Analysis & Opinion: As We March Into 2023

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By Sunny Awhefeada,   Chinua Achebe was not just a reputable novelist, but he was a philosopher and thought leader who envisaged an experience that was in sharp contrast an alternative to our present ordeal. Although, he didn’t outline his vision for Nigeria in an outright manner, a perceptive reader could glean his idea of what a nation ought to be in many an Achebe treatise on our country. In his refreshing and thought provoking 1983 monograph, The Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe ranged on the side of Nigerians to counter…

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News Feature: And We Survived 2022

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By Sunny Awhefeada Nigeria remains a case study of the kind of paradox that can only be birthed by absurdism. Samuel Beckett despite his acclaimed genius would have found it hard put to envision the Nigerian condition in a dramatic sketch. I doubt if any human imagination has the capacity to imagine the scale and depth of the Nigerian condition. When the world celebrated the turn of the millennium in the year 2000, Nigeria was enmeshed in the crises of a hunted past from which it is yet to free…

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2023: APC Faithful Rejects Candidate At His LG Rally In Delta

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With less than two months to the 2023 general elections, there are strong indications that Hon. Rev. Francis Ejiroghene Waive, Member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency may not have been accepted by his constituents.   The mention of his name at the APC campaign in his local government of Ughelli South was yesterday greeted with rejection by teeming supporters of the APC.   The All Progressives Congress APC, had on, January 10, 2023 took its campaign train to the local government where they visited Jeremi, Imode…

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2023: Omo-Agege Takes Campaign To Isoko Riverine Communities

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  Deputy Senate President, and Delta All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said there will be a tsunami of defections from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the APC in the days ahead. He made this known at the ongoing APC Ward to Ward campaing at Iyede-Ame and Ofagbe, both Isoko communities, in Ndokwa East and Isoko North Local Government Areas respectively. While welcoming the latest top level decampees from PDP, notably former House of Assembly Speaker, Chief Monday Igbuya; former Delta State Oil Producing…

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Delta Commissioner Quits PDP, Name Presidential, Governorship Candidates For 2023

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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and allied of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta state, Chief Pius Ovbije Odioko popularly known as ‘POC’ has resigned the party membership. POC, a founding member of PDP, and former DESOPADEC Commissioner representing Ughelli North, South and East local government areas tender his resignation letter on January 6, 2023 to the party through Ughelli North LGA chairman. In his letter of resignation, the former Delta Central Coordinator of Delta Political Vanguard, DPV, accused the government its…

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Breaking: Explosion As Tank Farm Cuts Fire In Delta

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A Petroleum Tank Farm, in Delta has exploded after it cut fire in the early hours of Saturday.   The Tank farm, it was gathered belongs to Ebenco Global Link Ltd, Koko, Warri North Local government area of the state, sources said was discovered in flames leading residents to scamper for safety. Though, cause of the fire was unknown as at the time of this report, a source in the community said, the entire Koko was scampering for safety due to the noise of the explosion.   Details loading

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Salary: Surveillance Workers To Shut Oil Exploration In OML 30

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BY JOE Favour /UGHELLI   Oil exploration activities in Oil Mining Lease, OML 30, is set to be shut down by pipeline surveillance workers engaged by Mormar Marines Ltd, over owed backlog of salaries by the company and the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC. The protesting workers, were armed placards, with inscriptions such as, ‘NPDC leave Mormar Marines to do their work, “Mormar Marines and NPDC, pay our salaries, ‘Our salaries are paramount”, ‘President Buhari, call NPDC to order’, ‘ among others, the protesters said they could not continue to go…

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Sports: Chief Of Defence Staff, Gen Irabor Hosts, Sponsors IHU-IYASE Football Tournament In Delta

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The 9th and 2022 edition of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea Irabor Football Tournament kicks off at Agwuewuru Secondary School, Ewuru, Agbor, Delta State. The tournament, Ihu-Iyase-Agbor football competition was sponsored by the Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor in continuation of his love for sporting activities. The annual competition co-hosted by 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Agbor, under Lt Col Aliyu N. Abubakar and  Aligwha FC won the tournament trophy with a cash donation of N500,000. Politicsgovernance.com learned that the name,…

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Day-Old Baby With Placenta Dump At Delta Primary School

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By Omoghene Benedict/Ughelli The remains of a day old baby has been dumped at the gate of Ogele Primary school, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta state by unidentified. Though the report was sketchy, the baby suspected to be a male child was dumped before the new year eve. A source who spoke on anonymous condition revealed that they woke up to see the baby with placenta at the entrance of the primary school lifeless. The source that spoke in bitter tone caution ladies to be mindful of…

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Deltans Send SoS To Gov Okowa Over Revenue House In Ughelli North

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Aside oil boom, the next pot of income generation in Delta state is through internally generated revenue handled by the state revenue board but it is sad to see that the Revenue House situated along Ughelli/Asaba road is in shamble. The Revenue House was built during Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan administration under Joel-Onowakpo Thomas as chairman of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, DBIR, and it is believed that since it was constructed, no major renovation has taken place. A critical look at the Ughelli North Revenue House, that…

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