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Opinion: Senate’s Decision to Compel States To Fund Regional Commissions Violates State Autonomy

October 25, 2024 Admin

By Oghenekaro Awodeha On Thursday 24th, 2024, The Senate approved a 15 percent deduction from member states’ statutory allocations to fund newly established regional development commissions. The Senate’s decision to fund these newly created regional development commissions by mandating a 15 percent deduction from state allocations represents a serious violation of state autonomy. While the federal government has taken steps toward decentralization by supporting local government financial autonomy, its move to force states to fund federal commissions undermines its stated commitment to empowering lower levels of government. This…

Parties Deregistration: PDM National Chairman Cautions Senate, Advises Government on Economy

October 25, 2019 Admin

By Victor Bieni ABUJA- The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), Hon. Chief Frank Igwebuike has frowned at the Senate move to deregister political parties in Nigeria, says action a total breach to Nigerian Constitution. Chief Frank Igwebuike spoke to newsmen today in his National office Secretariat today in F.C.T, Abuja when asked on his view as regards the recent move by the National Assembly, Nigerian Senate to deregister political parties to a bearest minimum of five(5) in the country. The National PDM Boss described the attempt as…

Nwaoboshi Accuses Police Of Defying Court Order, Moves To File Contempt Proceeding February 4, 2025
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has accused the Inspector General of Police of defying a court order, which restrained law enforcement agencies from arresting or detaining him. The Federal High Court in Abuja issued the order on July 17, 2024, in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/2916/2024 and Motion No. M/9638/2024. The court order specifically prohibited the IGP, Nigeria […]
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Ndokwa East Has Not Been Treated Fairly By Delta Government –Omo-Agege February 2, 2025
Former Deputy President of the 9th Senate and former Delta State APC governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has accused the PDP-led Delta State Government of marginalizing the people of Ndokwa East Local Government Area. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting with APC elders, leaders, and members in Aboh, Ndokwa East, Omo-Agege lamented that despite […]
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Omo-Agege Assures APC Leaders Of Unity Ahead Of 2027 Elections February 1, 2025
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Deputy President of the 9th Senate and former Delta State APC governorship candidate, has assured that the perceived crisis among Delta State APC leaders will soon be resolved. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting with APC elders, leaders, and members in Obiaruku and Kwale, Ukwuani, and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas, […]
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2027: Sen Omo-Agege Delta North Stakeholders’ Meeting Gets Boost As Odikpo Drum Support January 31, 2025
Ahead of the proposed All Progressive Congress, APC, interactive stakeholders meeting in Delta North, Dr. Iyke Odikpo, a chieftain and leader of the party, has drummed his support for senator Ovie Omo-Agege initiatives to drive the party to unity. Dr. Odikpo, in a statement reaffirms his support for the immediate past […]
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We Are Looking for the Doctors By Sunny Awhefeada January 30, 2025
By Sunny Awhefeada Brigadier Sani Abacha, as he then was, it was who announced the 31 December 1983 putsch that torpedoed the ill-fated government of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and sounded the death knell for the second republic. An unforgettable line in Abacha’s coup speech was that our hospitals had become “mere consulting […]
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Delta DPO, Rejects N5 Million Bribe, As Police Arrests Prison Warden For Allegedly Raping 15-yr Girl January 28, 2025
Policemen attached to “B” Division in Warri, Delta State have arrested a serving Assistant Inspector of Prison, simply identified as Apiakise Samson over the alleged rape and defilement of a fifteen(15) year old girl(name withheld). This is coming as the Divisional Police Officer, DPO “B”,CSP Christopher Odoh, rejected a five million […]
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Breaking: Detained DESTMA Officials Set To Be Arraign In Court In Delta January 28, 2025
Five officials of the Delta State Traffic Management Authority, DESTMA, that were detained and granted bail by the police are set to be arraigned in court over a yet to be identified offences. The DESTMA officials, Oghenekioja Samuel, Anakpoha Louis Oghogho, Sibisaba Raymond,Udi Jeremiah and Erutobori Sunny Esharenena, were detained after an incident of […]
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Shame As DESTMA, Sanitation Officers In Public Fight During Exercise In Ughelli North January 28, 2025
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 […]
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DESTMA Officials Detained Over Alleged Missing N81,000 Of Tricyclist In Ughelli North January 27, 2025
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 […]
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Soludo’s Sermon By Sunny Awhefeada January 24, 2025
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 […]
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