By Dr. Tonye Timi The world has moved through many ages and epochs: stone age, agrarian age, industrial age etc. We are presently in the information age and with it comes the information super highway also known as the internet and other embedded means of communication. The world has never been confronted with such deluge of knowledge and information. A click on the buttons of personal computers and telephones can give anyone quantum of information on any subject of interest. It is therefore a disservice to oneself to wallow in self-imposed ignorance on any subject, be it politics, sports, religion…
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By ENUJI Miracle This religious angle to Delta politics is not a welcome development. This is a dangerous trend. Even a professed Christian (Peter Obi) couldn’t get the *required votes* to defeat three Muslims (Kwankwaso, Tinubu & Atiku) who were sharply divided across political lines, cultural and geopolitical backgrounds. Don’t mess up your Facebook wall by condemning the religious belief of anyone. It’s a fundamental right to associate with any religion. The motto of Delta state was changed to the Finger of God during Governor Uduaghan’s administration but was reverted to the initial motto, The Big Heart by Governor Okowa’s…
The place of good health facilities and clean water can never be over emphasized as the presence of health facilities in communities and good and clean waters will do nothing but assures a healthy and virile populace. The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, knowing this has continued to pursue some of the policies that lead to the formation of the commission. *Health* Conscious of the fact that “health is wealth” and that healthy people constitute a great asset to the essential productive processes of their immediate environment and beyond, the current DESOPADEC Board has in the…
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, and governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta, has stated that the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led government priority is outright theft. Omo-Agege made the allegation statement at an interactive session he held with Delta civil servants on Monday, at the Grand-Hotels Asaba. He noted that Delta State has no modern infrastructure and public assets are brazenly and viciously targeted, stripped and corruptly traded to cronies for peanuts. While lamenting that the State have been plundered with impunity, corruption, ethnic hate and nepotism of epidemic proportions now drive government decisions…
A first-page political pundit,Chief Emma Ejiofor has charged the in- coming tenth national assembly to unanimously endorse Chief Orji Uzor Kalu as the president of the senate on inauguration. Ejiofor, chairman, Board of Trustees(BOT) of the Amalgamated APC Support Groups (AASG) and also, the coordinator of the Delta State Chapter of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Group made this clarion call during a presser with journalists in Asaba, Delta State. According to him, Senator Orji Kalu, currently the senate Chief oWhip, parades an impressive resumé as a pan-Nigerian, replete with stellar accomplishment as an avowed democrat, a pragmatic, prolific politician,…
She died in the early hours of today at the age of 79. Senator Afegbua, a native of Okpella, a town in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, combined beauty and brain during her service to Nigeria. Franca Afegbua was a Nigerian beautician and politician who represented Bendel North in the Nigerian Senate in 1983. Elected as a National Party of Nigeria (NPN) senator, she was the first elected woman senator in Nigeria. Afegbua was born in Okpella, Edo State. She had her tertiary education in Sofia, Bulgaria. Prior to the beginning of the second republic, she worked…
Rita Enemuru, Reporting Agents of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have on Saturday taken to Okandeji Street to solicit votes for the Party’s governorship candidate, Mr. Sheriff Oborevwori with a promised sum of N200,000 as a reward. Okandeji Street is in the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. The agents whose names were not disclosed said that voters in the residents of the area should make the wise choice by voting for Sheriff Oborevwori as Delta State governor come March 18, 2023. “Watin make us come here today na to come to meet una tell una to say…
In the academic world, according to Stephen Lampe, those who have already won awards, received honours, or research grants are more likely to get more than those who hadn’t. The phenomenon has become known as the Matthew Effect in sociology. The Matthew Effect is a reference to the parable of the talents recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 25:29, ” For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” Extrapolating the concept on the Delta State governorship election, now shifted to…
Amidst speculations that the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, is not a Christian, the Catholic Church (Universal Church), whose faith he practices, has come to his defense. The Church said Omo-Agege was not only a Christian, but a baptised, practicing and dedicated member of the Catholic Church. A statement issued on Saturday by his Parish Priest, St. Jude’s Catholic Church, Effurun, Delta State, Very Rev Fr. Mark Ikeke, said Omo-Agege is a member of the parish. St. Jude’s Catholic Church, Effurun, is one of the parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Warri, Delta State. Fr. Ikeke urged…
By Kassim Afegbua. The tidal waves are still in their rambunctious cadence, swirling through like sea breeze, leaving whispers along their trail. Tongues are wagging, some faces wear tempers of defeat, others are beaming with smiles and laughter. Life’s archetypal nuances, the good, the bad and the ugly are ubiquitous, without surprise. Yes, expectations were shattered, emotions punctured, permutations broken, opinion polls ridiculed, and lamentations replete about a polity that was anxious about how the three-some front runner candidates would pan out. The three front runners stood on three different “ideological” pedestals. Obi was the youngest and freshest of them.…