2023 Presidency : I’m Competent But Not Desperate To Lead Nigeria – Orji Kalu

  Chief Whip of the Senate and Former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has declared ahead of the 2023 general elections that though he is ready for the campaigns and capable to lead the country he is not desperate to become President. Fielding questions from journalists at the National Assembly on Wednesday, a day after he visited President Buhari at the Presidential villa on Tuesday night, the Senate Chief Whip emphasised that the Presidential contest will be the collective decision of Nigerians and the zoning arrangement of…

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One Admitted As School Principal Flogs Colleagues In Delta

By Amatutu Emmanuel,   Two teachers attached to Edjekota Secondary school, Edjekota-Ogor in Ughelli North local government area of Delta have been flogged by their principal colleague heading the school for a yet to be unknown reasons. The principal, Mrs. Bukata Margaret Uruemu, it was gathered flogged the Chemistry, Mrs Mrakpor Obaroguono Gertrude and her other female colleague, Akpojivi Josephine Avwerosuoghene, a Commerce teacher who was later admitted in an undisclosed hospital after the incident, it was gathered. According to Sources in the school, Mrs Bukata wanted to flog another…

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DELTA 2023: THE REALITY OF ‘WHO THE CAP FITS’

By Charles Enuma   As the race for who eventually occupies the Dennis Osadebe House Asaba as the Number One Citizen of Delta State heightens, there appears to be a general consensus that Delta Central Senatorial District is poised to produce the next occupant, according to what has been loosely termed the Zoning Formula of the Ruling Party PDP.  Delta Central Senatorial District comprises 8 LGAs out of the 25 that make up the entire State and it is predominantly occupied by the Urhobos that also form the highest homogeneous…

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Crisis In Olota, Alagbabri Communities Over Alleged Oil Largess In Delta

By Uruemu Favour/Ughelli Several persons have been injured in clash between Olota and Alagbabri communities over an alleged sharing formula from oil proceeds in Ughelli South local government area of Delta State. Though, the cause of the crisis could not be ascertained as at the time of the report, it was gathered that both communities were at loggerheads over an alleged sharing formula of an oil proceeds that was paid to the communities by an oil company operating in the area. According to sources from one of the communities, “We…

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