By Segun Odegbami It has been over one week since one of the darkest days in Nigerian football history. Thè World Cup Draws in Qatar last weekend came along to add insult to Nigeria’s injury, to make matters psychologically worse for Nigerians as they continue to process their Eagles’ failure. The humbling reality is that the world did not miss a single beat in its ceaseless tick tock following Nigeria’s failure. Even the Nigerian football firmament has simply absorbed the shock and, for most people, life has returned to the hardship that pervades the land. The actual financial losses to…
Author: Spade Nigeria
Renowned Nigerian media practitioner and social development activist, Fred Edoreh, has been appointed as an International Peace Advocate by the United Nations-POLAC Foundation. The letter of appointment signed by the Director General of the organisation, Ambassador Halo Eton, said the investiture will be performed on Friday, April 29 at the Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. POLAC, an acronym for “Positive Livelihood Award Centre,” was established with the United Nations under the UNESCO Charter in 2001 following the UN General Assembly Resolution declaring 2001 to 2010 as a decade of peace and non-violence. It’s mandate is to enhance the…
By KELVIN ONYEKACHUKWU WARRI: Group under the agis of the Isoko/Urhobo Unity Forum in collaboration with the Youth Arise together with friends has purchased and presented a governorship form for Deacon Chris Iyovwaye. The group made the presentation on Monday March 4. 2022 in warri. Warri South Local Government council Area of Delta State. The groups matched and chanted solidarity songs from the entrance of the NPA Estate along the Airport road in Warri to present the form to the businessman. presenting the governorship form to the businessman, Chief Hope Erute, a Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP said,…
Delta Governor, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was working hard to rescue the country from the hardship being meted on Nigerians by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government. Okowa stated this at a rally at Ughelli Township Stadium where a former member of PDP, Chief Jaro Egbo and his group were received back to the party from APC. The governor lauded youths in the state for ensuring that peace reigned across the land, saying that women and youths were so important in the politics of the state. He also…
As the struggle for what zone Delta State Governor should emerge from come 2023 steam up, Urhobo Leaders Of Thought under the aegis of Ja R’Urhobo 2023 (Urhobo Y’Oteri) has appealed to Urhobo respected royal fathers, patriotic sons and daughters as well as all associations with Urhobo interest to unite for the common good of the Urhobo nation towards producing a Delta State Governor of Urhobo extraction in 2023. Oja R’Urhobo 2023 is a strategic group of Urhobos comprising Urhobo traditional leaders, the Urhobo Progress Union and a conglomeration of Urhobo associations and intelligentsia with the objective of ensuring that…
Delta State Commissioner for Humanitarian and Community Support , Bridget Anyafulu, has resigned her appointment as a member of the state Executive Council (EXCO). She gave the indication while addressing staff of her directorate in Asaba on the imperative of her resignation as a commissioner in the state. She disclosed that her resignation was to enable her pursue her political ambition. “I resigned because I want to vie for an elective position in my local government area and the law stipulates that I do so; hence, my action,” she stated. Asked which position she intended to…
By Fred Edoreh A recent advise by the Movement for Stronger Delta calling on various aspirants seeking nomination for various positions on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party would come off as one of the most responsible statements in the current political environment in Delta State. The statement titled: “Tell Deltans What You Have For Them,” also called on both statutory and special delegates to, as representatives of the people in the nomination process, take their mandate very responsibly and sacred, to look beyond mere rhetorics and demand to see and analyse the vision and agenda of the aspirants…
The Movement for Stronger Delta, MSD, is quite amused by the content and craft of some of the advise which a plethora of commentators, enjoying the largely unrestrained platform of social media, have been dishing out to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, sometimes couched in amateurish satire and often laced with audacious threats, hallucinatory convictions and a good dose of bitter, acrimonious verbiage, on the refined, respectable and polished personality of the genteel Ekwueme. What comes across from reading some of these circumstantial offerings, is that either their authors only just started engaging in the Delta political discourse in the wake…
Olorogun David Edevbie was among the first callers at the family home of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, in Owa-Alero, as the Governor and Delta State amiable and graceful First Lady, Dame Edith Okowa, gave out the hand of their daughter, Maxine Ewere Okowa, in marriage to Benue State born Dr Daniel Igoh, on Saturday, April 2. Edevbie, the frontline aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Delta 2023 Governorship, set aside all consultation activities to celebrate with the Okowas at the colourful traditional marriage that attracted the creme of Delta society which included former Governors Chief James Ibori…
By Bulou Kosin Monarch of Gbaramatu Ijaw Kingdom, HRM Oboro Gbaraun II, Aketekpe, Agadagba, weekend, prayed for eternal understanding between Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and his Deputy, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, just as he appreciated them for projects inaugurated in riverine areas. Accompanied in the projects inauguration by Deacon Otuaro who, fortnight ago, declared intention to become governor in 2023, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa described the Gbaramatu Monarch as “a symbol of peace”. “Without peace, there can be no development. What we did, we were able to do because you provided the enabling environment for peace for contractors to do…