The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) sitting in Asaba has struck out a suit by Chief Mike Chukwuka Nwukoni on an application for an abuse of power and usurpation of power of the Attorney-General of the federation. In the petition submitted to the LPDC on the 30th of October, 2020 and titled “RE CHARGE NO. A/2060/2019: INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE V CHIEF COLLINS UCHE AFUWAH. A CASE OF FLAGRANT ABUSE OF OFFICE BY THE HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF DELTA STATE AND USURPATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS VESTED IN THE HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 174…
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Value Rebirth and Empowerment Iniatiative (VREI) in partnership with the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), Delta study centre has graduated 76 students in her 2020/2021 academic session. This was disclosed by Pastor Edewor Egedegbe, Executive Director, Value Rebirth & Empowerment Initiative (VREI) during the “4th Graduation and 5th Matriculation ceremony of Centre LSD Leadership School, Delta chapter. The ceremony which was held at Effurun near Warri had in attendance academicians including Dr Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director, Centre LSD. Pastor Egedegbe said that the theme of the event, “Leadership and Effective Representation in…
By Nelson Agbajor Ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election in Delta State, a political pressure group, Delta Great Movement, (DGM) has decided to support the immediate past Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye to enable him win the Delta State governorship seat. The group made this known during its inaugural meeting held on Tuesday at the Wetland Hotel, Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. In his address during the meeting, the State Coordinator of DGM, Chief Mathew Kwode, expressed gratitude to all for the massive attendance. Kwode, who spoke on the theme “unveiling Project Augoye 2023”, noted…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Dcn. (Barr.) Kingsley Otuaro has highlighted early identification and acknowledgement of purposeful talents and potentials as one of the surest ways of making it in life. Otuaro noted this while challenging Nigerian youths to discover their potentials and turn them into commercial value to create employment opportunities thereby reducing poverty and crime rate in the country. Declaring open the 1-Day Youths Seminar organized by Aspire Global Conference, with the theme “Youths Capacity Building”, in Warri last weekend, Otuaro, in a keynote address advised youths to always diacover…
Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State will on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 handover starter packs to graduating pioneer one hundred and sixty(160) students of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) skills academy. This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs. Chinenye Ezonfade, Head, Media & Public Affairs Unit, DESOPADEC on behalf of management of the Commission made available to journalists in Warri, she disclosed that the ceremony will take place at PTI Conference Centre, Effurun at 7.30am. According to the statement, “Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State will grace the occasion as…
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday said the state had in its three decades of existence been a potpourri of diversity and inclusion, trials and triumphs and growth and stability. He stated this at the Gala and Award Night in Asaba marking the grand finale of a week-long celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the state. At the event held at Event Center, no fewer than 18 distinguished Deltans, including Chairman of Zenith Bank, Mr Jim Ovia, Chairman of United Bank for Africa, Mr Tony Elumelu, Director-General of World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and…
Gbajabiamila, Okowa, Wase, others bid mama Nwokolo farewell Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Delta Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and wife, Edith, Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Wase, were among dignitaries, who bade Mrs Grace Nwokolo farewell as her remains were committed to mother earth on Saturday. The late Mrs Nwokolo is mother to Hon. Victor Nwokolo, the member representing Ika Federal Constituency in House of Representatives. Her remains were interred at her husband’s home town, Igbodo in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta. Mrs. Nwokolo, 86, died in July, 2021 after a brief illness.…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE The birth of every individual, no matter how demeaning his or her background, is a source of joy to not only the parents and the immediate family, but the people of goodwill in the society. Could it be that the parents have been childless since marriage or have been having just a single sex as children ? Could it be that it was simply an additional expansion of the family for cultural emphasis or a mark of productive potency !? What ever it is, a new arrival in any family is a thing of joy. As it…
Delta State PDP has cautioned the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC in the State, to desist from its now common penchant of dwelling on unfounded speculations and using cheap, unsubstantiated lies to address every issue, thereby, spreading dangerous misinformation every time, in order to score cheap political points. Otherwise, they should just keep quiet and save themselves the embarrassment of being corrected all the time and made to look like educated illiterates, because of their intellectual laziness and lack of effort to seek the facts of any matter they wish to raise issues over, before going to press with…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council congratulates Deltans as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of the creation of Delta State. It gives us great pleasure to be counted amongst those witnessing the auspicious event of this day, and we appreciate God for that. We sincerely felicitate with the people and Government of Delta State for keeping faith in the Project Delta during this challenging but awesome three decades in the life of the State. It is evident that the State had passed through monumental challenges of deprivations, insurgencies and economic sabotage, but God in His Infinite mercy,…