OMS Covert Surveillance Workers Barricades CDB Board Over Reported Contract Hacking

By Omoghene Benedict  Over 600 covert pipeline surveillance workers of Occean Marine Solution OMS, from Isoko and Urhobo ethnic nationality in charge of covert  surveillance in Oil Mining Lease OML 30 infield yesterday barricaded the Community Development Board (CDB) and Cluster Management Committe (CMC) office, Ughelli in a peaceful protest over suspected contract hacking and attempt to hijack OMS covert surveillance contact. The workers in a peaceful protest against fake/briefcase contractors disclosed that they are indigenes of OML 30 and as such, nobody should temper with their job for peace…

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LG Election 2021: CUPP Adopts Prosper Edo As Consensus Candidate For Isoko South

The aspiration of the Special Assistant to the Delta State Governor on Desopadec Matters, Chief Prosper Edo for the executive seat of Isoko South Chairmanship position has been boosted following his endorsement by the state Coalition Of United Political Parties,CUPP. Edo has indicated his intention to contest for the position of chairman in Isoko South local government area. Delta State Chairman of CUPP, Chief Efe Tobor Josiah, in company of Delta State SDP Chairman, Amb  Oke Idawene during a visits to Chief Prosper Edo declared their unalloyed support for his chairmanship…

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Apah Urges Urhobo Federal Lawmakers To Keep To Promise On The Completion Of Okwagbe Seaport Project

  Immediate past leader of Ughelli South Local Government Council Legislative Arm, Rt. Hon. Sunday Apah has called on Federal Lawmakers representing Ughievwen at the National Assembly to remember their promise of influencing the completion of the Okwagbe Seaport Project. Chief Apah in a statement said, “during the campaigns ahead of the 2019 general elections, most of the party candidates who came to Ughievwen Kingdom and Okwagbe community in particular, promised to ensure that the Okwagbe Seaport project was operational. “It is almost two years running after the elections, nothing…

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Taiga, Bismark Others To Attend MCIU Launch Of Entrepreneurship And Innovation Centre

  PRESIDENT-General of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Olorogun Moses Taiga, will on September 6 chair the launch of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center by the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University, MCIU as part of activities to celebrate the 4th annual Olorogun Michael Ibru memorial lecture. The event which is being organized virtually by the Michael and Cecilia Ibru University will have Mr. Peter Bamkole, Pioneer Director, Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Pan-Atlantic University who is the keynote speaker speaking on the topic, “Innovation in Entrepreneurship Changes the Rules of the GAME.”…

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AUNTY CHRISTIANA, AND YOU GAVE ME A BIG  ASSIGNMENT!

  BY DENNIS OTU For a very long time, I will keep a date with  Saturday, August 29, 2020. On this day, my Aunty, Mrs Christiana Ughweri, a younger sister to my mother passed away at the age of 62. I was dressed early in the morning with the hope of  leaving home at about 10:00am for two ceremonies lined up for the day. But at  9:00am while sipping a cup of tea, my phone rang. It is a call that you do not wish for your enemies. That call…

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Curbing The Menace Posed By Tricyclists, Motorcyclists In Delta

  Mr Ufuoma Ubiebor, is a Management Consultant, writes from Delta State.   In recent times, victims of motorbikes and tricycles accidents have been on the increase in the state, hence more emergency patients are being rushed to health centers and hospitals on a daily basis across the state. This frequent occurrences is as a result of high speed, usage of wrong routes by riders and poor implementation of standards by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state.   This backdrop has led to more loss of lives or…

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Analysis: A Nation and the Quest for Redemption

  By Sunny Awhefeada A certain character located in intuition defined the Nigerian writer in the first decade of the nation’s independence. All of the major writers of that period, Gabriel Okara, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark and Wole Soyinka, did not share, as depicted in their writings, in the sunny optimism that greeted the attainment of independence. While Nigerians chose to look at the new nation through rose tinted glasses and sang “Nigeria we hail the/Our own dear native land/though tribes and tongues may differ/ in brotherhood…

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Four Suspected Internet Fraudsters Arrested For Destroying Police Vehicle In Ughelli

By Politicsgovernance.com Four persons suspected to be internet fraudsters by the Nigeria Police officers attached to Ughelli Area command over an attempt to burn down an operational vehicle of the police on Monday night in Ughelli North local government area of Delta State The incident which led to rising tension in the Otovwodo axis of Ughelli town witnessed some rampaging youths setting bonfires in the area in protest while attempting to set ablaze a police bulletproof Hilux van. Sources at the scene of the incident said tension was heightened when…

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Elder Mathew Otuokena Sworn In As Afiesere Treasurer

Elder Matthew Otuokena has been sworn in as the treasurer of the newly inaugurated central executive of Afiesere community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State Otuokena was sworn-in along with Hon. Richard Aduvie as President, Olorogun Shikaleke as Vice President and 14 others. Addressing newsmen after the swearing in ceremony, Otuokena expressed gratitude to God and the people of Afiesere community for the day a reality. According to him, “Despite all the litigations, God saw us through and i am appealing to all my executive members to…

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Apah Knocks Paul Etaga Over 2023 Ambition

Former Leader of Ughelli South Legislative Arm, in Ughelli South local government area of Delta State, Rt Hon Sunday Apah has described statement allegedly credited Hon Paul Etaga about the local government having three political blocs as unpolished and despiration. In a statement signed by Sunday Apah, expressed disappointment  that Hon. Etaga who benefitted from the two blocs arrangement is deviating from the from the arrangement. “Ughelli South Local Government Area has two blocs and not three. It was gathered that, Etaga while addressing politicians of Ewu axis that Ughelli…

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