Archive for June 7th, 2012
Govt Refutes Report On Land Charges
BY DOMINIC OKONTA Delta State Government has refuted a Newspaper’s report alleging that it realized over N1.5 trillion as revenue from land related charges in the state within the last five years. The state Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Sir Patrick Ferife in a statement issued to The Pointer Newspaper denied the allegation, saying that he never gave such figure to the press as quoted by the national newspaper during the Ministry’s media briefing in Asaba. Ferife pointed [...]
Continue ReadingNew Electricity Tariff Will Attract Private Investment –NOA
BY CLETUS NGWODO THE New Electricity tariff which came into force June 1, 2012 will encourage foreign investments in the sector and consequently improve power supply in the country, the National Orientation Agency, has said. The Chief Mobilisation and Orientation Officer, National Orientation Agency, (NOA), Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr. Jossy Jibunor, disclosed this while flagging off an enlightenment campaign on the new electricity tariff, at Okwe, a suburb of Asaba, yesterday. Jibunor said the new [...]
Continue ReadingMuoboghare Orders PPEB To Stop Vice Principal’s Salary
DELTA State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare has directed the Post-Primary Education Board to stop immediately the salary of one of the Vice-Principals of Obomkpa Mixed Secondary School, Obomkpa, Mr. Roland Ekwemalor for absconding from his duty post. Professor Muoboghare gave the directive yesterday in the town when he paid an unscheduled visit to the school where the Principal, Mr. Peter Eneji told him that Mr. Ekwemalor reported for duty but left thereafter without permission for [...]
Continue ReadingDelta Begins Vegetation Control Of 67 Roads Soon –Funkekeme
DELTA State Government would soon embark on vegetation control on sixty-seven roads across the state to tackle the issue of road failure and to sustain the life span of the roads. The Commissioner for Works, Rt. Hon. Funkekeme Solomon stated this in Asaba during the maiden interactive session with the ministry’s Zonal Chief Engineers handling the six zonal offices in the state. He explained that the state Executive Council has approved the clearing of invasive vegetation on the shoulders of [...]
Continue ReadingOn The Tobacco Control Bill
President Goodluck Jonathan had on several occassions demonstrated his administration’s commitment in repositioning the public health system in the country for greater service delivery to meet the needs of Nigerians. This consciousness by the present administration may, therefore, be unconnected with the alarm, last week, that the National Tobacco Bill may have been lost on transit between the National Assembly and the Presidency, where it was heading for the President’s assent. The bill had been passed into law by the [...]
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