Month: December 2024

2027: Oguma Hails Oborevwori For Remarkable Strides In Delta

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  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State, Olorogun John Oguma, has described the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, as a man of destiny whose outstanding leadership has transformed the state. Speaking during a thank-you visit by indigenes and non-indigenes of Ovwor-Olomu community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Oguma praised the governor for his ability to handle governance effectively, noting that he has not borrowed funds despite initiating new and completing numerous projects. “Governor Oborevwori has won 38 court cases and continues to deliver…

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Eneakpoyeri Family Day: Ojefia, Onitsha Urges Urhobos To Uphold Family Values

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LEADERS of the Eneakpoyeri Family of Afeisere, Ughelli North local government, have called on the Urhobo people to continue to uphold family values passed unto us by our forebears, to preserve our customs and traditions. Speaking separately during the Eneakpoyeri Family of Afiesere End-of-Year Party, the Chairman of the Family Executive Committee, Olorogun Anthony Ojefia and the Chairman of the Project Committee, Comrade Shedrack Onitsha, noted that the family yearly party was aimed at sustaining the family bound by bringing members of the family to eat, drink and get to…

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Payrates Confraternity Organizes Memorial For Umalokun Massacre In Ughelli North

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IN remembrance and memorial of the unjustly massacred six members of the National Association of Seadogs, at Oharisi Primary School in Ughelli, the Pyrates confraternity, has laid foundation in their honour at Umalokun Deck, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It would be recalled that six members of the Pyrates Confraternity, Anthony Teddy Omakor, Princely Otegho Otaye, Aghogho Kester Sobitie, Victor Oyailo, Joseph Uloho and Bernard Obi were brutally murdered by security agents at Oharisi Primary School precisely on December 27, 1983 in Ughelli. The event which…

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Edojakwa Foundation Takes Road Safety Awareness/Sensitization Campaign To Ughelli

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      THE Ambassador Emmanuel Edojakwa Foundation-Safe Roads Initiative SRI, has taken its road safety sensitization/ awareness campaign to road users in Ughelli, Headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State.   Speaking at the flagging of the event, SRC EM Traikiriowei, Unit Operation Head, Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC, Ughelli Command enlightened pedestrians and motorists on road safety tips and rules, also educate all on how to check the manufactured dates of tyres and other important safety rules. He disclosed that since December 15th, 2024, they have…

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Grand Lodge Holds Thanksgiving, Present Food Items To Old Peoples Home In Delta

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  THE Brethren and officers of the Grand Lodge of Nigeria, a renowned organization led by its Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Nigeria, Most Worshipful, Bro. Chief Osiobe Okotie has marked their thanksgiving with the presentation of food items and other to old people’s home in Delta State.   The thanksgiving and presentation of food items to St. Paul Catholic Old Peoples home in Bowen Avenue, Warri, was to marked the installation of Osiobe Okotie as the 4th Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Nigeria and the first from…

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Death At Christmas By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada,   I do not know if Christmas is anticipated in the same manner around the world. My experience of the festival woven around the birth of Jesus Christ has so far been triangular mutating with age, location and exposure. My earliest memories of Christmas took roots in Ibadan in the early part of the Second Republic. We looked forward to the season with unquantifiable joy. The event that kicked off the Christmas mood was the end of the first term examination in the second week of December.…

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TINUBU, OBOREVWORI, EGBETOKUN MUST GUARD AGAINST REPEAT OF OKUAMA IN OKPARE

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By Gbemre   Nigerian Army has occupied Okpare, another Ughelli South Local Government Area community in Delta state over another doubtful peace mission. From the feelers we are getting, it is obvious the Nigerian Army, for self reasons best known to the authorities, are willfully not learning from past painful and shameful lessons. We are compelled to raise this alarm, calling on President Bola Tinubu, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, Inspector General of Police, Director-General DSS, Ughelli South LG Chairman and other relevant authorities, to call the Nigerian Army to order before…

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Cult Clash: Groups Sign Peace Accord In Agbarho

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  FOLLOWING the multiple death and injuries sustained in a cult clash between two rival groups in Agbarho community, peace has began to crop in after an accord was signed by leaders of both confraternity in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learned that the peace agreement was facilitated by leaders of the community that called on both cult groups to stop the killing and destruction of properties. It would be recalled that, two rival cult groups, Eiye and Maphite had been in a battle over…

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Angry Youths Chase Traders, Others From  Ogor/Ughelli Modern Market Over Allege Toilet Contract Award

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  TENSION flared in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State as youths allegedly chased traders, the council chairman, Olorogun Jaro Egbo, while addressing store owners at the Ughelli/Ogor modern market. The incident underscores a longstanding dispute over ownership and royalty claims tied to the market’s land, deepening the brewing crisis in the area. The Ogor/Ughelli modern market, commissioned by former president Olusegun Obasanjo during Chief James Onanefe Ibori administration as Delta State Governor years ago and ever since, it has been plagued by controversy. After remaining shutdown for…

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Gov Fubara Approves N100K Christmas Bonus For Civil Servants, Others In Rivers

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    Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara, GSSRS, has approved the sum of One hundred thousand naira(N100, 000) as christmas bonus for Civil Servants Pensioners and other Public Servants across the state.   The bonus announced in a statement by George Nwaeke Head of Civil Service, Rivers State on Christmas eve.   According to the stateme, “I wish to inform the general public that the Rivers State Governor, His Excellency Sir Siminalayi Fubara, GSSRS in the spirit of the yuletide has approved the sum of N100,000 for civil servants, public…

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