Governor Godwin Obaseki has disclosed that his Aide-De-Camp, who slumped during his second term inauguration at Benin City, Edo State was exhausted and he is currently recovering. The governor made this know while featuring in a monitored Channels Tv program, ‘#Politics Today’ anchored by Seun Okinbaloye immediately after he was sworn in for his second term. According to Governor Obaseki,”He is fine, he is responding to treatment, I think he was a little bit exhausted”. Governor Godwin Obaseki in the program highlighted that in his second tenure, he is going…
Read MoreAnalysis & Opinion: Praying And Preying
By Sunny Awhefeada Nigeria remains a nation of more than many oddities. Just when you think that you have heard the most disheartening of things, you get confronted by another miasma and yet another and another! What usually follows is a feeling akin to helplessness, the kind that would make you sigh, throw up your hands and surrender to the inanities. But surrendering should not and must not be an option. We must learn to brace up and confront the demons that befuddle our country and putting us on the…
Read MoreDelta Policemen Get N200 As COVID-19 Allowance
Policemen in Delta State have been paid N200 as COVID-19 allowance, with many of them describing it as not only embarrassing, but a mockery of the Force. While making the disclosure to Vanguard, Monday, some police operatives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the amount was paid to all police personnel in the state who embarked on various policing services during the COVID-19 lockdown. Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved policemen, one of them disclosed that they had been asked to submit details of their salary accounts for the…
Read MoreTompolo Tasks Religious Leaders To Preach Love And Truth
*** Calls for end to heresies and religious extortion *** Wants Politicians To Take Decisions That Will Reflect Positively On Masses, Not To Add To Their Burdens *** Advises Political Office Holders To Be Messengers, Rather Than Rulers By Politicsgovernance.com The spiritual leader of Ijaw traditional religion, High Chief Oweizidei Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo has appealed to leaders of various religious groups in the country to herald Love, truth and for the purpose of extortion and fame. He admonished religious leaders against use of fear sermons, which he…
Read MoreDelta College Of Education In Darkness Over Vandalized Transformer
–As community leader calls on Okowa, security agents to fish out hoodlums By Politicsgovernance.com Suspected hoodlums last Friday, vandalized the transformer, cables and other components of the Delta State College of Education, Mosogar, Ethiope West local government area of Delta state. The College of Education, Mosogar, has been in perpetual darkness for over 8 years until the appointment of the provost, Dr. Imide Israel who recently brought light to the college after several efforts and appeals to spirited individuals. The college had also in the past suffered a…
Read MoreAbducted Nurse Released After 16 Days In Abductors’ Den
By Politicsgovernance.com Sixteen days she was held hostage in her kidnappers’ den, Mrs. Kate Okogu has been released to reunite with her family. Mrs. Okogu, a nurse, was abducted at her residence in Amekpa, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State at about 8:pm on October 20, 2020 while she was returning from work. It was gathered that, her car, a white Toyota Sienna and mobile phone were recovered at Otokutu-Ughelli/Agbarha-Otor road as her suspected kidnappers went away with the vehicle keys. Few days after her kidnap, the family…
Read MoreAnalysis & Opinion: Nigeria’s Future IGP and Governors who Stole Indomie
By Sunny Awhefeada The #ENDSARS protests which culminated in the October youths uprising has inscribed itself in Nigeria’s annals. Its sheer magnitude, spread, resilience and destructive propensity not only constituted socio-economic and political upset, but threw up many symbolic incidents which perceptive followers of the Nigerian story will find instructive in their analysis or evaluation. The humanities, a discipline that is besotted with significations and interpretation, is bound to throw up texts and contexts to which aficionados will give variegated, intriguing and often astonishing interpretations which are usually outside the…
Read MoreEndsars Victims Recount How Protesters Burgled, Looted Their Goods Worth Millions In Ughelli
By Politicsgovernance.com As the #Endsars protest is dying down gradually across the state and country, business owners have continued to narrate their horrible ordeal in the hands of the protesters. In Ughelli Metropolis, good and properties worth millions of naira were looted and destroyed by the suspected hoodlums that hijacked the peaceful #endsars protest that engulfed the entire local government area. One of the affected business owners in Ughelli, Prince Emmanuel Aghoghowia while narrating his ordeal to the The Pointer said, “My business has been reduced to the scratch by…
Read MoreNUJ Knocks Delta Govt’s Attitude Towards Flood Victims
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ughelli Correspondents Chapel, has frowned at the attitude of the Delta State Government towards the plight of flood victims across the state. The union stated that the ravaging flood has affected many local government areas in the state which include Ughelli South, Ughelli North, Udu, Burutu, Warri North, Warri South West, Bomadi, Patani, Warri South, Isoko South, Isoko North, Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West, Ukwuani, Oshimili South, Oshimili North and some others The union, in a communique issued at the end of it’s monthly…
Read MoreAnalysis/Opinion: After The Hurly-Burly
By Sunny Awhefeada Nigerian rulers sowed the wind and they reaped the whirlwind in the October youth uprising. Although, the October incident made no pretence to being like the October 1917 Revolution in Russia, the Nigerian case will certainly alter the curve of our national evolution. Certain assumptions, perceptions and noxious acts are bound to give way for good. Nobody would pout and describe Nigerian youths as lazy henceforth. I doubt if the ruling class and their goons would test the will of the youth as they were wont…
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