Parishioners from Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza are praying fervently for an end to the war and peace for all. In a video recorded on Saturday, bombs can be heard exploding in the background. The Parish compound has turned into a refuge for many seeking shelter. “Thank God everyone is alright,” says Holy Family parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, who is currently in Bethlehem and unable to reach Gaza. He has remained constantly updated by his assistant parish priest, Fr. Iusuf Asad. Sound of bombs: In the Strip and confirmed by some managing to get through the communications blackout,…
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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.
. By Yusuf Salihu Sansani, Jalingo One person has reportedly been killed by Herders and fourteen others injured in a renewed crisis between farmers and herdsmen in Yelwa Abbare community of Ardo Kola Local Government Area, Taraba State. The crisis was said to have started after a herder took his cattles into a rice farms belonging to the people of the community and was asked to bring them out, but he refused which led to huge damage by the cattles. Narrating his ordeals, one of the victims of the crisis, Haruna Yusuf said, they were harvesting rice when a…
…Send SoS To Relevant Authorities By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The unlawful and illegal sand dredging activities all over Delta state, no doubt poses a life-threatening situation and envisages man-made environmental disaster in the nearest future if not properly checked and guided by relevant authorities and agencies of governments. It was such situation of unlawful dredging activities that trigger residents of 2nd Amekpa of Ekiugbo-Ughelli community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta state, on Saturday, October 28, to protest against the siting of a dredger just few metres away from residential buildings, calling on both the Federal and State Government to…
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…
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.…