A male teenager has died in a pool of a popular hotel located in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State on a Christmas day The deceased teenager Theo 16, surname withheld had gone to celebrate the Christmas with his friends when the unfortunate incident occurred at the hotel swimming pool. Details later
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Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori; Chairman of the 2025 Annual Lecture of the Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF), Mr. Edward Obiefuna Martyns; and the Forum’s Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Ochonogor Enebeli, have declared that Nigeria’s new tax law must translate into transparency, accountability and measurable development if it is to win public confidence. Speaking in Asaba at the Annual Lecture, the trio stressed that public acceptance of the reform will depend on how responsibly government manages tax revenues and how visibly those revenues improve infrastructure, services and economic…
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..… Message To President Donald Trump J. By Rero Miracle Ogwilaya Nigeria is not facing a Christian genocide. What we face today is a growing terrorism threat that does not discriminate by faith: these violent actors target Muslims and Christians alike. That distinction matters because the remedies for communal fear and sectarian narratives are different from the remedies for insurgency, guerrilla tactics and organised terror. Confusing one for the other weakens our response and hands the advantage to those who…
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ENVIRONMENTAL public policy consultant, Dr John Barika Idamkue, has urged President Bola Tinubu to establish a Ken Saro-Wiwa Mitigation Fund and embark on truly participatory stakeholders engagements among four further huddles he must cross to realise peaceful resumption of oil production in Ogoni, Rivers state. Ogoni born Idamkue, close aide to Ken Saro Wiwa through his trial and vexed execution of the Ogoni 9, told Vanguard that he was breaking his silence on the Ogoni struggle since the event of November 10, 1995, reawaken by two recent policy actions…
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State Executive Committee of the Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the suspension of the state chapter chairman, Elder Omeni Sobotie over his petition against the National Secretary of the Party, I Barr Felix Morka. The SEC members in a petition, expressed dismay over the petition brought against Morka without this approval. According to the petition, Dear Sir, *RE: PETITION AGAINST THE NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY, BARR. FELIX MORKA, FOR GROSS ABUSE OF OFFICE AND CALL FOR HIS REMOVAL* We, the majority members of the…
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By Zik Gbemre The manner Sen Ned Nwoko is prosecuting his political harlotry in joining the bandwagon defection to federal ruling APC is leaving me wondering if something, somebody or group who don’t mean well have suddenly not maliciously reformatted the brains of the supposedly articulate chief campaigner for Anioma State. After all the hype about his Anioma state campaign which I supported wholeheartedly because of its implication to the state of rest of Delta post Anioma creation, Ned Nwoko should be worried why despite defecting to APC, his…
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FOLLOWING the multiple death and injuries sustained in a cult clash between two rival groups in Agbarho community, peace has began to crop in after an accord was signed by leaders of both confraternity in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learned that the peace agreement was facilitated by leaders of the community that called on both cult groups to stop the killing and destruction of properties. It would be recalled that, two rival cult groups, Eiye and Maphite had been in a battle over…
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Brother Emma, Seventy years! As I pen these words, I am filled with nostalgia for our early days growing up in the backwaters of Mosogar and Ogharefe, and joy for the remarkable man you have become—a statesman. Your journey as a brilliant professional and accomplished medical doctor, coupled with your achievements as a public servant and later as Governor of Delta State, places you firmly among the ranks of distinguished elder statesmen. Congratulations! I am truly honored to call you my elder brother. Looking back to our early years, I…
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Encomium pour in as Olorogun (Hon.) Onoriode Sunday, Director of Protocol (DOP) to the Delta State Governor, marks his birthday anniversary today, among those party chieftains and friends celebrating with him are Comr. Lucky Olerhimena Ofomukoro (JP), a political grassroots mobilizer, youth leader and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chairmanship hopeful for Ughelli North Lcal Government Area of Delta State. In his birthday goodwill message signed by himself as released by his Media Team in Ughelli, described him with the words of John C. Maxwell, a philosopher, said “A…
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Story by Elizabeth Vincent/ Yenagoa Hundreds of women on Thursday, besieged the headquarters of the Bayelsa State Police Command, demanding the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police, CP, Tolani Alausa. The protesters, mostly dressed in black attires, also called on President Bola Tinubu and the inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to ensure a peaceful election in the state. The women displayed placards with inscriptions such as ‘IG- The Police must be neutral’, ‘Change CP Alausa for a violence free poll’, ‘We say No to CP Alausa’, and ‘Give us…
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