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The deputy director, Media and Publicity Committee, Delta State APC Campaign Committee, Dr. Tonye Timi has taken a swipe at the expelled Dr. Cairo Ojougboh for his cowardly outbursts and for being on a paid assignment to disrupt the party’s efforts. According to Dr. Tonye, the Delta State APC Gubernatorial Campaign Committee had watched with disgust the shameful vituperations of Dr. Ojougboh, the expelled and now former member of the APC on Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the party’s gubernatorial candidate. “Dr. Ojougboh spent nearly an hour on Arise TV pouring invectives on our candidate and principal, Ovie Omo-Agege. We have observed…

On May 29 this year when the current democratic rule clocks 24 years, a new set of governors (apart from Edo and Bayelsa) and legislators will mount the saddle in the six states of the Niger Delta region. They will have a battle brushing aside the infamy of the 2023 elections that ushered them into office and face the more demanding task of governing their states that now yearn for development and economic stimulation. When Nigerians trooped out on February 25, 2023 to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections, millions of them did so with the conviction that…

The national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka has vowed that the party will pursue justice to ensure they retrieve the peoples’ mandate given to the party’s Delta State governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege at the just-concluded guber poll. Morka while rejecting the results of the Delta State gubernatorial election held on March 18, described the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a “travesty” and a pyrrhic victory for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, saying the results will be overturned by the sheer weight of evidence…

Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu has said that the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori would further sustain the development trajectory in the state. Speaking at a news conference in Asaba, Aniagwu said the party and the state government were grateful to Deltans for their overwhelming support which culminated in Oborevwori’s victory. According to him, Oborevwori would continue with ongoing programmes and policy of the Okowa administration while also introducing its own programmes. “The Governor and the Governor-Elect and indeed the PDP are all grateful to Deltans for this show…

Deputy Senate President and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has rejected the outcome of the March 18 governorship election in the state and promised his teeming supporters of bouncing back to reclaim his stolen mandate given to him by the people. Omo-Agege spoke shortly after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Delta State announced Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, gubernatorial flag-bearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor-elect following the governorship election. The deputy president of the Senate who spoke through his chief press secretary, Mr. Sunny Areh, in a statement,…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled against an attempt by the Corporate Affairs to interfere in the affairs of Christian churches in the country under the Company and Allied Matters Act, CAMA 2920. A team of lawyers representing the Christian Association of Nigeria, brought the case before the court challenging the CAMA 2020 law that empowers the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC of Nigeria to interfere and where deemed necessary, take over the administration of churches or even close them down. The provision of Section 839 of CAMA has generated much controversy resulting in serious condemnation from the churches,…

Bayelsa State Government has given assurance that the erosion control project in Obogoro Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area has not been abandoned. The assurance was in direct response to lamentations of neglect and a seven-day ultimatum issued by concerned members of the community to the state government to address the 10 year agony they have faced battling erosion. The people had decried inaction to a menace that has claimed lives and destroyed several properties. Desperate for attention, the people had placed on notice, their desire to take to the streets on for peaceful protest stating, that they will carry…

The minister of state for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva has resigned to seek the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket in the upcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State. According to Reuters report, Mr Sylva tendered his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari last week, but the details of the resignation were kept private until now though his aides had dismissed earlier reports of his interest in the race. Mr Sylva was appointed to the Petroleum ministry in 2019 by Buhari, who has kept the position of Petroleum minister to himself. Mr Sylva, 58, was Bayelsa State governor from 2008 to 2012,…

The people of Obogoro Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have issued seven days ultimatum to the state government to urgently address the issue of the coastal erosion that has claimed several lives and properties in the last 10 years. The people said they cannot fight the government but that they will go to the street for peaceful protest stating that they will carry their canopies, cooking pots, sleeping mattresses and continue to sleep in front of the Government House gate until the contractor for the project to address the menace is mobilized to site. Addressing a…

Women have been challenged to wake up and push their way into political and other decision making positions if the development changes they need and desire are to be met. A special guest at the just concluded one-day Water Assembly, March 23, for Niger Delta women, Mr. Wakebe Davidson Ere, a director at the Bayelsa State Ministry of Environment threw the challenge while delivering a goodwill message at the event organized by a frontline women focused non-governmental organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center at the Catholic Pastoral Institute, Igwuruta, Rivers State, to mark the 2023 International Water Day and…