Category: Business & Finance

Suspected Armed Robbers Attacks UBA Bank Customer, Injure Three, Cart Away N10M,

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  THE busy commercial metropolis of Ughelli community, Friday afternoon was in commotion as daring suspected armed robbers in a commando style attacked a customer at the premises of a new generation bank along Isoko in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learned that the robbers armed with guns in a gold coloured Venza had trailed their suspected victim to UBA premises along Isoko road, shot severally into the air before attacking the victim and carting away about N10 million. Our Correspondent gathered that the victim…

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Family Accuses Avwomakpa Of Allege Forgery Of Deed

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  ….Pleads with Oborevwori, Tompolo to ignore Cleric   The Ovwere Family in Ekpan, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, took a swipe at the Founder of Christ Missionaries Crusaders Church, Archbishop God-do-Well Avwomakpa, over his claims that the Managing Director of a private oil pipelines security firm, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL), Chief Kestin Pondi, trespassed and illegally acquired his land. The Ovwere Family is the landlord to Avwomakpa and other land owners in the areas opposite NNPC Housing Complex Main Gate in Ekpan community. The…

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HATE SPEECH AGAINST OLOROGUN GBAGI IN DEATH SO UNFORTUNATE

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By Zik Gbemre,   It would not have been my place to respond to the malicious smear campaign by a certain foul mouthed Emmanuel Ogheneochuko Arodovwe, directed against Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, if the highly accomplished Ughievwen son, lawyer, investor and politician were still alive. Gbagi would have cleared the air. He fended off bigger character assassinations against his name before he joined his forbearers recently. Besides if left to fester, the erroneous impression Arodovwe has created about Gbagi in death might be interpreted as the position of the Urhobo Historical…

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SCUML Seals Tongyi Group Over Alleged Non-compliance with Anti-money Laundering Laws

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The Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 sealed up Tongyi Group, located in Ebitu Ukiwe Street, Jabi, Abuja for alleged non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering/Combating Financing of Terrorism, (AML/CFT) regulations. Officers of SCUML shut down the construction and mining entity after it paid no heed to a series of the Unit’s attempts to be compliant with AML/CFT regime. By SCUML’s regulations, the seal of non-compliance and closure pasted on the business premises would remain in force until…

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Delta Indigenes Petition ICPC Over Allege N1.5B Substandard Road Project

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Aggrieved indigenes of Ikpide-irri riverine community, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta state under the umbrella of ‘Concerned Indigenes of Ikpide-irri’ have petitioned the marine services firm, Portplus limited, on the community’s controversial and substandard N1.5billion road project, Politicsgovernance.com has learnt. Immediate past governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa had in 2018 awarded the contract to his ally’s firm, Portplus Limited, a Lagos based marine services firm which the former president general of the community and elder brother of the contractor, one Michael Omojefe, had stated that the contract…

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Court Gives FG 7 Days To Fix Prices Of Foodstuffs, Petroleum Products, Others

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    Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court, in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government to fix the prices of food stuffs, and petroleum products within seven days from today (Wednesday). The judge made the order while delivering judgment in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/869/2023, filed by human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), against the Price Control Board and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Specifically, the court ordered the Federal Government to fix the price of Milk, Flour, salt, sugar, bicycles and its spare parts, matches, motorcycles…

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EFCC Arraigns Enugu Couple, One Other for Alleged Land Fraud

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  The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned a couple, Mr Udeani Simon Sunday and his wife, Udeani Dorcas Amaka before Justice M.G. Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. They were arraigned on three-count charges bordering on obtaining the sum of N2,750,000.00 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) by false pretence in an alleged land fraud One of the charges against the Udeanis read: “That you Udeani Simon Sunday and Udeani Dorcas Amaka, between 10th July 2019 to…

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Delta Revenue TaskForce Extorts N35,000 From Secondary School Teacher Over Vehicle Particulars

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    A secondary school teacher, rushing her daughter to Ufor hospital for medical treatment has narrated her ordeal how the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue taskforce allegedly extorted N35,000 from her in Ughelli North Local Government Area. The teacher, (name withheld ) attached to a secondary in Ughelli metropolis, was said to have been accosted by the task force led by Samson Igho as chairman along Isoko road by Oharisi primary school on Thursday. According to the teacher, “I was rushing my daughter to Ufor hospital for treatment…

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Revelation Microfinance Bank Is God Ordain Institution For Financial Solution -Esemudje 

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BOARD chairman of Revelation Microfinance Bank Ughelli, Engr Frank Esemudje has revealed that the vision of financial institution is an ordination of God that is centered on empowering individuals and small businesses. Engr Esemudje made this known during the official inauguration of the Microfinance bank at Post Office road, in Ughelli North Local Government Area. According to him, “Our doors are open for business and we are committed to to providing accessible and innovative financial situation that will enable our customer to build a better future. “One of our core…

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Host Community Tackles DSC Mgt., FG Over Land Threat

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By Sunday Apah   The President General of Ovwian community, Olorogun Frank Muwhen (aka Magamu), has told the management of Premium Steel and Mines Limited not to extend its alleged sales of land and equipment of the plant to his community farmlands that were not acquired by the defunct Delta Steel Company. Magamu, who made this known in a press release in reaction to a publication credited to the Director of Legal Affairs, Premium Steel and Mines Limited, Emmanuel Agbaje Esq, claiming that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had directed for…

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