Rt. Hon. Francis Ejiroghene Waive, has secured the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket to contest the Ughelli North/Ughelli South/Udu Federal Constituency seat in the 2027 general election under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after an overwhelmingly peaceful primary held Saturday, May 16. Declaring the result, Dr. Joseph Onodjae, the returning officer, said the exercise was orderly, transparent and widely participatory but refused to give the actual number of votes counted for Hon. Waive to defeats his opponents, Hon. Eunice Okoh, Hon. Harvest Igben and Hon. Solomon Awhinawhin. However, Party leaders and APC officials praised members for maintaining…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. He is a registered practising Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists with over 20 years experience in news reporting. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focuses more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration by government and multinational iol companies has plunged into poverty and environmental degradation for years. He is also a PR Consultant, content creator, broadcast, print Journalist and Publisher. His vast experiences in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
We will follow Senator Ede Dafinone, and we will also follow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. As far as we are concerned, what remains now is only the certificate of return,” he said.
He is using over 24 dredgers in the place and when we confronts him to pay royalty to the community, he refused and vow to used his connection to deal with us.
Renowned Delta State environmental and peace advocate Comrade Mulade Sheriff, PhD, has formally picked the Expression of Interest/ Nomination form of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest the Warri Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives ahead of the 2027 general elections. Mulade, widely known for his Niger Delta environmental rights work and development advocacy, said he is confident of victory in the February 2027 polls to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He dedicated his candidacy to God and to the people, saying the opportunity fills him with gratitude. Addressing supporters after collecting the…
“The so-called leaders selected candidates to be screened without giving party members a fair opportunity to choose through a proper primary process.”
By Ufuoma Egbe In every political season, there are voices that contribute meaningfully to public discourse, and there are others that reduce politics to bitterness, vendetta, and personal attacks. Sadly, Dr. Wilson Omene appears to have chosen the latter path in his relentless and increasingly obsessive attacks against the Urhobo Senator, Ede Dafinone.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta State Assembly Screening Committee has cleared Rt. Hon. Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures and Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, along with 45 other aspirants for the party’s upcoming State Assembly primary election. This followed a rigorous two-day screening at the APC State Secretariat in Asaba, where aspirants for constituencies across Delta State were vetted under the party’s constitution and the Electoral Act. In its official report, signed by Chairman Dr. Uche Uzochukwu and Secretary Dr. Chiedozie Nwafor, the committee revealed that 82 aspirants appeared.…
A Nigerian developer has released a free WordPress plugin that blocks malicious bot traffic on news websites. BotFend Anti-Bot Firewall is now available on the official WordPress.org plugin repository. The plugin helps publishers reduce invalid traffic that can trigger AdSense ad serving limits and increase server costs. BotFend includes a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that filters traffic at the server level before WordPress fully loads, and syncs bad actors to Cloudflare. It also provides bot detection, behavioral analysis, brute-force protection, XML-RPC blocking, and geo-location filtering. BotFend also includes File Guard, which monitors WordPress upload directories, detects unauthorized file permission changes,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2026/2027 academic session, offering hope to thousands of UTME candidates. The decision was revealed on Monday during JAMB’s annual policy meeting in Abuja, where education stakeholders, including vice-chancellors from across the country, voted to adopt the benchmark. Candidates scoring 150 or above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) can now apply to universities, though individual institutions may set higher requirements based on their specific guidelines. This year’s cut-off maintains consistency with recent trends, balancing accessibility with institutional…
Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of the Ughelli South United Forum and Ughievwen Leaders have endorsed Chief Emuobo Gbagi as their preferred aspirant for the Delta State House of Assembly, Ughelli South Constituency, ahead of the 2027 general elections. The endorsement was made on Sunday during a stakeholders’ meeting held at Otu-Jeremi, where leaders, youths and women from the locality unanimously adopted Gbagi as the sole aspirant to challenge the incumbent lawmaker in the forthcoming election. Moving the motion for the endorsement, Olorogun Matthew Ofioguma said the decision followed extensive consultations among stakeholders in the…