By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Another political tragedy again befell the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State as one of it’s heavyweights, former State Publicity Secretary, Hon. Iwemdi Nwaham led his followers to officially dumped the APC for the State ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ika North East Local Government Area yesterday. An APC source confided in SPADE NG.COM that the move may have marked the beginning of the eradication of APC in Ika land. Nwaham and other defectors were formally received into the PDP by the Member representing Ika North East State Constituency in the State House of Assembly…
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All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate for Delta South Senatorial District, Hon. Joel-Onowakpo Thomas, has joined millions of Deltans and party faithful to congratulate Rt.Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebi on his emergence as the running mate to the Gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. Hon. Joel-Onowakpo in a congratulatory message by his Personal Press Secretary, Godday Odidi, described the nomination of Rt.Hon.Friday Ossai Osanebi as running mate to Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as a welcome development and a step in the right direction towards election victory of the party in Delta State. He described Rt.Hon.Friday Ossai…
To provide basic information on the structure of the agricultural sector in Nigeria, the Federal Government has put machineries in place to conduct a National Agricultural Sample Census (NASC) across the country through the National Bureau of Statistics, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organisation. To this end, the Federal Government is also collaborating with the state government in ensuring the success of the enumeration exercise which is billed to last for fifty days and will take place across the twenty five local government areas of the state.…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Dcn. (Barr.) Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, has on behalf of the State Government inaugurated its technical committee members on Human Capital Development Council (HCD). The inauguration was held at the Deputy Governor’s Office, today Tuesday, 28 June, 2022. While inaugurating the Council, Otuaro disclosed that members of the Council were drawn from amongst top government functionaries in the relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) with oversight of the three thematic areas of the Human Capital Development (HCD) Program, namely; Education, Health, unemployment as well as labour production in the State. The…
Her Excellency, Dame Edith Okowa, the wife of the Delta State Governor and founder of the health caring ’05 Initiative’, has flagged-off of the last series of the grassroots medical outreach of her State pet project, the ’05 Initiative’ in collaboration with the Restore Sight Africa Initiative and ministry of health in Aniocha/Oshimili Federal constituency of the State. While flagging off the program today, at the Asaba Convention/Event Center, Dame Edith Okowa, who noted that good sight was for safe living, stated that “living without good sight is the worse thing that could happen to an individual as the eyes…
The ‘O5 Initiative’ Grassroot medical outreach in collaboration with Restore Sight Africa Initiative today launched a week long medical outreach for the screening and treatment of eye-related issues, distribution of free eye glasses and Free Medical Examination. Speaking during the inauguration the Wife of the Governor of Delta State Dame Edith Okowa who is the founder of ‘O5 Initiative’ urged well meaning Nigerians to reach out to the less privileged, saying the number of the blind begging on the streets would reduce tremendously if they were given free eye treatment. Dame Edith Okowa lamented that many blind children are…
Justice Ariwoola was born on August 22, 1958. His Lordship studied law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile Ife and bagged his bachelor of laws degree with honors in July, 1980. In July 1981, Olu Ariwoola was called to the Nigeria bar and got enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria as a Solicitor and Advocate soon thereafter. Justice Ariwoola was first appointed a Judge of Superior Court of record in Oyo State in 1992 from private legal practice. Before his elevation to the Supreme Court, he served as Justice of Court of Appeal in Kaduna,…
The President, Lagos State chapter of Ndigbo, Chief Solomon Aguene, in this interview with VICTOR AYENI dismisses the alleged attack on the Igbo collecting permanent voter cards in Ojo and Festac, and speaks on the relationship between the Igbo and their host community In a press statement you released recently, you said there was no attack on the Igbo who wanted to collect their permanent voter cards in Ojo and Festac as was widely reported. Can you please clarify what really happened? I am the leader of the Ndigbo in Lagos and also the apex leader as the Ohanaeze President…
I have known him since 1994 or so, and he actively enjoys his mystique, and luxuriates in powers assigned to him that he really does not always have. Despite everything said about him, many SW Yoruba people and the rest of Nigeria are probably intrigued, even enamored about his rags-to-riches, nothing-to-something rise to power. BAT’s opponents do not seem to fully understand that the mystery behind his origins give him an unusual mystique. It is said he is from Iragbiji, not Lagos. It is said that his mother is not Madame Tinubu. It is said that he did not go…
“The conducive environment you see today in Lagos that Igbos are enjoying while doing their businesses were put in place by my father Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu. “These people left their home town and Yorubas fully accepted them wholeheartedly in Lagos State, provided all they needed yet they are not grateful. Instead they keep attacking my father at any slightest opportunity. “Without this man, there will be nothing like the modernized Igbos trade centres in Lagos State. They made their Billions here. Some of them don’t even know their hometown anymore because they now prefer Lagos than where they are coming…