By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The relevance of the immediate past Deputy President of the Senate and Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC in 2023 elections in Delta state presently seems to be very minimal with the supreme court affirming the election victory of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State on Friday. The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision, by a five-member panel dismissed the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress APC, and its candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, challenging the outcome of the governorship election held in the state on March 18, 2023. The court, in its lead judgement…
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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.
Abia State Police Commissioner, Mr. Kenechukwu Onwuemelie has visited the headquarters of All Breaking News (ABN) on Azikiwe Road Umuahia, to conduct an assessment of destruction of the station. Recall that some Policemen on Tuesday, stormed the live studio of the station to effect the arrest of a guest. But the Abia CP, who visited the ABN office in the company of some senior Police officers, apologised for the conduct of his officers, adding that the matter was amicably resolved between the two organizations after a discussion between the CP and the ABN Director. A press release signed by the…
*Says It’s Unpatriotic, Betrayal To Ijaw Nation The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide and the Bayelsa Elders Forum have taken a swipe at the Governor of Bayelsa State, His Excellency, Sen. Duoye Diri, for calling for the scrapping of private pipelines surveillance security outfits in the Niger Delta region, describing the call as unpatriotic and a betrayal of the Ijaw Nation. They said since the introduction of private pipelines surveillance security firms like Tantita and others who contracted by the Federal Government to support the nation’s security personnel to secure the nation’s critical assets, oil production has tremendously increased thereby…
It never rains, but pours for Nigeria! Many have argued that the postcolonial state remains in constant flux until it is able to sort itself out and that the sorting out is the product of time and critical self-review and eventual pointing at the way forward. Nigeria is the handwork of British colonizers who deriving impetus from the Berlin Conference of 1884/85 seized the vast territories that were later amalgamated and christened Nigeria by the girlfriend of Lord Lugard who enjoyed the dubious ascription of subjugating the indigenous people for the greed of Great Britain. Colonialism was not…
*Demands Public Apologies From Police Police operatives attached to the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Police has invaded a Television Station and arrested a TV guest from a Live TV show. The incident occured on Tuesday, January 16, in Umuahia during a programme, ‘Youth Rendezvous’ anchored by Grace Onyekachi. Reacting, the director of the Radio and TV station, Ifeanyi Okali, in a statement on Wednesday, said the management was “worried by the invasion of our broadcast station” by the police operatives and demanded an open apologies to the barbaric behavior of the operatives. Mr Okali said the incident happened…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has congratulated the Majority Leader of the State House of Assembly, Hon (Engr) Emmanuel Emeka Nwaobi as he clocked 49 years on Wednesday. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba, Governor Oborevwori extolled Nwaobi, who is the Chairman, Nigerian Majority Leaders’ Forum, as an astute lawmaker of repute, whose representation has brought honour and goodwill to his people of Aniocha North State Constituency and beyond. The Governor commended Nwaobi for demonstrating exceptional capacity, humility and patriotism in handling the affairs of the Assembly as House…
Speaker Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, has felicitated with the House Majority Leader, Hon (Engr) Emmanuel Emeka Nwaobi on his birthday anniversary. The Speaker described Nwaobi as an intelligent, experienced and hardworking legislator whose emergence as the House Leader of the Delta State Assembly has brought lots of positive vibes to the State Legislature. Guwor who is the National Treasurer, Conference of Speakers of States Houses of Assembly in Nigeria, stated this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Nkem Nwaeke in Asaba, the Delta State capital. The Speaker noted that Hon…
It was gory and dumbfounding scene as a middle aged shop owner was shot dead in her shop by suspected assassins at Ovwor-Olomu community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State penultimate Monday. The deceased who was in her late 40’s and only identified as Judith, was sitting in front of her shop, few meters away from a police check point along Oteri-Ughelli/ Ovwor road. It was reported that the gunmen who stormed the shop had requested her to follow them to their awaiting vehicle. But a source at the scene who spoke on anonymous condition…
The Ogbe-Ozoma people of Okpanam community in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State, have alleged that officers of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS of the Delta State Police Command, had attempted to assassinate one Mr. Chinedu Ofuani, an indigene of Ogbe-Ozoma Village in Okpanam, in a ploy to cover up their track and rope him with the murder of two policemen in a disputed land in Okpanam. They said Ofuani who was brutally arrested in what seemed like a case of kidnap, narrowly escaped death, but he was shot in the leg before intervention came from the Police Force Headquarters…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The Delta State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB, has insisted that before contractors are paid by the Board, projects executed must be verified. Following the decision, the board was at some schools in Oshimilli South and North, Ika South, Ika NorthEast and Ndokwa West LGA to inspect and verify the various projects executed in the areas by the board, including school desks, class room blocks building, among others. Chairman SUBEB, Barr Samuel Mariere, represented by the 2nd member of the board and Chairman Project Monitoring Committee, Comrade Onome Akpoghere, said the purpose of the verification exercise…