By Festus Ahon Transportation infrastructure is one of the indices of measuring the social and economic development of any society. As such, the nature of transportation infrastructure of any nation also contributes to the GDP and life expectancy ratio of its citizens. As observed by the International Trade Office of the US Department of Commerce, Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit is 40% short of World Bank standard. Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit, amounting to 30% of its gross domestic product (GDP), falls short of the international benchmark of 70% set by the World Bank. Nigeria, as one of the largest economies in Africa with…
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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.
By Livinus Odes Young business owners in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria have been urged to channel their efforts towards other productive ventures that will add value to their life and boost the economy of the region by looking beyond the Oil sector. That was the climax of the third Niger-Delta Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Summit/Exhibition 2023 organized by an NGO, the Niger Delta Young Professional Platform as part of activities to marked the 2023 Int’l Youth Day on the theme: “Building The Culture of Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness Beyond Oil, that climaxed with presentation of Five Hundred Thousand (500) naira…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Police Command have arrested one kidnapping suspect, Eseoghene Ezekiel Obeje, (28) suspected to be among a kidnapping gang that murdered one Regina Ogana (f) who was kidnapped alongside her husband and other members of her family on August 2, 2023.
Motorists plying the Lagos/Benin bypass road has cried out to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki to warn miscreants embarrassing and extorting private car owners conveying their personal goods from other parts of nation to states in the Niger-Delta area, but often extorted and embarrassed at different spots in the name of Uhunwhode Local Government stickers. A private car owner, Mr. Edward Perezoukomo who was harassed and same time extorted, blamed the Edo State Government for the gross impunity exhibited by this miscreants on a federal road without being challenged. Narrating his ordeal, he said he was coming from Ogun…
Credit: Cathopic / Moisés Becerra Seminarian enrollment in the United States has been on a decades long decline as fewer young men seek out the priesthood and the number of active priests in the U.S. continues to dwindle. But some dioceses are reporting a notable surge in enrollment, signaling a potential turnaround in some regions. Annual data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, released in June of this year, showed “a continuation of relatively slow long-term decline” in priestly vocations at the pre-theology and theology levels, falling from over 6,400 men in 1970 to…
Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has put smiles on the faces of poor widows and orphans in his state as he gifts them with cash and food items. About 130 widows and orphans smiled home with a One Hundred Thousand naira(#100,000.00) each as capital to enable them start their own businesses. The Governor equally empowered over 100 orphans with N5000 each, alongside bags of rice to support them towards improving their livelihoods. He personally distributed the cash and rice to the beneficiaries, at his Gudi country home, in Akwanga Local Government Area at the weekend. He urged beneficiaries drawn…
Could this be poverty or just human wickedness? These were some of the questions running through the minds of people when officers of the Oyo State Police Command paraded one ‘Monday Chukwuka’ who allegedly sold his one-day-old grand daughter for N700,000. Parading the suspect before newsmen, the spokesperson of the command, Adewale Osifeso, said Monday was arrested in his hideout in lbafo area of Ogun State following credible intelligence report. “On July 10, 2023, an actionable intelligence report was received by a team of Police Operatives attached to the Command Monitoring, Oyo State about the ‘harvesting of a day-old baby…
People of Arhavwanrien kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State have poured out encomiums on one of their own, Mrs. Ejovi Arobaga Arobaga, “The Urhukpe (Light) of Arhavwarien Kingdom” as mark her birth anniversary. In a congratulatory message, women and youths of the Kingdom described Chief Mrs. Ejovi Arobaga as someone with an extra ordinary heart of feelings for the down trodden. “We want to celebrate a woman who is likened to be an angel amongst mortals. Today, we are marking the beginning of another beautiful chapter in the life of Chief Mrs. Ejovi Arobaga. A mother whose heart flows…
…Akpile Election Was A Deceit Contrary to the news circulating that Chief Dr. Ebenezer Okorodudu has been elected as the new “Akpile” of the ancient Olomu Kingdom in Ughelli South LGA of Delta State, after a purported election held at Ovwodokpokpo Olomu, Olorogun Joh U Oguma has dissociated himself from such election. Oguma’s reaction was sequel to an Online reports that stated that erstwhile Commissioner in the state, Olorogun Dr. Ebenezer Okorodudu defeated him in the said election. In a statement made available to journalists in Asaba on Saturday, Olorogun Oguma, the Udu of Olomu Kingdom, said he was never…
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, weekend warned that anything sit-at-home exercise in Igbo land is dead and buried and would not be resuscitated again. Sounding the note of warning through her spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB added that to make it more effective, flyers and posters were spread all over Biafran land for all to be aware. “This is to inform Biafrans about the flyers and posters being distributed all over Biafraland conveying our leader’s famous pronouncement canceling Monday sit-at-home, and to inform the good people of Biafra that sit at home is not only dead but will never again be…