The Monday Onyeme Foundation on Saturday, selected 390 undergraduates studying at different institutions of higher learning in the country to benefit from its scholarship scheme. The students were selected through a rigorous examination held at Utagba-Ogbe Grammar School, Utagba Ogbe, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State. For this year’s edition, 2,245 students from mainly Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West and Ukwuani Local Government Areas of Delta State applied for the examination, 981 students were shortlisted to seat for the exams and 390 were successful. Addressing the students after the examination, the deputy governor who is the President of the…
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By ABEL JOHNGOLD The Member representing Oshimili South State Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA), Hon. Bridget Anyafulu, has commended the National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba for upholding her victory in the March 18 State Assembly election, saying the verdict is a call to quality representation. Anyafulu, who stated this while reacting to the judgment in an interview in Asaba shortly after the judgement on Saturday, said the Tribunal did a thorough job which affirmed the Judiciary as the last hope of the common man. The Tribunal had on Saturday, dismissed the…
The National Assembly and State Election Petition Tribunal holding in Asaba, Saturday, dismissed the case filed by EKPOTO EKPOTO EMMANUEL of the All Progressive Congress (APC) challenging the election of Rt. Hon. Thomas Ereyintomi on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 28, 2023 General Election. The Chairman of the three man panel of the tribunal, Justice Catherine Ogunsola, who read the judgement while dismissing the case in Asaba said that the petitioner case lacks merit. She also said that the petitioner failed to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt. The panel member further…
The Oyo State Government has sealed off some commercial banks as well as telecommunications masts around Ibadan metropolis. The Enforcement team of the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, led by the Director, Land Use Charge, Esv. Olufisayo Ogunbiyi, during an Enforcement tour around the city of Ibadan, said the action was due to non-compliance with payment of revenue to the coffers of the state government. According to the Director, Land Use Charge, the commercial banks and the telecommunications outfits have been served notices before the enforcement team visited them. He assured that once they pay the required Land…
The Oyo State Government has described the Food distribution exercise under the Sustainable Action for Economic Recovery (SAfER) as a testing ground that has thrown up its own challenges and successes. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade in spite of the challenges, the exercise was able to reach the most vulnerable in all the 33 local governments in the state and therefore a success. The food distribution exercise which is the first phase of SAfER consists of only 25% of the food to be distributed to identified poorest of the poor in…
They say politics is a bitch. It is because it gives room for all comers. That is why one Tony Ezeagwu, described as the Chairman of the Labour Party in the South-South geo-political zone, could come up during the week to raise unreasoned voice against Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s performance in 100 days in office. To be fair, there was an Obidient Movement in Delta State but I do not see that there was nor is a Labour Party in any effectiveness or reasonableness. I can almost swear that 99.9% of Deltans, including members of the Obidient Movement, did not know…
The Labour Party (LP) in South-South has written off the 100 days in office of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State as lacking spark of governance. South-South Chairman of Labour Party, Chief Tony Ezeagwu handed down the verdict while answering questions asked him to assess the 100 days in office of Governor Oborevwori. He told reporters: “As far as I am concerned, there’s nothing to be excited about because the governor has given nothing tangible on ground and so nothing to show for his administration’s 100 days.” Chief Ezeagwu said all that can be noticed is that the governor has…
PAN Niger Delta Elders Forum, PANDEF, has opined that the legal representatives of the candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, did not do a good job in the presidential election matter they handled. National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Ken Robinson, stated that the lapses in the presentations by the counsel for LP and PDP were regrettable, adding that the lawyers did not do due diligence on the matter. Robinson said: “We followed the extensive judgment that lasted for about 11 hours and it was elaborate. The justices of Court of Appeal made exclusive…
Spokesperson of Delta State Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general elections, Olorogun Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, has said that he has no regrets supporting his friend and governor of Delta State, Elder Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, during the governorship election in the state. He made the assertion in a live national radio network programme in Lagos on Friday, September 8, saying that it was the way of friendship to support each other in times of need and pursuit of life ambitions, adding that he made so many enemies because of his support for Oborevwori as head…
Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, Thursday, inaugurated multi-billion naira projects at the Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai-Asaba, as part of activities to mark his first 100 days in office. The Governor who also also commissioned 29 network of roads with 31.45 line drains around Madonna College road in Asaba and Okpanam areas of Oshimili South and Oshimili North Local Government Council areas of the state, blamed the abandonment of projects across the country on failure or refusal of political leaders to continue with projects started by their predecessors. The projects inaugurated at the Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai-Asaba, include; 500 and…