Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has expressed deep sadness on the demise of elder statesman and erstwhile General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of Nigeria, (NUPENG), Chief Frank Ovie Kokori. Kokori, a renowned Labour Leader, who hailed from Ovu in Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state, died in the early hours of Thursday, coincidentally on his 80th birth anniversary. As a pro-democracy activist, he headlined and epitomised the national struggle for the revalidation of the historic June 12 1993 presidential election under the Abacha regime. A…
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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.
Delta State Government, Thursday, said all applications for Certificates of Occupancy and other land documents must be processed and ready for collection within three months. The State Commissioner for Lands, Surveys and Urban Development, Chief Emamusi Obiodeh gave the assurance while speaking to journalists on the vision of the Ministry in Asaba. Obiodeh told members of the public that following the Governor’s resolve to serve Deltans through his well articulated vision embedded in the M.O.R.E Agenda, has repositioned the Ministry of Lands and Surveys to serve the public with dispatch. This move according to him, is to ensure that…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye It was a horrific, tragic and unjustifiable moment when a trigger happy Police Inspector, Samson, attached to the Ughelli Area Command of the Delta State Police Command, on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, opened fire on a car owner, Mr. Oluwa Victor Iseoluwa Igbekele, who was driving along the Ughelli/Warri road in a blue coloured GLA Mercedes Benz Jeep at a check point by Ekrerhavwen axis of the East/West Road, in Ughelli North local government Area, Delta State. OCCUPANTS OF VEHICLE NARRATES WHAT HAPPENED One of the occupants (name not mentioned) of the vehicle told…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Wednesday, said the state government would continue to monitor contractors for timely delivery of projects in line with specifications to ensure Deltans get value for the money paid for projects. Speaking through the State Commissioner for Works (Rural and Riverine Roads), Mr Charles Aniagwu, Governor Oborevwori recalled that two weeks ago the State Government released the sum of N30 billion to various contractors to fund ongoing projects across the state. Addressing journalists during inspection of ongoing projects in Okpe and Ughelli North Local Government Areas of the state, Aniagwu expressed…
President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, is expected to get a total allocation of N21 billion in next year’s budget estimates presented to the National Assembly by the President last month. A breakdown of the proposed estimates as uploaded on the website of the Budget Office of the Federation, however, shows that Mr Gbajabiamila proposed N104 million for the purchase of computers and printers for ‘local travel and transport for international training,’ the CoS office plans to spend N579 million, while ‘miscellaneous’ is expected to gulp N103 million. A further breakdown of the proposed budgetary allocations shows…
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Sir Monday Onyeme, has assured the President of a Medical Test Kits manufacturing company, Zorah Technologies USA, Mr. Stephen McDavid that Delta state is safe and secured for investors to operate. Onyeme gave the assurance at Asaba on Wednesday, December 6, when the team paid him a courtesy visit. According to him “Be rest assured that Delta State is a very peaceful state. “I started playing active politics in Delta State in 2015 and since that time till date, I have not seen or heard of any crisis in our state. “The state is…
Suspected members of the Iceland Cult group, have killed three members of Egbeh community in Ahoada-West local government area of Rivers State, for allegedly insulting the mother of their leader, popularly known as ‘General Dange.’ The corpses of the victims, including a female, who were earlier abducted from the community on Monday morning, were later seen along the Egbeh and Ebiriba Road area of Ubie Kingdom. It was gathered that before the incident, the two deceased male victims reportedly quarreled with a woman said to be the mother of General ‘Danger’ who boasted to deal with them ruthlessly. It was…
…Defends 2024 Budget Proposals By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye More Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs of the Delta State Government, on Tuesday, appeared before the Standing Committees of the State House of Assembly to defend their 2024 budget proposals. The officials in their presentations briefed the Lawmakers on the budget performances of the MDAs in the outgoing year and defended their proposals for 2024. Describing budget defense as constitutional, Chairman House Committee on Works and Special Projects, Hon Oboro Preyor, said the annual exercise was meant to help MDAs fast track their budget implementation. Hon Preyor, who represents Bomadi Constituency in the…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied that three persons arrested by the Anambra State Police Command for extorting money from members of the public, by issuing death threats, are their members. The men were arrested in Umunze and Ozubulu, Orumba South and Ekwusigo Local Government Areas. The men, posing as commanders of the militant wing of IPOB, Eastern Security Network (ESN), specialize in sending messages to unsuspecting people and threatening to kill or kidnap them and their relatives, except they paid specified amounts of money. But IPOB in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful,…
The Delta State Police Commissioner, CP Wale Abbas, has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of a police Inspector that shot a civilian only identified as Lucky at a check point on December 5, 2023. The incident happened at about 1634hours along the Ufhelli/Warri road by Ekrerhavwe Junction near Agbarho in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. According to a statement issued by the commands’ image maker, DSP Bright Edafe and made available to Southernvoicenews.com, the police were on a stop and search duty when the sad incident occured. The Commissioner of Police, on receipts of the sad…