Anglican Youth Confab holds April 6
The second Edition of Bendel Ecclesiastical Youth Convocation will take off at Asaba, Delta State on the 6th – 9th April, 2015 at St. Philip Anglican Church West end of Asaba, the Delta State capital....
View ArticleRivers tribunal ruling: Uduaghan calls for calm, says Okowa will emerge...
Former Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has called on Deltans, especially the Peoples Democratic Party members to remain calm and steadfast following the tribunal ruling nullifying the...
View ArticleAsaba to host grand finale
For the past 17 years, the Nestle Milo Basketball for Secondary Schools in the country held its final in Lagos. However, this year’s edition tagged “Building Champions in Life” will hold the Grand...
View Article7 shops sealed by NAFDAC for selling fake wines in Delta
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it sealed seven shops at the Asaba Ogbeogonogo Modern market, Delta for selling fake and unregistered wines. The Chief...
View ArticleDon tasks Niger Delta governors on resource control
CHINEDU WOSU, Yenagoa RENOWNED scholar and former Chief of Staff, Government House, Delta State, Prof Gabriel Godini Darah, has challenged governors of the Niger Delta states to revive the struggle...
View ArticleHow Okowa is re-positioning Delta through pragmatic leadership
In this analysis, correspondent, BARRY AGBANIGBI, examines some of the leadership qualities that make Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State the governor to watch in this dispensation. Delta State has...
View ArticleMilitants bomb oil facility in Delta
Fears that power supply may get worse were rife yesterday after Wednesday’s bombing of a Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) major valve platform around Escravos in Warri SouthWest Local Government Area of...
View ArticleHerdsmen attacks: You are not bold enough, militants tell Southern govs
Militant leaders in the Niger Delta region have described governors in the southern part of the country as cowards for their alleged silence over the unprovoked killings by Fulani herdsmen. The...
View ArticleCrush new Niger Delta militant group – Buhari to military
President Muhammadu Buhari has given a fresh order to the military to crack down on a new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, which has been attacking oil installations. According to a source,...
View Article3,153 vandalized points detected on oil pipelines in 12 months – NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) said it recorded a total of 3,153 punctured points on its oil pipelines in the 12 months ending in March 2016, adding, the continued crude and oil products...
View ArticleHow we kidnapped octogenerian —Suspects
BARRY AGBANIGBI, Asaba The leader of suspected kidnappers of an 80-year-old woman, Ifejuwa Otote, has given a graphic account of how he masterminded the act. Although he denied killing their victim,...
View ArticleAgain, N/Delta Avengers strikes, blow up 2 Chevron oil wells
• Militants are criminals – S/S Leaders • Nigeria shouldn’t submit to blackmail – Oshiomhole EBOJELE AKHERE PATRICK, Benin THE Niger Delta Avengers in the early hours of Wednesday blew up two major...
View ArticleMilitants kill 2 soldiers, 5 others in boat house attack
Militants have attacked a military house boat at Ejere Junction, a creek in Warri South council area of Delta State, killing seven people, including two soldiers. The killings have heightened the...
View ArticleWar in N/Delta: Shell suspends oil export indefinitely
•Militants blow up Agip’s pipeline The Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, the Nigerian subsidiary of Dutch oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, on Friday confirmed Niger Delta Avengers’ claims that...
View ArticleAuto crash: 3 FRSC officials die, 10 injured —Shehu
**Nteje Unit begs for power supply PHIL OKOSE, Onitsha It was revealed yesterday that no fewer than three officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, attached to zone 5 (RS5) Benin City,...
View ArticleGrazing Reserves Bill, dead on arrival – cleric
PRESIDENT of God’s Fountain of Life Bible Mission, International Incorporated, Bishop Sam Oyede, has said that the Grazing Reserves Bill presently before the National Assembly, was dead on arrival. He...
View ArticleMilitants bomb SPDC pipeline in Delta
The dreaded militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, have once again blown up crude oil trunkline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria in Batan, Warri South-West Local...
View ArticleAnambra Police kill female robber, four others in Asaba
Uguru Simeon, Awka The Anambra Special Anti-Robbery (SARS) has shot a 5-man robbery gang in a gun duel in Asaba, Delta State. The deceased, a woman and four men, said to be notorious in armed robbery...
View ArticleSoldiers foil ex-militants’ protest, FG begins payment today
Soldiers on Sunday foiled a protest by ex-militants under the presidential amnesty programme in Warri and Effurun, Delta State. The protest, it was learnt, was in connection with delayed payment of...
View ArticleMilitancy: Our revenue has dropped below 20% – Okowa
GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, decried the continued attack on oil and gas installations by militants, regretting that the revenue accruing to the state had dropped to below 20...
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