As we inches closer to the general elections, the need to sensitize the good people of Delta South becomes obligatory to distinguish between our candidate Joel Onowakpo Thomas and the rest Unlike the People’s democratic senatorial candidate, Michael Diden a.k.a Ejele who started from the Ogunwanja unit of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Sapele where he became the chairman of the Loaders Union JOT had his primary education between 1975 and 1979 at state primary school Obrigbene in Bayelsa State, he got admitted into Government Secondary…
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2023 : Team Siakpere Vows To Mobilize Voters For Oborevwori, Other PDP Candidates
The Chairman of Team Siakpere For Sheriff, Hon Donald Akpojohare has urged the people of Okpe Local Government in particular and Deltans in general to vote massively for the State PDP Governorship Candidate, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori and other candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He equally enjoined the people to go to their various units to get their PVC and to mobilize voters for Atiku-Okowa, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori and others PDP candidates towards the February 25th, 2023 presidential election , and March 11th, 2023. He stated…
Read MoreAnalysis & Opinion: As We March Into 2023
By Sunny Awhefeada, Chinua Achebe was not just a reputable novelist, but he was a philosopher and thought leader who envisaged an experience that was in sharp contrast an alternative to our present ordeal. Although, he didn’t outline his vision for Nigeria in an outright manner, a perceptive reader could glean his idea of what a nation ought to be in many an Achebe treatise on our country. In his refreshing and thought provoking 1983 monograph, The Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe ranged on the side of Nigerians to counter…
Read MoreNews Feature: And We Survived 2022
By Sunny Awhefeada Nigeria remains a case study of the kind of paradox that can only be birthed by absurdism. Samuel Beckett despite his acclaimed genius would have found it hard put to envision the Nigerian condition in a dramatic sketch. I doubt if any human imagination has the capacity to imagine the scale and depth of the Nigerian condition. When the world celebrated the turn of the millennium in the year 2000, Nigeria was enmeshed in the crises of a hunted past from which it is yet to free…
Read More2023: APC Faithful Rejects Candidate At His LG Rally In Delta
With less than two months to the 2023 general elections, there are strong indications that Hon. Rev. Francis Ejiroghene Waive, Member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency may not have been accepted by his constituents. The mention of his name at the APC campaign in his local government of Ughelli South was yesterday greeted with rejection by teeming supporters of the APC. The All Progressives Congress APC, had on, January 10, 2023 took its campaign train to the local government where they visited Jeremi, Imode…
Read More2023: Omo-Agege Takes Campaign To Isoko Riverine Communities
Deputy Senate President, and Delta All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said there will be a tsunami of defections from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the APC in the days ahead. He made this known at the ongoing APC Ward to Ward campaing at Iyede-Ame and Ofagbe, both Isoko communities, in Ndokwa East and Isoko North Local Government Areas respectively. While welcoming the latest top level decampees from PDP, notably former House of Assembly Speaker, Chief Monday Igbuya; former Delta State Oil Producing…
Read MoreDelta Commissioner Quits PDP, Name Presidential, Governorship Candidates For 2023
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and allied of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta state, Chief Pius Ovbije Odioko popularly known as ‘POC’ has resigned the party membership. POC, a founding member of PDP, and former DESOPADEC Commissioner representing Ughelli North, South and East local government areas tender his resignation letter on January 6, 2023 to the party through Ughelli North LGA chairman. In his letter of resignation, the former Delta Central Coordinator of Delta Political Vanguard, DPV, accused the government its…
Read MoreBreaking: Explosion As Tank Farm Cuts Fire In Delta
A Petroleum Tank Farm, in Delta has exploded after it cut fire in the early hours of Saturday. The Tank farm, it was gathered belongs to Ebenco Global Link Ltd, Koko, Warri North Local government area of the state, sources said was discovered in flames leading residents to scamper for safety. Though, cause of the fire was unknown as at the time of this report, a source in the community said, the entire Koko was scampering for safety due to the noise of the explosion. Details loading
Read MoreSalary: Surveillance Workers To Shut Oil Exploration In OML 30
BY JOE Favour /UGHELLI Oil exploration activities in Oil Mining Lease, OML 30, is set to be shut down by pipeline surveillance workers engaged by Mormar Marines Ltd, over owed backlog of salaries by the company and the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC. The protesting workers, were armed placards, with inscriptions such as, ‘NPDC leave Mormar Marines to do their work, “Mormar Marines and NPDC, pay our salaries, ‘Our salaries are paramount”, ‘President Buhari, call NPDC to order’, ‘ among others, the protesters said they could not continue to go…
Read MoreSports: Chief Of Defence Staff, Gen Irabor Hosts, Sponsors IHU-IYASE Football Tournament In Delta
The 9th and 2022 edition of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea Irabor Football Tournament kicks off at Agwuewuru Secondary School, Ewuru, Agbor, Delta State. The tournament, Ihu-Iyase-Agbor football competition was sponsored by the Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor in continuation of his love for sporting activities. The annual competition co-hosted by 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Agbor, under Lt Col Aliyu N. Abubakar and Aligwha FC won the tournament trophy with a cash donation of N500,000. Politicsgovernance.com learned that the name,…
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