Category: Corruption

Tension As Anti-corruption Agency,EFCC Storms Ughelli North Secretariat On Fact Finding Mission

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Tension has gripped Staff of Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, as combine team of anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC Wednesday, stormed the Ughelli North Local Government Area Secretariat for fact findings.   Though the report was sketchy, it was learned that the EFCC officials stormed the offices of nearly all Heads of Department, HODs and were reviewing files and cheques book signed. As a result, one of the council staff, name withheld narrowly escaped being whisked away by the anti-corruption agency. A council staff…

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Delta NURTW Suspends Otovwodo Executives Over Alleged Breach of Constitution, Appoints Caretaker Committee

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  The Delta State Administrative Council Delta State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in a decisive move to restore order and uphold constitutional discipline, has suspended the Otovwodo Unit Executives, citing persistent leadership crises and gross constitutional violations.   This suspension was contained in an official memo referenced NURTW/DTSC/A6/VOL 3/214, dated 16th July 2025, and signed by Chief (Comrade) Francis Arhiyor (JP), the State Chairman and National Trustee of the Union. The SAC hinged the suspension on breaches of Article 42 section 6 (i–iv) of…

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Journalists Condemn Intimidation For Reporting Alleged Fraud In Education Ministry

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By Idibhar Julius/Yenagoa    …Petition EFCC   The Publisher of a Yenagoa based local tabloid Niger Delta Herald, Francis Dufugha and the correspondent of Vanguard daily newspaper, Emem Idio have condemned their arrest by police operatives from the Zone 16. The two journalists were arrested on Tuesday following a petition written to the command by the Director of Finance in the Bayelsa state Ministry of Education, Mr. Joe Sikpi over a report bothering on alleged illegal financial deductions from contractors handling various projects in the Ministry. The Journalists, while lamenting…

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Food Vendors, Petty Traders Accuse Ughelli HMB  Of Sectional Eviction From Premises

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… Accuses Health Commissioner, Permanent Secretary, Hospital Mgt. Of Victimization   By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye   Petty traders and food vendors plying their businesses at the premises of Central Hospital Ughelli, have lamented their eviction from the premises accusing the management of sectional eviction and victimization. Narrating how they were evicted, some business owners who choose to remain anonymous disclosed that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, had earlier instructed that all business owners trading in the premises to vacate their shops which they obeyed. According to them, the…

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Delta Poly Rector Suspension: Commissioner Has No Power To Lift Suspension, Except The Governor -Governing Council

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      “The Governing Council is further constrained to note that the Honourable Commissioner is not in a position to counter the suspension of the Rector of Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku . Such powers to do so resides only with the Executive Governor of Delta State.    “This is more so, as the Honourable Commissioner is a member of the Council by virtue of the law establishing the polytechnic and sends representative to Council Meetings and Events.   “In the light of the foregoing and in the absence of…

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Delta Polytechnic Council Suspends Rector, Six Months Over Allege Financial Misappropriation, Gross-Misconduct

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    .….Allegations are all lies, baseless as Council has no constitutional right to suspend me – Rector Prof. Achuenu   .…..Govt already on the matter, Deputy Gov. is aware, Ogwashi-Uku Poly has an excellent accreditation record – Commissioner for Higher Education   The Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku Rector, Buldr. (Prof) Emmanuel Achuenu has been suspended for six months by the school Governing Council following allegations of financial misappropriation and Gross-Misconduct.   The letter of suspension was signed by the Chairman, Governing Council, Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Hon. (Pastor) Paul…

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SCHOOL HEAD AND EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE

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  By: Teacher Dr. Blessing Egbagbara (JP) DFIPCER   The concept or perceptions of Examination are variedly often defined by students as end of course assessment or end of term procedures. Some students also see it as the biggest test which are more anxiety provoking and formal. To the teacher, it is a way or procedure to ascertaining the extent to which the student or learner have mastered the content of a particular course or subject. To the school head, who may be the Head teacher, or the principal as…

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HOSTCOM N300m Scandal: EFCC Grills Okowa’s Former Aide, Sunny Enujeke Over Alleged Fraud

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  …As Delta HOSTCOM Chairman suspended indefinitely The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun interrogating Mr Sunny Ndidi Enujeke, a former aide to ex-Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, over allegations of financial misappropriation and embezzlement of Three Hundred Million Naira (₦300,000,000.00). The funds, which were meant for a capacity-building and training program for indigenes of oil and gas-producing communities in Delta State, were reportedly disbursed to Enujeke between September and November 2024 by the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC). At the time, Enujeke served as…

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Delta State Is Not The Strongest Financial State In Nigeria As Claim By Tilije- NDC

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A pressure group under the aegis of New Delta Coalition, NDC, has faulted the claims by the Delta State Commissioner for Finance, Dr Fidelis Tilije that Delta State is the strongest financial state in Nigeria.     The group in a statement issued and signed by Godwin Anaughe, on behalf of New Delta Coalition, held that the he claim made by Delta State Commissioner for Finance, Chief Fidelis Tilije, that Delta State is the strongest financial state in Nigeria, is a blatant falsehood.   According to the statement, “This egregious…

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Sand Merchants And The Shylock Syndrome

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By Sunny Awhefeada   Humanity is ever susceptible to the changing patterns of reality and existence so that what was once inconceivable could become the norm. The ineluctability of change has continued to push boundaries beyond human imagination. In the course of time, novel phenomena emerge to engender new realities which soon evolve to become a way of life. This new “way of life” will also run its course and get subverted or replaced by another “new way of life” and humanity continues in its ever forward movement. And life…

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