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By Ehichioya Ezomon  President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and three other presidential contestants have onus to help their parties secure the states gained in the February 25 poll, and strive to add more states to their columns. In normal political times, the All Progressives Congress would reap a bandwagon effect from Tinubu’s …

Chairman of Khana Local Government Area, Dr. Bariere Thomas, has urged electorates in the council area and Baen communities in particular to “vote wisely” during the forth-coming governorship/house of assembly election. He reiterated this position when he took his sensitization tour to the people of Bua Baen community in ward …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa An Ijaw Youth activist, Comrade Collins Trueman Opumie, has dragged the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force to the state High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State over his “illegal arrest and detention in an underground …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa A chieftain and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ofuoma Town, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, Olorogun Theo Mukoro, has maintained that the candidate of All Progressives Congress APC, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, is “well positioned and highly favoured to win the …

The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the arrest of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, over a video allegedly indicating threats on voters in Orogun community, to “either vote the APC or risk being killed.” In …

By Geo Edesiri With the governorship and House of Assembly elections around the corner, it has become necessary to examine factors that voters ought to consider in reaching the final decision to cast their votes for candidates. This interrogation is specially for the benefit of the voters in Delta State. …

By Paul Williams As the 2023 general elections enters a new phase in its life next Saturday, how has the media fared in its coverage of the nationwide exercise? What are the dominant trends among media houses and journalists in the coverage of the elections? Have professional standards and ethics …

By Paul Williams As the country moves towards electing the next set of helmsmen at the state level in the March 18 governorship elections, the executive director of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, Obonganwan Emem Okon, has made a call for more government attention to issues of gender, inclusiveness …

… As Court Grants Approval to Reconfigure BVAS By Emmanuel Sunday The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the governorship and state House of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 by one week. The elections will now hold on March 18, 2023. The decision was reached after …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Ijaw leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, High Chief Michael Johnny has congratulated President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and vice president-elect, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, and Delta South senator-elect, Hon. Joel Onowakpo Thomas. In a statement by his media office on Sunday …