Month: August 2024

Ogorugba Inaugurates, Assigns Portfolios To Supervisors With A Charge On Diligence, Effectiveness

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    The Chairman of Isoko North Local Government Council, Hon Prince Godwin Ogorugba has sworn-in Akpoedafe Thomas, Odbibi Anthony, Alebe Joshua and Egwu Alakpodia Oghenero as Supervisors with a charge on them to be diligent, effective and proactive in their service to the people.   The Supervisors were immediately sworn in after they were screened by the legislative arm led by Hon Pascal Emeluaha.   Inaugurating the Supervisors at the Council Secretariat in Ozoro, on Thursday, Ogorugba said “those of you appointed today were carefully selected from your respective…

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Interrogating Delta State’s Recycled Debt Narrative: A 20-Year Cycle of Mismanagement

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By Shedrack Onitsha,   Over the past 16 years, successive PDP-led administrations in Delta State have consistently cited the state’s debt profile as a reason for their inability to fulfill campaign promises, diverting attention from the poor governance and lack of tangible development. Each new government has adopted the narrative of “mountainous debt” inherited from their predecessors, a convenient excuse for the poor leadership that has plagued the state for over two decades.   When Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan succeeded Chief James Onanefe Ibori in 2007, having served in Ibori’s administration…

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An Olympian Shame! By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada As literature students at the University of Benin, we played with words as we honed our poetic and oratorical skills. One of the many superlative words we deployed in those hungry, but starry eyed days was “Olympian” which in our context meant “exceptional” or “superhuman”. We deployed it to foreground traits that we found extraordinary, lofty and outstanding. So we had such turns of expression such as “Olympian height”, “Olympian achievement”, “Olympian attainment” to describe feats that awed our impressionable minds. As counter to such positive acclaims…

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Police Arrest Five Suspected Cultists Arrested, Recover Guns, Others In Ughelli North

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  FIVE persons suspected to be cultists have been arrested as guns, live cartridges and other items were recovered in a hotel raided by security agents,in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.   The suspects whose identity could not be ascertained as at the time of this report were arrested during a raid on a popular hotel name withheld between Afiesere and Ogbonwan communities respectively.   The items allegedly recovered during the raid include, three cut to size guns, live cartridges, battle axe, four android phones, biro and…

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Isoko North LG Boss, Ogorugba Vows To Fish Out Primary School ‘Ghost’ Workers

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Chairman of Isoko North Local Government Council, Hon Prince Godwin Ogorugba has promised to sanitize the workforce and fish out ghost workers in the primary school system and all other departments.   He said he will carry out a physical, biometric audit and a head count to fish out ghost workers, absentee teachers in the local government. Prince Ogorugba stated this on Tuesday when he received on a working visit, the Chairman Delta State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hon. Samuel Mariere and his delegation at his office in Ozoro.…

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Delta Lawmaker, Omonade Fulfils Campaign Promises Doles Out N23M Cash Grant To 1,150 In Ughelli North

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  The member representing Ughelli North constituency 1, at the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Mathew Omonade, has flagged off a N23 million Naira cash grant as empowerment for women and artisans in fulfilment of his campaign promises. The lawmaker who flagged off the event at his Ovara-Umusu Orogun community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State disclosed that the ceremony is aimed to give his constituents a sense of belonging while he represents them at Delta State House of Assembly. Addressing journalists at the event, Omonade…

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NACTOMORAS Appeals To Tinubu, Oborevwori for Relief from Police Harassment

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  The Delta State chapter of the National Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners/Riders Association (NACTOMORAS) has made an urgent appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, seeking their intervention to end ongoing police harassment, brutality, and intimidation against its members. During a peaceful protest held at Udu Road in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, the group alleged that officers of the Delta State Police Command are being used by rival groups to obstruct their lawful transport business activities. The protesters cited the 2015 death of…

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Insecurity: Delta Police Command Not Involved In rescue Of Former Commissioner, Onyemaechi, Group Declares

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I A group, Initiative For Social Rights Concerns And Advancement (ISRCA) AKA “No Justice, No Peace” today said the Delta State Police Command is not involved in the rescue of former Commissioner for Technical Education,Hon. Joan Onyemaechi from the hands of her abductors. ISRCA National Coordinator, Comrade(Amb) Derrick Oritsematosan Agberen made the assertion in a statement sent to Our Correspondent in Warri. “From the gestures of the Delta State Police Command, it is obvious that the Police wasn’t involved in the rescuing process.” It would be recalled that the former…

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Support Bola Ahmed Tinubu Administration, Group Urges Yoruba Nation

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Group Urges Yorubas To Fully Support Tinubu *** Says President Cannot Worship The North Worried by the recent hardship protests witnessed in Nigeria, the O’Odua Integrity Network ( OIN) has called on the Yoruba Ethnic Nationality to be proactive, saying it was time for Yoruba Nation to re-think and rise to the defence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at all times against the North. EndBadGovernance movement, according to OIN, organised by some faceless individuals, mostly misguided people, was supposedly against longstanding grievances about governance, corruption, and socio-economic challenges in the…

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SURROGACY: Emily Lied In BBC Interview, See What She Told Police-Ejovi

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  Chief Johnbull Ejovi, Tuesday, said his ex wife, Emily Apiloko lied in her recent interview with the BBC where she linked him to her surrogate journey, insisting that he has no link with the children. Ejovi said this is her statement to the police when I arrested her to the Alagbon Police Station in Lagos in 2021: “I confirm that my husband and I discussed the possibility of using a surrogate to have a child or children, as we are unable to do so without medical or other support.…

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