Delta State Government, Friday, reiterated that it had not borrowed any money since Governor Sheriff Oborevwori took over governance in the state on May 29, 2023. The State Commissioner for Finance, Chief Fidelis Tilije who disclosed this at a press conference in Asaba, said contrary to reports by an online news medium, the State Government had not entered into any borrowing relationship with any institution. According to him, “this state has not entered into any borrowing relationship whatsoever, whether partnership, individual, corporate, bank, local, national or international. We have not borrowed a dime since this administration took effect on…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from Delta State University, Abraka. He is a registered practising Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists with over 20 years experience of reporting. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focuses more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration by government and multinational iol companies has plunged into poverty and environmental degradation for years. He is also a PR Consultant, content creator, broadcast, print Journalist and Publisher. His vast experience in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
Activities marking the 2025 Rev Waive Annual Day of Prayers took place over the weekend in Ughelli Delta State. The 2025 Annual Day of Prayers for Hon. Rev Francis Ejiroghene Waive, representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency took place in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area on Thursday, January 23, 2025. The annual prayer session featured Clergymen from all five Blocks of CAN including the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria CSN, Christian Council of Nigeria CCN, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN, Organisation of Africa Instituted Churches OAIC and ECWA/COCIN The over one thousand clergymen congregated to…
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor has challenged journalists in the State on the need to continue to uphold the ethics of the profession in their routine reportage. Rt. Hon Guwor who gave the charge when he played host to a team of Assembly Correspondents who were in his Office on a thank-you visit at the resumed plenary, urged media professionals to shun pecuniary interest in their reportage. While saying that the profession had in the recent time been invaded by quacks who for ulterior motives engaged in malicious reports, Guwor who is the National…
By Sunny Awhefeada The raison d’ tre of government which is the welfare and security of the citizens remains a perennially violated concept in Nigeria. Despite the multiplicity of avowals by government officials to a commitment to the twin concept of welfare and security, what Nigerians have had to contend with in the last forty years has been to suffer the breach of what ought to have been a hallowed and reassuring credo. As a nation we have backpedalled receding uncontrollably into the Hobessian jungle where life is short, nasty and brutish. Civility and order have taken flight off our…
… Speaker Guwor, Stresses The Importance Of The Legislature And Executive Arms Of Govt. Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor has promised Deltans that the State Legislature will continue to carryout robust legislation for peace and good governance of the state. The Speaker gave the assurance in his welcome address at resumption of plenary after the festive holidays that ushered in 2025 fiscal year. Rt Hon Guwor said the Legislature and Executive arms of government are democratic vehicles in the society for the appropriation, mobilization and deployment of resources for development, welfare and security of…
By Andy Emephia Stakeholders from the eight local government areas of Delta central Senatorial districts, including Okere , in Warri south , on Saturday 18th January 2025 , converged on the Ughelli kingdom hall , in Ughelli North , to unanimously endorse the movement for the creation of Urhobo State , out of the present Delta State. They , in tandem with diaspora stakeholders of Urhobo extraction , based their agitation on the premise of the 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria , being less regarded in the State creation agenda by successive federal government’s since their Mid West…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike and his successor in Rivers State, Governor Siminalayi Fubara met at the Presidential Villa in Abuja amidst differences which have remained unresolved. It was gathered that the two leaders are at odds with each other over the control of resources and political structures in Rivers State. This has led to factions within the People’s Democratic Party in the state as well as in the state assembly. The crisis included impeachment proceedings against Governor Fubara initiated by the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Wike. The meeting, which was attended…
…Urge APC National Leadership, The Presidency To Ignore His Scheming Former Delta Senator, Peter Nwaobushi, has cautioned Senator Ned Nwoko currently representing the Delta North Senatorial District to desist from his secret plot with some elements in the presidency to dissolve the Delta State APC Executive from the State to Ward level. In a statement, Sen. Nwaobushi, frowned at the alleged move by Sen. Ned Nwoko, noting that such move poses a significant threat to the party in Delta State. In his words; “I have been made aware that Senator Ned Nwoko, who recently announced his planned defection, is secretly…
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has been mandated by the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to launch a nationwide educational campaign for awareness about the dangers of scooping fuel from fallen tankers and the environmental risks associated with such actions. Tinubu gave the directive while reacting to the fuel tanker explosion that claimed over 80 lives and left many injured at Dikko Junction, Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, on Saturday. In a statement signed by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu extended his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, as well as to the government and people…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Friday, said all his actions as governor were guided by the interest of the people. He assured that no one would short change the state under his watch. Governor Oborevwori disclosed this at the 50th birth anniversary thanksgiving of the Majority Leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, Engr Emeka Nwaobi, at St. Paul’s Catholic Cathedral, Issele-Uku, Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state. While commending the celebrant on his empowerment programme for the people, Governor Oborevwori urged people in authority to always remember the widows and the other less-…