Month: January 2025

Shame As DESTMA, Sanitation Officers In Public Fight During Exercise In Ughelli North

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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 sanitation officers had mounted roadblock at the ever busy Post Office roundabout with a mobile court sitting. Trouble started when an unidentified two DESTMA officials, were arrested at Post office roundabout for violating sanitation laws.…

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DESTMA Officials Detained Over Alleged Missing N81,000 Of Tricyclist In Ughelli North

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        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 State.     The detained officials are, Oghenekioja Samuel, Anakpoha Louis Oghogho, Sibisaba Raymond, Udi Jeremiah and Erutobori Sunny Esharena respectively.   It was learned that a tricycle owned by a 44-year man, identified as…

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Soludo’s Sermon By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   I do not know the last time Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, had the opportunity of teaching in the classroom. I surmise that it must have been more than twenty years ago before he escaped from the austere classrooms at Nsukka to join the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Chief Economic Adviser and later becoming the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The great teacher that he is, Soludo loves to talk and whenever he had the opportunity to do…

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Uviejitobor Seeks  Collaboration Within Oil and Gas Sector

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    The Honourable Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Delta State, Hon. (Chief) Peter Okagbare Uviejitobor has called on the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA for collaboration in order to achieve effective service delivery. He made the remarks in Asaba while addressing NMDPRA State Coordinator, Engr. Ohwodiasa Victor and his team who were in his office on a courtesy call upon his assumption of office. According to him, “I am highly pleased to welcome you on behalf of the State Governor, Rt Hon Elder Sheriff F.O. Oborevwori…

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Breaking: Ikpokpo Dumps PDP, Lauds Tinubu Renewed Hope Agenda

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Former Isoko South Local Government Council Chairman, Itiako Constantine Ikpokpo, has resigned and dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP with immediate effect.   Ikpokpo, generally known as Malik  a strong advocate of Delta Unity Group, DUG, that projected and supported Olorogun David Edevbie at the 2023 governorship election lauded the PDP for giving him the opportunity to serve in the journey of 27-year.     In his resignation letter dated January 23, 2025, addressed to Irri Ward II, chairman, Mr. Samson Afeme, Ikpokpo revealed his total support and admirations for…

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Over 1,000 Clergies Pray For Waive, Oborevwori, Tinubu At Annual Prayer Day

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  Clergies numbering over 1,000 drawn from Ughelli North, Ughelli South, and Udu and all blocks of the christian body across Delta Central, on Thursday gathered and prayed for the substainance of Rev Francis Waive, Gov Sheriff Oborevwori and president Bola Ahmed Tinubu at 2025 edition of the Rev Waive Annual Day of Prayers. The prayers session held at the Ughelli Kingdom Hall, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, brought together Christian leaders from all five blocs of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), including the Catholic…

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Ned Nwoko Purported Defection To APC, An Attempt To Destroy Our Party- Sen Nwaoboshi

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  Immediate past senator who represented Delta North Senatorial District at the national Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, has revealed that the purported defection of senator Ned Nwoko from the People Democratic, PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, is a calculated attempt to destroy and destabilize the party ahead of future elections.     Sen Nwaoboshi, a former state chairman of the PDP, Delta State chapter who defected to the APC few years ago, made this known in a press statement.   It was learned that, Senator Ned Nwoko who…

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The Court Order! By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada   The raison d’ tre of government which is the welfare and security of the citizens remains a perennially violated concept in Nigeria. Despite the multiplicity of avowals by government officials to a commitment to the twin concept of welfare and security, what Nigerians have had to contend with in the last forty years has been to suffer the breach of what ought to have been a hallowed and reassuring credo. As a nation we have backpedalled receding uncontrollably into the Hobessian jungle where life is short,…

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NED NWOKO’S ATTEMPTS TO DESTABILIZE THE DELTA STATE APC

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  I have been made aware that Senator Ned Nwoko, who recently announced his planned defection, is secretly plotting with some elements in the Presidency to dissolve the Delta State APC Executives from state to wards before their tenure expires. This move is unacceptable and poses a significant threat to our party’s stability and unity in Delta State. As a former senator who represented Delta North Senatorial District from 2015 to 2023, and a leader in the All Progressives Congress (APC), I strongly condemn Nwoko’s attempt to destabilize the Delta…

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Nigeria Is Set To Get Over 20 New States Amidst The Ongoing 1999 Constitution Amendment

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      NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the National Assembly is currently reviewing several bills proposing the creation of new states in Nigeria, as part of an ongoing amendment of the 1999 Constitution.       These proposals, submitted in 2024 by lawmakers and various interest groups, have either scaled the first or second readings and are awaiting further deliberation and possible approval.       Presently, Nigeria comprises 36 states unevenly distributed across the six geopolitical zones.       The South-South, South-West, North-Central, and North-East zones each have…

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