Author: SouthernVoiceNews

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.

It was a gory scene as police recovers the decomposing corpses of some of the slain police officers drafted from IRT Abuja, PMF 51 Oghara and Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Asaba in Delta State to rescue three missing officers in Ohoror community by a combine team of security agents and the local vigilantes in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.   Source said that the combined team stormed the forest on Sunday and Monday before they could recover some of the corpses.   It would be recalled that on January, 24, 2024, three police officers at a nipping point in…

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By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta state police command have arrested two suspected armed robbers terrorizing innocent tricycle passengers along the PTI Junction to Orerokpe and recovers a pump action gun, one cut to size gun and a tricycle and announced the death of an armed suspect who engages police in a gun duel at Okpanam town.  According to the Police Public Relations Officers to the Delta State Police Command, DSP Bright Edafe, the arrests of the hoodlums came following the reassurance by the Delta State Police Commissioner, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda to leave no room for criminality to grow and thrive in…

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Tragedy on Sunday struck as a staff of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company BEDC, was electrocuted while carrying out repairs on a 33KVA line at Evwreni community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Though the report is sketchy, it was gathered that the deceased simply identified as Kingsley was electrocuted while he was trying to reconnect damaged cable on the High tension cable transmitting current to Uwheru, Patani Bomadi and communities in the state. A source from the who spoke on anonymous condition disclosed that Mr Kingsley climb up the High tension pole and in the…

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Destroys Over 21,000 Litres Of Crude Operatives of the Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd (TSSNL), Ondo State chapter, in collaboration with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Sunday morning, engaged a cartel of crude oil thieves in a shootout at an illegal crude oil camp in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo. The combined team of TSSNL and NSCDC, after overpowering the criminal suspects in their camp along Alowe sea shore in Ilaje Local Government Area, destroyed 700 kegs containing 21,000 litres of crude oil stored in a large reservoir. This was disclosed by the Executive Director,…

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By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye   Civil servants across the 25 local governments council area in the state have frowned at what they described as ‘Promise and Fail’ by the Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori over his unwillingness to implement the payment of the N10,000 fuel subsidy removal palliatives which he promised to continue in November 2023.   Governor Oborevwori had promised to continue the payment of N10,000 to all civil servants to mitigate and to cushioned the hardship caused by the removal of fuel subsidy in May. In August 2023, the governor  ordered the payment of N10,000 each…

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The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, has expelled the Chairman of the Association in Delta State, Mrs. Young Precious N. A letter dated February 29, 2024, signed by Dr. Ochuko Akpeme, National Vice President (South South Zone), addressed to Young, reads: “At the meeting of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools(NAPPS), South South Zone held on the 29th day, February, 2024 at Lady Daima Event place, Bayelsa state, after a careful and thorough deliberation over the dishonesty, criminal breach of trust and fraud perpetrated by your humble self in conspiracy with the immediate past chairman…

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Niger Delta crusader and Chairman of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd (TSSNL), Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo has promised to end the reign of oil thieves sabotaging oil operations  in the Niger Delta region as part of efforts to revamping the country ailing economy.  Noting that Nigeria is in a dire strait and needs all the support to end  the activities of saboteurs of the Nigerian oil economy.    The Niger Delta freedom fighter made the promise in his Oporoza, Gbaramatu country home in Delta state at  the weekend, when the Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) conferred INTERNAL SECURITY MERITORIOUS…

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In its efforts to reduce to the activities of crude oil theft and oil pipeline vandals, the Air Component of Operation Delta Safe has destroyed illegal oil refining sites at Krakama and Temakiri in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, the Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force in a press statement to newsmen said, both locations are barely 50 km Southwest of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. At both Krakrama and Temakiri, active illegal oil refining sites were observed with Cotonou Boats sighted nearby with the probable intent to…

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By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The Executive Director Projects in the board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Hon. Olorogun Sir, Taleb Tebite, has congratulated Olorogun Sir Fred Majemite, one time Commissioner for Water Resources, a staunch member and stakeholder of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, on his 60th birthday anniversary. In a statement made available by the Special Assistant to the EDP, Hon. Ochuko Omorere, JP, Tebite described Olorogun Fred Majemite as a thorough bred lawyer, politician and a leader of thought. “Olorogun Majemite is a visionary, focused, generous and honest man leader with tendencies…

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Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has congratulated renowned politician, businessman and lawyer, Chief Fred Majemite, as he clocks 60 on Sunday. Governor Oborevwori in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba, said Majemite, a former Commissioner for Lands, Surveys and Urban Development in the state, is an illustrious son of Delta whose accomplishments in life and politics were outstanding and self- evident. According to him, Majemite had always given a good account of himself in and outside government. He commended the renowned lawyer for being a great philanthropist and for maintaining…

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