In a statement endorsed by its Secretary-General, Chief Idowu Sofola (SAN), the group, which broke up its meeting chaired by its Chairman, General Adeyinka Adebayo (rtd), when it heard the sad news, noted: “Yoruba Council of Elders received with shock and and deep sorrow the unfortunate air crash
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The garden, according to the governor, became necessary to sensitize the younger generation on the dangers of climate change
Speaking at the forum, the Executive Vice President of RFI, Cecile Megie, said with the new office, RFI Hausa will continue to expand its scope on yearly bases
Uduaghan, who has had an eventful career from 1980 to 1998 mainly in the well equipped hospital of Delta Steel Company, Aladja, Shell Petroleum Development Company and in two other private hospitals, culminating in his setting up his private outfit, had informal romance with politics while still practicing
According to him, the go ahead was granted by President Goodluck Jonathan in his determination to make give the bite to his transformational agenda and Nigeria Beyond Oil policy
The Governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who disclosed this on Tuesday, acknowledged the tremendous increase in medical tourism to the state, saying with some of the state’s doctors and nurses undergoing training on renal issues and treatment in Dallas, travelling abroad for kidney transplant would soon become a thing of the past
Okonjo-Iweala was said to be using her federal might to preserve his father’s throne, having been jolted by a court order granted in 2008, restraining her father, his heirs and privies from harassing, intimidating and assaulting a contending family to the throne, the Umudei Royal Family
The approval followed the adoption of the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, presented by its Chairman, Alhaji Suleiman Sunaboro
The present number of professional staff in the ministry, I must confess, is far short of required number to conveniently cope with its volume of work
The Delta Central Senatorial District seat became vacant after the sudden death of Senator Pius Ewherido, who dislodged the Peoples Democratic Party candidate during the 2011 elections on the platform of the DPP
Kelvin was arrested in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State in his hotel room by a combined team of the security operatives who mobilized to the state from Delta State
The suspects – Teje Michael, Samuel Ogigie and Samson Eboh – all male teenagers, had ordered a Lebanese man, Nader Sade, residing at Refinary Road, Effurun, a neighbouring town in the oil city of Warri, Delta State, to pay N600,000 into a First Bank account No. 3069657527, otherwise, he would be kidnapped
Speaking in Asaba, Delta State in the office of Dr. Festus Okubor, the Chief of Staff to Governor of Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, the leader of the delegation and President of the group, Prince Daniel Ekiugbo, said Ameachi’s alignment with the G7 proponents of the new Peoples Democratic Party speaks volume of his inordinate desire for power
According to him, mama lived well even to a ripe age of 93 years and was able to bring up children who have made it to the top in their chosen fields, including Chief Ighoyota Amori, a Peoples Democratic Party stalwart and Senior Political Adviser to the governor
The NPSNC said it was worried because the pension money of the 410 workers who retired last year have not been paid, even as about 1,462 others have been estimated for retirement by December this year
President Jonathan and Nigeria join the rest of the world in condemning the atrocious, callous and abominable attack on defenceless Kenyans and foreign nationals at the Westgate Shopping Mall in the Kenyan capital
Ferife explained that the Land Use Act vested all lands within the territory of the state on the state governor for management, adding that each property/plot owner was required by law to pay rent to the governor
Organised by Logica Communications, publishers of the Nigerian Telecom Weekly, the Nigerian Telecom Development lecture is an annual platform for thought leadership on the intersection between telecommunications and society
The women, since Sunday, trooped into Asaba, the Delta State capital, in their hundreds, from Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Rivers, Cross-River, Bayelsa and Delta State localities
According to Mulade, when officials of CEJEP, a Non-Governmental Organization, visited the Minister in Accra, Ghana, during the its peacekeeping training, to woo her into leading the war, billed to hold in Yenagoa, the capital city of Bayelsa State, Heloo was quoted to have agreed to be the warlord when she concurred to the lead paper titled: Towards Eradicating Ecological Threats and Sea Piracy Challenges in Africa