BY ITEVEH EKPOKPOBE Delta State government is responsible. The governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa is the reason I am still a bachelor. In my very young years, I learnt on the laps of my mother, Maria, that, women born and bred in coastal areas are most beautiful. She would describe how contoured their waistlines are. Their skins glow too. “Have you seen their eyes, Iteveh? Behind the water-clear innocence they radiate, is a fire of love no man can resist.” She told me this in later years when adulthood had…
Read MoreBreaking: Supreme Court Sacks Bayelsa Governor-Elect, Deputy, Declares PDP Winner
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, sacked the governor-elect of Bayelsa State, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-man panel of Justices led by Justice Mary Odili, held that Degi-Eremieoyo presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. It held that the Form CF 001 Degi-Eremieoyo submitted to INEC for the purpose of the November 16, 2019, governorship election in the state, contained false information of fundamental nature. Justice Ejembi Eko who delivered the lead judgement reinstated…
Read MoreDetained Journalist Wife Cries, Sends SoS To Osinbajo Over Continuous Threats
By Amatutu Emmanuel, Wife of detained journalist and publisher of Cross River Watch newspaper, Agba Jalingo, has cried out that her life and that of her children are under threat with an appeal to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay to intervene in the release of her husband. Agba Jalingo was arrested on August 22 over a report alleging that the governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, diverted N500million belonging to the state. He was subsequently remanded at the Calabar…
Read MoreI Regrets My Action For Slapping A Lawyer -Police Officer
BY AMATUTU EMMANUEL A Police Sergeant attached to Asaba ‘A’ Division who slapped a lawyer in Asaba, the Delta State capital on January 13, 2020, is begging for forgiveness for his deed stressing that his actions and inaction do not in any way represent his person, with a vow to be of good behaviour henceforth. The policeman, Galadima Nwayama of the ‘A’ Division police station, Asaba who was in the convoy of the Commissioner of Police, was reported to have slapped the lawyer identified as Samson Chidozie Okehielum who…
Read MoreAdagwe Grammar School Were Students Stand, Sit On Bare Floor To Learn
Learning under condusive atmosphere has eluded students of Adagwe Grammar School, Eremukowharien, in Ughelli North local government area of Delta State as they all sit on a bare floor to receive lessons, tutorials during classes. The once known Adagwe Grammar has become a citadel of misery, mockery and laughter as the Delta State Government under the Ministry of Post Primary Education has failed to provide learning materials and a condusive environment to the students. Students of institution have expressed disappointment over the inability of the local and state governments to…
Read MoreNDDC NOT CREATED FOR CORRUPT POLITICIANS, LOOTERS- KPOKPOGRI
… Warns MD Against Paying For Abandoned, Non-executed Projects BY ITEVEH EKPOKPOBE The Chairman, Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum (ACIF) and Publisher, Integrity Watchdog Magazine, Comrade Prince Kpokpogri has cautioned the acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joi Nunieh, against paying contractors for abandoned, non-executed and shoddily completed projects in the region. The ACIF Chairman, Kpokpogri is calling for due diligence from the two newly inaugurated committees for contract documentation and project assessment, to ensure thorough verification and inspection of all awarded projects in the Niger Delta…
Read MoreBreaking News: Ughelli North PDP Stakeholders Set To Return Agbatutu Led Exco Ahead of March 2020 Congress
Stakeholders of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State have set to endorsed and return Lawrence Agbatutu led executive ahead of the party Congress proposed for March, 2020. The meeting was attended by Chief of Staff to Delta State Government, Olorogun David Edevbie, Chairman of Ughelli North LGA, Olorogun Godwin Adode, and his Vice, Victor Uyoh, Hon, Former House of Reps Member, Solomon Awhinawhi, Chief Fred Majemite, Chief Barr. A. K Asawota, Olorogun Dr. Isaac Apoveta, Chief Asore, Morrison Idiovwa, immediate past SSG,…
Read MoreOmote Urges Delta CP To Rejig Delta State Security Approach ln Ughelli North And South
By Uruemu Joseph, NATIONAL coordinator of Elohim Political Forum, EPF, Prince Emmanuel Omote has called on the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa to rejig the the security approach in combating crime Ughelli North and South Local Government Areas in the state. Addressing newsmen over the high rate of assassination and kidnapping in Ughelli North and South LGAs, Omote said, “Our people can no longer sleep with the eyes close because the two local government areas have become a battle front for criminals. It would be recalled that in…
Read MoreDESOPADEC Begins 2020 With Harvest Of Projects
By Perez Brisibe IN keeping with its vision of re-strategizing for effective delivery, the management of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, headed by its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Askia Ogieh, has put words to action by kick starting the New Year with a harvest of projects in less than a year in office. The DESOPADEC boss upon assumption of office in July 31 had vowed to implement new ideas to meet the mission of putting smiles on the faces of people…
Read MoreStores Opposite Ughelli Area Command, ‘A’ Division, Under Suspected Burglars Siege
Store owners opposite Ughelli Area Command and A’ Division are at the mercies of God as suspected burglars have continually raid stores belonging to Police Officer’s wives and traders opposite the Ughelli Area Command and A’ Division in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that, on the eve of Christmas, one of the stores belonging to woman known as, Fati directly opposite ‘Area Command’ was burgled cartihng away all that were stocked in her store like assorted drinks. Immediately after Christmas, my store was burgled…
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