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…
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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.
Delta state Commissioner for Environment Mr. Ejiro Jamani has appealed to residents of the state to stop the indiscriminate dumping of refuge on prohibited areas. The Commissioner made the appeal today in Warri while inspecting the blocked canal at the Warri garage in Warri South Local Government Area of the state and other parts of the state during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise. While frowning at the attitudes of residents in the area for dumping waste on spots that are capable of blocking canals, Mr. Jamani noted that the result of blocking canals,( drainage system) is that, when this happens,…
We the undersigned, on behalf of the Communities surrounding the NNPC/SPDC joint venture facilities in Otumara area in the Escravos, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, use this medium to call on the Federal Government of Nigeria to cause the arrest and prosecution of Messrs Ayiri Emami, Mode Akoma, Isaac Botosan, Monday Tenumah, Smart Edema, Lucky Esun, Alex Eyengho, Lucky Ekpedure and others, over the unprovoked attack and destruction of facilities in the NNPC/SPDC Otumara Flow Station with a daily production of 20,000 barrels of crude oil. We are aware that security agencies were informed of the…
It was a pathetic moment as a 100 level student of the Department of Health Education, Delta State College Of Health Technology Ofuoma,( name withed) who was on her internship narrates how she was brutally raped inside the Agbarha-Otor Primary Health Centre in Ughelli North Local Government Area by an unknown rapist who broke into the premises. Hear her narrates how it all happened in tears: She said; “It was July 24, 2023. At about 1:30am, while I was asleep, I felt this sensation that someone was close to me, as I am not a deep sleeper. Immediately i opened…
*** Says Those Protesting Against Renewal Of Contract To Ex-militant Leader Are Major Beneficiaries Of Unpatriotic Nigerians Stealing Crude Oil *** Tasks NNPC, NSA To Reveal Names Of Those Behind Oil Theft The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has called on the President, Senator Bola Tinubu to renew the pipelines Surveillance Contract of ex-war lord in the Niger Delta Region, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) for the benefit of the nation, saying no effort should be spared by the Federal Government in collaborating with the former militant leader in the protection of critical oil and gas…
Diabetic patients allover the nation now have cause to heave a sigh of relief as the National Agency For Food And Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC), has approved the use of GLUCOZIL developed and manufactured by scientists in Edo state-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma for the management and treatment of Diabetes. The regulatory agency also granted the University rights of production and patent of GLUCOZIL. According to the Head of Pharmacology Department at the University, Dr. Jonathan Emeka Emordi, GLUCOZIL is a natural product specifically prepared for the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus. Adding that, as a natural product, GLUCOZIL…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has announced that he was raising the number of households being targeted for palliatives from 300,000 to 400,000 households. Each household will be made up of six family members to be multiplied by 400,000 which, by implication, moves Zulum’s new target to two million and four hundred thousand (2.4m) individuals. Governor Zulum had, on August 1, 2023, while launching a new phase of palliatives’ distribution, announced a target of 300,000 households each with six persons which will multiply to one million eight hundred thousand (1.8m) individuals. At the time Zulum announced the target, the…
A coalition of former militant leaders and stakeholders from the Niger Delta region have written to President Bola Tinubu over the controversy rocking the move to seek re-approval of the over $1.3billion USD surveillance contract with about $50million USD monthly surveillance contract to the Ex-Militant Leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo. According to the coalition of Former Militant leaders and Stakeholders, in a petition dated 24th of August, 2023 and signed by Ezra Areo (Ondo State), the claims on achievements recorded by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo through Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited is…
This might be a difficult moments for the Peiple Democratic Party PDP in Nasarawa State as witnesses to the state governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, at the ongoing tribunal sitting in Lafia has exposed glaring non-collation of valid votes across various collation centres in the state, during the March 18th gubernatorial election. Witnesses that testified for Governor Abdullahi Sule before the governorship election petition tribunal on Thursday, revealed how votes scored by Engineer Sule were not only improperly collated at various ward collation centres, but claimed that votes scored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) were reduced while that of the…
It was indeed a dark Wednesday night when a two story building housing dozens of occupants collapsed in Abuja living many feared dead. Report had it that the building situated along Lagos Street in Garki, Abuja collapsed at about 11 pm. The collapse of the building left an a yet to be ascertained number of occupants trapped or dead. According to an eyewitness, the building housed many apartments including shops and offices. He said; “There was wailing all over the place after the building collapsed. Dozens of people are either dead or trapped as the building is fully occupied. “It…