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Are These Soldiers Or Hooligans In Uniform?

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 Admin

By Sunny Awhefeada The title adopted for today’s piece is a slightly modified, if not imitative, version of how someone labeled a post on facebook two days ago. The post in question is a video in which a helpless civilian was being pummeled by soldiers in uniform under the watchful supervision of a major-general! The victim is neither a terrorist nor a bandit! He is just another civilian accused by power drunk soldiers of denting the jeep of the major-general. As the brutes in uniform rained blows on…

DELTA TEACHERS PROMOTION ARREARS: MORE THAN A SUBEB CORRUPTION

November 21, 2024 Admin

By Zik Gbemre When days ago, I hit at the Delta State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) over the inciting discrepancies in recent payment of accumulated promotion arrears to primary schools teachers in the state, it wasn’t done out of ignorance of the fact that the engagement and remuneration of primary school teachers is a tripartite responsibility of all tiers of government, federal, state and local. Focussing on the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) was apparently because it is the statutory tool by which these…

Age falsification: Panic In Delta As Governor warns Civil Servants March 21, 2025
By Felix Ofou and Nelson Egware There is palpable fear among top civil servants in Delta State following the threat by the Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to expose those who have altered their age to remain in the system. The Governor made the threat while frowning at the attitude of some civil […]
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Rivers Lawmakers And The Drummer In The Nearby Bush March 20, 2025
By Sunny Awhefeada Africa’s postcolonial condition is driven by a sad irony which has painfully thrust on the hapless continent the antithesis of what the people yearned for in their quest for freedom decades ago. Colonialism, which held the continent down for over a century, was calibrated as the opposite of freedom. […]
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Delta APC Carpets Sobotie Petition Against Morka, Calls For His Suspension March 19, 2025
State Executive Committee of the Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the suspension of the state chapter chairman, Elder Omeni Sobotie over his petition against the National Secretary of the Party, I Barr Felix Morka. The SEC members in a petition, expressed dismay over the petition brought against Morka without this […]
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RIVER STATE CRISIS: TINUBU HAS ACTED WISELY-Gbemre March 19, 2025
By Zik Gbemre Should President Bola Ahmed Tinubu allow the oil rich River state to burn to ashes before acting? No. A solution must be reached to calm nerves. I said few days ago that I didn’t pity Governor Siminalayi Fubara because he allowed self to be used. He enjoyed the political game when […]
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Gov Fubara Addresses Rivers People After Tinubu State Of Emergency Declaration March 19, 2025
My dear Rivers People, I address you today with a deep sense of responsibility and calm, as we navigate this unfortunate moment in our state’s political history. Since assuming office as your Governor, all my actions and decisions have been guided by my constitutional oath of office and a great sense […]
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Delta Govt Has Constructed Several Roads In Riverine Areas-Oborevwori March 18, 2025
The Delta State government has constructed several kilometers of roads and drainage channels in the riverine areas of the state, the state’s Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has said. Speaking on Monday in Asaba when course participants of the Naval War College Nigeria (NWCN), Calabar, paid him a courtesy visit, Oborevwori, disclosed that his […]
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Nigerian Army Recover, Dumped Corpse In Delta March 17, 2025
The corpse of unidentified male has been recovered and deposited at the morgue by the military personnel while in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the corpse of the unidentified male within the age of 18-22, was dumped along the ECN road. Though the Delta State Police Public Relations […]
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Olomu Community Petitions Gov Oborevwori Over Allege Attack, Land Grabbing By Neighbouring Ijaw Community March 17, 2025
The people of Oviri-Olomu community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, have called State Governor Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to urgently intervene into the crisis brewing between her neighboring Ijaw community, Egodor in Burutu local government over an alleged attack on them and their lands. The community in a petition […]
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UGHELLI NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILLORS NEED THE SUPPORT OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS IRRESPECTIVE OF OUR POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS March 17, 2025
By Jeckins Ejiro Wisike The suppression of entitlements and benefits of the Ughelli North Local Government Council Legislature Arm by the Executive is a clear violation of democratic principles and a blatant disregard for constitutional responsibilities. The denial of operational vehicles to the elected Councillors—who represent the people—undermines their ability to effectively perform […]
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Between Ogboru and Omo-Agege: Who is the greater Asset to Urhobo? March 17, 2025
By Annabel Ogheneganre Hate speech, as the United Nations denotes it is an offensive discourse that targets a group or individual based on inherent characteristics, such as race, religion, or gender, and has the potential to threaten social and pollical harmony. This occurs both offline and online, with the intention to discriminate against or […]
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