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Keniebi OkokoNumbing shock, is still the dominant response expressed by the vast majority of persons following news of the death of Keniebi Okoko from a failed surgical procedure at a Lagos hospital. Okoko was a politician and billionaire businessman with interests in oil and the power sector. He was a pastor with the Salvation Ministry, a popular Pentecostal church in Rivers and Bayelsa states. The 42 year old Okoko from the oil rich Obunagha community in Bayelsa state, was the son of Prof. Kimse Okoko, one time President of the Ijaw Nation Congress, highly respected for his vocal, strong leadership…

Dr. George Allen FenteDeath continues its grim reaping preoccupation, uncaring of what humanity considers its pressing focus. The Niger Delta and Ijaw nation, locked down by the imperatives of containing the ravages of the CORONA VIRUS 19 is shocked numb as families and friends mourn the loss of two personalities linked by politics and now death, in different circumstances.A Political Colossus And End of A GenerationChief George Allen Fente died April 11,2020 reportedly from health challenges related to renal failure. One of Nembe Bayelsa State’s prominent sons, he was a major political fixer and mixer. The stories of what he…

Dr. George Allen FenteApril 11, 2020 will go down in the annals of Bayelsa State’s political history books as a black Saturday. For on this day, news of the death of Dr. George Allen Fente, founder and chief executive officer of Royal FM 95.5 and ITV, Yenagoa, broke. He died after a brief illness. Dr. Fente’s death is shocking as well as unbelievable as he exuded an aura of indefatigability in his intercourse with people in recent times.It must be said that Dr. Fente’s indefatigability was a factor of his life as exemplified in his various vocational callings. As a…

Lagos, Nigeria, May 3, 2020IMS is delighted to join the rest of the world in celebrating the World Press Freedom Day 2020 with the theme: Journalism Without Fear or Favour.We are in a time of great complexity. The global community struggles against COVID-19 which has infected more than three million persons and claimed more than  two hundred thousand lives.Journalism finds itself in a situation where it has to provide information and education to diverse audiences in which there is limited understanding of the nature of this disease and destructive potentials. In many contexts, misinformation and disinformation are competing vigorously for the public space.…

By Dave Okpogadie, AsabaDelta State commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has said public and private primary and secondary schools in the state will remain closed till May 30, 2020 as directed by the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.Chief Ukah stated this while reacting to an online publication trending on the social media that he held a meeting where it was agreed that schools would reopen in the state on Monday, May 4, 2020.The commissioner said he did not hold any meeting or authorize the holding of any meeting on reopening of schools in the state.He advised…

By Dave Okpogadie, AsabaDelta State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old barber identified as ‘Christian’, for defiling a two-year-old toddler in Asaba.The suspect, who hails from Obiaruku in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state, was alleged to have used biscuit to lure the toddler to his apartment where he had carnal knowledge of her. He lives in the same area with the toddler’s guardian.A source, who spoke on account of anonymity, revealed that the aunt, who had the custody of the toddler, discovered the little girl had been defiled when she was bathing her in the evening of the…

By Dave Okpogadie, AsabaGovernor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has announced the relaxation of the lockdown declared on April 1, 2020, as part of measures to check the spread of COVID-19 in the state.In a broadcast in Asaba, Okowa said the relaxation of the lockdown would become effective on Thursday, and explained that it was to encourage economic activities expected to be carried out from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.He also announced the continuation of the dusk-to-dawn (7 p.m. to 6 a.m.) curfew imposed on April 15, adding that the ban on conferences, sporting activities, gathering of people at event…

In more than two months, our country has been faced with serious challenges of containing the outbreak of the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) which has become a threat to the human race and has also crippled global economy and more so caused hunger crisis.While we want to continue to support government as active citizens by making viable and valuable recommendations which is needed at this time to move our nation forward, we frown at policy responses which worsen the plight of a people still reeling and coming to grasps with a health pandemic which social and economic cost is staggering.We…