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By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The popular Ohworhu annual cultural festival, also known as ‘Ohworhu Edjukpe’ of the Unenurhie people in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State has been slated for September 19, 2024. A statement released by the Ohworhu chief priest, Olorogun Terry Jabin, aka ‘Dr. Alhaji,’ …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Unenurhie, an autonomous community in Evwreni kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State recently installed their new Odion’Rode at the community’s ancestral hall with jubilation and joy. The new Odion’Rode, His Highness, James Amuke, an Ughelli-based business tycoon was accompanied to the ancestral …

Organizers of the prestigious Bayelsa Media Network Awards (BMNA) have nominated Springbloom International School for an award of Excellence, in recognition of the school’s sterling qualities and antecedents in the educational sector in Bayelsa State. A statement issued to newsmen in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State by the Project Manager, …

By Ehichioya Ezomon In the lead-up to the primaries for the 2024 governorship election in Edo State, the triple issues of not being a “homeboy,” unable to communicate in Esan language, and speak publicly to articulate plans for governance, assailed the formidable aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Ijaw Patriotic Movement (IPM), a socio-cultural group that cuts across the Niger Delta states, has expressed the need for the Ijaw nation to harness every available means to ensure that it has a “common socio-ultra identity,” as well as establish its role as “a concrete …

… Describe Him as Treasure to Ijaw Nation By Amos Odhe The Ijaw People’s Association (IPA) of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, has described the chairman of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo as “a treasure to the Ijaw nation.” The group noted that …

… Agwana, Isowo, Others Retain Seats in Bayelsa Exco By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said the crisis in the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will soon be resolved. Diri said the PDP remains the most virile opposition party in the …

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has advised the Minister of Petroleum, Oil, Heineken Lokpobiri to shelve his governorship ambition and concentrate on discharging his ministerial responsibilities to actualise the benefits of the Renewed Hopeu Agenda in the sub-sector. The IYC said it discovered that “Minister Lokpobiri was more interested …

The saying that says a golden fish has no hiding place played out recently when the chairman, Caretaker Committee of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Chief Dr Darlington Orji, was bestowed with an award as a Distinguished Political Icon by the Niger Delta Media Forum. The award, the group said, was …

Organizers of the prestigious Bayelsa Media Network Awards (BMNA) have nominated Prime Project Montessori/Model School for an Award of Excellence, in recognition of the school’s “sterling qualities and antecedents in the educational sector in Bayelsa State.” In a statement issued to newsmen in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, BMNA’s Project …