As the governorship Elections for Edo and On do states draws closer, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the date for off-cycle governorship. INEC disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement on X, saying the Edo poll will be held on September 21, 2024. The statement, signed by the Chairman of the INEC Voter Committee, Sam Olumekun, also announced that the governorship election in Ondo is slated for November 16, 2024. The electoral body said party primaries would be held between February 1 and 24, 2024 while the submission of the list of nominated candidates via the online…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a registered Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focus more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration 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.
Two suspected oil thieves has been apprehended by the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta and handed over to the officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC for further prosecution. It was gathered that the suspects were handed over to the NSCDC on Wednesday at the premises of the Nigerian Naval Base in Warri. Navy Capt. Solomon Paul, Executive Officer of the NNS Delta, handed the suspects to the representatives of the NSCDC on behalf of the Commander, NNS Delta, Commodore Chindo Yahaya. Speaking to reporter, Yahaya added the suspects were apprehended on Sept. 17, at the Asugbo…
The Emir of Zazzau, His Highness Malam Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli, has, in categorical terms, condemned the year 2023 Hajj operation, stressing that the whole exercise was a total failure. Bamalli who was the Amirul Hajj from Kaduna during the exercise said, the whole operation was in a shamble considering the predicament that pilgrims from Kaduna state went through while at the Holy land before they were evacuated back to Nigeria. The Emir who spoke in Hausa in an interview with VOA Hausa service and monitored in Kaduna stated that there was numerous failure on the side of the authorities in charge of…
Human right activist, Comrade Israel Joe is in a war of words with the Rivers State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Grace Iringe-Koko over the eighty million naira allegedly extorted by Policemen from one Mr. Atubi Davidson, Chairman of a Surveillance facility. In a statement signed and made available to newsmen, Comrade Joe said the Police image maker, SP Iringe-Koko is telling lies as well as conspiring to cover up the matter by the Rivers State Police Command’s CID. SP Iringe-Koko had over the weekend issued a statement wherein she reacted to video by Comrade Israel Joe…
By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi In 1991, the film The Five Heartbeats, directed by Robert Townsend was released. I enjoyed the film so much I cannot count the number of times I have watched it over the years. It is a story set in the 1960s USA about how five poor black teenagers found (and lost, then found again) fame and fortune as a musical band. It is a classic story of talent, opportunity, success, failure, betrayal and loss, drugs, women and murder. The film summed up the experiences of many young black boys and girls of the time, who made it…
It was just a week to the opening of the 7th National Youth Games in Asaba, capital of Delta state, when some Delta State athletes camped for the National Youth Games (NYG) protested against what they termed “poor feeding conditions, poor water and electricity supply as well as unhygienic environment” in their camp in Delta State. The young males and females athletes who are between the ages of 10 to 20 had accused the chairman of the state Sports Commission, Tonobok Okowa and officials of the commission of taking advantage of them to amass wealth, saying he never bothered about their…
… A Tale Of Man’s Inhuman Treatment To Man, Creation Of Poverty In Nigeria To Nigerians There is this popular Nigerian slogan, ‘This life nor balance at all’, judging from these, one would agreed that truly life is not balance as some persons are looking for just a square meal while others changes jets like bicycle. This is the case of the people of Odidi 1, Odidi 2, Egwa 1 & Egwa 2, Batan and Jones Creek in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, host communities of OML 42. Despite these communities being host to the Oil Mining Lease OML-42 and their contributions…
Founder and General Overseer of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche has urged the Chairman and Board members of Revelation Micro Finance Bank Limited Ughelli, Delta State, to conduct their banking affairs with the highest level of sincerity, integrity, probity, financial accountability and function according to the rules of banking. The popular Pastor who visited Delta for the official opening of the Revelation Microfinance bank and accompanied by his wife, Dr. Becky Enenche, stated this on Saturday, September 23, 2023 at Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State. Pastor Enenche while commending the…
Three member panel of Governorship Election petition tribunal sitting in Makurdi, on Saturday, September 23, upheld the election of Governor Hyacinth Alia and his Deputy, Dr.Sam Ode. In his judgment, the Chairman of the panel, Justice Ibrahim Karaye ruled that the tribunal lacked jurisdiction to entertain what he described as pre-election matter raised by the petitioners, Hon. Titus Uba and his people’s Democratic Party PDP. Justice karaye who read the unanimous judgement stated that only the Federal High Court has the exclusive jurisdiction to entertain issues bordering on pre-election matters. He further said the petitioners’ case was also an abuse…
DAILY POST Newspaper Correspondent in Delta State, Mr. Matthew Omonigho is now a Certified Peace & Environment Protector of the (Fellow Member) of the Institute of Global Peace and Conflict Management, IGPCM. The journalist was inducted alongside eighteen others by IGPCM President-in-Council, Dr. Asiwaju Adetunberu Oludotun during a training workshop certification of fellowship investiture and Global Peace Icon Award Ceremony organised by the IGPCM in Port-Harcourt Rivers State. IGPCM, President-In-Council was ably represented by IGPCM Vice President, South-East Zone, Dr. Nworgu Okey-Theodore who charged the inductees to be good ambassadors of the Institute. Responding on behalf of the inductees,Bob Eilwuribr…