Eight persons escaped death as students and pupils of Oteri Secondary and Ative Primary Schools were denied entrance to their classrooms, over the burning down of a building housing an electoral committee member for the Oteri-Ughelli community youth election in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learned that the tenure of the youth executive in the …

The Delta State government has assured Ukwani ethnic nationality in the state that it would pay special attention to infrastructural development in the area. The Deputy Governor, Sir Monday Onyeme, who gave the assurance when a delegation of indigenes of Utagba-Uno in Ndokwa-West Local Government Area paid him a courtesy visit to congratulate him on his assumption of office, lamented the …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Delta State government to disclose details of how over N200 billion in education funds was spent under the administration of immediate past governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa. The funds were collected by Okowa’s government from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) between 2015 and 2019. On 17th July, Mr. Justice Daniel …

In less than one month in office, Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has been all over the three senatorial districts to inspect various projects. What stands out though is not merely the tour but the mind with which he embarked on it. He revealed his heart at the inspection of the Ibuzor Road, Asaba when he said his …

The Delta State Government has announced that all schools in the state will resume for the third term 2022/23 academic session next Tuesday, 25th April. In a statement on Friday in Asaba, the state capital, the Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs Rose Ezewu said that teaching and learning activities would commence on Tuesday, and the resumption test would be conducted …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been ordered by the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to permit the Labour Party and Kennedy Pela, the party’s candidate for the state’s 18th March election to examine the election materials used in the just-concluded polls. The party and its candidate had approached the tribunal in petition No: EPT/DL/GOV/02M/2023, seeking an order …

Residents of Idjerhe Kingdom, an oil-bearing community in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, have called on the newly-constituted Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to revisit all the abandoned projects sponsored by the commission in the community without further delay. The community maintained that it could only pass vote of confidence in the new Board …

Distribution of the N200 million donated for flood victims in Delta State by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and the party’s governorship candidate in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has commenced. While Tinubu donated N50 million cash, Omo-Agege, who is also the Deputy Senate President, gave N150 million worth of relief materials. The cash …