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…
Faced with the leadership question and the crisis rocking the Nigerian Football Federation, Football Stakeholders in Delta State have thrown their weight behind the candidacy of Pinnick Amaju and urged all those who love the round leather game to vote for him…
A coalition of forces under the aegis of Delta Progressive Movement (DPM) has urged Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and leaders of major political parties to base their choice of the next governor of the state on the core attributes of…
The member representing Ndokwa East constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebi has called on Deltans to shelve aside ethnic and sectional divide and support the gubernatorial aspirations of Chief Godwill Obielum. In a Press Statement signed…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has thrown its weight behind the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with a consensus plot to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected in 2015. Speaking at a rally held at the Ekwueme Square in Awka…
Nigeria’s Federal Government has ordered the immediate, unonditional reinstatement of the 16,000 resident doctors sacked during the nationwide NMA strike. The Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, through his spokesperson, Dan Nwomeh, tweeted that the doctors had been reinstated saying this took…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has expressed deep concern and worry over the new cases of Ebola Virus outbreak in Rivers State with call on the citizens to be on the alert and take their personal hygiene and other preventive measures…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has described anger as the greatest challenge facing Nigeria as a nation. Speaking on the topic, ” Nigeria’s Biggest Problem: Corruption or Impunity?” Governor Uduaghan stated that while corruption and impunity were part of the problems…
CHIEF Ifeanyi Obi has warned against double registration in the ongoing voters registration exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Chief Obi gave the warning, weekend, while inspecting the level of compliance at Onicha Ukwuani, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of…
The Commissioner for Power and Energy in Delta State, Hon, Charles Emetulu has described the death of the President-General of Urhobo Ptogressive Union (UPU), Major-General Patrick Aziza (rtd) as a great loss to Delta State and the nation. Hon. Emetulu who was…
THE Onotu-Uku of Umusadege, Utagba-Uno, in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Adoh Ugbomeh has decried the aof the community by successive governments in the country. Chief Ugbomeh, while addressing members of Asaba Branch of Umusadege Family Union on…
A prominent socio-political group in Dwlta state, Defenders of Democracy Group (DDG) has described the entrant of Mr. Anthony Chuks Obuh into the state’s governorship race as a good omen in the polity of the state. The group, through it’s Coordinators in…
NATIONAL President of University of Ibadan Alumni Association (UIAA), Dr Kemi Emina has challenged members of Alumni Associations to contribute positively to the development of their alma mater. Dr Emina who was speaking after his election as the National President of UIAA…
The Chairman of the Delta State Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has described the 43rd conference of International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) held at Sofia, Bulgaria as a good opportunity to deliberate on issues affecting the transport…
An interactive dialogue with the private sector in Delta State on running businesses in Nigeria holds in Asaba on Monday, August 25, 2014. A statement issued by Mr. Pius Mordi, Special Assistant to Delta Commissioner for Information, Barr. Chike Ogeah and made…
Irked by the sloppy attitude of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in conducting a fresh registration exercise in Ika South local government of Delta state, the people have lambasted the Commission for possible plot of disenfranchisement. INEC had earlier declared that…
Nigeria has lost a senior doctor to the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced Tuesday evening. The doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a senior female consultant physician at First Consultant Hospital, Lagos, participated in the management of…
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…
FORMER Deputy Chief of Staff to the Delta State Government, Chief Emma Ejiofor has said the level of political awareness in the country has contributed to the success of the collection of permanent voters card. Chief Ejiofor who spoke on the outcome…
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…
Delta State Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah Esq., has enjoined Public Relations Officers in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to be involved in the advocacy of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the state. Ogeah, who gave the charge in Asaba while…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has lamented the death of President General of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Maj. Gen. Patrick Aziza, describing him as an irreplaceable statesman. Governor Uduaghan in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sunny Ogefere…
Ahead of Nigeria’s 2015 general elections and zeal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct hitch free polls across the country, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has urged Deltans to take the ongoing collection of voters’ card seriously. Speaking…
ELECTED and appointed office holders from Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in Delta State have been challenged to facilitate the tarring of Asaba/Okpanam/Issele-Azagba road through the Catholic Church, through the Amachai Community, Okpanam in Oshimili North local government area of the state. Chairman, Amachai…
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…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has lashed out on the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship aspirant in the state, Chief Chikwe Udensi, over his media remarks that civil servants in the state were owed five months salary arrears. Orji who…
Abia State Government has insisted that there is no outbreak of EBOLA Virus in any part of the state, saying that recent reports alleging an outbreak was unverifiable and concocted to create panic amongst Abians. In a swift reaction to the alleged…
Despite its attempt to take proactive steps at tackling any outbreak of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Delta State Government says there is no reported case of an outbreak yet. The state government has however set up Special Isolation Wards within…
Recently, former Aba North elected Chairman, Ikwechegh Alex, granted an interview titled ‘Orji has put Abia in national political grid!’. From all indications, Alex was merely trying to launder his image if he has any. There is this Igbo analogy that goes…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday disclosed that the State Government has set up a committee to educate and sensitize Deltans on the prevention and management of the Ebola virus. Dr. Uduaghan who called on Deltans not to panic as there…
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…
As the Delta state government and security agencies intensify efforts to curtail the raging crisis in Ndokwa West council area of the state, Ugiliamai Community has brazed up in the heat of the crisis to clarify some grey issues. A statement made…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has called on people of the State to take the forthcoming collection of permanent voters’ card exercise serious with a charge on top government officials and party leaders to be in the vanguard of the sensitisation…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has frowned at the action of the new management of the Delta Steel Company (DSC), Ovwian-Aladja for arbitrarily sacking the heads of the DSC Hospital and the DSC Technical High School. Governor Uduaghan who described the…
What was initially thought as a missed opportunity has turned to be a huge blessing when Ese Brume picked up the gold medal in long jump after inconvenient timing had forced Blessing Okagbare to withdraw from the event where she was the…
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…
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…
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,…
Abians have been urged to intensify their support for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- led government in the state and discountenance the claim by the All Progressives Grand Alliance( APGA) that it will clinch the state in 2015. The Chief Press Secretary…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has expressed delight over the feat recorded by the State’s born sprinter, Blessing Okagbare who Monday night, won the 100m women gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Governor Uduaghan in a statement by…
