Tag: Delta State
Delta govt creates 17,173 jobs
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, on Monday, said that his administration had created 17, 173 jobs directly and indirectly in…
Total blackout in Asaba, Delta State
Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) on Saturday said that Asaba and its environs would experience power outage for a while…
Igho, president of Urhobo youth union abducted
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The anti-kidnapping unit of the Delta state Police Command is on the trail of abductors of Ovie…
Soldiers arrest 16 militants in Delta
To check incessant attacks on the country’s oil pipeline, the Joint Military Force (JMF) in the Niger Delta said it…
Kidnapping: 3 to die by hanging in Delta
Jethro Ibileke/Warri A Delta State High Court sitting in Effurun, has sentenced three persons, Augustin Akpojivi, Dawel James and Collins…
Soldier shoots bride’s mother dead in Delta
Tragedy struck on Saturday morning as a mother of a bride was allegedly shot dead by a soldier at the…
Fulani herdsmen abduct varsity worker in Delta
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba The Delta State Police Command have confirmed the abduction of a non-academic staff of the Delta State University,…
Okowa charges STEP graduates to be self reliant
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Delta state Governor Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has charged the Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) graduates to…
Traders shut down Delta council over new market levy
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Traders, predominantly women, invaded Udu Council secretariat in Delta state sacking all personnel including security guards in…
Delta State signs 500 megawatts MoU
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Delta State Government has taken a quantum leap to boost power generation in the state when it…
Delta Govt to retire over-aged tertiary institution staff
Jehtro Ibileke/Asaba No fewer than 147 “over-aged” teaching and non-teaching staff of Delta State-owned tertiary institutions have been pencilled down…
Sorrow, tears, as NYSC DG visits family of slain corps member
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Emotion ran high and tears flowed freely on the faces of family members of the slain youth corps…
Urhobo youth leader, wife kidnapped in Delta
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt National Secretary of Urhobo Youth Leaders Association, Comrade Vincent Oyibode was on Monday kidnapped alongside his…
Delta: Two welders to die by hanging for robbery
Jethro Ibileke/Warri A Delta State High Court sitting in Warri has sentenced two welders, Monday Godwin (27) and Ochuko Ego…
Ibru: Union declares 3 days of mourning
The Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU) has declared a three-day of mourning in honour of the late Chief Felix Ibru, the…