By Kenneth Obieh Delta State Advocacy Team (SAT) on HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria tasks Community Based Organisations (CBOs) on proper documentation of their activities to enhanced work delivery. The leader of SAT, Pastor Greg Sifo gave the charge at the monthly coordination meeting held with the various Community Based Organisation (CBOs) in Asaba. Pastor Sifo who thanked members of SAT especially the State Program Officer, Miss Juliet Obiajulu for her selfless service in bringing out useful results from the communities. He also enjoined the CBOs to consolidate on helping the people to gain effectively from the program. The State Program Officer, Miss…
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A first line charge democratic Federal House of Representatives emeritus, Dr Olisa Enebeli Imegwu, Esq, has counselled the principal officers of the senate against desperate ploys to truncate Chief Lauretta Onochie’s nomination and subsequent clearance as the Chairman of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), through spurious illogical legal postulations devoid of sound juridistic premises. Imegwu, a socio- political philosopher cum juristic pundit, made this call in his reaction to a court judgement being bandied by a crop of inadequately schooled individuals on the intricate dynamics of interpreting Nigeria’s 1999 constitution as ammended. According to the erudite grassroots politician representing the…
All Tobi Amusan did was conquer the world. Just a little over five feet (5ft1inch), people remember her as the diminutive athlete who towered on the podium and shed tears of joy as the Nigerian anthem boomed around the Hayward Field venue of the 2022 World Athletics Championship (WAC) in Oregon, United States. The narrative of her rise to renown would, however, not be complete without examining her backstory. Amusan has grown from the listless 15-year-old who won her race in her school’s inter-house sports competition to becoming a global queen of track and field. Her story may read as…
By Dennis Agwa As Nigerians prepare for the general elections slated for the first quarter of 2023 a lot of permutations are going on about what should happen and who should get what by way of winning at the polls. The electorate is now the beautiful bride with suitors, many of them sweet-tongued and deceptive, coming to knock at the door to her heart. At the national scene, the furore has escalated around the three leading candidates namely, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ABARI/Nigeria: Lawyer, humanist and Director of Legal, Delta State Contributing Health Commission, Barr. Richard Nagberi, and his siblings, are set to bury their late father, Pa. Mieseigha Alale Nagberi, a retired diplomat from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Until his transition to glory, Pa Nagberi, aged 87 year, was a devout christian and a strong mobilizer of all folk for peaceful coexistence of residents in his locality. A lover of western education, Pa Mieseigha Alale Nagberi ensured that all his children got the right education to enhance their leadership roles in the society. He is also the father of Timi…
By Festus Okubor ALL through the ages, great leaders, who impacted their generations and times rose from among the people and suffered as they emerged from nothingness to become something. The examples of Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Abraham Lincoln of America, Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Obafemi Awolowo of Nigeria, just to mention a few, remind us that life for great leaders was never a walk in a beautiful park. A more recent and contemporary example has been Barack Obama. These leaders have certain things in common. One of which is found in their humble background…
Nasarawa United’s midfielder, Ikenna Offor, was on target for the Solid Miners in the team’s 1-1 draw against Nigeria’s U-20 youth team, the Flying Eagles as both sides prepare for the tasks ahead. The energetic player netted from the spot twenty-four minutes into the restart with menacing winger, Oche Josiah, taking credit for the assist after he was hacked down inside the box by the opponents’ defender at the FIFA Goal Project Football Field, Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, on Friday afternoon. With United almost ending the Flying Eagles’ unbeaten record in as many Pre-Season matches, Lekan Adam ensured both…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE On Friday, December 16, 2022, something awesome took place in the main office of the governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, in the Government House in Asaba. The news had earlier been whispered that the governor had appointed two more as his special advisers. Who were they !? The people wondered. And it was even more suspense laden with the urgency to swear them in with the speed of the lightening ! Another angle to it was that the state governor was to sign the 2023 appropriation bill of the state to law same day,…
Governor of Delta, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday in Asaba, signed the state’s 2023 Appropriation Bill of N571.64 billion. The budget, which is the last to be signed by Okowa as Governor of the state, comprises N235.5 billion for recurrent expenditure and N336.1billion as capital expenditure. The governor also signed assented to nine other Bills – The Delta State Manufacturing and Use of Cotonou Boats Bill, 2022; Delta State Public Finance Management Bill, 2022; Delta State HIV/AIDs Anti-discrimination, Prevention and Protection Bill, 2022; Delta State Waterways Tax, Control and Licensing of Boats (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2022. Others are…
Leadership of INEC Press Corps, IPC, Wednesday implored Deltans to come out en-masse to collect their permanent voters’ cards. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released PVCs for Nigerians who took part in the 2022 registration. Chairman of IPC, Olorogun Festus Ahon in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the group, Mr Austin Oyinbode, which was made available to Journalists in Delta, said for Nigerians to achieve the desired change, every registered voter must go to the local government and wards to collect the PVC. Ahon in the statement said: “There have been series of million man…