The people of Ndokwa nation under the aegis of Ndoshimili Development Association, NDA, the apex social cultural organization of the people of Ndokwa East local Government Area of Delta State, has vowed to reject imposition of candidates in the 2023 general election. This statement was contained in a letter signed by NDA’s Chairman, Dr. Obiorah Enuebuka and Secretary, Dr Mike Oke and addressed to the state Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa. According to the letter, “Ndokwa East Local Government Area has received the poorest political representation since the inception of…
Read More2023: My Mission Is To Operate An Open Responsive Government – Oborevwori
By Sunday Apah The leading governorship aspirant and Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has stated that his mission is to operate an open responsive government that will meet the needs of Deltans. Oborevwori made this known while addressing party delegates, leaders, elders, youths, women, supporters and other stakeholders at the grand finale of his consultation at Adane Primary School, Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government Area of the State. He said, he was elated by the massive turnout, saying that; “campaigns have not started but I…
Read MoreMy Edge For A New Delta Is To Create Employment-Sen Omo-Agege
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said was in the Governorship race to erect a new Delta that would be anchored on his EDGE agenda as he received Engr. John Agori, Mr. Pere Nduku, Mr. God bless Abiamaowei and their supporters from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Patani Local Government Area of the state into the fold of the All Progress Congress, APC. He also inaugurated the Delta Ijaw Support Group for Ovie Omo-Agege, DISGO 2023 at Tuomo, Burutu Local Government Area of the state.…
Read More2023: UPU’s Edevbie’s Endorsement: Campaign Group Woos Omene, Vows To Mess Up Taiga
By Our Correspondent, In what seems like a tit-for-tat affair, the high-ranking members of the Governorship campaign team of one of the PDP Urhobo governorship aspirants are allegedly courting Chief Joe Omene, the former, discredited PG of UPU, to undo Olorogun (Dr.) Moses Oghenerume Taiga, President-General of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Worldwide. A source alleged that the move is to get Chief Joe Omene into announcing their principal as Urhobo’s preferred candidate for the 2023 ‘General Election’. According to a top-ranking members of the said Governorship Campaign Team, which…
Read More2023: Ughelli South Youths Condemn The Zoning Of DTHA To Jeremi Axis
Concerned Ughelli South Youths For Equity and Justice, has condemned in strong terms the adoption of Jeremi zone for the Delta State House of Assembly seat for the Ughelli South Constituency for another term in the 2023 general election. The group, in a statement by its Chairman, Mr. John Diakparomre, and Secretary, Mr. Emma Ejovwokiniovo, said the adoption was aimed at shutting the Olomu and Ewu blocs out for another four years. According to the group in the statement, “Our attention has been drawn to adoption of Jeremi zone for…
Read MoreWhether A Child Is Stubborn, Possessed, An Encounter With Christ Will Change That Child Forever-Marvellous
Evangelist Marvellous Chimezirim Isreal is the Coordinator, Children Evangelism Ministry Int’l Delta State. Since assuming office Evang. Marvellous has embarked on major projects, aimed at bettering and enhancing teenagers. Love, affection, and kindness to others are key things that help us live meaningfully. Discovering early in life that in real love you want the other person’s good, he is poised to create an absolutely better life for children across the state. That we are living in a stress filled world is no longer news, with the poor economic position of…
Read MoreKnowledge Is The Key Solution To Stopping Teenagers From Having Sex- Umukoro
Omamuzo Efidhere Retired Principal Delta State University Secondary School, and Superintendent, Delta Central District, Children Evangelism Ministry INT’L, Delta State, Evangelist Mrs. Doris .O. Umukoro has said that teenagers need to be coached and equipped to deal with life issues, expressing optimism that they could be repositioned to be agents of change through knowledge. Addressing news men recently at the ongoing children holiday camp being held at the Headquarters of Heroes Of Faith School Ughelli, Evangelist Doris Umukoro said that the threat of disowning teenagers when they commit any offence…
Read MoreUwanogho Bags Urukpe Isi Title As Ughelli Monarch Marks 30 Years Coronation Anniversary
By Michael Veloh As part of activities to mark his 30 years coronation anniversary, the traditional ruler of Ughelli Kingdom, HRM Dr. Wilson Ojakovo, Oharisi III has conferred a traditional title of Urukpe Isi r’ Ovie on Engr Uwanogho Omonefe for lifting youths from the street through scholarship. Engr Uwanogho, a United Kingdom based philanthropist has contributed to the growth of education in Delta state particularly Ughelli North, Ethiope East and Lagos state with the provision of educational learning materials, scholarship through his Connect 2 Hope foundation. In education,…
Read MoreDELSU @ 30: Abraka And The Furthering Of The Nigerian Literary Tradition (Part 2)
By Sunny Awhefeada, The endeavors at creative writing in the first decade of the founding of DELSU, promising as it turned out, can be said to be a mere foreshadowing of that which was to come in the next two decades. The first decade of her founding terminated in 1999 and drew the curtain on the last century. That was quite symbolic in view of what was to follow. The next decade which unfurled in 2000 and which the world dubbed “the new millennium” not only offered DELSU…
Read More2023: URHOBOS, BE WISE
By Simon Okeke It was the great Chief Herbert Ogunde, that music maestro and veteran entertainer of blessed memory, that admonished the Yorubas in 1964 or thereabout, to be wise, think, and meditate deeply over the ugly political crisis that engulfed the then Western Region and refrain from self-destruction. He was concerned about the situation and made the appeal to his people through a popular song, titled; *Yoruba Ronu,* meaning simply, that *”Yorubas should think.”* The situation that played out then in the Western Region which prompted Ogunde to…
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