President Bola Tinubu has restricted ministers, agency heads, and other government officials from undertaking publicly funded foreign trips. The ban will last for three months in the first instance and will take effect on April 1, 2024, Punch Newspaper reports. This directive was outlined in a letter dated March 12, 2024, signed by the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, and directed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. In January, Tinubu issued an order to cut down on the number of individuals accompanying him on both domestic and international journeys, specifying that his entourage…
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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.
Dragged Two Nigerian Universities To Court For Banning Christian Fellowships On Campus Since 2017 The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Katsina State branch, with the support of an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF International), has dragged two universities in Katsina State to court for indefinitely banning Christian groups from holding fellowship meetings and worship on campuses. The ADF International which made this known in a statement issued on recently said that the suit was filed against the two universities for violating the right to religious freedom by “indefinitely prohibiting” Christian groups from holding fellowship…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Thursday, cautioned traditional rulers in the state against shielding suspects involved in the killing of four military officers and thirteen soldiers in Okuama community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Governor Oborevwori gave the warning when he addressed traditional rulers, on the unfortunate incident at the State Traditional Rulers’ Council Secretariat in Asaba. The Governor who said that the act was alien to the state, described it as barbaric, inhumane and unacceptable and vowed that those who committed the evil act must be made to face the full wrath…
By Patrick Ochei The Organisation For the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC), in collaboration with Anioma stakeholders has announced the cancellation of her 20th Anioma Cultural Festival, which was billed to hold on Easter Monday (1st April 2024), a day designated as Anioma Day worldwide. In a world press conference held Wednesday 20th March, 2024, at Hotel Benizia in Asaba, the President of OFAAC, Arc. Kester Ifeadi, flanked by eminent Anioma Traditional Rulers, Board of Directors and Management of OFAAC, as well as other stakeholders, announced the cancellation in an emotion laden atmosphere. Ifeadi affirmed that the Organisation had…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Worried by the inherent health and environmental hazards associated with the Styrofoam also known as polystyrene, the Delta State House of Assembly, DTHA, has called for its ban in the State. The House in a resolution adopted at plenary, presided over by the Speaker, Rt Hon Emomotimi Guwor, called on the State Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to ban the use of the product in Delta State which they noted, is hazardous to human life as well as poses great danger to the environment. The resolution was sequel to a motion to that effect, sponsored on the…
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…
…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…