KURUTIE – ACADEMIC and Non-academic staff of the Nigeria Maritime University Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu, Warri South Local Government Area will Tuesday embark on indefinite strike to protest non payment of over 30 months allowances and poor staff welfare. This decision was reached yesterday after a meeting of staff at the temporary campus in Kurutie with media attendance. In a resolution signed by Comrades Oweikeye Pathfinder Endoro and Moses Yabrade after the meeting, the staff unanimously endorsed the strike. The resolution read in part, “Staff of NMU at all levels, namely, Academic and Non-academic agree that the patience and understanding with…
Author: Spade Nigeria
By Psalms Ohwojite It is true that no nation on earth is immune to the consequences of economic recession or inflation. Harsh economic reality dawns on almost every one expecially with the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating economic effects. The situation in Nigeria has been compounded with rising Inflation and depreciation of the naira causing poverty and unemployment to rise. Inspite of the reported drop in inflation figure in the past seven months according to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics,NBS, the past eighteen months have been some of the most difficult periods in the history of Nigeria according to the…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE Eugene Azuka Uzum Esq is the Director General of the Delta State Orientation Bureau. A former Personal Assistant to former Minister of Steel and Mines, Leslie Obiora, during the Obasanjo Administration in Nigeria. He was appointed by the governor of the state, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, as his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Orientation and Social Development in 2015, but was immediately elevated to the position of Executive Assistance to the governor to coordinate the activities of the then created Directorate of Orientation in the state. As it is, a golden fish has no hidden place in…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA In continuation of its routine humanitarian services to communities across the country, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), aka Pyrates Confraternity’s Vito Corsica Deck, Asaba / Agbor Chapter Free Medical Mission, has hit Umunede in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State with some charitable gestures. Before the commencement of the free medical Services, members of the Pyrates Confraternity, led by the Cap’n of Vito Corsica Deck, Engr. Emeka Okolo, paid courtesy visit to the palace of the paramount ruler of Umunede, His Majesty, Agadagidi Ezeagwu Ezenwal1, The Obi of Umunede, to inform him…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA AGBOR.. As a way of upholding its tenet of rendering charitable acts towards the uplifting of humanity, the Vito Corsica Deck (Delta North Branch) of the National Association of Seadogs, aka Pyrates Confraternity, has donated books and some other instructional materials to the Ime-Obi Secondary School at Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The Capon of the association, Engr. Emeka Okolo, stated that the gesture was to cushion the burden of purchases of the donated items on the shoulders of parents of the students in the school. While charging the students to…
There is a common saying that “charity begins at home”, and in Delta State, there is a common adage that says “fufu wey dey full belle, na eyes them they take know am”. In the light of the above, Delta APC dare to say that it is ludicrous for Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa and his “hallelujah boys” in Delta State to tell Nigerians that they are out on a rescue mission to rescue Nigeria. Before now, Delta APC did not want to join issues with Okowa and his aides, but because the opposition Party does not want Deltans to go back…
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Chief Michael Ade- Ojo, founder of Elizade Motors and Elizade University, Ilara Mokin, Ondo State, has denied selling the land of the Ikoyi collapsed building to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. In a statement he personally signed yesterday, he said he owns the land adjacent to the property on Gerald Road but debunked the report by an online medium (Saharareporters) that he sold the land where the collapsed property was built. I Advised Ikoyi Collapsed Building Developer to Invest in Nigeria- Ashimolowo He added that although he owns the next property to the crumbled building, he has…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has tasked the information officers in the state Ministry of Information to always have thorough understanding of every issue before writing and publishing on it. Mr. Aniagwu gave the charge during the opening of a one-day workshop on the workings of the state website and social media platforms for public relations officers in the state, organised by the state Orientation Bureau at the Government House in Asaba, the state capital. He said that as a reservoir of knowledge meant for public consumption, every information officer in the ministry should…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday commended the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, for his commitment to peace and development in the kingdom and their neighbours. Okowa gave the commendation when he received the monarch who visited him at Government House, Asaba. He congratulated him on his ascension to the throne of his forebears, and expressed delight on the visit to him by the revered king. “I am glad that you visited today and as a government, I want to once again congratulate your Majesty on the ascension to the throne. “I must thank Your Majesty for…
By Austin Emaduku I am beginning to think that there is something self destructive in the make up of the average Urhobo youth that makes them prone to always denigrade their own. Trending now on social media is the Urhobo Progress Union President General address at the world press conference held today at Uvwiamuge, Agbarho to kick start/announce the programme of activities lined-up for UPU@90 celebrations. Instead of dwelling on the positives of the speech, Urhobo social media upstarts have gone to the public space to denigrade the speech. Their grouse: The UPU President-General delivered his speech in English! They…