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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for the alleged missing N40 trillion federal allocations meant for local governments in the states and the FCT. The suit followed the damning revelations by former president Muhammadu Buhari who in December 2022 stated that, “If the money from the Federation Account to the State is about N100m, N50m will be sent to the chairman but he will sign that he received N100 million. The chairman will pocket the balance…

When the coordinator of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, for the 2023 general elections in Olomu Ward 2, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr Robinson Onokahweri set out for his daily business on Saturday, July 22, 2023, he never knew the misfortune that would befall him as he now depends on people for survival and catering for his wife and six children. Mr Onokahweri who lives at Aladja Community in Udu Local Government Area was shot by a trigger-happy soldier while he was rushing home to rescue and move his young family to safety during the crisis…

Mike Tyson will bring star power to a boxing event in Libya next week as the sport gets a major filip following a three-decade ban imposed by former leader, Muammar Gaddafi. The starting buzzer is ringing for boxing’s long-awaited revival in North Africa as former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson set social media aflame with news that he would appear at a boxing event in Benghazi next Friday.   The expected presence of the iconic Tyson marks a watershed moment for the sport in Libya. Boxing was banned in the oil-rich nation for decades by the country’s former leader, Muammar Gaddafi.…

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has expressed appreciation to Church leaders for their prayers, leading to his survival of 38 court cases from pre-election to post election cases to the Supreme Court. Governor Oborevwori stated this on Saturday at the wedding ceremony of Mr and Mrs Ovoke Akpobasa held at Light of Christ Ministry, Sapele.   He described the groom as a son to him and congratulated him and his wife on their successful marriage ceremony.   Oborevwori who said he was Governor for all Deltans, said he wasn’t bothered about the size of the church when he…

The Federal Government has announced that the Port-Harcourt Refinery is gearing up to start generating two million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and 2.2 million litres of diesel daily.   Mr. Olajide Oshundun, the Director of Press and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, said in a statement on Thursday that “the refinery is currently 80 per cent complete.”     He said the existing refinery facility would have a production capacity of 54,000 barrels per day, and the new plant, which was in its final stages of completion, was expected to commence production by…

By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye A Bill for a law to rename the Delta State Polytechnic, Burutu, in Burutu local government area of the state, Thursday, gained accelerated legislative approval on the floor of the Delta House of Assembly. The House at plenary presided over by the Speaker, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, took the first, second and third reading of the Bill and passed, after a robust debate on its merits by the Lawmakers led by the Deputy Majority Leader, Hon Festus Okoh. With the passage of the bill, and when assented by the Governor, the Institution has been…

Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Health, Friday, began scheduled visits to institutions under the state’s health sector to seek ways for improve service delivery in the institutions. Chairman of the Committee, Hon (Chief) Ferguson Onwo, said it is a constitutional responsibility of the legislature through oversight functions of its committees to ensure regular interfaces with government ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs. Hon Onwo stated that such synergy can only promote standards, enforce efficiency and promote innovations in the system for the benefit of the people and society at large. Addressing management and staff of the State’s Primary…

By DENNIS OGHENEARE OTU The initial news of your illness that fateful Sunday struck me, yet I harbored no thought it would be our final farewell. From that moment, efforts to secure the best medical care for you were relentless. Despite your admission to Warri Central Hospital on Monday showing no immediate cause for alarm, your subsequent transfer to Specialist Hospital Iruua, Edo State, filled me with dread. Still, I clung to hope, a hope shattered by a call from your son, Vetah Dafe at 3:26 am, plunging me into a reality I wished was merely a nightmare. …

By Sunny Awhefeada For many years, until this year, St. Valentine’s Day represented for some of us a day set aside to observe a myth tied to Western tendency of indoctrination. It was never on the card for some of us. Our consciousness of it began from our secondary school days and it peaked during our university years. The day always came and went for us without any fuss. I recall the St. Valentine’s Day of 1996 fell into one of the two days we hosted the inimitable poet, Niyi Osundare at the University of Benin as part of the…

 The Special Assistant to Comrade (Chief) Ovuozourie Macaulay on Media and Publicity,  Comrade Hezekiah Ovedhe has dismissed the media report credited to Barr. Fred Latimore, where he claimed that, Macaulay sponsored Propaganda against Governor Sheriff Oborevwori over the signing out of Faculties of Social Sciences and Management Courses from the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro to Orerokpe as a Campus.  Hezekiah in a statement issued to journalists, described Latimore statements as baseless, reckless  and lack merit.  The statement read in part; “Ordinarily, I would have ignored your overzealousness, however going by your antecedents, doing so will give…