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Need for Nigeria’s political space to accommodate community policing framework By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

OPINION

Need for Nigeria’s political space to accommodate community policing framework By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode May 25, 2022

It is evident that robust unity which grows out of historical experience can no longer be found or trusted in the present day Nigeria. It can equally not be considered an over statement if one concludes that in today’s Nigeria, there is no more sense of oneness that emerges...

Education

Okowa’s grant for mission schools By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode May 20, 2022

The recent decision by Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, to provide financial aid to 40 schools it returned to religious missions in 2011, again underscores the time-honoured belief that leaders must learn the art of management, an art of engineering and a skill to absorb and mater success...

ENTERTAINMENT

Small-sized Nigerian man who married 2 beautiful wives speaks on using charm to get them

Bode May 17, 2022

A Nigerian man, Efuoma Amos from Delta state who recently took a second wife has reacted to claims that he used charm on his wives. The Deltan went viral after his pre-wedding photos trended on social media. He has now denied using charm to marry his pretty second wife....

OPINION

Deconstructing Malice Campaign Accusation Preferred Against Okowa By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode April 29, 2022

In the words of Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States Of America (USA), the experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested in adversity.” In like manner, evidence abound,...

POLITICS

2023: Only God will decide who succeeds me – Okowa

Bode April 26, 2022

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta says he is committed to allowing God’s will to prevail on the choice of who will succeed him in 2023. Okowa stated this at the 70th birth anniversary and thanksgiving service of Chief Oritsetimeyin Adams at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke’s Anglican Church,...

OPINION

2023 Presidency: Will Okowa Answer The Call? By KEN OBAYAGBON

Bode April 25, 2022

Within the receding months, certain groups – political and socio-cultural groups including professional bodies – have been mounting pressure on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta to throw his hat into the ring for the 2023 presidential election. Aside these groups, certain noteworthy individuals from Delta and across the length...

OPINION

Earth Day 2022; Addressing Benikrukru Community Pollution Challenge By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode April 24, 2022

On Friday April 22, 2022, the world celebrated the Earth Day, an annual event by the United Nations, to among other things; demonstrate support for environmental protection, remind humanity that the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and sustenance, that the healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier...

OPINION

Girls Child Training and Okowa’s Sustainable Path By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode April 21, 2022

Justice is central in all human issues, and it has a link with common good. To Thomas Aquinas, Justice is more of external action than interior emotion or passion; it is rendering to each person what is properly his or hers; what is equal, fair and balance in any...

Nigerian News

Delta to be premier Coconut producing state in Nigeria

Bode April 19, 2022

The Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa on Agriculture, Mr Aneke Ifemeni, has assured that the state will become Nigeria’s major coconut producing hub. Ifemeni, who made this known while speaking with journalists on Monday in Asaba, also assured coconut farmers that coconut business has come to stay...

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Nigerian News

Teenager electrocuted while charging iPhone in Delta

Bode April 14, 2022

An 18-year-old boy identified as Chibuike Emmanuel has reportedly died from electrocution in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta. The teenager was said to have been electrocuted at about 5:00 pm on Tuesday while charging his iPhone 8 with a public electric supply. According to a community...

Ex Governor James Ibori and Gov Ifeanyi Okowa

OPINION

Between Okowa And Ibori: Fallacies And Fiction By ONOME UMUKORO

Bode April 11, 2022

It is another election era and merchants of falsehood and political fallacies have crawled out of their holes to stink up the air with their toxic tales. One of such noxious fallacies is that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is Chief James Ibori’s political godson. How rancid and insipid can some...

Delta 2023: The Issues That Would Sway The Electorate By EJIROGHENE BARET

Bode March 24, 2022

There are clear indications that the public debates that will emerge during the campaigns leading up to the 2023 governorship elections in Delta state will be issues-based. Apart from an assessment of the social and economic achievements recorded in the last twenty three years of the People’s Democratic Party...

POLITICS

2023: Okowa tells govt. appointees with political ambition to resign

Bode March 18, 2022

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has urged political appointees in his administration with ambition to contest in the 2023 elections to resign now. Governor Okowa spoke at the closing of a two-day retreat organised for top government functionaries on Thursday, in Asaba. He said that his administration was committed...

OPINION

The Future of Widows in Delta State By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode March 17, 2022

Regardless of recent onslaughts recorded against the rights of Nigerian women in Nigeria, with the most painful example being the lawmakers in both Senate and House of Representatives rejection of bills which sought to grant special seats for women in the legislature and 35 percent party leadership during the...

Nigerian News

President Buhari inaugurates N1.2bn housing units in Delta

Bode March 10, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated N1.2 billion, 68 housing units at Issele-Azagba, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. The President, represented by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said the housing project was under the National Housing Programme (NHP), Phase 1. He said...

Secret Reporters Delta Governor Okowa and CPS OLISA

OPINION

A Reflection on Okowa and His Chief Press Secretary By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode March 5, 2022

Back in the days, as an undergraduate interested in nation-building and enthronement of true political leadership in Nigeria; I cherished two leadership recruitment quotes. The first is from the United States of America born Jim Collins, a very strong human resource development expert and the other, from Niccolò di...

OPINION

Controversial Hike in School Fees and Delta State Government By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode February 22, 2022

Even though previous opinion articles, commentaries and interventions by this author favored/supported policies and decisions of the Delta state Government, it will however, for reasons, be considered very logical, rational and practical to say that the same state government will definitely feel hesitant as to why they should read...

#EndSARS: PDP lawmakers urge Buhari to address the nation

POLITICS

2023: Delta PDP has no written agreement on zoning governorship — Commissioner

Bode February 22, 2022

Delta Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, has said that the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no written agreement on zoning for the governorship election, come 2023. Aniagwu disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Asaba. He noted that there were capable men...

POLITICS

APC will takeover Delta in 2023 – Deputy Senate President

Bode February 17, 2022

Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, says All Progressives Congress (APC) will takeover Delta in 2023, going by recent developments. Omo-Agege said this on Wednesday in Asaba, at the inauguration of the state APC executives, at the party secretariat in Asaba. “Let me start by saying that am full of...

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OPINION

Otuaro; A Deputy Governor With Peace and Development Mindset By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI

Bode February 12, 2022

Aside from the painful fact that public offices in Nigeria erroneously view their positions as an opportunity for private gain/personal enrichment instead of an avenue for public good, there exist in my view, two other constraints that explain why Nigeria’s democratic experience remained nascent, socioeconomically stunted and devoid of...