By Fred Edoreh Recently, Sahara Reporters published a story on the 3.7km road linking Idheze and Okpe-Isoko in Delta State. Though without a byline, the story draws from a somewhat wolf alarm raised by one of its associates, Amour Udemude, on his Facebook page earlier on same day. It narrated that following a heavy downpour, a portion of the road was submerged by rain water and concluded that the contractor did a “shoddy job” and must have shortchanged his people with the cover of the state government for political patronage. Even though Amour Udemude appears to many…
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Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on Saturday 15th May, 2021 flagged off the distribution of empowerment items worth over 300 Million Naira to 456 beneficiaries drawn from Anioha/Oshimili Federal Constituency of the State. The empowerment items, sponsored by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and member representing Aniocha/Oshimili in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu was distributed to the beneficiaries in an event attended by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamili at the Cenotaph, Asaba. Items distributed included; tricycles, motorcycles, electricity generating sets and Deep Freezers geared…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Discussing the subject matter of influxes of young married women’s unfaithfulness to their spouses and how rampantly and barefaced women goes about, historians, African Traditional Religious believers and sociologists bares all we need to know about the Urhobo marriage culture. Our Urhobo young girls are of the habit of asking repeatedly why is it that our ancestors are always punishing Urhobo women who are traditionally married and became unfaithful to their husbands, while the same ancestors look the other way when their husbands are unfaithful. Contributing, a University of Ibadan trained Historian, Isaac Esezi Otomowe, disclosed…
Ejiro Sam Akporode Delta State is one of the states in the South-south that always sits on the keg of gun powder during any gubernatorial election. The state is strongly and significantly divided along the line of interest of senatorial districts regarding governorship elections. The predominantly PDP state has since 1999 evolved an unwritten gentleman agreement of rotation of the governorship position among the three senatorial districts. The Central Senatorial District produced the first governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, in this current democratic dispensation. After a tour of duty of eight-year, the power shifted to Dr. Emmanuel Eweta…
By Charles Nwabardi. The Southern Governors recently held an enlarged meeting in Asaba and resolved among others that there will be no more open gracing in the southern part of Nigeria. This resolution has a part that say that the Federal Government should support willing states that want to help the herders develop ranches. What a magnanimity! This move by the Southern governors was supported by their people, southern legislators in both Senate and House of Representatives. What else? The owners of the house have spoken. The people of the Southern part of Nigeria live in the South,…
BY Charles Nwabardi Three Kidnapping suspects that have been in police wanted list for various criminal offenses committed in the past have died from injuries sustained after being attacked by the mob recently for another kidnapping attempt at Ogharra, Ethiope West Local Governmet Area of Delta State. DSP Edafe Bright, Acting Police Public Relations Officer to Delta State Police Command in a statement said that the 3 suspects who were confirmed dead in Ogharra Hospital were: Onome Efetobor, Collins,(Surname unknown) an escapee from Benin Correctional Centre during Endsars and one Glory Reuben all males. The Release further said that…
Hundreds of Ijaw indigenes from Delta, both old and young, defied the heavy downpour which lasted for over an hour, besieged the Oginibo country home of the prominent Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), governorship aspirant and former Minister of Education (State), Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, in Ughelli south local government area of Delta State, to pledged their unalloyed support for his 2023 governorship election. The Ijaw group by their act on Wednesday May 12th 2021, has deflated the camps of interested persons from the Delta South Senatorial District of the State who rumour said are also gunning for the seat.…
Pioneer Director General (D-G) of Delta State Traffic Management Authority (DESTMA), Olorogun Stephen Dieseruvwe has instructed his legal team to commence legal action against one Mr Andrew Okurume, an Assistant Director cadre working with the Delta State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Asaba head office. The Dieseruvwe’s legal action against the Civil Servant was contained in a notice signed by one Omes Ogedegbe, Esq, of OGEDEGBE & OGEDEGBE (Superior Chamber) Legal Practitioners Human Right Activist, House 92 Alegbo / Okoribi Road Effurun, Delta State, on the 8 day of May, 2021. SPADE NG News reliably gathered…
President of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities, FNDIC, Chief Bello Oboko says Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba, the newly elected President of the Ijaw National Congress, INC, and his executive council have the historic Kaiama Declaration and the FNDIC Oporoza Declaration as guide, going forward. The inauguration of the new executive council is billed for Friday, May 14, 2021. Oboko, who congratulated Prof. Okaba on his victory said while the Kaiama Declaration harps on resource control, environmental justice and self-determination within Nigeria, the FNDIC Oporoza Declaration additionally centres on equal political space for Ijaw wherever they are and other ethnic…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE Members of the Redemption Team have rejoiced with the Director-General (DG) of the team, Comrade Felix Igbekoyi, as he gets new appointment as the Bureau Chief of the Leadership Newspapers in Delta State. The Redemption Team was the platform through which the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Delta State, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu, won the union elections in 2020. Speaking at the temporary press centre of the union in Asaba, the state capital, the venue of the get together felicitation, Comrade Ikeogwu congratulated him for the appointment, adding that he was particularly happy…