Delta: Trouble Looms As PDP LG Chairmen Create Faction

  By Iteveh Ekpokpobe There is a major crack in the Delta State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party. It may just be the crack the opposition needs in the state. Some PDP Local Government Party Chairmen, last week, engaged the State Chairman, Barr. Kigsley Esiso, in a show down which almost ended in fist cuffs, in defiance to his decision to select their executives for them. A new faction of the leadership has covertly broken out. Local Governments Chairmen of the party are aggrieved. They are not happy with…

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HOW GOVERNOR OKOWA DEPRIVED ME OF MY WIFE

  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…

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Maryam Babangida: In Case Gov. Okowa Forgets

  BY ITEVEH EKPOKPOBE,   It was, not just a center for Women Development. No! It was a reminder. It was the tree planted over Maryam Babangida’s memory, the late wife of former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who died at the age of 61 from ovarian cancer on 27 December, 2009 in a Los Angeles, California hospital. It was home to the souls of hundreds of Asaba people, lined up by the Nigerian Army at River Niger’s bank in the Cable Point Area, torn into pieces with…

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NLC Needs Independence To Function Properly – MACAULAY

  BY ITEVEH EKPOKPOBE In order to achieve real-time compromise from government, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have been advised to reduce government’s patronage and involvement and in the union’s electioneering processes. A defined level of independence must be enshrined in the respectability of the union to garner poise, veteran labour leader, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay stated during the 2019 NLC National Leadership Retreat in Enugu. Macaulay, a former Secretary to Delta State Government now, Director General, Warri Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency (WUEDA), while delivering…

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Determination Necessary For Public Service Success -Macaulay

  …Urges Deltans to Pray, Support Leaders BY ITEVEH EKPOKPOBE   The Director General, Warri Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency (WUEDA), Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay has posited that bureaucratic portholes in public service call for determination and diligence in achieving success. According to him, public service is an unending battle to enshrine the values of development on society noting sadly that interests and wanton continue to militate results. In his address during a Thanksgiving Service held at the redeemed Christian Church of God,Owhelogbo, by Isoko Patriotic Front (IPF) to…

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Macaulay Congratulates Egbabor On Birthday Anniversary

Former Secretary to Delta State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay has congratulated Isoko North Council Chairman, Hon. Emmanuel Egbabor on his birthday anniversary. In a message signed by his Media Assistant, Mr. Iteveh Ekpokpobe, Macaulay described Egbabor as a blessing to the local government, an astute politician and a dedicated party man. According to him, Egbabor has meticulously handled the council affairs to the amazement of onlookers even as he prayed for long life and continuous peace for his government. He said, “On behalf of myself and political family, I congratulate…

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