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  The Niger Delta Development Commission has presented relief materials and palliatives to the various communities in Delta State “that were greatly impacted by the 2022 flood disaster.” The presentation was made to community leaderships, including women groups and youth groups drawn from the 25 local government areas of Delta State, on Friday at the Sapele Athletic Club in Sapele, by the Delta State representative on the board of the NDDC, Monday Igbuya, on behalf of the Chairman of the Board of the interventionist agency, Chiedu Ebie. Truckloads of items distributed at the event comprised bags of rice, bags of beans, mattresses, vegetable oil, noodles, toiletries, tomato paste, boats, cassava milling machines, sewing and grinding machines as well as cooking salt, among others. Also speaking at the event, Mr. Onoriode Ogodo, of the Sapele-Okpe community, while thanking the NDDC, assured that “the items will go far in supporting those who lost homes and means of livelihoods during the

  The Warri community South Africa executives and Board of Trustee members will be having a joint meeting on Sunday 3rd M arch  2024. In a statement issued by the Public relations officer Mr Onoriode Lucky Efetoboh , the meeting was scheduled to discuss among other things the community's 2024  calendar   .  This will be the first joint meeting in the year 2024. As the BOT Secretary Mr Belvy Udi is admonishing all executives and BOT members to be in attendance. The venue of the meeting has been forwarded to the interested parties. 

The leadership of the South African chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria has appointed Mr Sylvester Goerge to serve as the new National Deputy Secretary.  More details to follow... 

His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III CFR the Olu of Warri....Born King with great difference. He shines like the gold from Goldcoast, with a pot of unending wisdom, flowing calmly like the Warri river.  He is the Afomasin of Warri Kingdom He is the King of Warri Kingdom We shall defend the crown against the enemies of Iwere; both internal and external. He rules over the seas; He is the lion of Warri Kingdom; He is #developmentpersonified in Iwereland His words are laws In the midst of corrupt money, we will defend Warri Kingdom; with our pen and sword Ogiame Atuwatse the III is the King of Warri Kingdom Congratulations Warri Nation 👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 another year counting. Ogiame!!! We hail thee!!! Suoo!!! Post sponsored by:  Ugbajo Itsekiri South Africa

The Warri Community South African association appoints new Executive members.  This was announced in a statement issued by the Public relations officer Prince Solomon Oghenetega Asaboro.  After long deliberations in a Joint meeting of both the Executives and BOT of the Warri Community Sa held yesterday Saturday 15th July 2023, it was decided that the cabinet of the Warri Community Sa should be reshuffled.  This are the following executives :  President : Bernard Okene  Vice President : Chris Idehen  Secretary General : Melchizedek Legogie  PRO: Asaboro Ortega Solomon  Financial secretary : Omoh Gold  Treasurer : Christopher Adabamu  Provost : Ufuoma Aghri  Organising secretary : Dickson Krevane  Asst Organizing Secretary :Mrs Grace Voke Asst Secretary General : Mathew Okodugha  2 new positions were introduced into the Executives.  Assistant PRO : Efetoboh Lucky Onoriode  Assistant Provost :  Greg Osagie Asemota.  The above mentioned Executives have been Inaugurated and they

Warri Community South Africa is hosting its one year anniversary celebration tomorrow 21st May 2023. In a statement signed by the President of WCSA Mr Bernard Okene, a cordial invitation is extended to all great waffarians in diaspora to come and join WCSA  In celebrating her One year anniversary.  Date: 21st May 2023  Time: 2pm  Venue: Alicats Place 26 Steyn Avenue, Kelvin, Sandton us in Sandton Kelvin Johannesburg. 

  Some members of the  Nigerian community in South africa has expressed their dissatisfaction in the result from the just concluded Presidential election in Nigeria. In a peaceful march to the Nigerian House in South Africa ,they presented their demands while waiting for a response from the Nigerian consulate. (Watch Video) More details to follow..... 

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested Precious Ojo, aka Obago, a suspected internet fraudster in Oghara, Delta State. The 26-year-old was arrested following a petition received from a United States of America citizen, on his fraudulent activities. The petitioner had alleged that the suspect impersonated one Raymond Bush who works in the US Treasury to defraud her of $268,000.00. The petitioner had alleged that the suspect impersonated one Raymond Bush who works in the US Treasury to defraud her of $268,000.00. The suspect was arrested at his hotel in Oghara. He confessed to building the luxury hotel with his alleged proceeds of crime. Other items recovered from him include a Mercedes-Benz car with personalized plate numbers and mobile phones. The suspect will be arraigned in court soon.

  The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled in favour of leading British multinational oil and gas company, Shell on Wednesday that it was too late for Nigerian claimants to sue its two subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill. On December 20, 2011, there were allegations that an estimated 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked when a tanker was loaded at Shell’s Bonga oilfield, 120km off the coast of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Shell disputed the allegations and said the Bonga spill was dispersed offshore and did not have adverse effects on the shoreline, according to Reuters. The case was one of a series of legal tussles that Shell has been battling with in London courts against Nigerians who live in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a region faced with pollution, conflict and corruption connected to the oil and gas industry. A group of 27,800 individuals and 457 communities have made several attempts to drag Shell to court, arguing that the resulting oil slick polluted their lands and waterways,

  A coalition of youth leaders from the Niger Delta region under the auspices of the Niger Delta Youth Leaders Association (NDYLA) has unanimously endorsed a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and a former Minister of the Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio as best suited for the position of the Senate President in the 10th Assembly. At a press conference held in Warri on Monday, the National President, Comrade Lucky Emononefe, and Festus Dumbari, the National Secretary alongside over 100 youth leaders from the region stated that it will be fair for other senators from other zones to cast their votes for Akpabio. The group stated that other zones have held the position in the past and that the track record of Senator Akpabio stands him out as one of the best for the lofty position. The statement reads in parts: “Upon a General Meeting of Executive and Members of the Niger Delta Youth Leaders’ Association, held on Monday, the 8th day of May 2023 at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun,

  The Executive Chairman of Warri North Local Government Area, Hon. Smart Yomi Asekutu has commended the Sapele Police Area Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sani Adamu Nufawa, for his achievement in the area following his promotion to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP. Hon. Asetuku said Nufawa’s exemplary commitment to duty has endeared him to the people of Sapele and the other six divisions within the Area Command. It would be recalled that Mr. Nufawa was recently promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, to Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP. He has served as the Area Commander of the Area Command that was created by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, in 2017 which includes Sapele, Oghara, Jesse, Koko, Mosogar and Abraka Police Divisions in Delta State. Hon. Asekutu noted that the outgoing Police Area Commander’s tenure in the Area Command was commemorative and fulfilling especially for his dedication to his duty of fighting crime an

  The Pere of Tuomo Kingdom in Burutu local government area of Delta State, HRM (Justice) Francis Tabai, JSC (rtd), Pere Esuku 1, has congratulated the Delta State governor-elect, Rt Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, on his victory at the 2023 general elections in the state. Tabai sent his congratulatory message, yesterday, with special thanks to Deltans for voting Oborevwori in as the next governor, stressing that Deltans were awaiting earnestly massive economic, social and infrastructural development in the state. The monarch tasked the incoming governor to give equal attention to all parts of the state, especially areas in dire need of infrastructural and social development in the government’s distribution of democracy dividends. He said: “I hereby congratulate our governor-elect, Rt Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, on his victory at the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state. I also want to thank all Deltans for peacefully exercising their franchise during and after the polls. “I urge our governo

  The police have arrested 94 commercial sex workers and 59 male suspects for various crimes ranging from kidnapping,  armed robberies and other sundry crimes in Ughelli north local government areas and environs in Delta state. The Delta state Police spokesman , DSP Bright Edafe who disclosed this to newsmen in Warri, said  locally made guns, three suspected stolen vehicles  and hard  drugs were among items recovered from the arrested suspects, adding that the some of them have  been charged to court and  the others moved to the command’s headquarters in Asaba. He said the police had doubled efforts to flush out criminal elements from Warri and environs. “Operatives were drawn from the command’s operations department, SIB, Dragon Patrol, safer highway,  raiders, CP D-Coy squad, Rapid response squad (RRS) and led by the Commander Dragon patrol, CSP Graham Imade and deployed to the affected areas. “They embarked on an intensive confidence building patrol, stop and search, and show of for

  The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in Delta state, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, has expressed dismay about electioneering in Nigeria, saying the process is deteriorating on yearly basis. Ogboru, in an exclusive interview with Saturday Vanguard, stated that one of his children had once told him not to contest election until he has N10 billion. Recall that the APGA was the face of the opposition in the state before the 2023 elections. In 2007, 2010 rerun and 2011 elections, when he ran under the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, he put up a strong fight against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In those elections, he produced some members of the State House of Assembly. Speaking on the 2023 governorship election, Ogboru said, “After the conclusion of the election, we had to congratulate the winner of that election, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori. “Having said that, I want to say that the process of electioneering in Nigeria is deteriorating on yearly basis

The Delta State Government has announced that all schools in the state will resume for the third term 2022/ 2023 academic session on April 25. The Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs Rose Ezewu, made the announcement in a statement she issued, on Friday in Asaba. She said that teaching and learning activities would commence on Tuesday, and resumption test would be conducted on Thursday in all the various schools across the state. She said that the state was operating a uniformed timetable for all public and private schools. “School heads and teachers should ensure that they complied with the directive, as the Ministry would lead officials to monitor the level of compliance,” She said. She urged Chief Inspectors of Education (CIEs) in the 25 Local Government Areas in the state, to participate actively in monitoring the resumption of schools. “The CIEs should also monitor teachers’ commitment to their official duties in their various Local Government Areas,” she said. (NAN)