The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Ari Mohammed Ali while briefing journalists at the Command’s headquarters in Asaba, said the deceased and two other armed men suspected to be members of IPOB attacked a police patrol team “attached to Illah Division while on stop and search duty at Ogbada quarters along Illah–Akwukwu-Igbo road,” and the team in response, “engaged them in a fierce gun duel during which one of the hoodlums was neutralized while the other members of the gang escaped with gunshot injuries.

He noted that in 2019, APC leaders made the people of the State lose to “shenanigans”, adding, “If the APC gets it wrong this time, the Almighty will not forgive anyone of you. Me, I will not forgive you. The average market woman here will not forgive you. We have suffered enough.”

He noted that the kingdom is based on principles, stating that, “The more we celebrate our king, the more honour that comes to the Okpe people, I will continue to support, honour and be loyal to my King.”

He noted that 2023 presents another great opportunity to get things right in Delta State by voting for APC and vote out the PDP, assuring that unlike before votes will count in the 2023 election following the newly amended electoral act which has introduced the use of technology in the transmission of electoral result.

All that contested the governorship under the party, are all our friends and brothers but Sheriff Oborevwori was generally accepted and voted overwhelmingly at the party primaries and we will stand to defend our votes,” he said.

He said; ‘ The Command wishes to state that there is no curfew declared in Okpanam community and as a matter of fact, Okpanam community is calm and two suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident that led to the death of three Policemen in the early hours of Sunday, July 24, 2022 and that the Command is closing up on the other members of the gang. 

The Ogume Grammar School was shut down by the State Government on October 14, 2021 following the violence activities in the school by some unscrupulous elements where a female child died which culminated into the burning down of classroom blocks as well as destruction of other facilities in the school .

well, my Political journey has been a miracle. So many things has happened in my life that people never thought would be possible. In 2003, I contested for the Anambra Governorship election under a party that was just one year old, people said it will take a miracle for me to win the election that year, I Won.

Experts from USAID who mostly focused their lectures on the USAID programme “FeedFuture”, submitted that to solve food problems there must be lots of activities to be engaged in. They said only seven States were selected in Nigeria for the programme, four in the North and three in the South. For the South, Delta and Cross River States were chosen from the South-South while Ebonyi State was chosen from the South East.

Addressing journalists at the  Government House, Asaba recently, the Chief Press Secretary to the Delta State Governor, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika described the allegation leveled against the Delta Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and his wife, Edith by the former Federal Minister of Education for State, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, of influencing the guilty verdict on him by a Warri High Court in a suit instituted against him by his workers was just a cheap blackmail and lamentation of a drowning man.