By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Police Commissioner, Abaniwonda Olufemi, has warned a group of motorcycle riders also known as Okada riders that embarked on a violent protest within the Asaba metropolis today, March 18, 2024, over what they described as maltreatment by members of the State Taskforce who enforces the ban on late-hour operations of tricycles and motorcycles operator in Asaba at about 0800hrs. eaffirms the command’s commitment to ensuring that the State is peaceful. The protesters stormed the taskforce office along summit road, ransacked and destroyed vehicles and offices. According to the Delta State Police Command…
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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 and National Treasurer, Conference of Speakers of States Houses of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, has felicitated with Rt Hon (Chief) Funkekeme Solomon on his conferment as the Bolouwei of Operemor Kingdom. Rt Hon Solomon, a former Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly and presently the Senior Policy Adviser to the Government of Delta State, was Saturday conferred with the Bolouwei Chieftaincy title by His Royal Majesty, Dr John Ekioemi Oweiagbe, Gbesa 1, the Pere of Operemor kingdom at Ojobo town, in Burutu local government area. The Speaker, Rt Hon Emomotimi Guwor…
Member of the House of Representatives, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State, has condemned Thursday’s killing of 16 soldiers by some irate youths of Okuama community , an Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Mutu, who is the Chairman of the Gas Committee in the House, described the action as “barbaric and inhuman.” Mutu, who is also the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Carcus in the House of Representatives, made his position on the tragic incident known in a statement issued by his Media Office on Sunday. The federal lawmaker in the emotion- laden…
… Calls For Calm The Senator representing Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Joel-Onowakpo Thomas has condemned the gruesome murder of 16 soldiers in Okuama Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Senator Joel-Onowakpo reacting to the needless death of Nigerian soldiers who were on a peace mission in a statement signed by him, said it was a crisis taken too far. The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, thereby commiserate with the military and the immediate families of the slain soldiers While calling for a holistic investigation into the remote causes of the crisis…
Ahead of the 2024 local government elections, a frontline aspirants and former Senior Special Assistant to the Delta State Governor on Security, Hon. Anthony Esharenena Isikuru, on Friday, March 15, visited the Executives of the Ughelli South People’s Democratic Party PDP, Youth Council at Otu-Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South LGA, to officially intimate them of his interest to contest the forthcoming chairmanship position. Hon. Isikuru, accompanied by a team of supporters led by foremost grassroot politician, Chief Richard Ogadies, while formally informing the youth leaders, said he has deemed it fit to notify them of his intention and…
By Sunny Awhefeada Some observers of the Nigerian condition will perfunctorily mention corruption, insecurity, economic problems and their more than multiple consequences as constituting the nation’s burden. The problems confronting our country are so spontaneous, immediate harsh and compelling that one doesn’t need to task one’s thinking faculty before identifying them. And the problems are legion. Is it the problem of corruption which has robbed the nation of the phenomenal development for which it was destined? Is it the problem of insecurity that has turned Nigeria into a dance macabre of a vast killing field and one of the…
…Host Ijaw National Congress, Ijaw Publishers Forum , task Journalists on balance reporting By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Emomotimi Dennis Guwor has called for a more united and focused driven Deltans to engender greater, accelerated and sustainable development in the state. The speaker gave the admonition in his office at the State Assembly’s Complex in Asaba, when he played host to the Executives of the Western Zone of Ijaw National Congress, INC and the Ijaw Publishers Forum, IPF. Guwor stressed that with peaceful coexistence among all ethnic nationalities, the state will prosper better.…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Beneficiaries of the Third Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme comprising of all Urhobo’s and Isoko’s has commended the administrative prowess of Major General Barry Taire Ndiomu, Rtrd., the Interim Administrator of the program me. Speaking with Journalists moment after their meeting held in Ughelli, Chairman of the group, Comrade Jericho Akpos Joseph, his Secretary, Comrade Joseph Okor and Hon. Ujeyah Princewill Ogheneruona aka Gen. Louis Ujeyah, PRO, on behalf of all beneficiaries of the third phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, expressed gratitude and appreciation to the amnesty administrator for his sincerity, trustworthiness and commitment towards…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Executive Council, (EXCO), Wednesday, approved the payment of over N674,000,000 as bursary to students of its origin for the 2022/2023 academic session. The approval was part of the decisions reached at the State Executive Council meeting presided by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori. Briefing journalists at the end of the meeting, the State Commissioner for Information, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, said Exco also approved phase two procurement of medical equipment for 20 general hospitals across the state. He listed the hospitals to include; General hospitals at Obiaruku, Abraka, Ekpan, Owa-Alero, Okwe, Koko, Orerokpe, Otu-Jeremi, Burutu,…
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, Tuesday, interfaced with officials of Warri Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, with a promise to facilitate stronger ties between the State Legislature and the Bar in the State. Addressing the officials who were in his office on courtesy visit, Rt Hon Guwor stated that the 8th Assembly under his watch would continue to synergies with critical stakeholders in the Delta Project, including the NBA for peace and good governance in the state. Flanked by some Principal Officers and members of the House, the Speaker described the…