NIGERIA @ 59: As Okowa Calls For Renewed Hope

  BY FIDELIS EGUGBO, NIGERIA, last Tuesday, celebrated her 59th independence anniversary. To a lot of persons, there was nothing to celebrate, while to a few others, there was a lot to celebrate. Whatever your belief, however, you are absolutely right. But, the fact remains that we are all guilty when it has to do with the level of progress we have made and ironically, we are also, victims of what the Anglican Bishop of Asaba Diocese, Rev. Justus Mogekwu, described last Sunday as “a matrimonial misadventure.” 59 years after,…

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2023: Ibori Never Endorses Edevbie To Be Governor

By Omoghene Benedict,   … Sue For Peace, Unity Among Delta Central Politicians A Social Political Group in Delta Central has condemned a purported recent publication on social media alleging that the former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori has endorsed Olorogun David Edevbie as the governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party in 2023. The group in a statement urged the need for Delta Central politicians to be united and fight for a United Urhobo nation. According to the group, “Someone with malicious intent alleged on the social…

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WORLD TEACHERS DAY: Okowa Rewards 12 Teachers With Cash, Cars

By Nelson Egware As the World celebrated World Teachers’ Day on Saturday, 12 teachers in Delta received cars and cash rewards for outstanding performance in their duties. The state governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, announced the rewards at a Dinner and Awards night organised by Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education in conjunction with Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for teachers in the state, in Asaba. Recipients of the awards were principals, head teachers and classroom teachers at primary and secondary school levels, who emerged from a selection process. Okowa…

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BBNaija: Nigerians spent N7.2bn on votes

…………over N1.5 billion spent in last week ……………..Amount higher than a month’s allocation to 3 states put together By Ifeanyi Nwoko Statistics emanating from the final day of the Big Brother Naija Season 4 ‘Pepper Dem Gang’ episode shows that Nigerians spent a whopping N7.2 billion on votes. Announcing the results on Sunday, the host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu said that the season got over 240 million votes, out of which over 50 million votes were cast in the final week of the season. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that…

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Mercy wins Big Brother Naija season four

By Anita Eboigbe Mercy Eke has become the winner of Big Brother Naija season four. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ‘Queen of Highlights’ was crowned winner during the finale on Sunday. This win makes Mercy the first woman to win the Big Brother Naija reality show since inception. Popularly known as ‘Lamborghini’, Mercy was touted as the possible winner for the season by show fans and celebrities alike. The light hearted diva made the top two with her show best friend, Mike Edwards, who emerged first…

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Behold The World Wrapperman, Amb. Adjarho Obaro

Ambassador Adjarho David Obaro is a marathoner, but he does his for charity while wearing wrapper. He is also a photographer and chef. To date, he has made the Guinness Book of Records as an artist who has worn the longest wrapper. He spoke to Edozie Udeze on this and more David Obaro is a photographer, culture activist and a chef. Even though he started photography as a hobby, he has today taken it to greater heights. Beyond that, he has also been involved in long distance races all over…

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GEJ Knocks British Fmr Prime Minister, David Cameron Over Chibok Girls

My Response To David Cameron’s Claims I read the comments by former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, in his new book, For the Record, in which he accused me and the Nigerian Government, which I headed, of corruption and rejecting the help of the British Government in rescuing the Chibok Girls, who were kidnapped on April 14, 2014. It is quite sad that Mr. Cameron would say this because nothing of such ever occurred. As President of Nigeria, I not only wrote letters to then Prime Minister David Cameron, I…

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Full Speech Of NCP Party On Independence Day

  The National Conscience Party (NCP) is 25 years old, since our declaration as a political party on the 1st of October 1994. Ironically we are only able to win a state assembly seat in Ekiti State by our representative by the name Adekoya Benson who latter decamped to People Democratic Party (PDP) We have watched with total dismay, how our politics has taken a downwards trend, from violent to money politics, from intimidation to cross carpeting, from manipulation voters apathy etc . Hence the need for an electoral reform…

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Tribunal Judgement: A Vindication Of Justice And Equity- APEDETT

  By Victor Bieni The Leadership of Anioma Peoples Development Think-tank Initiate (APEDETT) has said that the recent Victory of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at the tribunal justifies the existing Justice, equity, fairness and peaceful co-existence amongst ethnic Nationalities of the state. This was made known to our reporter today in a media chat with the President of APEDETT, Barr. Ikeazor Akaraiwe, and the National Vice President, Professor Mercy Ada Anyiwe at Asaba, Delta State Capital. The group while Congratulating Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on his well deserved Victory at the tribunal…

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World Teachers’ Day: We Need Appreciation As Conduits For Learning- Educationist

By Victor Bieni A Teacher, an Educationist, and Author, Mr. Micheal Omisore yesterday in Asaba Delta State Capital harps on the need for the entire society, Stakeholders to appreciate the roles played by teachers towards the impartation of knowledge to the students at any give point in time. He narrated how Sometime in May last year when he was invited by the Lagos State Ministry of Education to train English Language subject teachers in the state. It was in preparation for the state-wide essay competition for secondary school students that…

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