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…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. 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 experiences in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
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…
…Indicts Rivers Governor Of Aiding Oil Thieves Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara have received a heavy knock over a statement credited to him over the weekend when he condemned the pipelines surveillance contract awarded to to Tantita Security Services led by former militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemepulo (aka Tompolo) by the Federal Government. The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC), an oil and gas monitoring group whom were not pleased by the statement of the River State Governor which he said on Saturday, August 26, 2023, were he fumed over the crude oil pipeline surveillance contract awarded to…
Former PDP Chairman and Gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Victor Bala Kona had died of a complicated heart disease in Abuja. In a press release issued by party’s State Publicity Secretary, Andeta’rang Irammae, reads “The People’s Democratic Party, Taraba state chapter is deeply sadden by news of the death of her former chairman Chief Victor Bala Kona (Garkuwan Bakundi), which occurred early today 27th August 2023 in Abuja”. “Late Chief Victor Bala Kona (Garkuwan Bakundi) was chairman of the Party from March 2012 to August 2020, during which he worked tirelessly for the growth and sustained leadership…
Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas during a courtesy visit to the Management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, said illiteracy is a major challenge that leads to insecurity in the country. The Governor during his visit to the urged the organization to build more entrepreneurship centers in Taraba to train youths in different skills. He further appealed that the Executive Secretary of TETFUND should include the construction of E- libraries, and Computer Based Test Centres to cater for students seating for Jamb and other examinations in Taraba. According to him “any project TETFUND will undertake in my State…
For the incessant sexual assault on female students in the University of Calabar, Cross River State, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has said that the institution’s administration has made all principal officers in the faculty of law women. This is in response to the sexual harassment allegations made against the faculty’s suspended dean, Prof. Cyril Ndifon. Obi made this known On Saturday’s Sunrise breakfast show on Channels Television, stating that both acting and Sub dean at the faculty are now women. She stated that the school management has put in place measures to curtail cases…