A group of top Gabonese military officers appeared on television early Wednesday morning, August 30 to announce that they had taken power after president Ali Bongo whose family has been in power for 53 years was announced as election winner. Appearing on state television channel Gabon 24, the officers said they represented all security and defence forces in the Central African nation. The soldiers said the election results were cancelled, and all borders are closed until further notice and state institutions dissolved. “In the name of the Gabonese people … we have decided to defend the peace by putting an…
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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.
The reappointment of Dr Samuel Ogbuku shows clearly the grasp of President Bola Tinubu of the challenges of the oil producing areas of the Niger Delta. The policy direction of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku as enunciated in the last eight months of his leadership must have resonated well with the President’s aspiration for the region which must have led the President to have settled for his leadership. For the NDDC not to be encumbered we urge the President to domicile the NDDC in the office of the secretary to the government of the federation as it was for less political…
BY DENNIS OTU They were expectant. They longed for a relief. They had gone on borrowing here and there to make ends meet. Going to work every day had become a major problem to many of them, no thanks to the untold hardship brought upon them by the removal of fuel subsidy by the APC led Federal Government and suddenly they got more than what they ever bargained for. And they are elated that he came to their rescue at the right time. They cannot stop singing the praises of the Delta State Governor, His Excellency, Rt Hon Sheriff…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Chiedu Ebie former Secretary to Delta State Government and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya as Chairman and Delta State Representative at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, respectively. In a statement by Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President Chiedu Ebie was appointed Chairman while Rt. Hon. Monday Igbuya former Speaker, Delta Rep. with immediate effect. According to the statement, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new Board and Management team of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), inclusive of the following…
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…
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,…