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Ogoni: From Agony to Hope By Sunny Awhefeada

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By Sunny Awhefeada,   Ogoni implicates agony whenever it is mentioned. To underscore this reality, a 1998 book titled Ogoni’s Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria edited by Abdul Rasheed Na’ Allah, frames the totality of the perennial agony occasioned by the exploration and exploitation of crude oil in Ogoniland. Crude oil that the Nigerian state counted as blessing became a curse to the Ogoni people as the exploratory activities of Shell and other oil multinationals turned the once lush fertile rainforest and beautiful rivers into a vast…

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OMO-AGEGE: A Pillar Of Constitutional Rectitude In Delta APC

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  By Pince Efe Duku   All political systems experience conflicts and contestations for their control. By the rational choice theory and as dissected in Gareth Morgan’s seminal work, ‘Interests, Conflict, and Power: Organizations as Political Systems’, these conflicts are sometimes mild or fierce depending on the interests driving them. Anyhow they come, truly democratic leaders resolve conflicts based on settled rules of law to protect the interests of the people as the ultimate source of political power. Promoting, protecting and enriching rules that preserve the interests of the grassroots…

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The Principal’s Role In Promoting School Community Relations

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    The Principal’s Role In Promoting School Community Relations   …Historical Perspectives and the Challenges in Delta State Basic and Secondary Education System             BY COMR. BLESSING OMARAYARUE EGBAGBARA (JP)     INTRODUCTION: The issues of the school community relations and the attendant challenges of school at all levels will always remain relevant and existing, particularly as it has come to be accepted that an organic relationship serves as a catalyst to positively change to both schools and the communities they served. However, when…

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Tompolo won’t allow any Ijaw man in support of Fubara to blow pipelines -Prophet Ariole

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    The General Overseer of Goshen Freedom Tabernacle, GFT, Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State,Prophet Austin Ariole JP at a Sunday Prophetic service today warned that High Chief(Dr.) Oweizide Government Ekpemupolo Alias Tompolo who is in charge of the protection of pipeline surveillance in the Niger Delta will keep ethnicity aside and arrest any Ijaw person who blow up pipelines and go free and put his job at stake with the Federal Government because of the political crisis between former Governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom…

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2027: Delta PDP rakes in defectors from APC

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    Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Saturday, welcomed over 2,000 defectors from the All Progressives Congress, APC and other opposition political parties in the state.   The former opposition members known as Delta Political Actualisation Network (DPAN) in Ughelli urban led by Fejiro Ishaka as well as Alex Idu and his supporters from Orogun were received during the inauguration of Ughelli North/Ughelli South/Udu Federal Constituency Forum held at Oharisi Primary School, Ughelli.   Welcoming the defectors, State Chairman of the party, Chief Solomon Arenyeka, said the party was…

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Age falsification: Panic In Delta As Governor warns Civil Servants

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  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 servants in the state who engage in age falsification with the dubious intent to prolong their years of service. He warned those involved to desist from such dubious act or face severe sanctions while threatening…

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Rivers Lawmakers And The Drummer In The Nearby Bush

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  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. The people fought thinking that they were fighting for freedom in the course of the anti-colonial struggle. The thinking that gave the struggle the impetus that routed imperialism was anchored on Kwame Nkrumah’s admonition that…

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RIVER STATE CRISIS: TINUBU HAS ACTED WISELY-Gbemre

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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 Nyesom Wike catapulted him to become Accountant General and then imposed him on PDP to grab the governorship ticket even when he was not a card carrying member of PDP. The devil will not gift…

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Gov Fubara Addresses Rivers People After Tinubu State Of Emergency Declaration

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    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 of duty.   We prioritized the protection of lives and property and ensured the continuous progress of our dear State.   Even in the face of the political impasse, we have remained committed to constitutional…

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Delta Govt Has Constructed Several Roads In Riverine Areas-Oborevwori

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  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 administration through the MORE Agenda was committed to “fostering inclusive development and enhancing the quality of lives of our people.” The governor who was represented by his Deputy, Sir Monday Onyeme, said his administration was…

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