By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Activities line up to commemorate the first anniversary of the 8th Delta State House of Assembly, commence tomorrow Tuesday, 4th June 2024, with a Press Conference by the leadership of the House, led by the Speaker, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor. A statement by the Chairman Anniversary Committee, Hon. Engr. Emeka Nwaobi, says the media engagement, scheduled for 8am, will hold at the Chapel, Legislators’ Quarters, Okpanam road, Asaba Other programmes for the event include a Novelty Football Match between the Delta State Executive Council, led by Governor Sherrif Oborevwori and the legislators, led by the Speaker,…
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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.
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, has felicitated with the wife of the immediate past Governor of the state, Dame Edith Okowa, as she marks her 63rd birthday. Rt Hon Guwor described Dame Okowa as a virtuous woman who had impacted so much on many lives, particularly the less privileged in the society. The Speaker in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Nkem Nwaeke, specifically acknowledged the success story and remarkable achievements of the 05 Initiative, a non governmental organization established by Dame Okowa during the tenure of her husband as Governor of Delta…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The chairman of the committee for the Okuama Internally Displaced Persons IDP at Ewu-Urhobo, Mr. Abraham Ogbodo today, May 31, slumped at the camp immediately after receiving food donations from the Neo Black Movement of Africa and worldwide NBM. The group had donated food items worth millions of Naira as palliative and handed a cheque of Two Million Naira to the camp for the upkeep of members of Ewu-Okuama Internally Displaced Persons to compliment the efforts of Delta State Government in addressing the fall out of Okuama crisis. But moment after the donations, if not for…
By SUNDAY FRANK Ibom Metropolitan Polytechnic, Uyo has convokes and certified 74 students of the Institution with the award of National Diploma with David Akpan Udo from Department of Computer Science Technology as the Overall best graduating student. The institution issued certificates in the maiden convocation and third matriculation Ceremonies of the school that had His Excellency Pastor Umo Eno as the Special Guest of Honour at the school premises, 3 College Road, Atan Offot ,Uyo, behind the State Secretariat. The Polytechnic also conferred Fellowship Awards on Secretary to the Government of Akwa Ibom State, Otuekong (Prince) Enobong Uwah, Engr.…
By Sunny Awhefeada Eni Grammar School, Evwreni, remains for many of us, who schooled there in the 1980s, one of the best secondary schools in Nigeria in terms of the quality of teachers, teaching and learning at the time of our sojourn there. Located at the far end of Evwreni, the school was just three years old when my class was admitted in 1983. Its setting at that time was primordial having been tucked into a space in the dense rain forest which was thick and perennially lush green. As the third set, we ranked among the pioneers and our…
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly has said that the strike action embarked upon by members of the State branch of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN was unfortunate. The Speaker stated that it was more worrisome that the workers chose to commence the industrial action on the break of the first year in office of the State Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, when Deltans were celebrating God’s grace upon the state and the milestones achieved by the Governor within just a year. Rt Hon Governor who stated this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Nkem Nwaeke, expressed…
Special Adviser to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori on Government Affairs, Hon Peter Uviejitobor has predicted greater accelerated economic growth and sectorial development in Delta State as his Boss began second year of his administration. Speaking at the venue of the Praise and Worship organized to mark the one year anniversary of the administration, Hon Uviejitobor said the Governor has the capacity to deliver on his social contract with Deltan. He said despite all the distractions in the life of the first year of the administration, including 38 number of litigations, the former Speaker of the State Assembly had remained committed and…
*** Goal to enhance the former to produce more and earn more The Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas has launched multi-billion naira 850 tractors, accessories, implements for farmers in the state, with the goal of making the farmers to produce more and earn more. Speaking at the launch, the Governor said that the occasion marks a significant milestone in in the journey towards agricultural transformation and food sufficiency as a State, saying it was history-making occasion as it was the first time in the state that the government made a very gigantic commitment to improving agriculture by providing such…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has said the past one year of his administration has been a remarkable story of promises made and kept, assuring that better days lay ahead of Deltans in the second year of his administration. Oborevwori, at a Praise and Worship Concert held at the Dome Event Center, Asaba, to mark the day, urged the people to expect more and brace up for an exciting adventure in his administration’s drive for the transformational development of the state. The Governor said his administration had kept faith with his promises to Deltans through his MORE agenda…
***Confirms N534.332bn Nine New Road Contracts Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has revealed that his administration inherited 34 uncompleted projects, valued at over N225.279billion spread across 13 local government areas of the State. The Governor also disclosed that under his watch, the Rivers State Government has awarded nine new road projects, valued at N534.332billion, this is even as he described as vicious and existential in nature, the political crisis that was waged against his administration, barely three months after take off on May 29, 2023. The Governor, however, said that the worst was over because his administration has successfully…