Political Parties Sign Peace Accord In Bayelsa Ahead Of Elections

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  By Elizabeth Vincent/YENAGOA,   Ahead of the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria political parties in Bayelsa state, have signed ‘Peace Accord’ in ensuring a peaceful conduct of the presidential and governorship elections in the state.   The “accord’ under the supervision of the state Commissioner of Police, Ben Okolo, was signed by all chairmen of political parties fielding candidates. Speaking during the event at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Conference Centre in Yenagoa, CP Okolo commended all the political parties in state for going about their campaigns peacefully…

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Kelly Empowers Party Women In Oviri-Ogor, Receives 135 APC Decampees

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BY JOE FAVOUR BARELY few days to the presidential election in Nigeria, over 135 members of the All Progressives Congress,APC, have dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Oviri-Ogor, Ughelli North local government area of Delta state. The decampees were led by the youth leader of Oviri-Ogor, Mr. Lucky Onogure while the non-indigenes living in Ogor was lead Mr Monday Osulo, chairman of Ndigbo respectively. They were received by the acting chairman of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, Hon. Kelly Oghenekevwe, Olorogun Kpuwhara Anthony, Hon…

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2023: Akpodiete Urges Nigerians To Cast Their Votes, Elect Peter Obi As Next President

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Few days to the presidential election in Nigeria, a cyber security expert, Prof Alex Akpodiete, has called on Nigerians to cast their votes and elect the candidate of the Labour Party,  as the next president to guaranty a better  future of  Nigeria at the coming election. Prof Akpodiete who made this call in Ughelli, Delta state, at a media parley with Journalists, held that with the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, Nigeria will be in a better hand . According to him, “We are here to talk…

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We’ll deliver Burutu to PDP – Team Shedrack Agediga As Ejele Applauds Agediga

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  A political pressure group in Delta State, Team Shedrack Agediga has vowed to support and vote for all candidates of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in Burutu Local Government areas of Delta State. The group while hosting the wife of the PDP Senatorial Candidate Mrs Michael Diden Ejele noted that PDP candidates are well qualified and will bring good representations to the people when elected. The Director General of the group Amb Shedrack Agediga said they are ready with their PVCs to vote for all PDP candidates comes February…

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2023: Court Delists Akpovoka, Orders INEC To List Ekorhi As Ughelli/Udu Fed.Const Candidate

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By Michael Veloh   The Federal High Court sitting in Warri, presided by Honourable Justice Okon Effreti Abang has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to list Olorogun Daniel Omeco Ekorhi as the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, candidate for Ughelli North, South and Udu federal constituency at the 2023 election in Delta state. Justice Abang had in a judgement on Friday, in suit no:FHC/WR/CS/98/2022, dismissed motions, counter motions and applications brought by Mr Destiny Efeni Akpovoka It would be recalled that, Olorogun Daniel Ekorhi had challenged the Independent…

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Religion: For His Lordship, Bishop Anthony Ewherido

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For His Lordship, Bishop Anthony Ewherido By Sunny Awhefeada The evolution of Christianity in Urhoboland was in chequered phases. The earliest dated back to 1689 when Fr. Monteleone from Sao Tome reached the Urhobo hinterland. It was a fleeting trip whose memory remains enabled only in dim imagination. The next phase was at the turn of the 19th century when freed slaves especially of Yoruba descent spread out to propagate the gospel in places like Kokori, Ovu, Eku and Abraka. By the middle of that century, the famous Bishop Ajayi…

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Redesign Naira Notes: Full Text Of President Buhari Speech

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My Dear Compatriots, ​I have found it necessary to address you today, on the state of the nation and to render account on the efforts of our administration to sustain and strengthen our economy, enhance the fight against corruption and sustain our gains in the fight against terrorism and insecurity which has, undoubtedly, been impacted by several internal and external factors. 2.​ Particularly, I am addressing you, as your democratically elected President, to identify with you and express my sympathy, over the difficulties being experienced as we continue the implementation…

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Chief Edo Prosper Installed As ‘Oletu Ekpa’ Of Igbide Kingdom

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By Uruemu Favour,     CHIEF Prosper Iwoma Edo has been installed as the ‘Oletu Ekpa’ a traditional stool embedded with the Abame Festival and other cultural activities and traditional celebration of Igbide kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta state. Edo was installed according to the demands and customs of the people at the palace of the Odiologbo of Igbide, Chief Godspower Okpohro who was the former ‘Oletu Ekpa, elevated to the position of  Odiologbo of Igbide kingdom. Chief Godspower Okpohro ascended the stool of Odiologbo after…

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PDP Chieftain, Douglas Moses Joins APC In Delta

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  By Omoghene Benedict A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  Hon. Douglas Moses from Ogbe-Ijoh Ward 1, in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta state has resigned his membership of the PDP and defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The Delta state PDP is current struggling with gale defection in the state, with two former speakers of the state house of Assembly, BoT member, and many former commissioners in the state, a situation that has caused panic in Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and Delta PDP camp. Hon.…

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