By SouthernVoicenews, Following the recent submission of the NDDC Forensic Audit Committee report, Niger Delta Ex Militant has come out against President Muhammadu Buhari over his unnecessary delay to inaugurate the already screened NDDC Board for relative peace and the common interest of the Niger Delta region. The Niger Delta Ex militant, General Solomon Adu who addressed newsmen in Warri yesterday, said since the forensic audit committee had completed its report that he doesn’t see any reason holding back President Buhari from inaugurating the appointees already screened and confirmed on November 5, 2019, by the senate. General Solomon Adu had…
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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.
By Patrick Ochei, Issele-Uku, the headquarters of Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, is reputed for her traditions and culture which are carefully kept and nurtured for centuries. Saturday, 11th September, 2021, is another festive season that brings sons and daughters of the Ancient Kingdom together in love, peace and unity. It is a festival usually marked with joy known in our local parlance as “Ine Onyimi” where people make merry and are free to say anything they like, even to the King. The Ine Festival is satirical in nature. There is no holds back in exposing what…
By Patrick Ochei, Notable sons and daughters of Anioma, including the Secretary to Delta State Government, Chief Patrick Ukah, the Executive Chairman of Oshimili North LGA, Hon. Innocent Esewezie and the immediate Past Chairman of Delta State House of Assembly Service Commission, Chief Barr. Mrs Ada Josephine Kachikwu have paid glowing homage to Her Royal Majesty, Obi Martha Dunkwu, Omu Anioma, during the Omu Annual Otite Festival which held Saturday, September 11, 2021, at the Omu Anioma Palace, Okpanam in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State. Others who brought gifts for Omu Anioma are: Barr. Adaeze Ezete from Abuja, Mr.…
By SouthernVoicenews, The Omus in Anioma Nation will converge at the Omu Anioma Palace Okpanam on 11th September, 2021, at 11am to celebrate the Omu Annual Otite (Roasting of Yam) Festival. This Inaugural Edition is the prelude to subsequent yearly editions. The idea of Omu Annual Otite Festival was made possible in our concerted effort to reenact our value system and bring renaissance into our culture. We deemed it necessary to leverage on the gains of our over the years consistent media campaigns and advocacies which have yielded enormous relevant results, to establish a legacy on ground. On this note,…
By SouthernVoicenews, The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Thursday, submitted the Forensic Audit Report on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The report was submitted to the President through the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN in Abuja. Akpabio, who noted that although the exercise had a checkered history, thanked the President and all those who supported and ensured its success. He stressed that the exercise was not done to witch-hunt anyone but to ensure that the huge sums of funds committed to the area yearly were justified.…
By SouthernVoicenews, The Delta State Coordinator of the People’s Democratic Party Youth Alliance (PDPYA), Chief Sunday Apah, has condoled with Dr. Charles Omini, National Coordinator, PDPYA over the death of his Mother, Late Mrs. Nma Rose Omini. Rt. Hon. Sunday Apah In a condolence message signed by Chief Sunday Apah, he expressed shock over the death of Mrs. Omini, whom he described as a mother of inestimable values. According to the message, “National Coordinator sir, this is not a time to mourn. It’s time to look back and remember all the good things in life that she did for you.…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye, In a bid to meet the yearnings and aspirations of it’s host communities, the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thursday, handed over starter packs to forty women drawn from its host communities in Asset Management North, covering Kogi and Edo States. The NGC presented the starter packs to the participants of it’s Women Empowerment Programme, at a handover ceremony held at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy, Abuja. The women who were trained in 2016 but were not given their starter packs due to some logistics, were trained in…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye, The Delta State Police Commissioner, CP Ari Muhammed Ali, has reiterated his commitment to bringing crime to a stop in the state together with his officers and men, just as a missing dangote trailer loaded with Nine Hundred bags of cement was recovered by the police. In a press release signed by the Command Public Relation officer, DSP Edafe Bright, the CP disclosed that on August 31, 2021 at about 0930hrs, while the Illah Divisional Patrol Team were on Aberdeen Patrol along Illah-Asaba road, a report was received from one Bature Ibrahim, a driver of Dangote company…
By SouthernVoicenews, The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee LPDC, sitting in Asaba has struck out a suit filed by Chief Mike Chukwuka Nwukoni against immediate past Delta Attorney-General, Hon. Peter Mrakpor, SAN, on an application for abuse and usurpation of power of the Attorney-General of the Federation. In a petition submitted to the LPDC on October 30th, 2020 and titled “RE: CHARGE NO. A/2060/2019: INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE V CHIEF COLLINS UCHE AFUWAH. A CASE OF FLAGRANT ABUSE OF OFFICE BY THE HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF DELTA STATE AND USURPATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS VESTED IN THE HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF…
By SouthernVoicenews, All routes to Etinan town, Etinan Local Government Secretariat Ground, Etinan, Akwa-Ibom state, as Chief Dudu Akpotor buries his father in-law, late Elder Morgan Dickson Ekwere, 86, on September 11th, 2021. Late Elder Morgan Dickson Ekwerre Chief Dudu Akpotor has with notice and medium invites friends and family to join him as he pays his last respect and says farewell to his father in-law, Elder Morgan Dickson Ekwere. Chief Dudu Akpotor who is the first Son in-law to his late father in-law, Elder Morgan Dickson Ekwere, is from Eku and Okoedafe-Okpara in Agbon kingdom of Ethiope East government…