By Fred Edoreh Thank God, the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly giving way for the return of sports teams to international action. For Nigeria, despite the added challenges of managing international engagements now, and unlike many other African nations, the national football teams have been highly globally visible in the post-lockdown era. The secure camp in Austria guarantees getting the players together. From there, the Super Falcons proceeded to open the 2021 campaigns in February with their participation in the Turkish Women’s Cup which they won, defeating CSKA Moscow and Uzbekistan 1-0 each before pounding Equatorial Guinea 9-0. …
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By Fred Edoreh Thank God, the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly giving way for the return of sports teams to international action. For Nigeria, despite the added challenges of managing international engagements now, and unlike many other African nations, the national football teams have been highly globally visible in the post-lockdown era. The secure camp in Austria guarantees getting the players together. From there, the Super Falcons proceeded to open the 2021 campaigns in February with their participation in the Turkish Women’s Cup which they won, defeating CSKA Moscow and Uzbekistan 1-0 each before pounding Equatorial Guinea 9-0. …
By Udeme Collins The Proprietor of Chosen Stars International Academy, Ambassador Albert Kachikwu has commended the state government for encouraging sporting activities in the schools across the state through Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education. Kachikwu made the commendation at the 3rd Annual Inter-House Athletics Competition of the school, in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Goverment Area. Kachikwu who spoke through the Principal of the school, Mr. Austin Ubaka, maintained that Athletics in the school system enables the latent potentials of the child to be discovered and harnessed. While saying that the importance of sports in the education of…
By Uzo Dan-Macaulay The President has ordered the military to crush the bandits again! This is like the 3rd time in 5 months this is being said. Those saying President Muhammadu Buhari is running after Nnamdi Kanu (Igbo) and Sunday Igboho (Yoruba), and protective of bandits (Hausa-Fulani) are only flying the tribal kite! It holds no water! And they will now pounce on every leader from different tribes in Nigeria currently serving in the government to blackmail them, especially the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, the second in command from the South-West Nigeria, who they often claim are…
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Henry Ofa, has congratulated Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on the auspicious occasion of his 62nd birthday anniversary, describing the governor as a leader of uncommon excellence. In a statement to mark the Governor’s new age, Ofa said “Okowa has remained focused on the single objective of making Delta State truly prosperous since he assumed leadership of the state in 2015”, adding that his consistent efforts to improve the lots of Deltans was worthy of commendation. The PDP Chieftain observed that in the last six years, Governor Okowa has…
It is understandable that all football fans want their team to win every game and there has been some hue about El Tri, the full fledged, star-studded Mexican senior national team handing Nigeria a 4-0 defeat in a recent friendly in Los Angeles. However, those who know know that the Nigerian side wasn’t actually the Super Eagles in the true sense. It wasn’t even the CHAN team. It was just an ad-hoc selection of home based players from the Nigeria Professional Football League. With the conclusion of the European league, most of the senior Super Eagles…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday faulted persisting delay in constituting Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board on excuse of ongoing forensic audit of the commission, saying it was deplorable. Okowa, who stated this while receiving the South-South Zonal Working Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Asaba, said that the forensic audit was about past activities of NDDC and should not, therefore, jeopardize the progress of the Commission. He said that by the law establishing NDDC, it was meant to truly touch the lives of Niger Delta people, and that the Act was all-encompassing, including…
The Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) Alumni Association, Delta State Chapter has congratulated Engineer Lawrence Ejiofor on his reappointment as Commissioner and member of the Delta State Executive Council by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. The FUTO Alumni congratulatory statement signed by it’s Chairman, Comrade (Engr) Efe Feludu Kwakpovwe, Secretary, Mr Justine Okenachi and Public Relations Officer, Comrade (Engr) Jonathan Evwierhurhoma, said the association expressed joy on the reappointment of Ejiofor as Commissioner for Directorate of Culture and Tourism, haven served in the same Ministry from 2019 before the dissolution of the Delta State Executive Council…
by Fredrick Nwabufo The vocal minority will always have their say, but the silent majority will have their way. Nevertheless, it is capricious to let the pesky minority govern and dominate the narrative. A solitary story by a negligible decimal could be held as the belief and view of the bulk. This is why the silent Igbo majority who are opposed to the secessioning of the south-east from Nigeria need to speak up. We cannot discount the perils, ills and concomitants of the civil war. But it has been 51 years since the end of the war, and…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta State has raised alarm over the recent attacks on some political bigwigs of the Party. The Party’s concern is coming after the violent attack on the Delta North Vice Chairman of the Party as well as the gruesome murder of both the security Attachee and the driver to Chief Michael Johnny, a topmost APC Leader in Ijaw land. It will be recalled that recently, the former Vice Chairman of the Party in Delta North, Chief George Okafor resigned his position and membership of the Party, and because nature abhors vacuum whilst also…