WARRI — Stakeholders in Delta State and human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, said yesterday the Nigerian Army lacks powers to deprive Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and journalists access to Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, where gunmen killed…
The Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, on Friday, called on the Board of Enquiry set up by the Defence Headquarters to probe the Okuama killings to ensure a transparent investigation to fish out the real culprits of the heinous crime.…
A social activist and president of the Niger Delta Youth Council, Comrade Bene Youkore Mamamu, on Wednesday dispatched an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, seeking the establishment of a Federal Polytechnic in Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri South-West Local Government Area…
The Force Headquarters of the Nigeria Police on Saturday released the identities of 12 policemen, six of whom they said were gruesomely murdered and the six others still missing during a rescue operation in Delta State. They also confirmed the…
PUNCH. Tension has gripped residents of Uwheru community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State as a gas-laden tanker belonging to Freshvile company crashed into the paved ways, demarcating the double lanes of the East-West road in the…
DAILY POST. Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped the head of the music department of the Delta State University, Abraka, Prof.Ovaborhene Idamoyibo and two others who were with him in his Toyota Highlander jeep at Eku junction in Ethiope-East Local Government Area…
VANGUARD NEWS The dispute between Polobubo (Tsekelewu), a riverside Ijaw oil community in Egbema Kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC/El-Crest, over dredging of the community’s waterways, which the villagers claimed was detrimental…
THE GUARDIAN Some residents of Port-Avwon, a village in Uwheru Kingdom in Ughelli North Local Council of Delta State, yesterday, fled the community as suspected herders attacked them over farmland, allegedly raping their women and destroying their crops. Following the…
THIS DAY The House of Representatives has urged the federal government to mobilize security personnel to dislodge the alleged invasion of Obiaruku communities in Delta State by suspected herdsmen and intensify efforts at ensuring that peace is restored to the…
THE SUN A link bridge across the Eru Creek in the Isoko area of Delta State has caved in, cutting out Uzere, an oil-rich community, from other parts of the state. The bridge which is along Uzere/Asaba-Ase federal road collapsed…
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