By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The Agbarha-Otor Primary Health Centre in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State has been reportedly shut down indefinitely over an alleged rape of a 100 level female student of the Delta State College of Health Technology, Ofuoma who was on her internship at the health center on July 24, 2023. It was gathered that hoodlum broke into the premises on the night of July 24, 2023, and sexually harassed the female student and thereafter filmed her nude before carting away phones, ATM card and other items. According to the victim, “I was asleep, when I…
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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.
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Tertiary education in Delta State has been promised speedy upliftment and sustainable policies by students and lecturers. Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Nyerhovwo Tonukari, stated this recently, noting that his commitment towards realising the goals of the MORE agenda of the Oborevwori administration through sustainable tertiary education in the state is sacrosanct. Tonukari stated this in Asaba while interacting with the staff of the Ministry of Higher Education. The commissioner expressed gratitude to the state governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, for finding him worthy to serve in his administration, promising to give his best. He urged the…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Nigeria President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Barr. Nyesom Wike to fasten the completion of the Abuja Metroline to ease movements of residents and asked the minister not to give him free land should he ask for one. Tinubu made this intention known on Sunday, while declaring open the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) where he jokingly referred to Wike as the ‘landlord of Abuja’. Tinubu said; ’I want to ride on your metroline. If I ask for free land, do not give me, but deliver the metroline for…
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service, Tin Can Island Command on Monday in Lagos , disclosed that it declined a whooping N50 million bribe offer from a suspect arrested in connection with two containers of unregistered imported drugs at Tin Can Island Container Terminals (TICT). Speaking at press briefing in Lagos, Customs Area Comptroller of the command, Comptroller Adekunle Oloyede said the suspect who is a freight forwarder, Mr. Boniface Ike reportedly said he was the owner of the two intercepted containers, offered the huge sum money to the officers in order to be left out of the hook. According…
The Federal Government on Monday, indirectly accused firmer President Mohammadu Buhari, saying it inherited a bad economy with an unacceptably high rate of unemployment. President Bola Tinubu took over from ex-President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2023, and introduced some economic policies. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja, Minister of Finance, Wale Edun assured Nigerians that the Tinubu administration would not rely on borrowing to raise funds to fix the country. Asked to describe the kind of economy the government met on the ground, he said, “Per capita had…
The oil theft situation assessment delegation deployed in the Niger Delta by President Bola Tinubu has discovered an illegal oil connection on Saturday where Nigeria loses an average of 7.2 million dollars monthly. The delegation, led by the Minister of Defence, Muhammed Badaru, has service chiefs and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, as members. Other members are the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperipe Ekpo, the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari. The team visited the Trans-Niger Pipeline Right of Way in Owaza, Abia,…
Prior to the upsurge in crime rate and killing of policemen in the state, the Delta State Police Command have intensify efforts in curbing criminal activities and this has paid off as they make huge harvest of criminal arrest and recovery of dangerous weapons, ammunition and others in the monrh of August 2023. A statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed that at about 0600hours, a police patrol team attached to ‘C’ Division Asaba in a combined effort with vigilantes while on patrol around the second Niger bridge, sighted a young man carrying a sack…
Aladja Community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State today said Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s two weeks promised to demarcate the disputed boundaries between them(Aladja) and Ogbe-Ijoh Community in Warri South-West Local Government Area have passed. President of Aladja Community Council, Comrade Shell Okakotu GodFirst made the assertion in a chat with Our Correspondent in Warri. White noting that bulldozers sent in by the State Government cleared the disputed boundary, Comrade GodFirst said weeds has over taken the whole place again as a result of the delays by the governor. Comrade GodFirst stressed that the people of Aladja Community are…
…Demands Justice For Her Death A Director in the Ministry of Finance, Delta State, Mr. Ochuko Regha, has said his daughter, “Oghenefejiro, was killed because the killer “boy” wanted her body parts for rituals. The lifeless body of Oghenefejiro, a 400 level student of Accounting of Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma, Edo State, was found dead in the room of her Killer boyfriend, Ochonogor Victor on Monday, August 21, 2023. The father of the deceased has alleged that the suspect killer boy killed his daughter with knives and other materials in his room with the sole aim of using her parts…
Senator Ede Dafinone representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, has called on Deltans to remain steadfast to the dreams and aspirations of her founding fathers of a peaceful, united, and progressive Delta State. The renowned Chartered Accountant, while congratulating Deltans for living together peacefully since its creation on August 27, 1991, from defunct Bendel State by the administration of former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, noted that though the state has experienced some level of development, comparatively Delta is not where she ought to be after 32 years of existence. He, therefore, charged Deltans to remain…