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Ughelli North 2024: Ofomukoro Declares Interest For Ughelli North Chairman Seat

October 26, 2023 Admin

In his aspirations to redefine AMD make changes, Comrade Lucky Olerhimena Ofomukoro (JP) has declared his intention to contest for the Ughelli North LGA Chairman seat under the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, with the promise to strengthen security and human capital development inline with Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori M.O.R.E Agenda. Ofomukoro made the declaration when leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Ughelli North Local Government Area chapter, summoned all chairmanship aspirants to appear before it at the party secretariat at Ughelli Delta State. In his statement, while outlining…

Turning And Turning In The Widening Gyre

October 26, 2023 Admin

By Sunny Awhefeada Literary aficionados or anybody who has read Things Fall Apart must necessarily remember the memorable lines which gave this piece its title. Taken from William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming”, the Nigerian sage and writer, Chinua Achebe deemed the thematic concern of the poem and the imagery of chaos it evoked as fit for the African experience which colonialism bequeathed. Yeats’ poem was birthed by the dysfunctional world that the modern period turned out to be. Yeats wasn’t alone in the depiction of the crisis that…

Protesters Barricade Ughelli Area Command Over Herdsmen Attack February 4, 2025
PROTESTERS from Egbo- Kokori community barricaded the entrance to the Ughelli Area Command in Ughelli North Local Government Area over the incessant attack, raping and destruction their farm lands. The peaceful protesters mainly aged women, men and youths displaying leave branches were singing we no want Fulani herdsmen in our community disclosed that, they have […]
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Nwaoboshi Accuses Police Of Defying Court Order, Moves To File Contempt Proceeding February 4, 2025
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has accused the Inspector General of Police of defying a court order, which restrained law enforcement agencies from arresting or detaining him. The Federal High Court in Abuja issued the order on July 17, 2024, in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/2916/2024 and Motion No. M/9638/2024. The court order specifically prohibited the IGP, Nigeria […]
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Ndokwa East Has Not Been Treated Fairly By Delta Government –Omo-Agege February 2, 2025
Former Deputy President of the 9th Senate and former Delta State APC governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has accused the PDP-led Delta State Government of marginalizing the people of Ndokwa East Local Government Area. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting with APC elders, leaders, and members in Aboh, Ndokwa East, Omo-Agege lamented that despite […]
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Omo-Agege Assures APC Leaders Of Unity Ahead Of 2027 Elections February 1, 2025
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Deputy President of the 9th Senate and former Delta State APC governorship candidate, has assured that the perceived crisis among Delta State APC leaders will soon be resolved. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting with APC elders, leaders, and members in Obiaruku and Kwale, Ukwuani, and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas, […]
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2027: Sen Omo-Agege Delta North Stakeholders’ Meeting Gets Boost As Odikpo Drum Support January 31, 2025
Ahead of the proposed All Progressive Congress, APC, interactive stakeholders meeting in Delta North, Dr. Iyke Odikpo, a chieftain and leader of the party, has drummed his support for senator Ovie Omo-Agege initiatives to drive the party to unity. Dr. Odikpo, in a statement reaffirms his support for the immediate past […]
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We Are Looking for the Doctors By Sunny Awhefeada January 30, 2025
By Sunny Awhefeada Brigadier Sani Abacha, as he then was, it was who announced the 31 December 1983 putsch that torpedoed the ill-fated government of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and sounded the death knell for the second republic. An unforgettable line in Abacha’s coup speech was that our hospitals had become “mere consulting […]
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Delta DPO, Rejects N5 Million Bribe, As Police Arrests Prison Warden For Allegedly Raping 15-yr Girl January 28, 2025
Policemen attached to “B” Division in Warri, Delta State have arrested a serving Assistant Inspector of Prison, simply identified as Apiakise Samson over the alleged rape and defilement of a fifteen(15) year old girl(name withheld). This is coming as the Divisional Police Officer, DPO “B”,CSP Christopher Odoh, rejected a five million […]
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Breaking: Detained DESTMA Officials Set To Be Arraign In Court In Delta January 28, 2025
Five officials of the Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, that were detained and granted bail by the police are set to be arraigned in court over a yet to be identified offences. The DESTMA officials, Oghenekioja Samuel, Anakpoha Louis Oghogho, Sibisaba Raymond,Udi Jeremiah and Erutobori Sunny Esharenena, were detained after an incident of […]
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Shame As DESTMA, Sanitation Officers In Public Fight During Exercise In Ughelli North January 28, 2025
It was a show of shame as the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Ughelli North turned into a public fight between the officers of the Department of Environment and Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, as both mobilized to defend their rights during the exercise in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Environmental […]
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DESTMA Officials Detained Over Alleged Missing N81,000 Of Tricyclist In Ughelli North January 27, 2025
FIVE officials of the Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, were recently being detained at the Ughelli A division of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, over an alleged missing huge amount of money from a tricycle that was arrested and taken into custody in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta […]
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