… Ossai Maintains Lead over Elumelu, Others Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central) has sponsored the highest number of bills by senators from Delta State at midterm. According to a midterm analysis of bill sponsorship in the 9th National Assembly by legislature-focused media, OrderPaper, Omo-Agege sponsored 20 bills at …
Read More »Ijaw Communities Protest Non-Inclusion, Oppression, Accuse Nat’l, State Lawmakers on Communal Crises
The communities making up Kerebiri Mein kingdom in Bomadi council area of Delta State have protested what they described as non-inclusiveness by the traditional umbrella body of the Ijaw ethnic nationality, the Conference of Ijaw Traditional Rulers and Elders Forum, CITRE. The kingdom in a letter addressed to the CITRE, …
Read More »‘PDP Will Win Bayelsa Senatorial Bye-Elections’
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would win the suspended Bayelsa Central and West senatorial bye-elections whenever they are conducted. Governor Diri stated this on Monday night while addressing PDP faithful shortly after the conduct of the …
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