The Movement for Stronger Delta, MSD, is quite amused by the content and craft of some of the advise which a plethora of commentators, enjoying the largely unrestrained platform of social media, have been dishing out to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, sometimes couched in amateurish satire and often laced with audacious threats, hallucinatory convictions and a good dose of bitter, acrimonious verbiage, on the refined, respectable and polished personality of the genteel Ekwueme. What comes across from reading some of these circumstantial offerings, is that either their authors only just started engaging in the Delta political discourse in the wake…
Author: Spade Nigeria
Olorogun David Edevbie was among the first callers at the family home of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, in Owa-Alero, as the Governor and Delta State amiable and graceful First Lady, Dame Edith Okowa, gave out the hand of their daughter, Maxine Ewere Okowa, in marriage to Benue State born Dr Daniel Igoh, on Saturday, April 2. Edevbie, the frontline aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Delta 2023 Governorship, set aside all consultation activities to celebrate with the Okowas at the colourful traditional marriage that attracted the creme of Delta society which included former Governors Chief James Ibori…
By Bulou Kosin Monarch of Gbaramatu Ijaw Kingdom, HRM Oboro Gbaraun II, Aketekpe, Agadagba, weekend, prayed for eternal understanding between Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and his Deputy, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, just as he appreciated them for projects inaugurated in riverine areas. Accompanied in the projects inauguration by Deacon Otuaro who, fortnight ago, declared intention to become governor in 2023, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa described the Gbaramatu Monarch as “a symbol of peace”. “Without peace, there can be no development. What we did, we were able to do because you provided the enabling environment for peace for contractors to do…
By Patrick Ochei The highly revered culture enthusiast and Omu Anioma, Her Royal Majesty, Obi Martha Dunkwu has advised the pupils and students of Skyset Schools Okpanam, to see education as their future, adding that nothing can ever jeopardise their future endeavours if they focused seriously on their academics. The Omu who was represented by her Media Consultant, Comrade Patrick Ochei gave this admonition at the Cultural Day Celebration of the school, which held at the NTA Asaba open field on Saturday, 2nd April, 2022. According to Omu Dunkwu, “Education is the global key that unlocks all doors.…
Underrate him at your peril, he holds the ace of strategic impulse, deeply unassuming but perilously a master strategist. Still a grand guru of unpredictability and a political mystery. Till date, no one has been able to dissect and give an exact diagnosis of the man called Muhammadu Buhari. Experts in the study of body language and gesture are still in awe of the man, political clairvoyants are still in limbo on the impenetrable nature of the man, close aides have been rendered strangers to the inner workings of the mind of this Daura born political enigma. Like he once…
We have read with utter disbelief, the provocative interview granted by a highly respected Isoko cultural leader and the immediate past President General of the Isoko Development Union (IDU), High Chief Iduh Amadhe, titled “2023 HOR: Save Us From Looming Danger, Isoko Nation Cries Out To Okowa” and published in a section of the social and online media platforms. In disputing Chief Amadhe’s false claim and misleading facts that the present member representing Isoko Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives is from Isoko North, WE make bold to state very clearly that, the present member, Hon Leo Okuweh Ogor…
The widely revered monarch who is the 21st Olu of Warri was born on April 2, 1984 to late Ogiame Atuwatse II and Gladys Durorike Emiko. Ogiame Atuwatse III ascended to the throne of his forebears on August 21st 2021. Ogiame Atuwatse III is married to his beautiful and ever elegance looking Queen, Olori Atuwatse III and they are blessed with three kids. Recall that the monarch (then Tsola Emiko) was affirmed by Ife and the entire Itsekiri people on April 1, 2021, a day before he celebrated his 37th birthday anniversary and formally presented to the (then Olu…
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has cautioned against continual face-off between oil companies and host communities, saying it could lead to further divestment in the oil sector. The governor gave the advice while inaugurating the 2.1-kilometre Obitobon-Elolo-AjaokurreOgbo-Orubu roads in Ogidigben and 2.3-kilometre roads in Benikrukru, both in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state on Thursday. He stated that Nigeria was producing only 60 per cent of its oil production quota because of the recent divestments from the nation’s oil and gas sector. He said that communities were at liberty to protest but warned against…
Justices P. M. Ayuba and S. D. Pam, both of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have convicted and sentenced five oil thieves to various jail terms, for illegal dealing in petroleum products without requisite licences. The convicts are: Wei Ibolo, Mudashiru Toaheed, Etim Edet, Martins Savior and Tope Alani. They were all jailed after pleading “guilty” to one- count separate charge preferred against them by the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, upon their arraignment on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The lone count charge read: “That you Owei Ibolo…
By Ifado Atameyo In the Vanguard Newspaper Viewpoint features published on December 7, 2020, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s Special Assistant on Media, Nobert Chiazor, by the approval of Governor Okowa himself, revealed the following about David Edevbie: “Ever courteous and self-respecting, he is not given to vulgarity or imprudent crudity that are common mannerisms of most political office holders in Nigeria. Far from a stormy petrel, Edevbie is neither a die-hard troublesome politician nor a bullish power monger. He acts more like a genial player, a gentleman in government. “An affable image refined by disciplined parental nurture and cultured…