Oregon, United States of America, Oluwatobiloba Amusan, the Nigerian-born athlete was poised to do her country proud at the world athletics competition. For a short moment in a long while, Nigeria had her national anthem sung on…
–By Austen Akhagbeme: It is most disturbing and disheartening that nothing moves anyone anymore in this country; not even the government of the day. Just a few weeks ago, the advance convoy of the nation’s number one citizen was attacked by bandits…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested six men and two women over attempts to import hundreds of cocaine pellets into Nigeria and export thousands of tramadol 255mg tablets among other illicit drugs to Europe via the Nnamdi…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has issued operating licences to 19 Private Guard Companies including a security company owned by University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID). Commandant General of the Corps, Dr. Ahmed Audi while giving the newly registered companies their…
-By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA) has issued certificates to the first batch of successful technicians trained on the repair and servicing of Keke Bajaj tricycle in Delta state. 250 youths from the state are to benefit from…
-BY SUNNY A. DAVID: Apex Igbo Socio-cultural Organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has blamed the individualistic approach of politicians and Leaders in the Zone as responsible for setbacks in the region’s quest to produce the President of the country in 2023. Ohanaeze Vice-President, Chief…
-BY SUNNY A. DAVID: Security operatives in Anambra State, have apprehended one of the Vigilante Leaders in the State for alleged involvement in kidnappings. Also, Four AK -47 riffles were recovered at the backyard of his house in one of the popular…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said none of it’s property has been sold off by any former Chairman/CEO of the agency. A statement on Wednesday by the spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi described claims in an anonymous write…
Nigeria’s former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau (rtd.) has called on China to assist the Africa to fight the ongoing insecurity on the continent. Speaking at the 11th Meeting of the China-Africa Think Tanks Forum with theme: “Promoting the Spirit…
–By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh and Laura Ese Oghene: JOSHUA UMUAKPERO is the CEO of Mabel-Joshua Agricultural Farm. He hails from Isoko South Local Government Area and is a graduate ofAgricultural Science Education, but was unemployed for eleven years which made him venture into poultry business. He…
-By Austen Akhagbeme: At about this season four years ago, Senator Ademola Adeleke, the PDP governor-elect of Osun state, was exhausted, arm twisted into a facade of a re-run election that left him emotionally bruised and battered. But he wasn’t discouraged. He…
-By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: OPIA ELVIS enrolled in the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) in the 2018/2019 cycle as a brown STEPreneur. He was trained in Aluminum Works. He hails from Ndokwa West Local Government Area. Elvis is the…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has unveiled a situation room at its Osun State Command Headquarters in Oshogbo in collaboration with Civil Society Organisations and established Anti- Vote Buying Squad to work in synergy with other Anti-fraud agencies to…
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has allocated 259 houses in Maiduguri to the Nigeria Police. The governor equally released a total sum of N110m lifeline to help boost the morale of the Nigerian Police. Zulum gave out the houses and financial…
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has assured of its readiness to ensure security of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff and safety of election materials, noting that doing such is part of the…
Okowanomics Fact Sheet No. 2, July 14, 2022. Okowanomics Scorecard Series is a semi-monthly bulletin of fact sheets showing Governor Okowa’s landmark legacy achievements. The series is prepared by Delta State Job & Wealth Creation Bureau. This Fact Sheet No. 2 in…
The Labour Party Imo North Senatorial candidate, Dr. Okorondu Nwachukwu, has petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission over moves by his party to withdraw his candidacy and conduct a fresh primary election. Nwachukwu, who emerged the winner of the primary election conducted…
Condemnation has continued to trail Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state, for adorning his wrist with a Jacob and Co Astronomia Sky White Diamond Wristwatch, valued at over Seven Hundred and Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars. The State Governor was seen in a meeting…
–By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh and Ese Laura Oghene: INNOCENT ADEGE, a graduate of Business Education, enrolled into the Delta State Youth Agricultural and Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) in the 2015/2016 Cycle. He was trained and established in fish production in YAGEP Farm Cluster located…
-By Austen Akhagbeme: The media space is once again agog with arguments and counter-arguments about the recent religious choice of a running mate of the Presidential candidate of the ruling party, APC. The argument is aggressively tilting toward the side of those…
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has described the choice of his predecessor Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a wisest decision by the Presidential flag bearer of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The…
China’s Shenzhou 14 manned spacecraft has been launched with the threetaikonaut, Chen Dong, Liu Yang and CaiXuzhe, will spend half a year in space on the Tiangong space station. The launching was done on June 5, 2022. A statement from the Chinese…
Africans Rising is convening the biggest gathering of social movements, activists, civil society in Africa and the diaspora. From 29th – 31st August, 2022, the All-African Movement Assembly will bring together in Arusha, Tanzania over 1000 people from across the continent and…
Attempt by a human trafficker, Mathew Bassey to export illicit drug to Dubai, United Arab Emirate by planting same in the luggage of an orphan, Ms. Peter Gift Eno recruited for a phantom job in the Arab nation has been thwarted by…
-By Austen Akhagbeme:: The people of Sri Lanka couldn’t take it anymore. The Presidential Palace at Colombo, the nation’s capital, was invaded by hungry and angry protesters such that even the presidential kitchen played host to the August visitors with hurriedly self-prepared…
The Movement for Stronger Delta MSD, has read, watched, and followed with anger and trepidation, the frenetic, devious, diabolical desperation, which has consumed a particular clique of Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the moment the name of Rt. Hon. Sheriff…
–By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has congratulated Muslims in the country and Delta state as they celebrate Eid-al-Adha. He urged the Muslim community to continually pray to God for divine…
-By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: AUSTIN ATORI hails from Uvwie Local Government Area and is a graduate of Geology. He enrolled into the State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) in 2016/2017 cycle after four years of unemployment. He is resolute in his determination…
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has felicitated the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections and the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa on the…
-By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has said that the choice of the Governor of Delta state, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as Vice Presidential candidate by the Peoples Democratic…
–By James Bwala: In less than eleven days from now, the All Progressive Congress, APC will name the running mate for its Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Already intrigue among politicians was high on who to choose for a better strategy…
Germany, United Nations agencies United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a new humanitarian programme aimed at strengthening the resilience of communities and promoting peace in the North East states of Borno and Yobe. The three-year project,…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi has promised compensation to the family of its staffer lost in the attack on Kuje Minimum Custodial Centre. Speaking during a visit to the Centre, in company of Permanent Secretary in…
In furtherance to my earlier press release on the unfortunate attack by gunmen suspected to be terrorists, I wish to state that the attackers broke into the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje using explosive devices through the main entrance and the fence…
Delta State Government on Tuesday said it had released the White Paper on the resolution of the communal crisis between Ozoro and Oleh communities in Isoko North and Isoko South Local Government Areas of the state, with approval to compensate families of…
-By Austen Akhagbeme: It is becoming glaring by the day that an albatross is hanging on the neck of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, albeit momentarily. The post-primary election crisis is hovering around one man – Governor Wike of River state. Ever…
