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At a time like this that Nigerians are hungry and angry, saying ‘I am sorry’ may be the best escape route that some of us who championed the sai Buhari crusade and were his ardent supporters in his ANPP and CPC days in the political wilderness of failed political ambition can offer to Nigerians who wish to drag us into the shooting range or send us to Golgotha after the magical wand of the Daura sheriff had failed to perform the needed magic after one year in office.

The Nigeria Police Service Commission has approved the retirement of 21 Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs), following the appointment of Mr Idris Ibrahim as new acting Inspector General of Police.

The Department of State Service (DSS) have arrested some suspected members of Niger Delta Avengers, NDV, the militant group who has claimed responsibilities for recent attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta and a suspected member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who is planning an attack in Lagos.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC ), Chief John Odigie Oyegun and APC National Working Committee (NWC), Tuesday formally received into the APC fold, Chief Great Ogboru, the 2015 Labour party governorship candidate in Delta state and former speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and 2015 Senatorial candidate of Accord Party, Rt Hon Victor Ochei and their supporters to the party.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. Babachir David Lawal, has described as erroneous statements credited to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu following their arriagnment before the Federal High Court on Monday, June 27, 2016, for alleged forgery of Senate rule.

In final preparation for the grand reception of new entrants into the All Progressives Congress, the Delta State Chairman, Prophet Jones Ode Erue in company of state party leader, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, will tomorrow Tuesday June 28 formally present two prominent political leaders, Chief Great Ogboru and Hon Victor Ochei to the National Working Committee of the party in Abuja.

The National Vice-Chairman, South-South of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Prince Hilliard Eta was on Saturday June 25, honoured with the prestigious Chieftancy title of NTUFA, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The title is the highest in Qua Nation.

Not until the reported abduction of over 200 young school girls from #Chibok in Borno State, North-East Nigeria in April, 2014, the menace of the Boko-Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria never gained prominence in global discuss

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has said that plan are in place to improve the security of lives and properties in the state, adding that the government is willing to grant amnesty to repentant criminals and cultist who lay down their arms and embrace peace.

An attempt by the leadership of the Senate to persuade the members of the Senate Unity Forum to withdraw their suit of alleged forgery of Senate rule in order to frustrate the scheduled arraignment of the Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, at a Federal Capital Territory High Court, failed on Wednesday during a closed session that lasted for about two hours.

The Nigeria Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has stated that he had no hand on the alleged forgery of the rules adopted in the inauguration of the Eighth Senate on June 9, 2015 was formulated as been currently assumed n some quarters.

The Delta State Chapter of the All Progressives Progress (APC) has revealed that the recent agitation by some few APC Elders led by Senator Francis Okpozo, calling for the dissolution of the State Executive Committee is as a result of the recent decision taking on June 6, 2016 by the SEC of the party and the ongoing arrangements to welcome Chief Great Ogboru, former Speaker Hon Victor Ochei, their teeming supporters and other PDP, ACCORD and SDP stalwarts into the party.

President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria on Sunday arrived in Abuja, the nation’s capital, at about 5:30 p.m. local time after 14 days official vacation in London, United Kingdom, where he also saw an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist for ear infection evaluation.

Contrary to the fear currently been expressed many states in the nation, the Federal Government has said it will neither force people to surrender land nor seize anybody’s land for grazing reserves or ranch development in Nigeria.

The Minister of state for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday paid an unscheduled visit to the Gbaramatu Kingdom, in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, the ancestral home of ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

The leadership of Anglican Communion, Sapele Diocese, has described as fraud the proposed 2016 Synod schedule to hold in July 2016, at the St. John Anglican Church Amukpe Sapele, Delta State by the embattled Bishop, Rt. Rev. Blessing Erifeta, while calling on church faithful to disregard it.

The Stewardship of Hon. (Chief) Evance Ochuko Ivwurie, Member Representing Ethiope East State Constituency, Delta State House of Assembly , Accomplishments: June 2015 – June 2016-- 6th Assembly (2015-2019)

The leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State and its governorship candidate in the last election, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor, said that in 2019 general elections Deltans will take back their state from the cabal that has held it hostage in the past 17 years.

Chief Great Ogboru and Olorogun O'tega Emerhor have described the Senator representing Delta Central senatorial district at the National Assembly; Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as a man greatly loved by his people,

Niger Delta Avengers had threatened to carry out more attacks on oil installations belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC if the company embarks on any form of repairs on damaged pipelines in Bayelsa State.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that he will focus on the education and health sectors during his second year in office.

A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper.

There is looming ethnic crisis brewing between the Ijaws and their Itsekiri neighbors’ in Delta State, unless urgent steps are taken to stem the growing tension following what the leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, described as meddlesomeness of Chief Ayiri Emami in the internal affairs of the Ijaws

A female student of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, is demanding N1billion from Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of Daily Sun Newspaper for allegedly publishing her photograph in the newspaper’s

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Delta State, caucus and expanded State Executive Council, SEC, will on Sunday 5th and Monday 6th of June, meet to consider and approve the report of its new entrants

Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has urged the federal government to revisit and consider the report of the National Conference constituted by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014.

The late former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieseigha, and his wife, Margaret, have been order by the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to vacate a piece of land measuring 5336.919 square metres at Ovom area of the state.

A cross section of journalists in Delta State have decried an alleged futile attempt by the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah to gag the press after he countered a directive from the State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa by inviting selected journalists under his stooge for the governor’s first year anniversary press briefing.

A 38 years Thai man Mr Attaporn Boonmakchuay, is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a nine-foot (three metres) python while sitting on the toilet, suffered a three-inch (eight cm) wound after being bitten on the penis by the snake which had crawled up through the plumbing pipe.

The Commandant General of Riverine Security (Coast Guard of the Federation) , commander Bibi Oduku, has described the recent attack on oil and gas installations by a new militant group , the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, which is crippling the country’s oil production as a failure to act on intelligence by agencies of the Federal government.