Nigeria’s presidential election tribunal on Wednesday rejected challenges by opposition rivals to Bola Tinubu’s win in February’s disputed vote, following a pattern seen in previous election years in Africa’s most populous country. No legal challenge to the outcome of a presidential election has succeeded in Nigeria, which returned to democracy in …
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Why I was dumped into prison for one year and six days – Senator Nwaoboshi
By: Ike Philip Abiagom Former Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District in the Senate Arm of the National Assembly and Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Most Distinguished Senator Peter Onyelukachukwu Nwaoboshi (SPON), our Dynamic Leader, the Oracle turned Miracle of Delta Politics was set free by the Supreme …
Read More »Oborevwori Meet with Community Newspaper Publishers, Call for Synergy Among Practitioners
By: Ike Philip Abiagom Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, the executive governor of Delta State,has urged members of Association of Community Newspapers Publishers of Nigeria (ACNPN) to always share information to effectively reach people at the grassroots. Governor Oborevwori made the call when the executives of Delta State Council of members …
Read More »Delta Police Rescues Two Kidnapped Victims,In Oghara, Nab Suspected Armed Robbers, Cable Vandals
On August 30, 2023 at about 1330hours, the DPO Oghara division received a distress call that two persons were suspected to have been kidnapped at Oghara-Ugbenu link road and their whereabouts not known. In an ingenious display of crime fighting craft, the Divisional Police Officer of Oghara CSP Olasunkanmi Musiliu, …
Read More »Police raid suspected gay wedding in Delta State
By: Ike Philip Abiagom The Delta State Police Command on Tuesday announced that it arrested over 100 suspected homosexuals carrying out a wedding ceremony in a hotel in Delta state. The “gay suspects” were arrested in southern Delta state’s Ekpan town at about 2 a.m. on Monday at an event …
Read More »Oborevwori Asked To Suspend Okpanam Monarch Over Criminal Charges In Court
Leaders and members of Izuani General Assembly, the highest ruling organ of Okpanam community in Oshimili North ll Local Council of Delta State have called for the immediate suspension from office, the traditional ruler of the community, Michael Mbanefo Ogbolu (Ugoani), pending the hearing and determination of the criminal charges …
Read More »Wike arrests owner of collapsed storey building in Abuja, orders immediate take over of affected area by FG
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has ordered the immediate identification and arrest of the owner of a two-storey building which collapsed in Abuja on Wednesday night. The building, located at Lagos Crescent, Garki Village in the Garki District of the nation’s capital, was one of the first-storey …
Read More »Encomiums as Ogbueshi James Ndah is laid to rest
By: Ike Philip Abiagom & Benson Nwoko Asaba town, the capital territory of Delta State, the home of late retired educationist, Community leader and philanthropist per excellence, Ogbueshi James Okechukwu Ndah ,Diokpa of Ogbe -Ogo village, was agog with carnival celebrations, as men women, youths, dancing groups turned out in …
Read More »Enugu Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Prince Ezeh resumes office, vows to digitalize, increase ministry’s IGR
By: Chidipeters Okorie The newly-appointed Enugu State Commissioner for Land and Urban Development, Engr. Prince Lawrence Ezeh, FNSE, COREN, resumed at his duty post Friday, with a promise to work assiduously to ensure that the State attains greater economic stability. The Commissioner, who arrived the ministry at exactly 4:.27pm, was …
Read More »Mrs Akindele nee Elumelu lost a Majestic mother
By: Ike Philip Abiagom Mama Elumelu is a woman whose departure would be greatly missed. “She was so humble and a woman of wisdom, who brought up her children in a God fearing way”. In my last encounter with her last year, Mama gracefully and affectionately pronounced her daughter’s name …
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