By Sharon Ivovi The Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Honourable Sunny Ogwu has declared open a five-day teachers’ professional development capacity building workshop on teaching at the right level towards strengthening foundational skills to accelerate learning using activity based. Declaring the workshop opened on Tuesday at the College of Education, Warri which was attended by 200 participants from rural areas across the State, the SUBEB Chairman says the training organized by the Board in collaboration with UBEC, was to develop teachers’ competence to cope with mixed-age classes. The SUBEB chairman who was represented by the…
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Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has been scheduled to grace the Third Annual Convention/Lecture of the Delta Online Publishers Forum, DOPF. In a Statement by the Chairman of the Convention Planning Committee, Dcn. Chijioke Williams Ugbolue, Secretary, Mr. Miracle Enuji, Governor Okowa is expected to be the Special Guest of Honour at the event. The event slated to hold on Thursday, October 21, 2021, at the Banquet hall of Orchid Hotels and Conference Centre, Asaba, will commence by 11am. The occasion which will also be attended by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as the Guest of…
The management of MLJ Marine Oil and Gas Limited has said the company is committed to youth development through award of scholarship to indigent students and other empowerment schemes. The company said it was particularly touched by the desire of the less privileged in their area of operation,to aspire for higher studies. Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, spokesman for the company, Ambassador Prayer Pemu said several persons who are less privileged have been trained over the years as a result of their intervention. “We have assisted them and today, some are graduates. We have extended the gesture to…
By Chukwudi Iwuchukwu “ Lord Chosen church founded by Lazarus Mouka made an important announcement yesterday which is a shape of what is to come in South-East Nigeria. The church announced that for the first time in its history as a church, it will take its 2022 International Crusade – #Mgbidi22, The biggest and most organized gathering in the entire South-East that holds every January from Mgbidi, Imo state, to Ijesha, Lagos state over the unending sit at home order by IPOB and because of the insecurity in the east driven by unknown gun men. Now, this is why this…
The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr.Folashade Yemi-Esan, in a move to deepen on-going reforms and the streamlining of operations at the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), has instructed the Governing Board and Management to commence this week, a thorough audit of the Senior Staff of the Commission. The Head of Service’s directive which was conveyed to the Chairman of the Governing Board of the NLRC in a memo signed by M. Mamman, Permanent Secretary (CMO) in the office of the Head of Service, is said to be sequel to the detailed findings by the Code of Conduct Bureau,…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE So many intelligentsias and economic pundits several decades before now had pontificated that the main problems with Nigeria were ethnicity and lack of patriotism on the part of the citizenry. They had argued that tribal considerations in policy formulations and unpatriotic implementations of the policy thrusts of governance at all levels had kept the country in inextricable quagmires. Yes, true as that might sound, owing to the incompatibility of the conglomerating diverse ethnic nationalities put together by the British interest in 1884, the presents realities have shown that the erstwhile stated problems of Nigeria were nothing comparable…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Asaba has dismissed a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeking to sack all 25 local government councils’ chairmen and councillors in Delta State. The APC had challenged the election of the council officials on the grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not conduct valid primaries for its choice of candidates in the March 6, 2021 local government council election in the state. The APC also alleged that DSIEC colluded with PDP without observing the provisions of the DSIEC Law, 2017. In a judgment delivered on Friday, a three-man panel…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE The Chairman of the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Michael Ikeogwu, has expressed joy over the emergence of Comrade Christopher Ikechukwu, as the President of the union at the concluded 7th Triennial National Delegates Conference of the union at Umuahia in Abia State. While congratulating others that were victorious in the election, Comrade Ikeogwu called on those that could not make it to join hands with the president in taking the union to the envisaged heights, adding that members should embrace the spirit of camaraderie among themselves to attract the much…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE The incumbent President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Christopher Ikechukwu Isiguzo, alongside some contestants for the other portfolios in the leadership of the union has been elected to pilot the affairs of the union for the next three years in the country. The election which took place during the 7th Triennial National Delegates Conference at the Michael Okpara Auditorium, Umuahia in Abia State saw Comrade Isiguzo clinching the presidential position for a second term with a whooping 665 votes, beating his rival, Comrade Yusuf Idris who trailed far behind with 15 votes, out of…
OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO Okotie-Eboh Grammar School, Sapele Old Boys Association (OGSOBA) holds its national convention on Saturday, October 23, 2021 to elect new officers to pilot it’s affairs. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr. Samuel Okporu and Mr. Peter Eyarefe, Chairman and Secretary respectively of OGSOBA Convention Planning Committee made available to journalists in Sapele, the Committee said that the one day progrmme will take place at the school premises, Okotie-Eboh Grammar School, MacPherson Road, Sapele, Delta State. The statement added that the Convention which will attract delegates from all the branches across the country will take place…