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Delta MDAs tasked to ensure job creation

Ihesiulo Grace 7 December 2016 0

A two-day workshop for data collation and review of job creation achievements of the Delta State Government through its ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) has been held with a call on the participants to ensure that job creation data is valid, verifiable and useable. The workshop

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Robbers Kill Ex-Commissioner’S Brother in Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 6 May 2015 0

Suspected armed robbers have killed one Christopher Timinimi, said to be a younger brother to Mr. George Timinimi, a former Commissioner for Transport in Delta State. According to a family source, “The incident occurred at about 7:30 pm around Idiaregbe by Okere Ugborikoko road when the suspected bandits shot Christopher, a middle aged man from […]

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Governorship Re-run: Police IG Gives No Movement Order In Abia, Imo, Others

Ihesiulo Grace 24 April 2015 0

  Due to the governorship re-run elections scheduled to hold in Taraba, Imo, Delta, Kogi and Abia states, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has given an order restraining vehicular movements in Local Government Areas where the re-run elections will be held in five states on Saturday. The no movement order is […]

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Cholera Kills 30 in Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2015 0

  At least 30 people have been killed in the latest cholera out­break in Isoko South community of Delta State, a health official said on Monday. Chief Epidemiologist at the Delta State Ministry Health, Ste­ven Ofili, said prompt response and physical attention of health workers had curbed the spread of the disease. According to him, […]

Politics

Election Fallout: Fake Soldiers Arrested in Lagos, Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 13 April 2015 0

Fake soldiers were arrested in Badagry Lagos State and Avara, Isoko South local government area of Delta State by security operatives during last Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections. The fake soldiers were alleged to have been linked to election malpractices in the states. In Lagos, a highly placed source told Daily Times vigilant soldiers […]

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Delta Community Leader Backs Okowa

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2015 0

Ahead of tomorrow’s gubernatorial and House of Assembly poll, prominent community leader in Delta State, Prof. Imeagwu Chukwumah Ijomah, has urged the people of the state to cast their votes for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as next governor of the state. Prof. Ijomah made the appeal in Asaba at a stakeholders’ […]

Features

Delta 2015: The Tango over Positions Intensifies

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2015 0

Political scheming over who gets what in the next dispensation has become intense in oil-rich Delta State, reports JOE OGBODU. One thing is clear as the next election date draws near: all the ethnic nationalities in Delta State are scheming for one position or the other. So, it is now a game of interest. While […]

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INEC Official Arrested for Illegally Collating Results in Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 31 March 2015 0

A member of staff the Inde­pendent National Electoral Com­mission was arrested on Monday at the commission’s office in Asa­ba for violating INEC’s rule on col­lation of results. The INEC worker, who served as the electoral officer for Ndokwa East Local Government Area, was taken away by policemen in a van after he admitted to collating […]

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Kidnapper of Judge’s Wife to Die by Hanging

Ihesiulo Grace 31 March 2015 0

  A Delta State High Court sit­ting at Ughelli in Delta State has sentenced one David Tamarakpo Pade to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping a woman. The kidnapped woman, Mrs. Roli Awala, is wife to a retired judge of the Court of Appeal. The court also sentenced two of his accomplices to […]

Headlines Politics

Breaking: INEC Postpones House of Reps Elections in Delta

Ihesiulo Grace 28 March 2015 0

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the House of Representatives elections in Ethiope East and West Constitutency in Delta due to shortfall in ballot papers Details to come later

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Delta PDP drags APC, AP, LP candidates to court

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2015 0

The Federal High Court, sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has fixed today for the hearing of the case, filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the candidates  of three opposition parties-All Progressives Congress (APC), Accord party, and Labour party -challenging their eligibility in the forthcoming general election in the  state. Joined as defendants in the […]