Author: SouthernVoiceNews

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.

By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has been urged to engage technocrats in his government and not political sycophants to enable him achieve his “MORE AGENDA” for the State. The National Coordinator of Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), Comrade Chief Sheriff Mulade, made the appeal in Warri recently while speaking to Journalists who visited him in his office.   He expressed displeasure with the recognition of some politicians whose stocks in trade is to issue threats in Oborevwori’s cabinet and warned against the culture of recycling old politicians and giving attention to what he…

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…Task Oborevwori To Retain Julius Berger For Significant Projects By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Following increased monthly allocations accruing to Delta State from the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), an environmental activist, Comrade Chief Sheriff Mulade has challenged the Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, to allow these huge resources to reflect in physical infrastructures across the State. Chief Mulade, who is the National Coordinator for Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), made the call shortly after he was decorated as Patron of Indigenous Correspondents’ Chapel (ICC), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council in Warri, recently. Expressing his…

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Report from Benue State had it that gunmen have kidnapped more than 20 medical and dental students, along with a House Officer, in Benue State. The students were en route to the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) annual convention in Enugu when they were ambushed by gunmen. The victims, reportedly from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Jos, were traveling together when the attack occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the Otukpo area of the state. The spokesperson for the Benue State Police Command, SP Catherine Anene, confirmed the incident and stated that an…

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Resident Doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have staged a nationwide protest to drive home their demands for the release of their colleague, Dr (Mrs) Ganiyat Popoola from her bandit abductors in Kaduna since December 27, 2023. In Delta State, doctors at the Federal Medical Centre FMC, Asaba chapter of the Association, marched round the hospital premises chanting songs of solidarity in procession and demanding of Government to urgently secure the release of their colleague from the kidnappers or have them down tools until the needful is done. Speaking to the Journalists during the…

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Local contractors who embarked on a peaceful protest over an alleged N5Billion owed them were on Thursday, tear gas by operatives of the Nigeria police to break up the protest at Area 11, Garki, Abuja, office of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike. The contractors under the aegis of association of indigenous contractors in FCTA are allegedly being owed over N5 billion for contracts already executed and certified for payments by the Federal Capital Territory Administration. According to Sahara Reporters, one of the protesters said the brutal police action on them was ordered by Wike, disclosing that it was…

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…Asks To Back Ministry By State Assembly Law By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Foremost Delta Environmental Activists and National Coordinator of Centre For Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), Comrade Chief Sheriff Mulade, has commended the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, for yielding to the yearnings and needs of the riverine communities in the State by creating a ministry that will fill the gap of development deficit in the areas. Comrade Mulade who spoke to journalists in his office recently, expressed his gratitude to the governor over what he described as a welcome development that is long expected. He said; “I…

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Indigenous Correspondents’ Chapel (ICC), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, has decorated one of Delta-born activist, Comrade Chief Sheriff Mulade an environmental activist of note and National Coordinator, Centre For Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), as one of its patrons. The United Nations (UN) Ambassador, who doubles as the Ibe-Serimowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom) Kingdom Lifter of the Great Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri south west local government area of the State, was honoured for his commitment towards peace in the Niger Delta, youth empowerment, media support and for always seeking for improved welfare of the people. Chief Mulade was…

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By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Executive Chairman, Delta State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Hon Samuel Mariere has called for more community involvement in securing public primary schools assets in the state. Hon Mariere made the call while addressing education stakeholders in Isoko North and Isoko South, in continuation of the board’s advocacy visits on public primary education reform across the 25 local government areas in the state. The SUBEB Chairman said the state government has committed much funds in building infrastructures in public primary institutions in the state, saying that there was the need to always protect them against vandalism. He…

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To Meet Members Of Nigeria Labour Congress On Implementation Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Report just reaching Southernvoicenews. Com,   revealed that the Delta State Government has directed its Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Kingsley Emu and Commissioner for Finance, Chief Fidelis Tilije, to hold talks with the State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on the implementation of the new minimum wage. Commissioner for Information in the state, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, announced this on Wednesday, August 14, while briefing Journalists on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting. According to him, talks between government and labour on the new…

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By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has urged the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) not to leave any stone unturned in dealing with any real or potential threat to the conduct of peaceful and transparent elections in Nigeria.He disclosed that concerns have already been expressed about the possibility of armed state and non-state actors disrupting the processes. The INEC Chairman who gave the mandate in his speech at the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting in Abuja expressed the Commission’s appreciation to all members of ICCES at national, state and…

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