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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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    Politics PDP Will Regain All 36 states by 2019 – Okowa

    Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win all the states of the federation in the 2019 general elections. He spoke in Owa, Ika North-East local government area of Delta State, while addressing PDP members after the local...
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    Metro Massive Protest In Asaba Over Fulani Herdsmen [See Photos]

    Presently the major highway from Delta to Anambra has been blocked by peaceful demonstrators who are vexed by the incessant maiming and incursion of Fulani herdsmen into their environment. See photos:
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    Politics President Buhari Condoles Urhobos, People of Delta State On Death of Chief Felix Ibru

    President Muhammadu Buhari has received with sadness, news of the passing away of the first civilian governor of Delta State, Chief Felix Ibru. President Buhari extends sincere condolences to the renowned Ibru family, the Urhobos whom he led for many years as President-General of the Urhobo...
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    Metro NYSC to Commence Quarterly Orientation Courses

    Director General of the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, yesterday, said that the scheme would soon commence its orientation course for prospective corps members on a quarterly basis to accommodate the increasing number of graduates being turned out by accredited...
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