We Won’t Take Our Good Relationship With Former Gov Okowa For Granted – Nurses

  … As they recount his contributions to health sector   Considering his immense contributions to the welfare of Nurses in Delta State, the immediate past Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday received commendations from the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) in the State. Making the commendations in Asaba, the State Capital, the State’s Chairman of NANNM, Comrade Philomena Onokpuvie said, though no longer in office as a Governor, Senator Okowa will for a long time be appreciated by Nurses in the State for his remarkable contributions…

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Opinion & Analysis: Okuama Is No More!

By Sunny Awhefeada   The above title reechoes a significant statement in the understanding of the disruptive essence of colonialism in Africa as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, a novel which is crucial to the understanding of the African predicament. It was Obierika who told his audience including his great friend Okonkwo, “Abame is no more”. The village of Abame was wiped out because her people killed a Whiteman the very symbol of the colonialism in Africa. The colonial enterprise left in its wake a series of punitive…

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Gov Oborevwori Positively Impacting Nursing Profession In Delta – Onokpuvie

  With almost one year of the Delta State Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori’s administration, Nurses in the state’s public service have began to reap the fruits of his electioneering promise to better their condition, and make them have a sense of belonging in government. This was disclosed by the Delta State Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Comrade Philomena Onokpuvie at the weekend. Comrade Onokpuvie, who described Governor Oborevwori as “A man of his words and a promise keeper,” disclosed that, to prove this, the Governor,…

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Oviri-Ogor Community Petitions Gov Oborevwori Over Alleged ‘Deve’ Collection

LEADERS of Oviri-Ogor community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, have sent a ‘Save Our Souls’ to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori over the allege collection of ‘Deve’ that has been banned by the state government years ago. The leaders, had in a petition to the state government alleged that land developers and investors are scared of community because of the fear of ‘Deve’ as the only means of livelihood for some set of persons in the community. It would be recalled that in 2018, the Delta State House…

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Breaking: Nigerian Army Releases Identity Of Killed Soldiers In Delta Community

Four days after they were killed in Delta community, the Nigerian Army Defence Headquarter, has revealed the identity of the slain soldiers. The Defence Headquarters had also responded to some media publications. According to the released by the Nigerian Army Defence Headquarters, Seventeen (17) Soldiers were gruesomely murdered in the unfortunate incident.     RESORT TO PROPAGANDA BY OKUAMA COMMUNITY IN THE FACE OF GRUESOME MURDER OF TROOPS ON PEACE MISSION IS CALLOUS AND TOTALLY CONDEMNABLE The unfortunate killing of troops of 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army (NA),…

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Nigerian Army Bar Journalists From Covering Okuama Destruction As Governor Oborevwori Visits Scene

The Nigerian Army, on Monday, prevented journalists from accompanying the Delta Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to access the extent of destruction at the warring communities of Okoloba and Okuama in Bomadi and Ughelli South Local Governments Area. Governor Sheriff who had visited the communities held a closed door meeting with the Military for over an hour. The Delta state governor, was received by the leader of the military JTF, General Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigeria Army, Major General Jamaal Abdulsalam. The military Joint Task Force, however, barred journalists from…

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Nicholas Mutu Condemns Killing Of The Army In Delta

Member of the House of Representatives, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State, Hon. Nicholas Mutu has condemned Thursday’s killing of 16 soldiers by some irate youths of Okuama community, an Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Mutu, who is the Chairman of the Gas Committee in the House, described the action as “barbaric and inhuman.” Mutu, who is also the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Carcus in the House of Representatives, made his position on the tragic incident known in a statement issued by his…

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Appoint Igumbor As Permanent Secretary, Group Appeals To Gov. Oborevwori

..Says former DNS’s experience, discipline, leadership skills, qualify her for PS   The Delta State Nurses Forum for Truth, Justice and Good Governance (DSTJGG) has appealed to the Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, to consider promoting the immediate past Director of Nursing Services, Mrs. Gloria Igumbor, to the position of a Permanent Secretary in recognition of her contributions to the growth and development of the Nursing sector in the State. The Forum which made this passionate appeal via a press statement signed by the Publicity Secretary, Comrade Nicholas Amadi, and made available…

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Delta Task Force Seals Illegal Dredging Sites, Calls For Proper Documentation 

  CHAIRMAN of Delta State task force on environment, Chief Godspower Omafuvwe, has called on owners of dredgers and dredging site to go for proper documentation at his office will not tolerate any illegality in dredging activities. Chief Omafuvwe made this known in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State when his team in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment embarked on inspection visit to some dredging sites. According to him, “We have received a lots of petition from Deltans in respect to dredging activities in the state and…

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Group Condemns Unfair Attacks On Director Of Nursing Services, Igumbor By Commissioner For Health

—Urges Gov. Oborevwori to intervene —-Says it’s unacceptable to make a non-Deltan provost of College of Nursing —Underscores achievements of Igumbor A medical group under the aegis of  Nurses’Forum for Truth, Justice and Good Governance (NFTJGG) in Delta state, has called on the state governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to intervene in the attack against on the state Director of Nursing Services, Mrs Gloria Igumbor from the office of the commissioner for Health. The group had in a statement condemned the manner in which the office of the Commissioner for…

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