Delta CP Organizes Sport Competition For Kingdoms Under Ughelli Area Command

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      IN a bid to foster positive engagement among youths and strengthen community relations, Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, has organized a sports competition involving 14 kingdoms under the jurisdiction of Ughelli Area Command in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.   The event, which will span four weeks, aims to provide an alternative to crime while nurturing young talents in the region.   Speaking at the opening ceremony, which took place at the Ughelli General Field, Saturday, ACP Ademola highlighted that the…

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Omo-Agege Congratulates, Tasks Austin Avuru, NNPC On Oil Sector Reform

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  The Deputy Senate President in the 9th Assembly, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has congratulated Mr. Austin Avuru on his appointment into the management team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited as a non-executive director by President Bola Tinubu. He also congratulated Engineer Bashir Bayo Ojulari who was appointed the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) as well as Ahmadu Musa Kida who emerged the non-executive chairman. In his congratulatory message, signed by his Media Adviser, Sunny Areh, Senator Omo-Agege charged them to be inspired by President Tinubu’s bold ambition…

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Appoint An Isoko Son As SSDC MD, APC Members Urges Tinubu

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  Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Isoko nation of Delta State appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint an Isoko son as Managing Director of South-South Development Commission (SSDC) At a press conference held at Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area of the State on Tuesday, the APC members urged President Bola Tinubu to address what they described as the the continuous neglect of the Isoko people in federal appointments and infrastructural development. A statement read at the press conference urged the federal government to…

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APC Suffers Set Back As Members Defect To PDP In Orogun

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  Hundreds of members of the All Progressive Congress, APC, the major strong of the party in Orogun, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, witnessed a significant political shift as hundreds of members defected to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).   Orogun is the Delta Central stronghold of the immediate past Deputy Senate President and the 2023 APC Gubernatorial candidate. The mass defection occurred on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, during the inauguration of the PDP executives for the 15 units in Orogun Ward 1.   Addressing the momomth…

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Tinubu at 73: President jettisoned transactional leadership to inspire change -Omo-Agege

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  The Deputy President of the Senate in the 9th Assembly, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a nationalist who chose bold moves that would pull the economy back from the brink of collapse instead of transactional leadership that only earns short term and limited development. According to statement signed Media Adviser to the former Deputy Senate President, Sunny Areh, Omo-Agege in his goodwill message to mark the President’s 73rd birthday stated President Tinubu opted for the bold options that will enable the economy to rebound…

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Why Is Sheriff Running To APC?

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By Basil Okoh   A powerful and sinister force has been unleashed on Delta APC. That force is sowing seeds of discord and undertaking a hostile takeover of the party itself. It’s a strong and powerful force operating with deep pockets and dashing boldness. A few days ago, Rev. Francis Waive, an APC member representing Ughelli North/Ughelli South/Udu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives called on governor Sheriff Oborevwori to abandon PDP and run the next election as APC candidate. Waive assured the governor that the slot will be…

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Let Us Save Nigeria by Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   Growing up in Ibadan, our thoughts of Nigeria were lofty and sublime. We thought of Nigeria as the best place to be born. Nigeria was not just our country, but it was a country of everything good. Was that idealism borne of ignorance or childhood innocence? It certainly was not. Nigeria survived a civil war that raged for close to three years and crawled up rising to towering heights in just less than a decade after that fratricidal conflict. Despite the cataclysm of the war and…

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Omo-Agege Hails President Tinubu For Signing  S/South Development Commission Bill Into Law

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Omo Deputy President of the Senate in the 9th Assembly, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has hailed  the signing of the South South Development Commission bill into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, noting that it will accelerate the growth of the region. He commended President Tinubu for giving assent to the bill as it brings equity and fairness to the South-South against the backdrop of arguments in some quarters that sought to equate the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with the zonal development agencies in other parts of the country. On…

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Fmr APC Chieftain Denies Rape, Conspiracy Allegations Levelled Against Him

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  A former chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Atanoma Odhowho Godswill, has denied the allegation of rape and conspiracy leveled against him and personality. Chief Atanoma, a politician and business man who denied the allegations in a press briefing with selected journalists at his country home in Irri community, disclosed that it is the handiwork of his political enemies. It was would be recalled that in 2023, the former APC was allegedly accused of rapping a female who…

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Court jails Man For Killing Grandmother After Allege Rape In Delta Community

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A Magistrate Court holden at Ofuoma community, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, has sent to prison a suspect who allegedly killed his grandmother after rapping her multiple times in the community. The suspect known by his first name as Kelvin, it was learned that after rapping his grandmother, stabbed her multiple times to death. According to sources from the community, “Kelvin a bricklayer  is the son of the only surviving daughter of his grandmother known as, Ighoyowho Helen Okule. “Though we did not know what transpired…

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