Month: January 2025

2027: Sen Omo-Agege Delta North Stakeholders’ Meeting Gets Boost As Odikpo Drum Support

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    Ahead of the proposed All Progressive Congress, APC, interactive stakeholders meeting in Delta North, Dr. Iyke Odikpo, a chieftain and leader of the party, has drummed his support for senator Ovie Omo-Agege initiatives to drive the party to unity.     Dr. Odikpo, in a statement reaffirms his support for the immediate past Deputy Senate President as his aims are to foster unity and a step to strengthen the political structures across the state.   According to him, “I, as a committed leader of the All Progressives Congress…

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We Are Looking for the Doctors By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   Brigadier Sani Abacha, as he then was, it was who announced the 31 December 1983 putsch that torpedoed the ill-fated government of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and sounded the death knell for the second republic. An unforgettable line in Abacha’s coup speech was that our hospitals had become “mere consulting clinics”. That criticism of our public health sector was a searing indictment of the failure of government in that sector. Although, the speech pointed to a negation of the purpose of government, we must realize…

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Delta DPO, Rejects N5 Million Bribe, As Police Arrests Prison Warden For Allegedly Raping 15-yr Girl

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      Policemen attached to “B” Division in Warri, Delta State have arrested a serving Assistant Inspector of Prison, simply identified as Apiakise Samson over the alleged rape and defilement of a fifteen(15) year old girl(name withheld).   This is coming as the Divisional Police Officer, DPO “B”,CSP Christopher Odoh, rejected a five million naira bribe (N5million) presented to him by some unidentified persons for him to sweep the matter under the carpet. But the DPO insisted that justice must be done in the matter to serve as a…

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Breaking: Detained DESTMA Officials Set To Be Arraign In Court In Delta

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Five officials of the Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, that were detained and granted bail by the police are set to be arraigned in court over a yet to be identified offences.   The DESTMA officials, Oghenekioja Samuel, Anakpoha Louis Oghogho, Sibisaba Raymond,Udi Jeremiah and Erutobori Sunny Esharenena, were detained after an incident of alleged missing money was reported against them by a Keke rider, whose Keke was impounded. They officials were invited, detained and granted bail after their statement were obtained respectively. The Keke rider, a father of…

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Shame As DESTMA, Sanitation Officers In Public Fight During Exercise In Ughelli North

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It was a show of shame as the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Ughelli North turned into a public fight between the officers of the Department of Environment and Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, as both mobilized to defend their rights during the exercise in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Environmental sanitation officers had mounted roadblock at the ever busy Post Office roundabout with a mobile court sitting. Trouble started when an unidentified two DESTMA officials, were arrested at Post office roundabout for violating sanitation laws.…

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DESTMA Officials Detained Over Alleged Missing N81,000 Of Tricyclist In Ughelli North

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        FIVE officials of the Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, were recently being detained at the Ughelli A division of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, over an alleged missing huge amount of money from a tricycle that was arrested and taken into custody in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.     The detained officials are, Oghenekioja Samuel, Anakpoha Louis Oghogho, Sibisaba Raymond, Udi Jeremiah and Erutobori Sunny Esharena respectively.   It was learned that a tricycle owned by a 44-year man, identified as…

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Soludo’s Sermon By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   I do not know the last time Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, had the opportunity of teaching in the classroom. I surmise that it must have been more than twenty years ago before he escaped from the austere classrooms at Nsukka to join the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Chief Economic Adviser and later becoming the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The great teacher that he is, Soludo loves to talk and whenever he had the opportunity to do…

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Uviejitobor Seeks  Collaboration Within Oil and Gas Sector

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    The Honourable Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Delta State, Hon. (Chief) Peter Okagbare Uviejitobor has called on the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA for collaboration in order to achieve effective service delivery. He made the remarks in Asaba while addressing NMDPRA State Coordinator, Engr. Ohwodiasa Victor and his team who were in his office on a courtesy call upon his assumption of office. According to him, “I am highly pleased to welcome you on behalf of the State Governor, Rt Hon Elder Sheriff F.O. Oborevwori…

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Breaking: Ikpokpo Dumps PDP, Lauds Tinubu Renewed Hope Agenda

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Former Isoko South Local Government Council Chairman, Itiako Constantine Ikpokpo, has resigned and dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP with immediate effect.   Ikpokpo, generally known as Malik  a strong advocate of Delta Unity Group, DUG, that projected and supported Olorogun David Edevbie at the 2023 governorship election lauded the PDP for giving him the opportunity to serve in the journey of 27-year.     In his resignation letter dated January 23, 2025, addressed to Irri Ward II, chairman, Mr. Samson Afeme, Ikpokpo revealed his total support and admirations for…

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Over 1,000 Clergies Pray For Waive, Oborevwori, Tinubu At Annual Prayer Day

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  Clergies numbering over 1,000 drawn from Ughelli North, Ughelli South, and Udu and all blocks of the christian body across Delta Central, on Thursday gathered and prayed for the substainance of Rev Francis Waive, Gov Sheriff Oborevwori and president Bola Ahmed Tinubu at 2025 edition of the Rev Waive Annual Day of Prayers. The prayers session held at the Ughelli Kingdom Hall, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, brought together Christian leaders from all five blocs of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), including the Catholic…

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