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  • News NNPC To Build Largest Gas City In Delta

    NNPC To Build Largest Gas City In Delta

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to build Africa’s largest gas city in Ogidigben, Delta State. Dr David Ige, the NNPC Group Executive Director, Gas and Power, made this known during the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Free Trade Zone  in Lagos. The conference was organized by the Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority. Ige, represented by Mr. Sam Ndukwe, the General Manager, Pipeline, said the aim of the project was to create the largest gas industrial [...]

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  • News Literary Giant, Chinua Achebe Goes Home Today

    Literary Giant, Chinua Achebe Goes Home Today

    BY MONDAY UWAGWU After a stream of elegies from within and outside the country, Prof. Chinualumogun Achebe, Africa’s literary Eagle on the iroko tree, will today be interred in his ancestral home, Ogidi, Anambra State. The event is expected to attract a galactic audience, including President Goodluck Jonathan foreign Heads of State/Government as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury and Head of the 80million strong Anglican sect of Christianity and former oil company worker in Nigeria, Most Rev Justin Webby. [...]

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  • News Govt Mounts Pressure On Contractors To Expedite Action On Projects

    Govt Mounts Pressure On Contractors To Expedite Action On Projects

    By DOMINIC OKONTA Delta State Government has directed contractors whose projects have reached advanced stage to expedite action on them to ensure immediate commissioning. Commissioner for Works in the state, Hon. Funkekeme Solomon, who gave the directive yesterday, also advised directors in the Ministry of Works to work diligently as a team for effective and prompt delivery of projects. At a meeting with contractors in Asaba, Funkekeme stressed on the need for synergy to ensure prompt delivery of public projects [...]

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  • News Time Up For Unapproved Private Schools

    Time Up For Unapproved Private Schools

    A recent revelation by Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare jolted not a few persons. He said that about 600 private schools are being operated illegally across the state. Prof. Muoboghare disclosed that the exposure of the illegal educational institutions was the result of the ministry’s surveillance and monitoring activities aimed at establishing the correct number of approved and operational schools and the official status of various educational institutions in the state. The 600 unregistered [...]

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    We Need to Celebrate Uduaghan’s Performance –Prince Kpokpogri

    CONSIDERING the increasing tempo of development in Delta State, Deltans have been charged to do away with ethnic sentiments and support the Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, to fully implement his three-point agenda. An activist and President, Delta State Youth Forum for Good Governance, Mr. Prince Kpokpogri, who gave the charge in a statement, said that “the governor’s performance should be celebrated rather than castigating him”. He noted that youths in the state have a sense of belonging as the governor [...]

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    Insecurity: PFN Chairperson Calls For Prayers

    BY MATTHEW DAODU THE newly appointed Chairperson of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) (Women Wing), Pastor (Mrs.) Theodora Abiola Omobude, has called on female ministers in the country to intensify prayers for security and progress of the nation. Pastor Omobude made the plea during her inauguration ceremony at the headquarters of New Covenant Gospel Church, Benin City, Edo State. According to her, “our nation, Nigeria is presently passing through some difficulties especially in the area of security. The Christian [...]

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    National Assembly Endorses Emergency Rule

    I I saw it coming .That one day, we shall come to this parlous state of affairs in our nation; the self-acclaimed giant of Africa would sit up and take a stand on the right side of history, when faced with a serious security breach threatening its unity and indivisibility. With almost two years of blossoming insurgency in some states of the North (where large areas of the north became killing fields for the extremist sect of Boko Haram), Mr. [...]

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  • News DELSU Engineering Faculty To Attain Regional Reckoning Soon –Macaulay

    DELSU Engineering Faculty To Attain Regional Reckoning Soon –Macaulay

    BY SUNDAY EGEDE THE Faculty of Engineering at the Oleh Campus of the Delta State University (DELSU), would become the best Faculty of Engineering in Nigeria upon its completion, Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG), Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay has said. Macaulay who disclosed this while inspecting a number of projects being executed by the state government at the Oleh campus of the institution, said that the Uduaghan administration was irrevocably committed to the development of the campus He added [...]

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  • News Uduaghan Seeks Re-Allignment Of DESOPADEC Budget

    Uduaghan Seeks Re-Allignment Of DESOPADEC Budget

    BY LUCKY OYIBO DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday sent the 2012 DESOPADEC budget to the Delta State House of Assembly for re-alignment A letter conveying the proposed realignment budget was read to the House by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei. According to the letter, the realignment will not affect the total sum of the budget, but shall position certain sums of money in areas of more need  than others. The proposed realignment budget was received by the [...]

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  • News Senate Endorses Emergency Rule

    Senate Endorses Emergency Rule

    Seeks Code Of Conduct For Armed Forces Senators yesterday “unanimously” approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for the declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. The Senate President, David Mark announced the decision at plenary, saying the approval followed “an extensive discussion” in a closed session with 100 senators in attendance. Mark said that the Senate agreed that while leaving all democratic structures in place, the Federal Government must ensure that the operations of the army [...]

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  • News UBEC Special Schools Underway In Delta

    UBEC Special Schools Underway In Delta

    By Uju Azukaego Parents, community leaders, local government secretaries, school heads and other private individuals in Delta State have been urged to embark on public-enlightenment and sensitization programmes in their various areas to educate the masses, especially the youths on the government policy to engage all the out-of -school boys in the state in free vocational schools. Prof. Victor Peretomode, the chairman, National Implementation Committee on Boy-Child Education, said that the Universal Basic Education Commission’s(UBEC) special vocational schools would be [...]

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  • News Solemn Assembly: Nere Uduaghan Urges Sincere Confession Of Sins

    Solemn Assembly: Nere Uduaghan Urges Sincere Confession Of Sins

    BY CHIBUZO ISICHEI ndigenes of Ndokwa Land have been enjoined to come to God and rededicated their lives so that they would savour the good from the land. Speaking during the Solemn Assembly in Ndokwa West Local Government Area held at the council’s secretariat in Kwale, with the theme: “Redeeming the Land” which was taken from Lamentations 5:7, the governor’s wife, Deaconess (Mrs) Roli Nere Uduaghan, urged the people to sincerely open their heart to receive God, confess their sins [...]

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  • News Revenue Board To Automate Tax System

    Revenue Board To Automate Tax System

    BY ANDREW IKEHI As part of efforts aimed at checking unhealthy practices in the Delta State Tax System, the Executive Chairman, Board of Internal Revenue, Mr. Joel Onowakpo-Thomas said that the board is working towards automating all tax processes in the state. Onowakpo who stated this yesterday in Asaba while playing host to a team of World Bank officials who were  in his office to ascertain the modus operandi of the state Board of Internal revenue, said the move is [...]

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    Out-Of-School Children: Nigeria Tops Global Chart

    BY ANDREW IKEHI Ten million children out of the total global record of 61 million children who are currently out of school are from Nigeria, while 31 million of them, within that category, are in the Sub-Sahara region. The Chairman, National Implementation Committee on the Boy Child Education, Prof. Victor Peretomode who dropped the hint yesterday when he led members of the committee on a courtesy visit to The POINTER Newspapers, said that was what informed the setting up of [...]

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    Govt Distributes 1.9m Oil Palm Seedlings To Farmers

    IN line with its vision to realize an economy beyond oil, the Delta State Government said it has raised and distributed 1,950,000 oil palm seedlings to oil palm plantation growers. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Barr. Misan Ukubeyinje who disclosed this yesterday at Ejeme-Uno, Aniocha- South Local Government Area where he flagged-off the distribution of oil palm seedlings in the state, said government would continue to provide high yielding  palm seedlings at a subsidized rate to farmers. According [...]

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    Influx Of Terrorists, Insurgents Worrisome, Says Mark

    The Senate President, Sen. David Mark, in Abuja has decried the continuous influx of mercenaries, terrorists and insurgents across Nigeria’s borders. He made the remark yesterday in Abuja at a one-day public hearing, organised by the Joint Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and States and Local Government Administration. Represented by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. James Manager (PDP-Delta), Mark said that the Border Communities Development Agency Act was established in 2004 and [...]

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    ASCSN Boss Lauds Govt For Absorption Of Casual Workers

    THE Delta State Chairman, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Comrade  Sam Dietake has commended the state government for giving effect to the directives of the governor for the absorption of casual workers into permanent appointment in the  state civil service. Reacting to the absorption of casual workers into the mainstream civil service, Comrade Dietake noted that though the directive was given some years back, both Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Nigeria Labour Congress did not relent in [...]

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    Monarchs Decry Attitude Of Fulani Herdsmen

    Commend Governor For Bold Move Delta State Council of Traditional Rulers has decried the attitude of Fulani herdsmen and the untold hardship they have caused their subjects and commended the state government for the steps taken so far to curtail their unbecoming activities. The Chairman of the Council, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse II, the Olu of Warri, who expressed the displeasure of the members at a   meeting in Asaba advised farmers to be cautious and not to physically engage [...]

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    Women Entrepreneurs Assured Of Continued Assistance

    BY SUNDAY EGEDE DELTA State Government has assured women entrepreneurs in the state that it would continue to assist them in order to accelerate the actualization of their economic potentials. The Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Antonia Ashiedu gave the assurance during the inauguration of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (AWEN), Delta State Chapter, at the Labour House, in Asaba, weekend. Ashiedu who was represented by Antonia Okuolu, said that the state government, through the ministry would give [...]

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    Monarchs Decry Attitude Of Fulani Herdsmen

    Commend Governor For Bold Move Delta State Council of Traditional Rulers has decried the attitude of Fulani herdsmen and the untold hardship they have caused their subjects and commended the state government for the steps taken so far to curtail their unbecoming activities. The Chairman of the Council, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse II, the Olu of Warri, who expressed the displeasure of the members at a   meeting in Asaba advised farmers to be cautious and not to physically engage [...]

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    Delta Needs N200bn To Tackle Ecological Challenges —Uduaghan

    Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has disclosed that the state requires more than N200 billion to tackle ecological challenges in the state, calling for collective efforts of all Nigerians to save the environment from degradation. Governor Uduaghan who stated this yesterday at the National Conference on Environment organized by the House of Representatives Committee on Environment in Abuja, asserted, “We must all take the responsibility of saving our environment seriously.” His words, “a lot of environmental challenges are man-made, [...]

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    Tax System: Delta ‘II Become Africa’s Reference Point –Joal Onowakpo

    BY ANDREW IKEHI WITH the ongoing   reform in the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, the state will soon become a reference point in Africa in relation to the continent’s tax system, the Chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, Mr. Joel Onowakpo has said. The DBIR boss who stated this in Asaba  at the close of a five-day retreat organized for staff of the board,  noted that part of the plans that would launch the state into the continental [...]

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  • News Report on Delta State Local Govt Amendment Bill Postponed

    Report on Delta State Local Govt Amendment Bill Postponed

    BY LUCKY OYIBO The consideration of the report of the Delta State Local Government (amendment) Bill, 2013 received a setback at the Committee of the Whole of the Delta State House of Assembly recently. The bill which was passed for first and second reading was committed to the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs for more legislative inputs by the Speaker, Rt. Hon Victor Ochei. The consideration of the bill which seeks to amend the departments in existence [...]

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    God Will Manifest In Your Lands

    Nere Uduaghan Tells Patani, Ndokwa People By Chibuzo Isichei PATANI and Ndokwa East local government areas of Delta State last week  had their share of the Solemn Assembly initiated by the wife of the state governor, Deaconess (Mrs.) Roli Nere Uduaghan. The occasion attracted indigenes of both local governments who gathered at the council secretariats, to pray for God to redeem and restore their lands to its rightful place. The governor’s wife who took the first bible reading from Lamentations [...]

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    Principals Urged To Be Role Models

    BY UJU AZUKAEGO PRINCIPALS in Delta State Secondary Schools have been tasked to live up to expectation by packaging themselves in a way that their subordinates will take them as role models who are worthy of emulation. The Permanent Secretary, Post-Primary Education Board (PPEB), Asaba Zonal Office, Mrs. Matina Osaji gave the advice in her paper ‘Effective School Principal/Manager’ presented at a one-day seminar organised for the principals and teachers in the zone at the Federal College of Education (FCE), [...]

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    Schools’ Upgrade: Muoboghare Expresses Delight Over Work

    COMMISSIONER for Basic and Secondary Education, Delta State, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare has expressed satisfaction at the level of work carried out in the upgrade of schools in the state. Prof. Muoboghare made the remark while inspecting mega schools, projects at Ashaka in Ndokwa East local government area and Oleh in Isoko South local government area, where he noted that the projects suffered some challenges at the initial stages due to the difficult terrain in the areas. The commissioner who said [...]

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    98 Percent Good Family Maintenance Depends On Women –Nere Uduaghan

    By Chibuzo Isichei Mothers have been enjoined to learn to be patient and strive to keep their families so that the future of their children would be better. Speaking during the International Day of the family organized by the Ministry of Women, Affairs, in Asaba, the wife of the State Governor, Deaconess (Mrs. ) Roli Nere Uduaghan disclosed that over 98 percent of what is required to maintain a good family depends on the mothers. According to her, “God is [...]

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  • News Ex-Councillor Hails Uduaghan For Constituting DSIEC

    Ex-Councillor Hails Uduaghan For Constituting DSIEC

    DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has been hailed for the timely constitution of the State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) The commendation came from a former councillor representing Emede Ward 05 in the Legislative Arm of Isoko South Local Government Area Council, Hon. Godbless Ukuowhe during the week Hon. Ukuowhe who remarked that His Excellency, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, is an administrator with integrity and a man  who believes in due process in all his official undertakings, stated that with the [...]

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  • News Delta Committed To Job Creation, Security –Oma Djebah

    Delta Committed To Job Creation, Security –Oma Djebah

    BY CLETUS NGWODO DELTA State Government is exploring various development opportunities  with a view to addressing the issue of unemployment as well as tackling security challenge in the state, the Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Foreign Relations, Mr. Oma Djebah has said. Oma Djebah stated this in Asaba while playing host to a team of British officials who were in the state to seek ways of ensuring strategic partnership with some states on development and security matters. He [...]

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    Delta State Govt Gains Highest Leadership Level In UN –Oma Djebah

    THE Senior Adviser to the Governor on Foreign Relations, Hon. Oma Djebah, has said that the Delta State Government is the only state government in the whole of Sahara Africa to have successfully gained the highest level of leadership at the United Nation. Hon. Oma Djebah said this when he was addressing journalist at the International Airport, Asaba, during the familiarization tour of the airport with the British High Commissioners, Mr. Hooman Nournei and Mr. Marcus Lenzen. He said that [...]

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    Delta, Investment Haven –Uduaghan

    Says No Place For Youth Restiveness BY FIDELIS EGUGBO DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said his administration will no longer condone any unhealthy youth activity in the state. Speaking while commissioning NEPAL Tank Farm and Private Jetty at Oghara yesterday, Governor Uduaghan observed that investors are taking the state as an investment haven and this gives credence to the fact that his administration’s efforts towards creating the enabling environment for investment has started paying off. He urged youths [...]

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    State Of Emergency: Former NBA Boss, Groups Applaud Jonathan’s Proclamation

    MICHAEL IKEOGWU-WARRI COMMENDATION have continued to trail President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of state of emergency in three Northern States, as some residents of the oil rich city of Warri have declared their support for the President’s emergency rule. Barrister Oghenero Okoro, former Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), in a telephone chat with our correspondent, said the decision of the President is the best thing to have happened to this country in the recent times. “I think for the first time, [...]

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    ‘Uduaghan’s Devt Projects Indication Of Success Of PDP Govs’

    BY FIDELIS EGUGBO THE National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Sam Sam Jaja, has described the developmental projects executed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s administration  a clear manifestation of the successful projects being executed by PDP governors across the country. Speaking shortly after inspecting some projects in Asaba, Dr Jaja who led Secretaries of different PDP zones, states and the Federal Capital Territory on the inspection of the projects, stated that from what Governor Uduaghan’s administration has [...]

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    Public Defender Bill And Enforcement Of Rights

    BY LUCKY OYIBO The Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA) is on the threshold of passing the Public Defender Bill in the state to care for the number of persons or detainees who otherwise for reasons of indigence cannot afford legal representation for the enforcement of their rights. The law to provide for the establishment of the Office of the Public Defender, its functions and matters connected therewith and which is to be known as the Delta State Office of [...]

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    Legislators Commence Process Of Domesticating Fol Act

    BY LUCKY OYIBO Delta State House of Assembly has com-menced the process of reconsidering the dome-stication of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in the state. The House at plenary presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei adopted the recommendation of the House Committee on Information mandated to ascertain whether the House can domesticate the FOI Act in the state. Presenting the report of the House Committee on Information on the need to domesticate the FOI Act, the [...]

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    Govt Promotes 50 Teachers To GL 17

    BY MONDAY UWAGWU/UJU NWAKAEGO In a gesture meant to underline its affinity for teachers and encourage the drive for excellence in the state public school system, the Delta State Government has promoted   50 teachers to grade level 17 -the apex cadre of its public and civil services. Unfolding news of the gesture during his second surprise visit to corporate headquarters of The Pointer Newspapers in Asaba, yesterday, the state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof Patrick Muoboghare, said the [...]

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    Strengthen Family Bond, Governor Advises Deltans

    BY CHIBUZO ISICHEI/TOSAN ATIE AS the International Day of the Family was celebrated across the globe, Deltans have been implored to seek ways of strengthening the bonds in families and show love and understanding that will build solid family base and stabilize the state and country. Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who gave the advice during the celebration yesterday at the  Government House, Asaba said the family is the identity of man since “we are products of various families [...]

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    Ofili Warns Civil Servants Against Unethical Practices

    BY SUNDAY EGEDE Delta State Head of Service, Mr. Okey Ofili has warned serving civil servants in the state civil service not to see the retirement of their bosses as an opportunity to indulge in unethical practices and behaviours. Ofili gave the advice yesterday in his office, while playing host to the state Auditor-General, Mr. James Idoma Iwube, who paid him a pre-retirement visit. He  urged civil servants in the state  to realize that the secret of success in the [...]

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    NEMA Sensitises Niger Deltans On Disaster Mgt

    THE South-South Zone of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it is organizing series of sensitisation programmes in the Niger Delta on disaster management in the area. The agency’s Zonal Coordinator, Mr. Emenike Umesi, made the announcement in a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. The statement quoted the coordinator as saying that the awareness programme was necessary, considering the threat posed in the past by the occurrence of disasters. NAN reports that the region had witnessed various disasters, [...]

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  • News Delta Reads Riot Act To Cattle Rearers

    Delta Reads Riot Act To Cattle Rearers

    D Delta State Government has directed that any cattle rearer who allowed his cattle to destroy farm crops or kill or cause bodily harm to farmers in the state would be arrested and expelled. The Secretary to the State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay who briefed journalists at the end of the State Security Council meeting, held in Oghara and presided over by the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan said that the decision was reached because of the increasing act of [...]

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  • News South-South Governors Back Emergency Rule –Imoke

    South-South Governors Back Emergency Rule –Imoke

    THE Chairman of South-South Governors Forum, Liyel Imoke of Cross River State, has said that the body is in support of the state of emergency declared in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Imoke said this in an interview with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with president Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday. “The South-South Governors Forum endorsed the state of emergency by Mr. President and we asked him to be firm on security. He has the [...]

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  • News Forging Economic Integration In South-South, South-East

    Forging Economic Integration In South-South, South-East

    By Kelvin Osemene. The just-concluded meeting of the governors of South-South and their South East counterparts in Asaba, Delta state capital, no doubt provided a unique platform for the participants to fraternize with one another  in addition to serving as a veritable forum for espousing views on the state of the nation and cross-fertilizing ideas geared towards boosting socio-economic intercourse and prosperity among the two regions in particular and the nation generally. Apart from geographical contiguity, and cultural similarities, the [...]

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  • News Delta Gives Micro Credit To Police Officers Wives

    Delta Gives Micro Credit To Police Officers Wives

    BY ANDREW IKEHI Government of Delta State yesterday extended its Delta Micro Credit Programme (DMCP)to Police Officers Wives Association (POWA), and Police Wives Association (PWA) in the state. At the well attended ceremony held at the DMCP Office, Asaba, 75 persons consisting of seven cluster groups, benefitted. With each group benefitting, no less than N400, 000, the state Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Antonia Ashiedu said that given the fact that that was the first time the group was benefiting [...]

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  • News Security: Uduaghan Faults U.S. Classification Of Delta

    Security: Uduaghan Faults U.S. Classification Of Delta

    Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has criticized the inclusion of the state in the United States of America’s State Department’s keep-off zones for its citizens. Uduaghan who stated this  Tuesday in Asaba, when the United States Consul-General, Mr. Jeff Hawkins, paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, said that his administration has done a lot to improve security and curb security challenges. According to him, “the state is peaceful and does not have serious security issues as being [...]

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    More Nigerians Laud Jonathan Over Emergency Rule

    Positive reactions have continued to trail the decision of the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in three states that have witnessed unprecedented attacks on security personnel and citizens by Boko Haram sect. The states affected were Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Among groups that commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the decision include the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN) The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) said it [...]

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  • News Don’t Travel To Troubled Northern States

    Don’t Travel To Troubled Northern States

    Govt. Advises Deltans Delta State Government has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to the far north, particularly the troubled areas for their safety. The Secretary to the State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay stated this at Owhelogbo, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, while commiserating with the families of the missing traders who were said to have travelled to Maiduguri, Borno State for business. Comrade Macaulay gave the assurance that the state government is liaising with the Borno [...]

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    Delta IGR Hits N5.7 Bn

    BY ANDREW IKEHI The Chairman, Board of Internal Revenue, Delta State, Mr. Joel Onovwakpor says the recent reforms within the board, informed by the Delta Beyond Oil project of the present administration has leaped the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) from N1.2 billion recorded in the previous years to N5.7 Billion as at January this year. Onovwakpor who disclosed this Monday in Asaba during the opening ceremony of a retreat of the board with the theme; “Delta Beyond Oil, Implications [...]

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    Conduct Credible LG Polls Uduaghan Urges DSIEC Members

    Delta state Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has directed the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) to conduct credible local government Elections in the state as soon as possible. Governor Uduaghan, who gave the directive yesterday in Asaba at the swearing-in ceremony of the Chairman and members of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, explained that the delay in the conduct of the local government elections in the state had no ulterior motive. According to him, the state faced some challenges [...]

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    Igbakpa Assures NBA, Warri Branch Of Govt Cooperation

    DELTA State Commissioner for Transport Hon. Benson Igbakpa has assured the Warri branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) of Government Cooperation with them. Commissioner Igbakpa gave the assurance when they paid him a synergy visit in his office, in Asaba. While, he commended them for their efforts at seeking a better working relationship in the areas of legal matters, he stressed that “without laws the society would be in shambles”. Earlier, in a speech presented to the Commissioner by [...]

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    Delta Remuneration, Salaries, Gratuity, Pensions Law Passes Second Reading

    BY LUCKY OYIBO The Delta State Remuneration, Salaries, Gratuity and Pensions of Certain Public Officers and Bodies (amendment) Law, 2012 before the Delta State House of Assembly has passed through second reading. The Deputy Majority Leader, Hon. Johnson Erijo who moved for the second reading, said the amendment was in schedule five of the principal law to include Confidential Secretaries among the persons to benefit from the law. He said they were omitted in the law hence the need to [...]

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