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The Restoration Agenda Group of APC has called for a reconciliation with party members who are aggrieved in the state. The body have been urged to prevail on Deputy Senate president, Ovie Omo-Agege who is the leader of APC in Delta to make other stakeholders who feel marginalised to have a new ground of […]
On the completion of the ICT-YEP youth Empowerment programme, the Delta Government had presented starter packs to 593 trained youth on Monday. Speaking at the close of the first phase of ICT-YEP at Government House, Asaba, while addressing the Delta North graduands, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa through the state commissioner for Youth Development, Comrade Ifeanyi […]
Property and goods worth millions of naira were said to have been destroyed in a fire outbreak at Ogbe-Ijoh main market in Warri south Local Government Area of Delta state on Sunday. The inferno was said to have started at about 2pm. Speaking to NAN, a witness said “I don’t know the cause of […]
A notorious 25 years old armed robber, Liyo Okiri, who has being terrorizing Sapele have been nabbed by police in Delta State. On arrest a locally made pistol, two live cartridges and one expanded cartridge was found with him. It was gathered that police attached to Sapele Division received call that a two […]
A middle-aged woman resident in Ekpan community in Delta State has been arrested by operatives of the State Police Command for allegedly pouring boiled water on the breast of her own daughter, Nwankwo Merit. The name of the suspect was yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this story. But the […]
A lady yet to be identified in her early 20s has been killed and her eyes removed by suspected cultists in Ogwashi-Uku, in Aniocha North LGA of Delta State. Community sources told news correspondent on Wednesday that the corpse was found by the roadside along Ubulu-Unor Road. “Some people who passed the road early […]
The Delta State Government said it would no longer tolerate street begging and child hawking during school hours. It stated that the state government would embark on a raid where it would apprehend culprits in the New Year. The Chairman of the State Child’s Rights Implementation Committee, and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs, […]
Market women in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, on Wednesday, wrote Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State over alleged plans by the Uvwie council to eject or demolish their 40 lock-up stores, with a demand of N500,000 when the case is still in court. The market women had also planned to […]
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party in Delta State and Senior member of DC-23, Chief Pius Obvidje popularly known as P.OC says former President Olusegun Obasanjo has never stopped writing letters and criticizing the Niger Delta Region, a situation he believes is as a result of old age and hatred for the region. […]
The member representing Ughelli South Constituency at the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Reuben Izeze Esq., has been reportedly shot by unknown gunmen. It was gathered that the lawmaker who survived the attack was rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment. Izeze, a rights activist, was said to have been attacked around Effurun […]
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