Abducted chairman of Warri North council area of Delta State, Hon. Aduge Okorodudu, has regained his freedom. According to The Nation Okorodudu was released in the early hours of Tuesday. The Delta State Police Command confirmed his release on Tuesday. The Police spokesperson, DSP Onome Onowakpoyeya, said “it is true. […]
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Police confirm abduction of Delta council chair
The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, has confirmed the abduction of the Chairman of Warri North Local Government Area, Mr Aduge Okorodudu, by gunmen. The CP, in a text message to PUNCH Metro, said the police command was doing everything possible to rescue the council boss. The gunmen had […]
Uduaghan debunks Akpabio claims over NDDC project
The immediate past Gov of Delta State Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has debunked an allegation in a publication by an online medium on Monday 3rd August 2020, that the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has linked two former governors of Delta State, Messrs James Ibori and Emmanuel […]
Delta Health Workers Cry Out Over Eight Months Unpaid Salaries Amid COVID-19
Medical interns and house officers of the Delta State Hospital Management Board have lamented the refusal of the state government to pay their eight months salaries. According to some of the health workers who spoke with the media, that they could hardly afford their daily bread and have resorted to […]
Tanker Explosion Claims 17 Lives In Delta
Tragedy hit residents of Koko Junction along the Benin/Sapele Expressway in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, as tanker explosion burnt scores of people to death. The horrible explosion has resulted in the death of no less than 17 persons, while some were […]
COVID-19: NLC Kicks Against Governor Okowa’s Plan To Retrench Workers, Slash Salaries
The Delta State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress has kicked against plans by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to retrench workers as a result of the economic impacts of Coronavirus. Governor Okowa had last week invited the leadership of the NLC, the Trade Union Congress, and Joint Negotiating Council in the […]
Family Accuses Delta Monarch Of Killing Son
The family of Adjogbe in Evwreni community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, has accused the community’s monarch, Oghenekevwe Kumane, of ordering the killing of their son, Sylvester Adjogbe. Sylvester, younger brother to the immediate past Executive Director, Projects, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Samuel Adjogbe, was […]
COVID-19: Delta SSG tests negative, discharged from Isolation Centre
Delta State Government has announced that Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Chiedu Ebie, has been discharged from the Isolation Centre in Asaba where he was being treated for COVID-19. According to Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Ebie, who had been at the isolation […]
Delta wades into threat by Ijaw, Itsekiri communities to shut down oil facilities
…says dialogue best to achieve demands Following the expiration of an ultimatum given to the Federal Government by the Ijaws of Gbaramatu Kingdom and 30 Itsekiri communities in Warri South West council area of Delta state, the State Government has called for dialogue in order to achieve the demands. Commending […]
COVID-19 scare at NASS: Minority leader, Elumelu, urges members to go for test
…says family members, 11 domestic staff test negative Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu (PDP- Delta State) has urged his colleagues to go for coronavirus (COVID-19) test in the overall interest of the parliament. This came as he made public the results of the test conducted […]