Wife of Delta Governor and Founder, You Matter Charity Foundation, Deaconess Tobore Oborevwori has lent her voice to the global call for greater breastfeeding for working parents at workplaces. Deaconess Oborevwori who drummed support for the UNICEF and WHO advocacy with an awareness walk to celebrate this year’s World Breastfeeding Week, pledged to propose a break time for nursing mothers working in the state government house to properly breastfeed their babies. The governor’s wife who led hundreds of mothers and various civil societies on the awareness walk on Friday, August 5, from the Dome Event Center, Asaba to the popular…
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A Nigerian businesswoman, Ese Cynthia Daniel, has been declared wanted by the International Police over an alleged N750 million fraud. In an INTERPOL bulletin numbered CR: 3000X/ICPO/ADM/LD/VCP/Vol. 4/93, the declaration followed a warrant of arrest issued by a Magistrates Court in Lagos State to the Nigeria Police Force. The bulletin noted that Ese, who hails from Delta State, conspired with accomplices to fraudulently convert the sum in Lagos, between January 24, and 26, 2023. The suspect allegedly obtained the said amount under the pretence of paying the United States of America dollars but declined and absconded to…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday, declared that despite the nation’s current rate of energy supply, his administration is poised to address all the obstacles militating against stable electricity supply in the country. He said his administration will bring solutions to the multifarious challenges across the electric power sector value chain which will significantly relieve longstanding problems of suppressed demand and improve the steadiness of peak supply for Nigerians, affirming that improved energy generation and distribution is an imperative for accelerated national growth. President Tinubu spoke at the ground breaking ceremony of the new 350MW Gwagwalada Independent Thermal Power Plant…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated the immediate past Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo as minister. The president also withdrew the ministerial nomination of Maryam Shetty from Kano and replaced her with Dr Mairiga Mahmud. Tinubu announced this is a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and read during plenary on Friday.
By Fred Edoreh Here is the equation: All people desire increased development while governments require money to fund projects and programmes to attain meaningful levels of development according to needs assessments. In Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has promised even more, in line with the cardinal points of his campaign. Question is, does the state have the volume of revenue to meet all the needs of the various communities and sectors? For most advanced countries, national revenue is derived mostly from taxes, the chunk of which are administered by the states and counties. For instance, individual income tax accounts for…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has approached the court to seek protection from his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki, to avoid an imminent impeachment and removal from office. In a motion of notice brought before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and made available to newsmen on Thursday, the appellant seeks an order of interlocutory injunction stopping the respondents or their agents from harassing, intimidating, embarrassing or preventing the applicant from carrying out the functions of his office as Deputy Governor of Edo State, including attending State Executive Council meetings and other functions pending the determination…
Delta State Government, Thursday, said it may consider investment in electric vehicles for mass transportation to mitigate the impact of fuel subsidy removal on the citizens. The State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori stated this shortly after inspection and test-drive of two electric vehicles presented by Ajaere Motors and Jet Motor Company at Government House, Asaba. He said he was putting up a Committee to be headed by Secretary to the State Government, Dr Kingsley Emu to look into the economic viability and operational sustainability of electric vehicles in Nigeria. “This is the first time I have the opportunity to…
Arsenal winger, Nicolas Pepe could be among four players to leave the club after a series of clues were dropped ahead of the clash with Monaco, the UK Mirror reports. Two of the Gunners’ summer signings – Jurrien Timber and Declan Rice – started the Emirates Cup clash on Wednesday evening. Pepe was not named in the squad for the game and his name was also missing from the matchday programme. Turkish giants, Besiktas have been linked with the Ivorian who spent last season on loan with Nice in France. Portuguese left-back, Nuno Tavares was also absent from both the…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D, has congratulated the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on his emergence as the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaker Abbas also congratulated Senator Ajibola Basiru on his adoption as the National Secretary of the APC. Ganduje and Basiru were adopted as National Chairman and National Secretary of the APC, respectively, at the National Executive Committee meeting of the ruling party in Abuja on Thursday. Ganduje, who was governor until May 29, 2023, after serving two terms, succeeded Senator Abdullahi Adamu,…
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Sir Monday Onyeme, has called on electoral bodies in the country to, as a matter of necessity, make polling units closer to the people. Onyeme made the cal on Thursday when members of Okotomi Phase 111 Landlords Association, Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, paid him a courtesy visit at his office. Government House, Asaba. Responding to the request of the landlords for polling units to be provided in their area, the deputy governor said that it was important for polling units to be closer to the people so that distance…