By abiodun KOMOLAFE Whenever a section of the society wants to embark on something new, it’ll first fly a kite. To sane minds, flying a kite is like testing the waters. If the society is gullible enough to ‘collectivise, objectify, even sacralise’ it, then, it becomes the norm. Unfortunately, societal norms tend to grow organic; and continue to evolve that, very soon, people may not even remember its origin. Such is the interim national government plot by some political gladiators in Nigeria. While it is no longer in doubt that the call has again added flavour to the political vocabularies…
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Wife of Chief Sir Benjamin Elue, former Deputy Governor of Delta State, Lady Esther Elue, will on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, be Mother of the Day at this year’s edition of Maris Annual Public Service Lecture billed to hold at the prestigious Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba at 12 noon. At the lecture, Governor of Delta State, Governor Ifeanyi A. Okowa , CON, his predecessor in office, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, Ph.D, CON, and the Governor-elect of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, will be Special Guests of Honour, while an industrialist, Delta-born multi-billionaire businessman, Dr Gabriel Ogbechie, will be the…
Sen. Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa was born at Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State. He attended Edo College, Benin City (1970–1976), then went on to the University of Ibadan where he studied Medicine and Surgery, graduating in 1981 with an MBBS degree. After leaving the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, he worked with the Bendel State Hospitals Management Board as a Medical Officer. He entered private practice as Director, Victory Medical Centre, Igbanke in 1986. Political Career: Sen. Dr. Okowa, became Secretary to the Ika Local Government and then Chairman of the Ika North-East Local Government…
By THE WHISTLER For Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, won the 2023 presidential election. In an exclusive interview with THE WHISTLER, the legal luminary said the widespread votes secured by Tinubu showed clearly he won the election……CONTINUE READING A distinguished scholar ,Constitutional Lawyer, author and human rights advocate, he was born Itsejuwa Esanjumi Sagay on 20th December 1940 in Ibadan, Oyo State. He’s the founding Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Benin and an author of The Nigerian Law of Contract, regarded as an…
By Emmanuel Egobiambu The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, says the 2023 election is one of the best in the country’s history. He spoke while fielding questions on Channels Television Sunday Politics where he hailed the role of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the exercise. While Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner of the presidential election, critics say the exercise was marred with violence. Top contenders like Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi have challenged the outcome…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Saturday said his administration was building sustainable infrastructure for the continued growth and development of the state. Okowa stated this while speaking to journalists shortly after inspecting extent of work on Storm Drainage channel from Owa-Alero and environs through Owa-Alizomor and Owa-Offie to Iyi-Amah stream in Ika North East Local Government Area. The multi-billion naira project which is 50 per cent completed was among the projects listed in the bridging finance facility earlier obtained by the state government. The governor, who was conducted round the site by the Commissioner for Works, Mr Noel Omodon…
A former aspirant Hous of Assembly Ughelli South Constituency DTHA and serving legislative Assistant, RT Comrade Williams Odevwarehor Aminugo, to the current workaholics Deputy Senate President of Nigerian and All Progress Congress APC Governorship candidate awaiting swear-ing, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege whose mandate was stolen by OKowa third-term bid to manipulated results scores for one Mr Francis Oboroevowori and Sheriff’Oborevwori and after losses his failed VP ticket to our President-elect Ahemed Bola Tinubu awaiting swear-ing gang up with the Delta INEC coalition officers to forge fake results sheets without coulated real results and announced ghost results scores. Aminugo who made…
Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud. Elections would be rigged because elections were always rigged; the question was how badly. Sometimes voting felt like an inconsequential gesture as predetermined “winners” were announced. A law passed last year,…
Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), His Excellency, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, has filed his petition, challenging the victory and subsequent disqualification of Sheriff Oborevwori, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate and his Deputy, Monday Onyeme in the 18th March election. Gbagi, a renowned Criminologist, is also seeking the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to disqualify the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ovie Augustine Omo-Agege, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, Labour Party (LP), Kennedy Pela and their Deputies respectively. Gbagi, a former Chairman, Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, urged the Tribunal to…
Michael Orheruata, a Professor of Agricultural Science and teacher at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), will on Saturday, April 15, 2023, join siblings and family members to bury his mother, Late Deaconess Mrs. Comfort Ewuefevwa Orheruata (Nee Adiaga) who died at 83 years. Until her transition to glory, she was a devout christian and a strong mobilizer of the women folk for peaceful coexistence of residents in the locality. A lover of western education, Late Comfort Ewuefevwa Orheruata ensured that her children got the right education to enhance their leadership roles in the society. She is the mother of Prof.…