Supreme Court fixes May 25 to hear PDP’s appeal
The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed May 25, 2017 to hear application for the withdrawal of appeal filed against the National Chairman of the PDP, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff. Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman of…
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UPU decries killings, rape, seizure of Urhobo farm lands by Fulani herdsmen
Olorogun (Dr.) Moses Taiga, UPU President General Apex socio-cultural organization of the Urhobo Ethnic Nationality, Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide has called on the Federal Government to take concrete steps at ensuring an immediate stop…
E.K. Clark’s open letter to Olusegun Obasanjo
Your Excellency, Re: Your Mischievous and Malicious tirade against the Ijaws I received several calls from Nigeria recently while in London about a new book being presented by Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi former Special Advisor on…
Modular refineries to boost oil business, says Boroh
Amnesty Boss Paul Boroh By Abujah Racheal Retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, the Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), says the Niger Delta region will soon become a hub of oil business, if the modular refineries are…
Edwin Clark to Obasanjo: Shut up! Don’t talk when decent Nigerians talk
Says Obasanjo initiated, legalized corruption in Nigeria ‘You corrupted the National Assembly then turned round to call them armed robbers, thieves’ Former Federal Commissioner for Information under the General Yakubu Gowon military administration, Chief Edwin…
Atiku recounts 53 suitcases saga imported into Nigeria in 1984
By Omotayo Yusuf Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former vice president, has revealed what truly happened in 1984 over the importation of 53 suitcases when he was in charge of customs. This Day reports that Atiku made…
PPA bemoans lack of good governance in Delta, plans to win 2019 guber
Holds stake holders’ meeting in Asaba The Progressives People’s Alliance PPA, Delta State Chapter under the leadership of Mr Fred Obi has commenced in earnest the massive mobilizations of Deltans with a bid to reposition…
Shell’s duplicitous Corporate Social Responsibility
By Sunny Awhefeada This article was provoked by a news item in the Independent newspaper of Tuesday 25th April, 2017 in which the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) claimed to have among other…
May Day: TUC presents 7-point demand to Okowa
Want Prof. Monye’s Accrued Rights Review suspended Stop meddlesomeness of DESOPADEC mgt in Union matters Appoint new permanent secretaries to fill vacant spaces The Delta State Council of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC),…
May Day: PDP promises workers better wage from 2019
By Emmanuel Oloniruha The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, says the party would pay reasonable minimum wage to workers if it returned to power in 2019. In a…