The Illah Youth Association (IYA), an Abuja-based group, distributed over 1,750 notebooks to public schools in Delta State, Donald Ojeh, the president of the association has said. The books were distributed to students in three schools in Illah, Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state. Ojeh said that Iyioka Primary School received 850 notebooks, [...]
Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has constituted an ad-hoc committee to tackle flooding in the state. The committee, chaired by Commissioner for Environment Frank Omare, would address the challenges of flooding across the state. Addressing the committee in Asaba, the capital, Uduaghan said no part of the country is immune to floods this year. “Two [...]
BY WOLE MOSADONI SULEJA, NIGER – “WE were together at the spot of the bomb blast in the church premises on Sunday. It was few hours after the close of the church service. The time was around 3 p.m when the bomb exploded, shortly after leaving my wife and few others at the spot and [...]
BY Emma Amaize JIMITOTA ONOYUME WARRI— POLICE in Delta State, have arrested four suspected kidnappers at Akwukwu-Igbo, headquarters of Oshimili North Local Government Area as well as in Warri and also rescued a retired staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC and a young girl abducted by the suspects. A suspected kidnapper was also arrested [...]
A cross-section of environmental offenders being tried by the Environmental Mobil Court in Oshimili South council, Delta State…recently. Photo: Goddy Umukoro The crisis rocking the leadership of the Etsako West chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has taken a new dimension as the Working Committee of the party in the locality comprising ward [...]
By Emma Amaize, Austin Ogwuda, CHIOMA OBINNA, OLA AJAYI, Wole Mosadomi, NDAHI MARAMA, SIMON EBEGBULEM, OLAYINKA LATONA Bulou Kosin MAIDUGURI — LAST weekend saw a harvest of deaths in different parts of the country with the highest toll coming from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital where the deadly Boko Haram sect continued its reign of [...]
| Print | E-mail Written by Adelowo Oladipo, Minna Saturday, 16 July 2011 IN the early hours of Sunday, July 11, 2011, at Suleija, Niger State, when a 51-year-old teacher and housewife, Mrs. Theresa Ogbuagu, urged one of her grown-up female children to cook rice, as breakfast for her entire household with a view to eating the food [...]
BY Austin Ogwuda ASABA— TWO persons lost their lives in a ghastly accident which occurred in Asaba, Delta State, Thursday, while the driver of the car narrowly escaped being lynched by an angry mob. The accident occurred on the Asaba/Benin Expressway by Oshimili South Local Government Area secretariat at about noon. It was gathered that [...]
BY AUSTIN OGWUDA Asaba— DOCTORS at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, were, yesterday, battling to save the life of the only survivor of the fire incident that occurred at Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, weekend, which claimed four children of same parents. When Vanguard enquired on the boy’s condition from [...]
The Delta State Board of Internal Revenue yesterday sealed off Havilah Hotels, and two others in Oshimili North Local Government over tax evasion. Havilah Hotels belongs to a principal officer in the Assembly. Havilah Hotels is in Asaba, the capital. The other hotels are Calvary Guest House, a Division of Ofeipaco Nigeria Limited, and [...]
Gospel Singing Is My True Calling — Tope Alabi
Patricia Temitope Alabi (neeObayomi) is a household name in Nigeria gospel music scene. Born over forty years ago into a catholic family, her parents had received a prophecy when she was seven years old that she would be a “great minister of God”. The actress-turned -singer had paid her dues in the entertainment industry before [...]
Air Nigeria to be privatised in two years –Jimoh Ibrahim
Air Nigeria is to be privatised within the next two years. It is expected that the airline would be on a firm footing by then. Chairman of the company, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, said the airline would focus more on international operations with scheduled flights to Dubai, Rome, Paris and Asian countries. Ibrahim, who spoke on [...]
Fashion Night Out, Ghana 2012 Comes Off This Weekend
Entertainment of Friday, 18 May 2012 Source: – Email this Share This Facebook Twitter reddit Google Bookmarks del.icio.us StumbleUpon Newsvine livejournal Mixx it! Print This Comments (2) « Prev Next » The Ghanaian fashion taste is now on the high and we cannot be blind at the new styles in vogue. Fashion Night Out, Ghana [...]
Nigeria picks 25 players for U-20 invitational tourney
LAGOS, May 19 (Xinhua) — The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has named a 25-man squad for an invitational U-20 tournament in Cape Town, South Africa. Spokesperson for the team Samm Audu disclosed this in a statement reaching Xinhua on Saturday, saying John Obuh, the Head Coach of the national under-20 men’s listed three goalkeepers, eight [...]
Victor Ikpeba, Austin Okocha & the six Legends of the Heineken Champions Planet
SPECIALBy Babajide Alaka The Heineken Champions Planet is located in the heart of Victoria Island. It is a cosy duplex filled with football memorabilia and beautiful hostesses who make sure that fans of the beautiful game never want for anything on match days. In football-speak, the Heineken Champions Planet is football heaven. It is where [...]
Keshi to continue open door policy
Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi stated that he will continue with his policy of giving every player a chance to prove himself despite calls for him to put down a standing team. Former Eagles midfield maestro and technical committee member of the Nigeria Football Federation, Austin Okocha during the week urged the Eagles coach jettison his [...]
