Tunisian Journalist Sets Self Ablaze Over Hardship

Tunisian journalist, Abdel Razaq Zorgi, has died after setting himself on fire, officials said, in a protest over harsh living conditions that prompted overnight clashes with police in the country’s west. Police fired tear gas at dozens of people who took to the streets Monday night in the city of Kasserine, 270 kilometres (165 miles) from the capital, setting tyres ablaze and blocking the main street. Six members of the security forces were injured and nine protesters were detained, interior ministry spokesperson Sofiane al-Zaq said Tuesday. By Tuesday morning, calm had…

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Urhobo Women Vows To Vote Out Omo-Agege For Daring To Say They Are Only Good For Beauty Pageant

By RT Hon Sunny Apah Ughelli . Urhobo Women, under the auspices of Urhobo Women With PVCs have vowed to vote out Senator Ovie Omo-Agege come 2019 for allegedly daring to say that women are only good for beauty pageant. The women in their thousands, displaying their PVCs, vowed to vote out Omo-Agege from the Senate as he has no respect for womanhood, so he can never represent them in any capacity. It could be recalled that Senator Omo-Agege made the derogatory statement against Urhobo women while inaugurating his campaign…

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APC is committed to infrastructural Development, Nation building – Osinbajo 

  By Joel Grandball Nigeria Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that the APC led administration is committed to to infrastructural development and nation building for the common man in the street. He made this statement on the occasion of the flagging off ‘Tradermoni’ empowerment scheme for market women at the palace of the Ovie of Ughelli kingdom, HRM,  Dr. Wilson Ojakovo, Oharisi III, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Speaking, Osinbajo said, “We are here for the beginning of the enumera of tradersmoni scheme and…

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I WANT TO BE A BRIDGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN ISOKO-Onowakpo

—– promises to ensure completion of Isoko Ring Road and other projects By Karo Awodeha, A House of Representative candidate for Isoko Federal Constituency, Hon. Joel Onowakpo has vowed to complete the Isoko Ring Road and 132 KVA electricity projects cited at Ozoro if voted into office come 2019. Onowakpo who is contesting under the All Progressive Congress (APC) also maintained that the era of classroom renovation projects by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was over, adding that he will ensure major and massive projects are cited in Isoko…

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EGCDF Commissions Infrastructural Projects Worth N382.6 Million

  The Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF) has commissioned infrastructural projects worth N382.6 million with promise to handover Cottage hospitals at Polobubor and Oporoza to the Delta State Government in no distance time. Speaking during the commissioning of the projects, Comrade Jude Ebitimi Ukori, Executive Chairman of EGCDF stated that the projects were meant to alleviate the sufferings of their people in terms of basic infrastructural needs affecting transportation, access roads, health, shelter, water hygiene and sanitation, improvement in tourism potentials, enhance the welfare of the people as…

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BAYELSA GETS 9TH POLICE COMMISSIONER IN 15 WEEKS

  In another dramatic move yesterday, police authorities in Abuja, again removed the newly- posted Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa State, Mr. Joseph Mukan, replacing him with Aminu Saleh. Saleh is about the ninth police boss that has been deployed in the state since the removal of Mr. Don Awunah, a former Police Public Relations Officer. Governor Seriake Dickson had raised objections to some of the postings, accusing some APC leaders in Abuja of influencing police authorities and politicising the security of the state. A statement by the Police Spokesman…

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Undermine Me In Delta PDP At Your Own Peril – Amori

  A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the Otota (Spokesperson)  of Mossogar Kingdom, Chief Ighoyota Amori, has said those who tried to undermine him in the political equation of Delta state will face the consequences.   Speaking in an exclusive interview with Daily Independent in Abuja, obtained by politicsgovernance.com, Amori who is the Political Adviser to the PDP National Chairman said some party chieftains whom he had always made a lot of sacrifices for ganged up against him in the primaries for Delta Central senatorial ticket which…

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Senate is not for beauty pageant but for real men- Sen. Omo-Agege 

By Joel Grandball,   SENATOR representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Ovie Omo-Agege has disclosed that the senate is not for beauty pageants but for real men with statements with the interest of the Urhobo people. He made this statement at Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State during the inauguration of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege Campaign Council headed by Chief Francis Atanomenyovwi and Prince Efe Duku as secretary. This is just as the state chairman of APC, Jones Erue, said that he will be the chairman lead opposition to Government…

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Delta Community cries for help as herdsmen resume attack

From Joel Grandball,   UGHELLI -Uwheru community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State has called for assistance from the state and federal government over an alleged renewed attack on them by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the area. According to the president general of the community, Mr Cassidy Akpedafe, “They have resumed their attack on our people, raping, killing, barricading of roads, armed robbery, and kidnappings. “We as a community are pleading with the state and federal government to urgently come to our aide because as an agrarian…

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