Uduaghan Makes Case for Political Stability *As Sultan Harp on Rule of Law to check Impunity

Uduaghan Makes Case for Political Stability *As Sultan Harp on Rule of Law to check Impunity

Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, Monday in Sokoto stressed the need for Nigerians to work towards ensuring political stability of the country. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111, Governor Uduaghan said that the…

NDDC Advisory Council Moves To Tackle Commision's Challenges  *Seeks Avenue To Check Defaulting Oil Majors

NDDC Advisory Council Moves To Tackle Commision's Challenges *Seeks Avenue To Check Defaulting Oil Majors

The Advisory Council of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) consisting of the nine Niger Delta state governors has met with a resolve to urgently address some of the challenges facing the Commission. The governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, who briefed…

UN General Assembly: Jonathan Seeks Global Collaboration To End Terrorism

UN General Assembly: Jonathan Seeks Global Collaboration To End Terrorism

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, at the United Nations General Assembly, has called for international collaboration to end terrorism, vowing that the country will not relent in its fight against the menace. “Let me underline today, that we shall not waver until we…

"I'm Qualified To Build On Uduaghan's Solid Foundation" -Obuh Tells Deltans

"I'm Qualified To Build On Uduaghan's Solid Foundation" -Obuh Tells Deltans

Topmost Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in the 2015 general elections in Delta state, Sir Anthony Chuks Obuh has made a few notches in his gubernatorial intention by saying he is sufficiently exposed in what Delta requires to build on the…

2015 Polls: PDP Fixes Dates for Primary Elections *NASS -Nov. 22 *Governorship -Nov. 29 *Presidential -Dec 6

2015 Polls: PDP Fixes Dates for Primary Elections *NASS -Nov. 22 *Governorship -Nov. 29 *Presidential -Dec 6

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced the dates for its primary elections ahead of the 2015 general elections. The party fixed Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 for its Governorship and Presidential Primaries respectively. The announcement was made by Mr Olisa Metuh,…

Banking & Finance: QNB Acquires Additional 11.0% Stake In Ecobank

Banking & Finance: QNB Acquires Additional 11.0% Stake In Ecobank

In continuation of its strategy of international expansion and growth, QNB, “One of the World’s Strongest Banks” has announced the acquisition of an additional holding of 11.0%1 (2,047,877,260 ordinary shares) in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (Ecobank), making QNB Group’s total stake in Ecobank…

Delta Grants Judiciary Financial Autonomy  *As Uduaghan Signs Two Bills Into Law

Delta Grants Judiciary Financial Autonomy *As Uduaghan Signs Two Bills Into Law

The Judiciary in Delta State has been granted financial autonomy by the State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, thereby ensuring the complete independence of the third arm of government. Governor Uduaghan‎ whose administration had ensured the Judiciary in the state run its capital…

Nigeria Police Names Commissioners For 21 States *Usman Baba Is New Delta Police Boss

Nigeria Police Names Commissioners For 21 States *Usman Baba Is New Delta Police Boss

The acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has named and deployed new officers to 21 states as Commissioners of Police in the States. In the new appointment, Usman A. Baba becomes the new Commissioner of Police for Delta State, following the…

Ebola: Delta Govt. Alerts Public On False Claims On Cure  *To Sanction Errant Trad. Healers

Ebola: Delta Govt. Alerts Public On False Claims On Cure *To Sanction Errant Trad. Healers

Delta state government has frowned at myriad of claims by certain traditional medicine practitioners and spiritual healers in the state who say they can cure persons infected with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The state government, in a statement signed by the…

National Security: 10,000 Dismissed Nigerian Trained Soldiers Beg For Recall

National Security: 10,000 Dismissed Nigerian Trained Soldiers Beg For Recall

In the spate of the national security challenges, an appeal has gone to the Presidency and Nigerian Security Council to urgently recall the over 10,000 Nigerian trained Soldiers recruited into the Nigerian Army since 1979 till date who were allegedly dismissed by…

FG Signs MoU For Lagos-Calabar Rail Line

FG Signs MoU For Lagos-Calabar Rail Line

Nigeria’s Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of a new railway line between Lagos and Calabar. President Goodluck Jonathan who made the pronouncement on Tuesday, during the groundbreaking of the second cement line being constructed by the…

Revealed: CBN Enables Boko Haram Funding -Says Australian Negotiator

Revealed: CBN Enables Boko Haram Funding -Says Australian Negotiator

Australian negotiator Dr Stephen Davis continues making shocking claims now alleging that Boko Haram pass a large amount of their finances through the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN). This comes days after the expert, who had spent 4 months in Nigeria’s North-East…

Revealed: B'Haram Behead Christians, Seize Catholic Churches In Nigeria's North East

Revealed: B'Haram Behead Christians, Seize Catholic Churches In Nigeria's North East

The Catholic Church has been compelled to close down most of its churches in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states because of acts of terrorism, just as Christians and Christian institutions have become the major targets in the Boko Haram sect’s mayhem. “Christian…

Delta 2015 Guber: Uduaghan Cautions Against Blackmail *As Obuh Gets Nod From Deltans To Contest

Delta 2015 Guber: Uduaghan Cautions Against Blackmail *As Obuh Gets Nod From Deltans To Contest

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan broke his silence on his successor with a charge on all aspirants for the gubernatorial election in the state to embark on issues-based campaigns rather than blackmail. He charged aspirants to sell their purposeful programmes and…

Delta, Akwa Ibom Get N760m MSME Fund *As FG Plans to Establish Dev Finance Institution

Delta, Akwa Ibom Get N760m MSME Fund *As FG Plans to Establish Dev Finance Institution

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja presented N500 million cheque to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and N260 million to his Akwa Ibom State counterpart, Godswill Akpabio. The fund is the states’ share of the disbursement of the Central Bank…

Agric: FG’s Mechanised Cassava Farming Starts in Delta *As Uduaghan Seeks Community Collaboration

Agric: FG’s Mechanised Cassava Farming Starts in Delta *As Uduaghan Seeks Community Collaboration

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has harped on the need for effective collaboration of host communities with government to ensure maximum benefits of projects sited in their areas. Speaking during an inspection of the 500 hectares cassava mechanised farming project at…

Ebola: WHO Okays Untested Zmapp Drugs  *As ECOWAS Staff Dies of Virus in Lagos

Ebola: WHO Okays Untested Zmapp Drugs *As ECOWAS Staff Dies of Virus in Lagos

World Health Organization says untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, considering the scale of the outbreak and more than 1,000 recorded deaths in West Africa. The WHO made the statement after its medical experts met…

INVESTIGATING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ALLEGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE BY NIGERIAN MILITARY

INVESTIGATING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ALLEGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE BY NIGERIAN MILITARY

INVESTIGATING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ALLEGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE BY NIGERIAN MILITARY Gentlemen of the Press, Welcome to this press briefing which was compelled by the urgent need to clarify some developments arising from our counter-terrorism operations in the country. The Nigerian…

Ebola: Delta Govt Initiates Measures On Prevention

Ebola: Delta Govt Initiates Measures On Prevention

Delta State Government has called on its residents to adopt precautionary measures to prevent the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) currently ravaging some West African countries from infiltrating the State. In a statement released by the State Ministry of Health and made available…

Okagbare Justifies Uduaghan's Support: Seals Sprint Double, Wins 200m

Okagbare Justifies Uduaghan's Support: Seals Sprint Double, Wins 200m

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare completed a Glasgow 2014 sprint double by winning the women’s 200m, finishing the race at 22.25 seconds to claim victory quite ahead of Jodie Williams and Bianca Williams, both English. Okagbare, 25 had on Monday won the 100 meters…

Military Enquiry Into Soldiers, Shiite Shooting Incident In Zaria Ongoing -Says DHQ

Military Enquiry Into Soldiers, Shiite Shooting Incident In Zaria Ongoing -Says DHQ

The Nigerian military has initiated an enquiry into the recent shooting incident between its soldiers on routine patrol and members of the Shiite Islamic sect last Friday in Zaria, Kaduna State. According to a statement from the Defence Headquarters, Ministry of Defence,…

2015: "I Did Not Say I will Kill Anybody" -Akpabio Cries Out

2015: "I Did Not Say I will Kill Anybody" -Akpabio Cries Out

The Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Chief Godswill has flayed media reports in the press and online insinuating that he said he will kill Governorship aspirants. Reacting to the reports which he described as another smear campaign by traducers, through his Chief…

UNIDO, NEPC, NIPC Thrilled As Uduaghan Unfolds Delta Investment, Export Potentials

UNIDO, NEPC, NIPC Thrilled As Uduaghan Unfolds Delta Investment, Export Potentials

Delta State has been assured of support by stakeholders including United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) in its strive for investment components of its Delta Beyond Oil policy which seeks to…

"Stubborn" Nyako Impeached, Deputy Ngilari Resigns *As Speaker Fintiri Becomes Adamawa Governor

"Stubborn" Nyako Impeached, Deputy Ngilari Resigns *As Speaker Fintiri Becomes Adamawa Governor

Embattled Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has been impeached following approval of the report of the seven-man panel that investigated him and his deputy, Bala Ngilari. The impeachment became successful after an endorsement of the panel report that indicted the governor…

Breaking News: 17 Delta Agency Staff Loot Over N.8m -Bio-metric Payroll System Reveals

Breaking News: 17 Delta Agency Staff Loot Over N.8m -Bio-metric Payroll System Reveals

The Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) of the Delta State Biometric Payroll System has uncovered 17 staff from the Women Development Committee (WDC) and Youth Development Committee scheme (YDC) who were collecting salaries from both agencies. A statement signed by the Delta…

IGP Abubakar Lauds, Approves Delta CP Retirement Ceremony  *As Aduba Bows Out In Grand Style

IGP Abubakar Lauds, Approves Delta CP Retirement Ceremony *As Aduba Bows Out In Grand Style

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) MD Abubakar, has appreciated the Delta State Commissioner of Police (CP) Ikechukwu Aduba, saying he has left indelible marks in the various Commands and formations where he served. The IGP also lauded Aduba for the recent…

COMPUTER LITERACY, NECESSARY TOOL IN TODAY’S ICT WORLD -OBUH

COMPUTER LITERACY, NECESSARY TOOL IN TODAY’S ICT WORLD -OBUH

The Permanent Secretary Government House and Protocol Mr. Tony Obuh has stated that the computer literacy was necessary to function in today’s Information Technology world. The Permanent Secretary who stated this yesterday [4-7-14] at the closing ceremony of a 5-day In-House Computer…

ABIA: Gov. Orji Appoints Deputy Transition Committee Chairmen In LGAs

In furtherance of the formal swearing-in of the 17 LGA Transition Committee Chairmen in Umuahia on 1 Jul 2014 by the Abia State Governor Theodore Orji, the Governor has subsequently approved the following people as Deputy Transition Committee Chairmen in their respective…

Libel: Okowa Sues Detractor For N20Bn *Writes Jonathan On Political Plot Against Him

Libel: Okowa Sues Detractor For N20Bn *Writes Jonathan On Political Plot Against Him

In a bid to curtail the excesses of political detractors who are head-bent on destroying the reputation of Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, ahead of the 2015 Delta governorship elections, a N20 Billion libel suit (A/151/2014) has been filed against one Mr. John…

NMA Strike: Patients Groan As Doctors Down Tools In Delta

NMA Strike: Patients Groan As Doctors Down Tools In Delta

Following the declaration of an indefinite nationwide industrial strike action by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) today, Tuesday, June 01, 2014, the Delta state branch of the NMA has followed suit, as all public health institutions in Delta state have been partially…

15 Deltans Graduate From Italian Shoemaking Institute *As UNIDO, Delta Sign Pact

Fifteen students sponsored by the Delta State Government for a training in Footwear Design and Technology yesterday graduated from the prestigious Moda Pelle Academy, Milano, Italy after two weeks of intensive training. The state had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with…

Delta 2015 Guber: "I Was Forced To Implicate Okowa On My Shooting" – Sunny Okonye

Delta 2015 Guber: "I Was Forced To Implicate Okowa On My Shooting" – Sunny Okonye

A new twist to the alleged shooting of a hotelier by suspected political hoodlums in Boji-Boji-Agbor, Ika South Local Council of Delta State over an alleged burning down of a campaign billboard has emerged. The victim, Mr. Sunny Okonye, has clarified his…

2015 Elections Will Be Violence Free -Says Gov. Uduaghan *As US Diplomat to Nigeria Visits Delta

2015 Elections Will Be Violence Free -Says Gov. Uduaghan *As US Diplomat to Nigeria Visits Delta

Delta State Governor DR. Emmanuel Uduaghan has assured Nigerians that the 2015 general elections would be free, fair and devoid of violence. Governor Uduaghan who gave this assurance on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 in Asaba when he received the United States Ambassador…