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    Metro Gunmen abduct Five oil workers in Delta States – Nigeria News

    Five oil workers have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s restive southern Niger Delta region, an area regularly hit by militant attacks and abductions, police told AFP on Friday. Suspected militants seized the workers on Wednesday near the Ajoki community, which borders Edo and Delta States, said Delta...
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    Metro Pastor Storms Popular Native Doctor's Shrine In Delta, See What Happened Next [PHOTOS] – Nairaland

    A well known native doctor is reported to have repented and changed his ways after a pastor identified as Omasan Mabiaku a.k.a ‘Olololo’ stormed his shrine during a church program in Amukpe, Sapele area of Delta. According to reports, the pastor destroyed the fetish items in the shrine as he...
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    Metro Armed Robbers Slaughter Security Guard After Storming Phone Shop In Delta (Photos) – Tori News

    A helpless security guard has paid the ultimate price after he was reportedly butchered by armed robbers in Delta State. via Tori News – http://ift.tt/2EM5pn6 Get More Nigeria Metro News
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    Politics Delta: ‘No absentees’, Okowa says as he swears-in new councilmen – The Sun News

    Paul Osuyi, Delta; NAN Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa swore-in elected council chairmen of Ughelli North LGA and Ethiope East LGA after their victories in Tuesday’s rescheduled local government elections. Governor Okowa told the newly elected chairmen of the 25 local government areas that he...
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    Politics Okowa grants 78 Libya deportees automatic job

    At least 78 Libyan returnees, who are indigenes of Delta State, had been absorbed by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa into his Job and Wealth Creation skill acquisition empowerment programme in the state. The returnees, who were between the ages of 18 and 28, described their ordeal in the dry lands of...
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    Politics Apc Boycotts Delta LG Re-run Election

    The All Progressives Congress said it would not participate in Tuesday (today’s)) by-election for the Ughelli North and Ethiope East council areas of the state. The Chairman, Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Mike Ogbodu, had on Sunday ordered a re-run election in the two councils …...
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    Politics Delta LG Poll: Accord Chairman, Iteveh congratulates Ikpokpo, Egbabor – Vanguard News

    …tasks them on governance, transparency …commends electorates for sending a message Isoko South Accord Party Chairman, Comrade Iteveh Ekpokpobe has congratulated Isoko South and North Chairmen elects, Honorables Constantine Ikpokpo and Emmanuel Egbabor on their victory in the just concluded...
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    Business Militant attacks will disrupt oil production this year — Oni – Punch Newspapers

    Energy Research, Ecobank Group, Mr. Dolapo Oni, tells TOBI AWORINDE that oil production will improve this year as power supply records some significant setbacks What major expectations do you have for the energy sector in 2018? I think the only bill we are likely to see passed this … via...
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    Metro Gunmen Attack Bullion Van In Delta, Steal Undisclosed Amount Of Money – Nigeria News

    via Nigeria News – http://ift.tt/2iM1dej Gunmen in Asaba on Friday attacked a bullion van at the Koka Junction axis of the Benin-Onitsha expressway, carting away an undisclosed amount of money. It was learned that the bullion van belonged to a commercial bank situated at the Ibusa Road...
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    Entertainment Why I Attacked Delta State Governor – Harrysong

    Singer Harrison Okiri, popularly known as Harrysong has revealed why he attacked the Delta State, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. Recall that earlier in the week he took to his Instagram to call out his state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. Harrysong lamented the incessant communal clashes...
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    Entertainment Harrysong Blasts Gov Okowa For Neglecting Delta State Residents

    Singer Harrysong has condemned Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa saying he is neglecting the citizens. Harrysong shared a video on his Instagram where he lamented the killings in the state, adding that the governor is ignoring those involved. He wrote: I woke this morning highly infuriated...
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    Metro Delta State: Search for Kidnapped British Missionaries Still On

    A team of four missionaries from Great Britain have been the abducted by a group of suspected kidnappers in Delta State, Nigeria. The four missionaries, including a Doctor and his wife were taken from their dwelling around the area where they had been operating a series of clinics for no less...
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    Metro Pastor Heals Lady Who Stopped Menstruating At Age 18, Sister Runs Mad Immediately

    A Facebook user Sanco Ese, has shared a dramatic healing episode he experienced in his church in Delta State, Nigeria... 'A MUST READ, IT HAPPENED IN MY PRESENCE. Yesterday was the second day of a program organised by Covenant of Greatness Christian Bible Church by reclamation garage, Sapele...
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    Metro 100-Year-Old Mornach Bags Doctorate Degree

    In recognition of his contributions to peace, unity and promoting education in Delta state, the Delta State University has conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree on His Royal Highness, Richard L. Ogbon, the Ohworode of Olomu. This was one of the high-points of the school Convocation ceremony...
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    Politics James Ibori - Why I Made Okowa Governor of Delta State

    Former governor of Delta, James Ibori, has revealed why he supported Ifeanyi Okowa in the 2015 gubernatorial election. Ibori made the revelation when he received a delegation of Ndi Anioma led by Dr Emmanuel Efeizomor, the Obi of Owa, and Chairman, Delta Council of Traditional Rulers, in...
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    Metro Operation Crocodile Smile: Hunger, Transportation Crises Hit Delta, Bayelsa

    Several riverine communities, including Oporoza and Ogulagha in Delta State, and Ezetu, Aggeh and others in Bayelsa State, have been struck by food and transportation crises following the ongoing Operation Crocodile Smile of the military in the region. Vanguard gathered that transporters...
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    Metro Delta Lawmakers Approve Life Imprisonment for Kidnappers

    The Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday in Asaba approved life imprisonment for any person convicted of kidnapping in the state. This followed the amendment of the Delta State Anti-Kidnapping Law 2016. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in a letter to the House appealed for reconsideration of Section...
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    Politics 'Resettle Us Back To Our Ancestral Home', Community Cries Out To Governor Okowa

    The residents of Diebiri Kingdom in Warri South-west local government area of Delta State, sacked in communal clash yesterday appealed to the state governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, to resettle them back to their ancestral home. They were allegedly sacked from their ancestral home in 1995 during a...
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    Metro 'We Want Biafra Now', 30 Feared Dead in Bloodly Onitsha Clash

    No fewer than 30 persons and a soldier were allegedly killed on Monday in Onitsha, Anambra state after some pro-Biafran protesters, said to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the defunct Biafra republic, engaged soldiers and policemen in a bloody clash. Leaders of the...
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    Metro Court Sentence Two Herdsmen to 20 years Imprisonment

    A state High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State has sentenced two herdsmen – Hassan Abidu and Yakubu Salem – to 20 years in jail with hard labour on Monday. According to the Guardian, both of them are believed to be members of a group of armed nomads terrorising indigenes of Ibusa and its...
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