Tag: Delta State
Beauty queen mentors students in Delta State
Beauty Queen, Wanda Monye is currently mentoring students in Delta State, which is a part of her Peace Education Campaign…
Economic Hardship: Prostitutes increase in Asaba
Residents of Asaba, the Delta capital, have decried the increase in commercial sex activities in the city, in spite of…
Community jubilates as army releases 3 detainees villagers
The people of Akperhe Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta, jubilated on Tuesday following the release of the…
Troops raid bunkerer, militant camps in Delta
Troops of 4 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have raided a suspected oil bunkerer and militant camps at Afiagbene in…
Chevron must stop operation, Delta community insists
The leadership of the Benikrukru Community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta has insisted that Chevron…
Tompolo’s kinsmen, women protest arrest of youths
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of men and women from Gbaramatu community from Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State…
Mob set suspected robber ablaze in Warri
A middle-aged robbery suspect was on Wednesday set ablaze by angry mob at Isoko quarters in Warri South Local Government…
IGP visits Delta, evaluates security
The acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim K. Idris, has conducted on-the-spot assessment and evaluation of security situation in some flash…
Governor wants more policemen for Delta
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called for the deployment of more policemen to the state…
Niger Delta Avengers strike again, blow up Chevron pipeline
To show that they are in no mood for any dialogue with the Federal Government, the resurgent militant group, Niger…
Niger Delta Avengers strike again, destroy Shell pipeline
The Niger Delta Avengers in the early hours of Friday claimed responsibility for another catastrophic attack on an oil facility…
Navy interrogates NNPC pipeline attack suspects in Delta
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) DELTA, has interrogated seven suspects over various criminal activities in the coastal region of Delta.…
Policemen injured as MASSOB members march in Asaba
A fight broke out between policemen and some people suspected to be members of the Movement for the Sovereign 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…
38 dead principals, others on Delta State payroll
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state on Friday said that 38 dead principals of schools and 15 retired teachers were…
Anglican priest, 12 others die in Delta auto crash
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Thirteen persons, including a priest of the Anglican Church, Rev. Stanley Ejiniwe, lost their lives in a multiple…