By SouthernVoicenews, Ovu community of Agbon kingdom, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta Sate will be celebrating her annual Efa festival on February 10th and 11th, 2022. The Osedjo, Chief Jacob lghodaye Eyagomare, who is also the Izomo-Agadagidi and the Oyingbo VII, disclosed this to newsmen at the weekend. While announcing the date of the festival, Chief Jacob Eyagomare, advised all sons and daughters of the community to comport themselves in orderly manners during the seven days the festival will last by ensuring that there is a hitch free festival. The Elders Council on announcement of the festival advised…
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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.
Motorists, Road Users Stranded For Hours By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye/Ewomazino Precious, Residents of Ovrode Community in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Monday, January 31, shut down the Ughelli/Asaba express way in protest over what they described as deliberate neglect and abandonment by both State and Federal Government. The protesters numbering over hundreds of the community men, women and youths with placards bearing different inscription such as “We are neglected and abandoned in Ovrode Community”, “Federal and State Governments should come to Ovrode Aid”, “Ovrode is bleeding, come to our rescue”, “No Government Presence in Ovrode”, “Unconducive learning environment…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye, The Executive Secretary of the Delta State Bursary and Scholarship Board and a stalwart of the People’s PDP, in Delta State, Hon. Sunday Orishedere JP, has congratulated the Chief of Staff to the Government of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Barr. Festus Ovie Agas as he mark his birthday anniversary celebration. Rt. Hon. Barr. Ovie Agas, Chief of Staff to Delta State Governor In a congratulatory messages, Orishedere described the Chief of Staff as a unique personality with dynamic qualities and proven administrative prowess with great human potentials.Oritshedere added that the Rt. Hon. Barr. Ovie Agas has a fascinating character…
By SouthernVoicenews, The Delta State Police Command had announced to Delta State Indigenes who applied and completed the 2021 online recruitment registration form into the Nigeria Police Force that physical and credential screening of applicants have been scheduled to commence between Tuesday, February 1, to Sunday, February 20, 2022, between the hours of 9am to 6pm daily. In a statement signed by the Force Public Relation Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, states that candidates are to report for the exercise on the date stipulated against their local government areas which is as follows:S/NO LGA DATE1.Aniocha North/Aniocha South & Bomadi Tuesday 1st…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye, The 2019/2020 Trainee Sets of Cluster 7, Osioka Field OML 30 Capacity Building Training program sponsored by Heritage Energy Operational Service Limited HEOSL and Joint Venture Partners JVC (NPDC & SNRL) were on Friday, January 14, 2022 graduated with beneficiaries presented with certificates and starter packs on different skills. Graduands Pix 3, Chief Scott Ipilogun,Chairman Cluster 7 OML 30 Giving his Address Addressing the graduands and beneficiaries at Okpavuerha-Olomu in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Chairman, Cluster 7 Community Management Committee CMC, Chief Scott Ipilogun, expressed gratitude to the sponsors and for making the training…
By SouthernVoicenews, A suspected ritualist who pretend to be insane was Thursday, January 6, burnt alive by angry mob in Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State. The suspect who pretended to be insane drew attention of the mob after he was cited with an expensive Android phone among some persons, who have gone to patronize a merchant that deals on second hand items at the front of Otovwodo Primary School in Ughelli. A source who spoke on condition of anonymity said; that everyone was surprise when they discovered that the man was holding such an expensive phone. This…
By Ezewu Philo, As we entered the year 2022 with joy and happiness, a Special Assistant (SA) to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Youth Development, Prince Sony Jifas Ogbon, hosted women from Olomu kingdom, and other parts of Ughelli South local government area of Delta state presenting them with food items, money and wrappers. While celebrating with the women, Prince Sony Jifas Ogbon said he is happy that God keeps everyone of them alive even in the midst of the hardship and ravishing pandemic year. In his address, Prince Sony Jifas Ogbon admonished the women to keep faith alive urging them…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye with Agency Report One of the leading candidates in the 1993 Presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, is dead. He was 74 years old. He was the Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention and a major challenger of MKO Abiola’s in the controversial June 12, 1993, presidential election, annulled by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida. Family sources said the former presidential candidate died in the early hours of Monday after a protracted illness.“Alhaji Bashir Tofa died after being admitted in hospital for some time,” one of the deceased’s relations, Alhaji Muhammad, said. Tofa was…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye, Policemen attached to the Delta State Police Command have shot two armed robbery suspects dead while a member of the gang escaped with severe bullet wounds after killing three in a sporadic shooting at Mofor Junction Park, Udu Local Government Area of the State. According to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Edafe Bright, “the hoodlums engaged the police team in a gun battle and in the process, two of the armed robbers sustained gunshot injuries while the other members of the gang escaped into the bush. “The injured suspects were taken to the hospital but…