Month: January 2024

Reactions As Delta Community Youth Leader Dies In Police Custody

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  THE death of Unenurhie community youth leader at police custody has continued to generate reactions from leaders and family members in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learned that the deceased, Mr. Oyibo Diamond, a father of five whose last child is about two months old, who was arrested and detained on December 20, 2023, allegedly died on Christmas eve in detention. Reacting to the incident, the president general of Unenurhie, Mr. Peter Maison said, “Mr Oyibo Diamond was invited by the police from the…

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DIEZANI, SADIYA AND BETTA: Interrogating Why Beautiful Women Seem Worse Treasury Looters

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THE BEAUTIFUL THIEVES: Should we make a law urgently that our beautiful women should never be allowed near the national till? Has anyone else noticed the seeming emerging trend of our women public officials outdoing the men in making a mess of our national treasury? The womenfolk seem to take no prisoners when they have opportunity to attack and they show exceptional impunity and the iron balls of hardened pyrates. In May 2014, this column (then appearing in The Nation newspaper), had described Diezani Alison-Madueke as “the beautiful thief”). Diezani…

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Gov Oborevwori Breaks 25yrs Jinx, Appoints Kpuwhara SSA

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Twenty-five years, after working consistently and faithfully in ensuring that PDP in Ogor ward remain solidified, Delta State Governor, Rt Hon (Elder) Sheriff Oborevwori has appointed its Foremost National leader, Olorogun Kpuwhara Avbe Anthony JP, as his Senior Special Assistant, (SSA Political.) The appointment by Governor Sheriff broke the 25years jinx of Kpuwhara working for the PDP without recognition at the state level. Hon Kpuwhara, who graduated from the great University of Benin,Benin City, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree B.Sc in Geography and Regional Planning with Second Class Upper…

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Terminate Olu Of Warri Surveillance Contract, NAF Urges NNPCL

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A pan Nigeria group, National Awareness Forum (NAF) has asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to speedily terminate the oil pipelines surveillance contracts awarded to the Pipelines Infrastructures Nigeria Limited (PINL). PINL operated by the Itsekiri monarch, the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse 111, was awarded the contract for the surveillance of the oil pipelines in some parts of the Niger Delta and South-East. The PINL was saddled by the NPPCL to watch over oil pipelines and installations in some parts of Rivers and Imo State. The contract…

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Cult Clash Claims 30 Lives In Edo State

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Thirty persons have been reportedly killed in a cult clash between two rival groups in Benin City, the Edo State Capital as a young man narrowly escaped from being hacked down by suspected cultists in 2nd East circular area in Benin on Tuesday. The battle for supremacy between suspected members of the Black Axe Confraternity and their rival Supreme Eiye Confraternity which reportedly started December 21, 2023 has claimed over 30 lives in Benin as at press time. It was gathered that cult killings were triggered by the brutal killing…

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Otiti Pour Encomium As Ogidi Gbegbaje, Bows Out Of The Civil Service, Calls Him A Father Figure, Armed With Pragmatic Solutions To Emerging Problems

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……A Man with Exuding Confidence of rare Courage   From Akpovoke Otiti Asaba   A conclusive submission by Sonia McDonald reads… “Challenging times calls for challenging leadership skills in our sphere of influence”. It is therefore rare in our clime these days to identify leaders with simplified aura that tends to connect people without a sight of the mind construction on the face, especially when being challenged with public pressure. Today, Sir, Eddy Ogidi Gbegbaje bows out of Civil Service, a distinctive Man who courageously stand out amidst hard times.…

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Oddity: Kenya University Launches Degree In Witchcraft

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  The University of Machakos is expected to launch a Witchcraft Degree, setting a milestone as the second institution in the world to give the same. Speaking during the launch, the Vice-Chancellor said that tens of students had already been drawn by the course and the University planned to leverage local capital to make the course a success. In the greater Machakos County, we have a lot of indigenous expertise that can be harnessed for the benefit of society and this is the first step towards incorporating this knowledge. We…

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Johnson Adjan, The Ogburine, @ 80

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  By Sunny Awhefeada The usual end of year ritual of evaluation and resolutions preoccupied my mind as I tried to draw a connection between the dying year and the new one. My mind took to memory lane as it ambled between the year 2000 and the present moment. What assailed me were a huge void and then a stream of disillusionment in view of where we are as a nation. The killings in Plateau State and other parts of Nigeria, the deepening poverty and general ambience of hopelessness easily…

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Ibebe Rufus Re-elected As EGSOSA National President With Nine Others

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Comrade Akpobome Rufus Ibebe, has been reelected and returned unopposed as the National President of Ekiugbo Grammar School Old Students Association, EGSOSA, with nine others as executive members. Comrade Ibebe was returned as the national president of the institution at a reunion held on Wednesday after the new year at Ughelli, Delta state. Among those elected with Comr. Ibebe are, Comr.Oghale Egbabor, Vice President, Come. Onoriode Kennedy Ugoma, Secretary, Come. Henry Atotis, Assistant Secretary, Comr.Irikesiebe Anthony, Treasurer, and Comr. Collins Ajomayane, Financial Secretary. Others are, Comr. Igho Orobosa, Program Director,…

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