Browsing: Delta State

Oniga hailed from Eku Community in the Agbon Kingdom, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta.

The State Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, announced this on Friday after a meeting.

The officers were said to have been abducted on the Sapele-Warri road while travelling to Delta from Kaduna State.

Okowa’s felicitation was contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olisa Ifeajika, on Tuesday.

The politician spoke in a video posted on social media, where she was seen beside a river walking on a plank made bridge

Okowa made the commendation in Asaba on Monday while receiving the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Delta State, Pastor Monday Udoh-Tom, and his management team.

Okowa fielded questions from State House correspondents after a private meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Speaking at the reopening ceremony on Friday, the Airport Manager, Wilson Egwato, said the routes would be expanded soonest.

The governor stated this in an interview with newsmen after inspecting the bridge project across Ase River linking Ndokwa West and Ndokwa East Local Government Areas of the state on Friday.

In a speech at the brief event at the Government House in Asaba, Okowa charged them to ensure regular training of judicial workers in the  state.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Nwaoboshi, PDP representative of Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, defected to the APC earlier this week.

Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North District, Delta State, was presented to President Buhari and the National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) at the State House by Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege.

The command said it received information from concerned residents that a child was seen roaming around a church premises in Asaba, and the Commander Eagle Net Special Squad detailed operatives to the scene and the child was brought to the station.

During investigation, according to the command’s spokesman, DSP Edafe Bright, it was discovered that the suspect is a Nollywood producer who hired the weapons for film production.

Suspected thugs had invaded the Warri High Court 4, Delta State, on Thursday and disrupted proceedings of a lawsuit filed by one of the Itsekiri princes challenging Prince Emiko’s selection as possible 21st Olu of Warri.

It was learnt that presiding judge, Hon Justice V O Agboje narrowly escaped being lynched by the invaders who were chanting war song in protest of the lawsuit brought by Bernard Emiko, younger brother of the immediate past Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli.

The group, whose primary interest is to promote inclusive governance and development of the state, has as its Chairman Justice Vincent Ofesi, a retired Judge of the Delta State High Court.

This was sequel to the adoption of a motion by Rep. Kolade Akinjo (PDP-Ondo) at plenary on Thursday in Abuja.

In a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Bright Edafe, on Sunday, the Police Commissioner said the command is aware  of the threat by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra to parade themselves in some parts of the state. 

The Commissioner made the call a statement by the Command’s spokesman, DSP Edafe Bright, on Friday in Warri.