By Sunny Awhefeada The year before he bade the world farewell Robert Nesta Marley, best known as Bob Marley, gave humanity an anthem of freedom for all oppressed people. What has now been canonized as “redemption song” was Marley’s last song released in 1980 before he died in 1981. It was his swan song. The song became an instant hit as it spoke to the condition of people in thralldom. Even in death the significance of the song was never diminished. It waxed stronger across time and space and it has become a song for all time. I heard the…
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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.
As the second year anniversary of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State draws close, Commissioner for Works (Rural Roads) and Public Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has highlighted the significant strides made by the administration of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori in nearly two years in office. Speaking at a press conference in Asaba on Thursday, Aniagwu, flanked by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sir Festus Ahon, said the administration has left “bold and remarkable footprints” across the state, particularly in rural infrastructure and public service delivery. “In almost two years, we can see very bold and remarkable achievements by Governor…
…Distributes Farm Inputs, Grants To 400 Farmers In Delta Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Wednesday, reiterated the crucial role of agriculture in achieving food security, creating employment, and driving economic growth. She made this known during the distribution of farm inputs and financial grants to 400 farmers under the Renewed Hope Initiative’s Agricultural Support Program, organized in collaboration with the ‘You Matter Charity Foundation’, held at the Events Centre, Asaba. Represented by the wife of the Delta State Governor, Deaconess Tobore Oborevwori, Mrs. Tinubu expressed delight at seeing women, young farmers in secondary schools, youths, and cooperative groups becoming…
The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta State under the chairmanship of *Elder Omeni Sobotie* has been drawn to an utterly disgusting, laughable and baseless attempt by a bunch of clueless, hungry-looking individuals propped up by one Fejiro Oliver, an infamous blackmailer and political hustler, to initiate a recall process against our Distinguished Senator Ede Dafinone, the duly elected representative of Delta Central Senatorial District. We categorically condemn this mischievous recall exercise in its entirety as a farcical exhibition of ignorance. For the purpose of clarity, we wish to state emphatically and without equivocation that this so-called recall…
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Emomotimi Dennis Guwor has said that the vacuum created by the demise of Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, would be difficult to overcome in the nearest future. The Speaker stated this in a short tribute to the late elder statesman during the funeral at his hometown, Kiagbodo in Burutu local government area of Delta State, South South, Nigeria. Rt Hon Guwor who was among many dignitaries from far and near that gathered at Kiagbodo to pay their last respects to the late multi-faceted leader, said Chief EK Clark was a champion of justice.…
Expressing their bitterness, the group challenged the Senator to come out with list of the projects he has facilitated to the Senatorial District and to also itemized what he spent the alleged 10 billion naira constituency project fund in his two years in office.
…Elders Accuse Egbo Of Physical Attack, Financial Impropriety, Dishonesty The Abovwe family of Uduere Community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta state, have suspended the Chairman of Ughelli North Local Government Council, Jaro Egbo, from all her family meetings and activities for an alleged gross misconduct, physical assault on elders, and fraudulent conversion of communal property. The resolution was reached at an extraordinary elders’ meeting held on May 12, 2025, at the Abovwe Hall, Ekrabovwe Quarter in Uduere community. The meeting brought together representatives of the family’s four gates—Owhefe, Ogun, Odebor, and Erineyenre—and concluded in a unanimous decision to…
The Department of English and Literary Studies of the Delta State University, Abraka, is set to host a retirement symposium in honour of Professor Macaulay Mowarin who recently retired from the services of the university. Professor Mowarin who served the university for thirty-one years was at different times the head of the Department where he mentored generations of staff and students. He is a leading language scholar whose seminal works consolidated studies in sociolinguistics, language contact and pidgin. The title of the lecture is “The Academic and National Destiny in the Global South”. It will be delivered by Willy Ehwarieme,…
The Integrity Group of Delta State (The More Agenda and You Matter Charity Foundation Ambassadors), weekend, sympathized with the family of their Patron, Hon. Pharm Victor Ofobrukueta, Immediate Past Chairman of Ethiope East local government, over the death of his beloved mother, Mrs. Oke Ofobrukueta (née Umukoro), at the blessed age of 95. In a condolence message released by the Convener, Dr. Oke Idiawene and Secretary, Barr. Offiah Felix, PhD, on behalf of the group, expressed a deep heartfelt reflection and extends its profound condolences, describing late Mrs. Oke Ofobrukueta as a mother who had lived an exemplary and fulfilled…
Onoawariẹ Ędevbiẹ: Urhobo Historical Society Chief Edwin Clark passed away on February 17, 2025; the news immediately sent shock waves down my spine, reminding me of his last phone call. The phone call was a culmination of a series of many phone interviews made to gather information for the book, Olomu and the Development of Urhoboland and Western Niger Delta, which Peter Ekeh co-edited with me and Peter Ishaka. Elder Clark was apparently pleased with my account of him in the book that he requested that I see him for documents that could be useful for work on a formal…