The state Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Barrister Richard Mofe-Damijo, popularly known as RMD, who spoke with The Eagle Online in Asaba, the state capital, after rendering the Mid-Term Scorecard of the state’s Directorate of Culture and Tourism, said: “The state’s Reality TV Show has become one of the most effective windows through which the outside world sees Delta State
Author: Adewole Martins
The governor’s Commissioner in-charge of the Directorate, Barrister Orezi Esievo, said no fewer than 2,002 persons got employed while 50 primary and secondary schools across the state were being renovated and rehabilitated
Before his appointment, Muoboghare was a social commentator and human rights’ activist, who rose on the platform to become the state Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
The matter lingered for years before Okocha’s case was thrown out for lack of merit. Ogboru soon secured the favour of the court when on November 9, 2010 the Court of Appeal in Benin, Edo State, ousted Uduaghan from office, having ruled that the election that produced him in 2007 was fraudulent and gave the Independent National Electoral Commission 90 days to conduct free, fair and credible election in the Big Heart state
Obi described the governor as a detribalized Deltan and a good leader who has worked on people-oriented projects across the three senatorial districts of the state
“Since 1999, it has been metamorphosing from one thing to another.
“Deltans don’t even know what APC stands for because as I speak to you there is no guarantee that you won’t see another group masquerading as APC very soon
Undisclosed amount of cash and cartridges, hidden in some of the vehicles’ safes, were equally removed
In a jointly signed communiqué by the OSN Communiqué Drafting Committee Chairman, Dr. Jeff Adewole, and Secretary, Dr. Ernest Ogbedo, the body promised to align a working strategy with both national and international bodies in order to prevent avoidable blindness and to meet the challenges of achieving improved eye health status in the country
According to him: “We have decided that we are going to rope-in INEC
(Independent National Electoral Commission) as an interested party in the registration of PDM as a political party because when the APC applied for registration, INEC delayed
The development made JOHESU to step up a clarion call on community and opinion leaders to prevail on the Federal Government to be law abiding in order to end the strike
According to him, media reports have great impact on national interest and therefore could make or mar democratic dispensation
Describing the suspects as “inter-state criminals” who indulge in manufacturing of guns as well as servicing foreign ones for hoodlums, the Secretary of the Taskforce, Paul Robertson, said 12 single barrel guns, one double barrel gun, an expended cartridge, iron pole, device suspected to be a fabricator and one hand-saw were recovered from the home of the suspects when searched
The hoodlums cut the barbwire of his house before they scaled the parameter fence, tied his security guard, gained entrance into his living room and shot him in the stomach
Speaking on the activities of vandals and the negative impact of communal and youth restiveness on the programme, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s Commissioner in charge of the Goals, Queen Victoria Ikechuku, in Asaba, said the challenge had compelled the state to form Community User Groups to manage and sustain all projects
According to the number one policeman, the deduction is to facilitate the floating of a mortgage bank for the police, which will greatly improve the housing needs of every police personnel
According to Uyabeme, 10 pairs of complete Biafra Police Uniforms, with name tags and other vital documents concerning the group, including 129 Biafra pounds and ten shillings, were equally recovered from them
The journalists were involved a ghastly auto crash in Ilesha, Osun state last weekend while traveling for official assignment
The raid, according to the Police Public Relations Officer, Lucky Uyabeme, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, yielded the desired result as 29 of them were arrested
He said he was swooped upon at one of the new generation banks where he had gone to withdraw some of the looted money
In his analysis, he said the state’s Directorate of Transport, in line with the state’s vigorous pursuit for improved collection of IGR, had been generating enough from its operations but that it has only generated N45,949,775.00 in the 2012/2013 fiscal year