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It was fun for residents of Warri, Delta State, as comedian Bovi staged the Warri edition of the comedy show ‘Bovi Man on Fire’ last Thursday. The event which was part of Easter celebrations was sponsored by telecommunication giant, Globacom, with its High Networth Individual (HNI) customers given free tickets …

UGHELLI – Ede Dafinone, the Chairman of Sapele Okpe Community Land Trust Association, has advice members of the community, particularly the new executives of Sapele Okpe Community, headed by Onoriode Temiagin, to always live in peace with their neighbors and non-indigenes. Dafinone said, “It is good that we the owners of …

Ughelli – Comrade Sheriff Mulade, an environmental activist, on Tuesday stated that infrastructural decay and high rate of poverty in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria was as a result of bad leadership. Mulade, who made this known during an interactive session with journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, drew the …

Theophilus Onojeghen Honey, I’ll prefer noodles for dinner when I return from work”, was the last conversation Mrs Elohor Obegor had with her 36-year-old husband, Charles, before the latter left home on the morning of Wednesday February 20, 2019. The young man, a soft-spoken minister with the Redeemed Christian Church …

Ughelli – A group, Concerned All Progressives Congress Patriots (CAPCP) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint into his cabinet those that can produce an APC government at the centre and win more states for the party in 2023 and beyond, else he may be last APC president. In …

Ughelli – The Landlords’ Association of Kosini area in Okere-Urhobo Kingdom, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the State Government for coming to their aid by tarring some of the streets in Kosini area of Warri. Expressing joy during …

N645m demanded in ransom, N40m paid Although it started with militant groups in the Niger Delta resorting to taking foreign employees hostage, kidnapping has been elevated to the level of a full scale business in Nigeria. With the growing unemployment and the penchant to make quick money, many a youth …

Obi Godwin Nzemeke Opune Adayere (4th from right), assisted by some other traditional rulers, children and well-wishers, cutting his 70th birthday cake. UGHELLI – The recent pomp and pageantry in Ejeme-Unor, Aniocha South LGA of Delta state, when its monarch, HRM, Obi Godwin Nzemeke Opune Adayere 1st, JP, the Obi of …

By Ajuwa Victor Asaba The Executive Assistant on Communications to the Governor of Delta State, Dr Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, has berated the leaders of Delta State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), especially Chief Great Ogboru and Senator Ovie Omo Agege, over what he called “stomach infrastructure politics” to …

Vigilante members in Okpara-Inland community in Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State have gunned down two suspected armed robbers in Erekpe Street, while one escaped from the community. The vigilante also recovered one locally-made pistol and charms from the deceased armed robbers, DAILY POST can report. The vigilante has …