By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Mrs. Mabel Sule, a survivor of the Gelegele boat accident and her one and half year baby, has appealed to the Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki and other well meaning Nigerians to come to her aid as she lost all she had to run her family during the boat accident. Narrating what happened, Mabel Sule said contrary to the one person claimed to have been drowned by the Edo State Police Command, a total of eight persons were drowned in the accident. Mabel and 26 other traders and children were traveling last week Thursday, when their boat capsizes…
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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.
Comrade Agbubi Ejovwoke Emmanuel a frontline aspirant for the Chief Whip position of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Youth Wing election has expressed confidence in restoring the Urhobo greatest through a well coordinated business meetings. In his statement, he noted that it is almost a culture in every youth gatherings for an uproar to arise but it takes a well skill interpersonal communicator to pacify every warring personnel and courageous to discipline any erring member to restore peace and orderliness for a fruitful business meeting which is the responsibility of the Chief Whip of the house. “As the Chief…
By Sunny Awhefeada Taken from William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming”, the Nigerian sage and writer, Chinua Achebe deemed the thematic concern of the poem and the imagery of chaos it evoked as fit for the African experience which colonialism bequeathed. Yeats’ poem was birthed by the dysfunctional world that the modern period turned out to be. Yeats wasn’t alone in the depiction of the crisis that befell the world at the turn of the twentieth century. Thomas Stearns Elliot, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, among others captured in poetry, prose and drama, the essence of that era which…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The management and entire team of Tantita Security Services Limited (TSSL), on Thursday , October 26,th, 2023, felicitated with His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, President and Commander -in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on his well established victory at the Supreme Court.. Tantita management said in a statement that; “There is no doubt that you convincingly won the presidential poll of 25th February 2023. The sustained sabre rattling has come to an end and we implore all Nigerians to support and join hands with you to move the nation…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Comrade Lucky Olerhimena Ofomukoro (JP) has formally declared his interest to contest the Ughelli North LGA Chairmanship seat under the People’s Democratic Party PDP during the 2024 local government chairmanship elections, with a promise to strengthen security and human capital development inline with Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori administration M.O.R.E Agenda. Ofomukoro made the declaration during when he visited the leaders of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Ughelli North Local Government Area chapter at the party secretariat in Ughelli town, Delta State. In his statement, he said, “I shall work inline with the M.O.R.E Agenda of our amiable Governor,…
The much awaited Urhobo Progress Union UPU, Youngwing elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, October 28, has been stopped by an order of interim injunction. The interim injunction restrained Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Chief Ese Gam Owe, UPU President General, Rev. Fr. Chris Ekabo JP, Ph.D, Chairman, UPU Youth Wing election committee, Chief Emmanuel Omovie, Secretary, UPU Youth Wing election committee from conducting the 2023 UPU youth wing election scheduled for the 28th of October 2023. An aggrieved Indigene of Ewu-,Urhobo Kingdom, Comrade Ochuko Okagbare, had approached the High Court of Justice, Warri, on Thursday, saying that Ewu…
…Panel Found Her Guilty Former minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that contrary to the stories making the rounds about who was responsible for the sack of Hadiza Usman, former managing director of Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), President Muhammadu Buhari approved the sack. Amaechi also said that her sack followed a recommendation of a panel that found Hadiza guilty. Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, said that the panel found Hadiza guilty of approving money beyond her powers without appropriation, and for giving waivers to some “powerful individuals” that caused the country to lose a lot of money.…
In purveyance of its continual improvement cardinal policy as stated in the ISO Integrated Management System, Management of Rubber Estates Nigeria Limited has again presented more school materials including desks , chairs, books, and bags to schools in all its sites of operation in Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ogun State respectively. This 2023 round of presentation was held recently . Addressing the pupils and students before the presentation in the various schools visited, the Company’s Managing Director, Olivier Odoukou admonished them to make good use of the items provided as this will encourage the donor “Rubber Estates Nigeria…
Paper Presentation Titled: ‘Digital Mission; A Contemporary Approach To Evangelization In The Face Of Media Toxicity,’ at the ongoing 5th edition of the National Mission Congress (NAMICON5). The National Director of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Dr. Michael Umoh, has stated that an un-communicating Church is an impossibility because the Church is communication by its very nature. He noted that the Church came into existence as a result of God’s loving desire to reveal himself, share himself and sustain his presence, through and in Christ, among human beings and the whole of creation. At the presentation which…
The Ogun State Police Command has said it is investigating the sudden disappearance of a 54-year-old woman, Eno Okon, who allegedly went missing on August 11 while attending the annual programme of a Pentecostal church along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman, who is a resident of Adesan in the Mowe area of the state, offered to follow her neighbour who invited her to the programme. After some hours into the programme, Eno was said to have told her neighbour she was sitting with that she wanted to visit the restroom. The neighbour who noticed she did…