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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.

Your first visible achievement to my mind is the absence of any credible cry of marginalization by any section of the State. In a multi-ethnic State like Delta, your ability to carry everyone along is commendable. Your predecessor was perceived as selfish, unforgiving and ‘almost’ wicked. You

those of us who know that it is in our collective interest that he succeeds rejoiced that things were getting better. Sadly this romance did not last long.

Aliko Dangote, the President of Dangote Group, is one of the rare breed of industrialists who commands my respect.

In this interview the leader of APC in Delta State and the governorship candidate in the last election, Olorogun O’tega …

The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, weekend at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Effurun, Uvwie, Delta State assured the Vice Chancellor and the Monarch of Uvwie kingdom, of a speedy passage of the bill establishing the university.

This may not the best of time for the new (s)elected Delta State chairman, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Barr Kingsley ‘Efejuku’ Esiso, who was allegedly imposed on the party by the governor, is reportedly facing legitimacy crisis, as most of the party leaders from Delta Central refuses to accept him as chairman.

Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, crisis worsen as women of the Diocese number over 300 in a protest in Sapele, called for the immediate removal of the embattled Bishop

a 64 year-old man, Thomas Manning whose penis was removed because of cancer has received the first penis transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, in the United States

Brave Dog saves girl, 7, from rattlesnake, needs help from snakebites

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have thrown their weight behind the Federal Government new petrol pump price.

FAILED CAMPAIGN PROMISES: Angry Youths Set Lawmakers House Ablaze Following the failed electoral campaign promises, by Senator Kabiru Gaya and House of Representatives member, Mr. Abdullahi Gaya, some angry youths in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano on Wednesday destroyed and set their buildings on fire, saying that, the lawmakers are bundles of disappointment.