Author: SouthernVoiceNews

…Organizes Global Entrepreneurship Week Chief Executive Officer of Doctor Fish Agro Consult, Israel Yusuf, has called on government to create an enabling environment that will help businesses grow in Nigeria and wake up to policy formulation and implementations.  He made this call at the market place and business linkage forum to mark the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Warri, Delta State. According to him, This gathering is an opportunity for people to collaborate, learn, network, share ideas as we believe that entrepreneurship is striving in Warri as the story is gradually changing. The event which held in collaboration with the Delta…

Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State on Sunday, November 19, 2023 fell casualty to the verdict given by the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja as he is declared sacked as the governor of Plateau state. Mutfwang of the Peoples Democratic Party had 525,299 votes while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Nentawe Goshwe polled 481,370 votes in the March 18 governorship election in the state. Goshwe challenged the victory of Mutfwang at the tribunal claiming that the governor was not validly nominated and sponsored by his Party. He also said there was non-compliance with the Electoral Act in…

Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori of has urged graduates to create jobs for themselves and others after graduating from school. He made the call on Saturday, November 18 at the third combined convocation ceremony of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku where he also inaugurated some projects including a 350-capacity lecture hall, volleyball, basketball, and multi-purpose courts, and an ICT Microsoft Certification Centre, among others. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Monday Onyeme, stated that “graduation is a time to set new goals and targets.” According to him, graduates should not rest on their oars but put into practice the…

Police operatives in Bayelsa State have nabbed one of the killers of Late SP Bako Angbashim, former Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Ahoada Division, Rivers State. DAILY POST gathered that the arrested suspect whose name was given as Onyekachi Ikowa, male, 43 years, is the second in command to TuBaba, leader of the dreaded Icelander cult group in Rivers State. A statement issued by the Bayelsa State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Asinim Butswat, said Ikowa was arrested on 18 November, 2023, “based on credible intelligence that he was hibernating in Yenagoa after participating in the callous murder of Late…

Frontline APC stalwart and business mogul in Delta state, Prince Sony Jifas Ogbon, has congratulated the APC in Kano state and Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, who was declared winner of the March 18, 2023, governorship election in Kano state Friday, by the Appeal Court. Prince Sony Jifas in a statement, noted that it is high time Nigerian politicians do the right thing by allowing due process no matter who they are and their societal status. He noted that, had Governor Yusuf allowed due process to be, and duly nominated by his party, the NNPP, would have had chances, but…

In a similar manner like the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who asked his ministers to sign an undertaking that failure to perform will lead to their sack, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State on Friday, sent shivers down the spines of his Commissioners when he ordered them to sign an Undertaking coined as ‘Performance Bond’, automatically compelling them to either perform creditably well or get sacked. The governor made it clear that he has no room for layabouts in his cabinet, noting that his administration is fully committed to ensuring excellence, process driven and result- oriented governance for the people…

Residents of Ohoror community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, are yet to come to term with an incidents involving a tricycle rider popularly called Keke and identify as Edafe Delta, (30) a native of Uwheru who lured an eleven year old girl to his house and defiled her.  Community source told SouthernVoicenews that the keke rider who usually take the girls mother to a bush market, came on the faithful day to pick the mother but she was not disposed to go to the market, but base on the trust and relationship with the keke rider, she asked him…

Opposition candidate, Joseph Boakai, is set for victory in the Liberian presidential election after the latest tranche of results were announced by the electoral commission on Friday. Liberians voted out President George Weah, who is also the candidate of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) in the landmark election. The 78-year-old political veteran has 50.89% of the votes, while incumbent President George Weah has 49.11%. That represents a lead of more than 28,000 votes, with nearly all the ballots accounted for. The latest results have sparked celebrations in the capital, Monrovia. Boakai’s supporters have been gathering at his party’s headquarters…

There had been a widespread condemnation of policy of automatic deduction of 40 per cent from the internally generated revenues of federal universities. President Bola Tinubu has announced the cancellation of the automatic deduction of 40 per cent from the internally generated revenues of federal universities. He says the policy implementation is ill-timed. Mr Tinubu spoke on Friday at an ongoing 75th Founder’s Day ceremony of the University of Ibadan (UI). He was represented by the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman. In his speech as the Visitor to the university, Mr Tinubu pledged his commitment to the reform of the…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked the Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, declaring his governorship election inconclusive. The court on Thursday November 15th 2023, declared inconclusive, the March 18 Governorship election which produced Lawal as the elected governor of the State with a directive for a rerun. The 3-man panel of Justices of the Court in a unanimous judgment voided and set aside the declaration of Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as winner of the election. Reading the judgement, Justice Sybil Nwaka Gbagi, ordered that fresh election be…