The Federal Government in 2019, established the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to serve as the government’s arrowhead in the fight to tame the monster of poverty in the land. The ministry headed by Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has, since it’s creation, worked tirelessly to ensure that government’s ambition to take about 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030 is achieved. As part of efforts to reduce poverty in the country, the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) was established to serve as the brain box for the realization of government’s poverty alleviation ambitions.…
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The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has cautioned against the reported approval by President Muhammadu Buhari for the payment of the $418 million suspicious debt despite wide spread national objection by stakeholders, including state governors, chairmen of local governments and anti-graft agencies. The Minority Caucus in a Statement on Thursday September 2, 2021 by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu urged President Buhari to note that the consent judgement being relied upon for the payment is cloudy, opaque and raises apprehensions of huge swindle on the national treasure which requires immediate investigation…
A prominent Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Olorogun John U Oguma, has disassociated himself from a group, which claimed to be drumming support for him in the 2023 governorship election, saying he does not have ambition to govern the State. Oguma in a statement tagged; ‘Disclaimer ‘, said: “My attention has been drawn to the activities of a group, styled; “In God We Trust” claiming that “This group is open just to promote our Principal Olorogun John O. Oguma for 2023.” “This group or the persons behind it are not known to me…
By Ifeanyi Mbakogu The recent disclosure by the Minister of Digital Economy that the Federal Government would soon deploy the Five Generation network (5G) in Nigeria should come as a welcome relief, to all those who have been rankled by the inexplicable electoral amendment bill which requires that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), obtains clearance from the Nigerian Communications Commission before it the electoral body could transmit election results electronically. But before I go further on the e-transmission issue, it is apposite to put the 5G network issue in perspective. Obviously, the controversy over the health implications of the…
The business of government is regulated by existing laws. That is, anything done outside the law is null and void. Moreover, every law made by the legislature must have human face. It is on the above premise that Delta chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) condemns in totality the indiscriminate collections of levies from operators of Point of Sale (POS) in the State, particularly in Ethiope East, Udu, Okpe Sapele, Ughelli North and Isoko North LGAs. In Delta State, it is the Consolidated Revenue (Approved List of Collection) Law, and bye-laws of the different LGAs that govern what…
The business of government is regulated by existing laws. That is, anything done outside the law is null and void. Moreover, every law made by the legislature must have human face. It is on the above premise that Delta chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) condemns in totality the indiscriminate collections of levies from operators of Point on Sale (POS) in the State, particularly in Ethiope East, Udu, Okpe Sapele, Ughelli North and Isoko North LGAs. In Delta State, it is the Consolidated Revenue (Approved List of Collection) Law, and bye-laws of the different LGAs that govern…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Delta State Head of Service (HoS), Mr. Reginald Bayoko, mni, has reiterated that the yearly Senior Management Course for Senior Civil Servants, is a springboard to understanding and polishing an officer towards becoming a director and permanent Secretary before attaining the position of Head of Service which is pinnacle of the civil service progression. Bayoko stated this at the opening ceremony of the edition of the Seven-Weekend Higher Management Course, organized by the office of the HoS, in collaboration with the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), for Senior Management Staff of the Delta State Civil…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Chief Protocol Officer (CPO), Office of the Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr. Franklin Ebiama Brialade, has concluded the burial arrangements of his mother, Mrs. Theodore Oruberi Brialade (Nee Tuedon). According to the invitation card printed and signed by Hon. Richard Tuedon and Franklin Brialade, the families of Buboubiri and Badeinmo of Ayakoromo Town in Burutu Local Government Area of the State on behalf of the children of the deceased, the burial ceremony would kickoff on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, with a Vigil Mass at the St Anne’s Catholic Church, Burutu, by 4pm. …
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The people of Isoko South Local Government Area and faithful members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State have been charged to support the candidate of the Party, Dr. Ogaga Ifowodo, in the State House of Assembly byelection slated for September 11, 2021. A chieftain of the APC and Senatorial hopeful for Delta South Senatorial District, Dr. Sylvester Onoyona, in a statement said it was high time to move Isoko nation in the right direction and called on APC supporters and the masses to overwhelmingly support Ifowodo in his plan to redirect Isoko South in…
In a bid to meet the yearnings and aspirations of it’s host communities, the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thursday handed handed over starter packs to forty women drawn from its host communities in Asset Management North, covering Kogi and Edo States. The NGC presented the starter packs to the participants of it’s Women Empowerment Programme, at a handover ceremony held at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy, Abuja. The women who were trained in 2016 but were not given their starter packs due to some logistics, were trained in…