By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Education has expressed satisfaction with the state government’s drive for technological advancement in the state. Chairman of the Committee, Hon Charles Chukwuemeke Emetulu stated this when he led members on an oversight visit to the State Ministry of Technical Education in Asaba, in continuation of oversight visits of the Committee to Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs under its supervision. Hon Emetulu said Nigeria as a nation, is desirous of technological advancement and pointed out that government’s efforts in promoting technical education across the state, was commendable and has placed Delta…
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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.
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB has assured parents of government resolves to reformed public primary school education in the state so that they can create safety and conducive learning environment as well as quality education to their wards. Executive Chairman of SUBEB, Hon Samuel Mariere gave the assurance in Ethiope West and Sapele local government areas in continuation of the board and management advocacy visits to critical stakeholders in public primary schools across the 25 local government areas of the state. The SUBEB Boss said Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has mandated the board to Implement transformational…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The Delta State Police Command spokesman, SP. Bright Edafe, has disclosed that the Commands efforts to accelerate the fight against crime has really paid off as two Kidnappers and a cultist has been arrested. According to police image maker, the squad which is currently stationed in Ughelli, has through a high-density operation has successfully arrested six suspected kidnappers, and also recovers one pump action gun, three barretta pistols, one revolver pistol, one locally made cut-to-size gun. The special tactical squad detailed to Ughelli has also rescued a woman kidnapped along the Isoko road in Ughelli.…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The Special tactical team detailed by the Delta State Commissioner of Police, have arrested two persons suspected to be kidnappers and recover two female corpses from a forest between Ughelli North and Okpe Local Government Areas of Delta State after a gun battle. The suspects, Edafe Richmond Akpoveve, Igho Midiyoraye, were arrested at their den when a kidnapped female victim name withheld escaped from the kidnappers den. It was gathered that the female victim boarded a keke along Isoko road to stop at one of the new generation banks along market road, Ughelli, in Ughelli North local…
…I Am Not Owing My Workers Salary, Those Protesting Are Mischief Makers- Zik Gbemre By Godwin- Maria Utuedoye The entrance gate of the Utorogu Oil Field facilities, OML 34, was Friday, April 26, besieged by peaceful protesters from the host Otu-Jeremi community, over an alleged non-payment of 8 months salaries and 2 years bonuses to workers for over two years. DSC_4956 The protesters which includes men, women and youths, called for the immediate removal of the contractor in charge of the Security and pipeline Surveillance, Zik Gbemre & Associates. Armed with placards bearing different inscriptions such as, ‘Otu-Jeremi community…
The Abdullahi Ganduje reconciliatory meeting to resolve aggrieved aspirants after its April 20 primary election in Ondo State had 15 out of the 16 aspirants present on Thursdays, April 25, 2024. The meeting was held at the instances of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman. In his address while welcoming the aspirants, Ganduje urged them to put the past behind and work together in the general interest of the party. It would be recall that the Alhaji Usman Ododo’s committee declared the incumbent governor of the state, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, winner of the shadow election, having polled 48,569…
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly Rt. Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, has condoled with the Executive Director, Operations and Technical, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, Captain Warredi Enisuoh on the death of his Mother, Late Theresa Enisuoh. The Speaker in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Nkem Nwaeke, said the death of a loved one is usually very painful, saying that to loose a loving mother, makes it even more so. Rt Hon Guwor however enjoined Captain Warredi Enisuoh to be consoled with the fact that his mother lived a fulfilled life worthy of thanksgiving. He prayed that…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Police Commissioner, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, on behalf of the Inspector General of Police IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, PhD, presented cheques of Forty-Seven Million, Eight Hundred and Twenty-Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Twenty-Nine Naira (#47,827,529) to twenty-two families of deceased officers who died while in active service. According to a statement made available by the Force Public Relations Officer, SP. Bright Edafe, the cheques were issued to the next of kin of seven deceased officers on behalf of the IGP as part of the IGP Family Welfare Scheme, Group Life Assurance,…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Multichoice Nigeria, owners of DStv and GOtv, has announced a price hike for its subscription packages, effective May 1, 2024, a few months after its last price upward review. The statement announcing the adjustment titled, ‘Price Adjustment on DStv and GOtv Packages,’ read in part: “On Wednesday, 1 May 2024 we will adjust our prices across all our packages on DStv and GOtv. “We understand the impact this change may have on you our valued customer, but the rise in the cost of business operations has led us to make this difficult decision. “It…
By Sunny Awhefeada The literature curriculum that my generation of undergraduates was taught at the University of Benin, it was the same in other Nigerian universities then, was a hybrid of English and African oeuvres. There were occasional attempts at studying European Literatures in Translation, but the bulk of what we studied was English and African Literatures. One of the courses that left a lasting impact in our impressionable minds was “Twentieth Century British Literature” which in some other curricular was dubbed “Modernist Literature” or “Modern Literature”. The course, never mind the nomenclature ascribed…