Month: August 2021

Three Suspected Car Snatchers, Sprayer Arrested In Ughelli

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By Promise Erukapomre/Ughelli THREE persons and a panel beater suspected to be car snatchers have been arrested by a combine team of the Nigeria police and vigilante members in North local government area of Delta State. It was gathered that the suspected were arrested at Oteri- Ughelli by the security agents following tip at the panel beater’s workshop. The suspects, Edward Elijah, Godwin Simeon, Timothy Odjoma and Ogbe Daniel the panel beater were arrested after they were rounded up by the security agents. When contacted the Delta State Police Public…

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CHIEF MUKORO MOWOE: A LEADER WITH A BIG HEART

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By Olorogun Onoriode Esobito-Ineh   This year marks 73 years since the passing of the great Urhobo Icon, CHIEF MUKORO MOWOE, it was important to list some unique qualities that made him an exceptional leader. In the early 1900s when inter-ethnic coexistence and survival were dicey, Urhobo elites needed to come together in a “brotherly” fashion. Together they pushed for an “Urhobo Agenda” to guard against growing concern for misinformation and misrepresentation of the ethnic nation. They were faced then with what Professor Obaro Ikime called the “pains of marginalization”…

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Isoko Community Rejects Health Centre As Akpabio Unveils Projects In Niger Delta

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  Leadership of Ewrokpe Community in Emede, Isoko South Council of Delta State, has rejected a health centre built and equipped by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. Representatives of the ministry, who travelled to the state to commission the project, were reportedly stranded at the venue, as no community or council representative was on the ground to acknowledge and receive the project. State Project Coordinator, Port Johnson Reginald, told The Guardian that the council cited inappropriate fencing, and the Federal Government’s refusal to demolish an old post office which…

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FG Increases Vehicle Number Plate, Driving Licence Prices By 50%

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    THE Federal Government has commenced the implementation of new rates for vehicle number plates and driving licence across the country. According to the Joint Tax Board, Nigerians will now pay N18,750 for standard private and commercial number plates against the old rate of N12,500. Fancy number plate which was N80,000 is now N200,000; motorcycle number plate is N5,000 from N3,000 while articulated number plates (three plates) attract N30,000 from N20,000. For these rates, the minimum increase is 50 per cent. Out of series number plate has also been…

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Edevbie Appreciates Supporters, Calls For Brain Storming Movement

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  Frontline contender for the seat of power in 2023, Olorogun David Edevbie has lauded the continued support of his supporters and followers towards his ambition in the forthcoming elections. Olorogun Edevbie who was the immediate past Chief of Staff to Delta State Governor, Sen Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa described the support for his ambition as a Movement to change the history by creating our future.   In a statement signed and obtained from his facebook page, the former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning during Chief James Onanefe Ibori…

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Analysis & Opinion: Of Policing And Criminality In Nigeria

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By Sunny Awhefeada   There is something decidedly Nigerian which is deeply rooted in hypocrisy and the inability to admit our foibles until they are pointed out to us by outsiders. Bound to this consciousness is our laid back attitude and tendency to celebrate half measures usually camouflaged as achievements. We are daily pushed away from values which should drive our aspirations and around which a national consensus can be constructed.   The capacity or desire to interrogate issues has taken flight and in its place is a feeling of…

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Education: DELSU TO HOLD SYMPOSIUM AND DAY OF TRIBUTES FOR LATE PROF BRIGHT EKUERHARE

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  The Faculty of the Social Sciences of the Delta State University, Abraka, will on Wednesday 11th August host a memorial symposium and day of tributes in honour of the late Professor Bright Ukori Ekuerhare who died recently. In a statement issued by Professor Atare Otite, the Dean of the Faculty and Dr. C. T. Ezi, the Head of the Department of Economics, the event which will begin at 10 am will hold in the Faculty Small Lecture Theatre. The guest speaker is Professor Victor Ted Jike who will be…

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Askia Cautions Skill Acquisition Graduates Against Selling Starter Packs

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The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh has appealed to  the graduating students of the DESOPADEC Skill Acquisition Academy, DSAA, to establish their various business in Delta state.   Bashorun Askia who was speaking during the graduation ceremony charged the graduating student not to sell the starter packs given to them, but to make good use of them in setting up their various acquired trades. He said, establish your various businesses within Delta State, in order to ease…

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Ex-Delta Attorney General, Peter Mrakpor Denies Impregnating Former Sister-Inlaw, Sets For Legal Action

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The immediate past Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Delta state, Mr Peter Mrakpor SAN, has denied  impregnating his former Sister-Inlaw from the Ugbah family of Ubulu-Uku in Delta State. This is just as the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN has instructed his team of lawyers to institute a legal process against the source of the allegations.   In a statement released by his Media Assistant, Comrade Akpovoke Otiti, Mrakpor urged the general public to disrespect and disregard the said publication that has been trending on the social media.…

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Larry Otu Expresses Shock Over The Death Of Captain Hosa Okunbo

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  …. Says Oil and Gas Industry Has Lost A Major Player   By Promise Erukakpomre-Ughelli   The Chief Executiv Officer of Lym Consults Nigeria Limited Mr. Larry Mudiaga Otu has expressed shock over the death of Oil and Gas magnate, Capt. Idahosa Wells Okunbo, describing his death as a very sad one. The businessman reportedly died on Sunday, August 8th, 2021 in a London hospital after battling with pancreatic cancer. In his reaction on Sunday in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the CEO of Lym consults said that he…

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