Author: Dave Okpogadie

NG-CARES has declared open a three-day step down training on gender based violence in Asaba, Delta State, to enlighten the general public through the participants, on the need to eliminate gender based violence in Nigeria. Participants to the programme are drawn from nine states, including the host, Delta, Enugu, Akwa-Ibom, Ebonyi, Rivers, Cross River, Abia, Imo and Bayelsa states. In his welcome address, the Delta State commissioner for Economic Planning and chairman, Delta State Cares Steering Committee, Hon. Sonny Akporokiamo, said the training could not have come at a better time given the recurring global discourse on the need to…

An angry mob has set ablaze an unidentified suspected killer of a Police Constabulary and a complainant at Evwreni community, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State while on mission to recover a stolen vehicle. According to a Vanguard report, the deceased Constabulary Policeman, Late Solomon Ughere allegedly attached to the JWC section of the Nigeria Police at the Ughelli Area Command was detailed among other officers to recover a suspected stolen vehicle parked at the premises of Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel, located at Evwreni community. A security source from the Delta State Police Command disclosed that; “the…

Delta State Governor. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Wednesday, presented a N714.4 billion Appropriation bill for the 2024 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly. Governor Oborevwori said the budget christened, ‘Budget of Hope and Optimism,’ was made up of recurrent expenditure of N316.6billion representing 44 per cent and a capital expenditure of N397.9billion representing 56 per cent of the total budget. He said the 2024 budget proposal, his first since coming to office was envisioned to put the economy on the path of sustainable growth, boost investments and productivity, enhance the ease of doing business, and provide ample opportunities for…

Delta State governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Friday, said his administration would soon turn the state to a construction site, signalling his preparedness to do more for the people of the state. Governor Oborevwori stated this while addressing journalists shortly after a thanksgiving service held at Living Faith Church, Osubi, to celebrate his victory at the Appeal Court in Lagos. The governor called on the opposition to join him to work for the people and betterment of the state. He said: “On Monday, we are having ground-breaking ceremony to flag-off the N78billion contracts awarded to Julius Berger for the construction…

A gang of 10 criminals on last Tuesday killed a deputy superintendent of Police (DSP), Sunday Okoebor, in Asaba, Delta State. The gang was, however, unlucky as men of the Nigeria Army from 63 Brigade arrested eight of them, out which two were incapacitated while two escaped. The soldiers, again mobilised to the criminals’ hideout where 125 others were arrested, eight of who were identified by residents as those who have been robbing them of their properties and terrorising their areas. Briefing journalists on the breakthrough, Colonel lbrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff headquarters, 63 Brigade Asaba, said his men received…

Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Sheriff Oborewori of Delta State, Sir Festus Ahon, has assured the newly sworn-in Executive of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Delta State Council, of the state government’s readiness to collaborate with the union to move the state forward. Ahon gave the assurance when he played host to the new executives led by the chairman, Comrade Churchill Oyowe, in his office in Government House, Asaba. He urged the new NUJ executive to be magnanimous in victory and carry everybody along, adding that the union can only move forward when it remains united. “Let us…

The year 2023 will go down in history as one of the most difficult years ever faced by Nigerians. While it is true that the Nigerian economy has not been in the best of shape for some years, strange economic policies and the Naira redesign by the Muhammadu Buhari government brought a lot of suffering of unimaginable magnitude on Nigerians. While Nigerians were yet lamenting over a downward slide in the economy, the Central Bank of Nigeria, under Godwin Emefiele, introduced the new Naira redesign policy with some strange strings attached. The redesign also sought to mop up the old…

The political battle between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu, took another downturn on Monday September 18, 2023 as the deputy governor was prevented from entering the Government House apparently on the orders of the governor. The gate to the office of the deputy governor located in the Government House and the main entrance leading to the storey building were locked with chains and heavy padlocks. Shaibu and his aides, who it was gathered waited for about an hour without success to access the facility despite frantic effort made by him to reach the governor…

Four gunmen suspected to be kidnappers responsible for some recent attacks in Jesse, the commercial hub centre of Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, have been killed by police operatives. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Edafe Bright, who made the revelation also disclosed that the police recovered one AK47 rifle with 25 rounds of live ammunition. The police spokesperson said the operatives encountered the hoodlums along the Jesse axis of Delta State and Igueleba axis of Edo State. According to him, “On 12th September 2023, the state commissioner of Police, CP. Wale Abass, directed the deployment…

Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State has endorsed the report of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) which called for a review of the Niger Delta Development Plan to determine its successes, failures and areas for improvement among other recommendations. Governor Oborevwori said the report should be adopted by the Niger Delta state governments, the Federal Government and all development partners. Oborevwori spoke in Lagos on Wednesday, September 21, in a message at an interactive session and press briefing by SERAP on promoting transparency and accountability in the use of public funds in Nigeria with a focus on the…