By Sunny Awhefeada The above title reechoes a significant statement in the understanding of the disruptive essence of colonialism in Africa as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, a novel which is crucial to the understanding of the African predicament. It was Obierika who told his audience including his great friend Okonkwo, “Abame is no more”. The village of Abame was wiped out because her people killed a Whiteman the very symbol of the colonialism in Africa. The colonial enterprise left in its wake a series of punitive expeditions in order to ensure “the pacification of the primitive tribes…”. What…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a registered Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focus more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration 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.
…Army Set To Build Barracks In Community The Nigerian military, Wednesday, redoubled efforts in the demolition of houses at Okuama community in Ughelli South local government area, Delta state, sequel to the arrival of the three swamp buggies transported on barges from the Bomadi axis of River Forcados to the community on Tuesday, this week. A community source said: “It is certain that those machines brought to Okuama to ease the task of demolishing and evacuating houses and rubbles have been put to work, and almost half the community has been cleared. However, there is the rumour making the rounds…
Ahmad Gumi, a controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, said security agents know the hideout of bandits terrorising Nigerians, particularly in the northern parts of the country. Gumi revealed this during an interview on Nigeria Info FM on Monday evening, saying that the security agents followed him to negotiate with the bandits. The controversial cleric said the federal government should negotiate with the kidnappers who abducted about 287 school children from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State because it is the only reasonable way to ensure the safe return…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has met with President Bola Tinubu over killing of 17 military personnel in Okuoma community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Recall that 17 military personnel comprising a lieutenant colonel, two majors, one captain, and 13 soldiers were killed while on a “peacekeeping mission” in Okuoma community. While the Delta state and federal governments have condemned the incident, promising that perpetrators would be apprehended and made to face the wrath of the law, the visit of the State Governor to the presidency was to brief of…
…Assures Of Urhobo & Isoko Beneficiaries Of Amnesty Third Phase Supports By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The coalition of Urhobo and Isoko beneficiaries of the Third Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Program PAP, has congratulated Chief Dennis Otuaro, PhD, on his appointment as the new Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu. The group in a statement jointly signed by the Chairman of the group, General Jericho Akpos Joseph and its Secretary, Comrade Joseph Okor, described the appointment as well deserved and a very positive development in the Niger Delta region. The group stated that…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State House of Assembly has condemned in a very strong term, the killings of 16 soldiers at Okuama community in Ughelli South local government area of the State. The condemnation came following a motion raised at Tuesday’s Plenary under matters of urgent public importance by the member representing Ughelli South State Constituency, Hon Festus Utuama. Hon Utuama in the motion at plenary presided over by the Speaker, Rt Hon Emomotimi Guwor, had sought vehement condemnation of the unprovoked killing of the 16 officers and men of the Nigerian Military and one civilian whom he…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Police Commissioner, Abaniwonda Olufemi, has warned a group of motorcycle riders also known as Okada riders that embarked on a violent protest within the Asaba metropolis today, March 18, 2024, over what they described as maltreatment by members of the State Taskforce who enforces the ban on late-hour operations of tricycles and motorcycles operator in Asaba at about 0800hrs. eaffirms the command’s commitment to ensuring that the State is peaceful. The protesters stormed the taskforce office along summit road, ransacked and destroyed vehicles and offices. According to the Delta State Police Command…
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly and National Treasurer, Conference of Speakers of States Houses of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, has felicitated with Rt Hon (Chief) Funkekeme Solomon on his conferment as the Bolouwei of Operemor Kingdom. Rt Hon Solomon, a former Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly and presently the Senior Policy Adviser to the Government of Delta State, was Saturday conferred with the Bolouwei Chieftaincy title by His Royal Majesty, Dr John Ekioemi Oweiagbe, Gbesa 1, the Pere of Operemor kingdom at Ojobo town, in Burutu local government area. The Speaker, Rt Hon Emomotimi Guwor…
Member of the House of Representatives, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State, has condemned Thursday’s killing of 16 soldiers by some irate youths of Okuama community , an Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Mutu, who is the Chairman of the Gas Committee in the House, described the action as “barbaric and inhuman.” Mutu, who is also the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Carcus in the House of Representatives, made his position on the tragic incident known in a statement issued by his Media Office on Sunday. The federal lawmaker in the emotion- laden…
… Calls For Calm The Senator representing Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Joel-Onowakpo Thomas has condemned the gruesome murder of 16 soldiers in Okuama Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Senator Joel-Onowakpo reacting to the needless death of Nigerian soldiers who were on a peace mission in a statement signed by him, said it was a crisis taken too far. The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, thereby commiserate with the military and the immediate families of the slain soldiers While calling for a holistic investigation into the remote causes of the crisis…