Chief of Staff to President Mohammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari passed late hours of Friday, April 17, 2020. The sad news of his death was announced in a press release by Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. Kyari’s death disclosure press release stated that “Presidency regrets to announce the passage of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari.” Adding that the deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020. While praying God to accept his soul, the release stated that his funeral…
Author: Spade Nigeria
It is becoming disheartening that media practitioners, in the course of carrying out their constitutional responsibility, have unfortunately, turned targets for attacks by members of the public, particularly security agencies and governmental bodies in Delta State. Only recently, the Chairman of the NUJ, Michael Ikeogwu and a reporter with Daily Trust newspapers were harassed and manhandled somewhere in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of the state for inquiring from officials of the state environmental taskforce if people should congregate for clean up in the face of effort aimed at curtailing the spread of the Corona virus. Few days after that…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has sent warm message of felicitations to his Deputy, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, who clocks 52 years on Thursday, April 16. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika on Wednesday in Asaba, the governor extolled Otuaro for his contributions and motivational role in the ‘Stronger Delta’ vision of his administration. He lauded the deputy governor for using his position as Chairman of Peace Advocacy Committee Against Oil Facility Vandalism in the state to ensure that there was relative peace for oil production activities. According to the governor, it is in recognition of…
BY SAM DUVWODE Delta State Deputy Governor Barr. Kingsley Otuaro has urge Chairmen of Local government areas sharing border Post with neigbouring States to ensure that Security operatives within those check points scale up the lockdown enforcement order by the Delta State government. Barr. Otuaro stated this on Friday, while embarking on an assessment tour round major streets in Warri and its environs as well as State borders at koko, Jesse, in Warri North, and Ethiope West local government and also Patani local government respectively. Barr. Otuaro while addressing the chairmen of the various local government area, noted that the…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has threatened to apply stricter measures to check disobedience of the state government’s directives on the lockdown in the state over the COVID-19 pandemic. This is at the backdrop of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announcement on Tuesday that a confirmed case of the virus had been recorded in the state, the first. In a broadcast in Asaba on Wednesday, Okowa commended Deltans who had strictly adhered to the lockdown regulations from April 1, 2020, but warned that enabling laws would be applied on those disobeying the directives of sit-at-home. He expressed appreciation to…
Principal Secretary to Delta State Governor, Mr Hilary Ebegbulem has donated food and other items to prison inmates in Ogwashi-Uku as part of the stock up necessity of the COVID-19 lockdown. The items presented on behalf of the Principal Secretary by Comrade Fejiro Oliver, include bags of rice, bags of garri, cartons of noodles, cartons of beverages, cartons of detergent, gallons of groundnut oil, packs of food seasoning, cartons of tin tomatoes and hand sanitizers. Presenting the items, Mr. Hilary Ebegbulem, said he joined the ranks of humanitarians in the world to show love to prison inmates as part of…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Delta State council, has condemned in the strongest term the unwarranted attack on it’s Chairman, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu and a Daily Post reporter, Mr. Matthew Omonigho by members of the State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation on Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. The council, in a statement by it’s Assistant Secretary, Comrade Celestine Afokoba, said Ikeogwu had led a team of journalists to monitor the level of compliance with the stay-at-home directive of the Delta state government when they were attacked and assaulted by the overzealous members of the task force who also destroyed their Nikon…
Officials of Delta State Taskforce on Environment on Wednesday attacked and assaulted the State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists,NUJ Delta Council Comrade Michael Ikeogwu as well as DAILY POST Correspondent, Matthew Omonigho who were monitoring the level of compliance on the “Social distance” order of Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa with respect to the Corona-Virus pandemic at Otiotio Street in Uvwie Local Government Area. The NUJ Chairman had approached the Environment Officials who had forced residents of Otiotio Street out of their houses to come out for environmental sanitation against the “Stay at home” order of the governor. But…
In line with the lockdown directive of the state government for two weeks beginning from tomorrow in order to curb the outbreak of Covid 19 in the state,operators of tricycle and motorcycles have been directed to stay off the road throughout the period. The State President of the Tricycle and Motorcycles Association, Chief Obi Nzete gave the directive today while addressing some executive members in Asaba. Chief Nzete said any tricycle and motorcycles rider who flout the directive of government would face the full weight of the law. He said all executive members should direct all those working under them…
By Eniola Akinkuotu All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu, has asked the Federal Government to print more naira notes in order to save the economy from collapse even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to bite harder. Tinubu said this in a statement he wrote in commemoration of his 68th birthday. The former governor of Lagos State said the United States Federal Reserve had printed more dollars in order to boost the economy. He said Nigeria could also do the same. Tinubu added, “Already, the price of oil has fallen to less than 30 dollars a barrel. This will bring a…