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2022 World Cup qualifying fixtures in Africa
Complete 2022 World Cup matchday 1 qualifying fixtures in Africa this week (all kick-off times GMT): WEDNESDAY At Douala, Cameroon Central African Republic v Cape Verde, 1300 At Nouakchott, Mauritania Guinea-Bissau v Guinea, 1600 At Thies, Senegal Senegal v Togo, 1600 At Agadir, Morocco Mali v Rwanda, 1900 At Benghazi, Libya Libya v Gabon, 1900
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Boat shot at in Bonny river was carrying illegally-refined oil products – DHQ
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says the boat a military helicopter shot at in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, was conveying illegally-refined oil products. It was reported over the weekend that a military helicopter opened fire on a cargo boat conveying food stuff from Port Harcourt to Bonny. But in a statement on Sunday, Benjamin Sawyerr, DHQ
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APC group visits Governor Masari, seeks support for Osinbajo’s presidency
By Our Correspondent As the 2023 general election gathers momentum, a political support group, Progressive Consolidation Group (PCG) has drummed support for Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to contest the 2023 presidential election. For the purpose of re-strategising the priorities of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, enhancing progressive reforms and national unity, according to the group, Osinbajo is
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Warri of our dream will soon be unveiled – Otuaro
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Barrister Kingsley Otuaro has disclosed that Warri with great dream will soon be unveiled, noting that the perennial flooding issues in the Warri metropolis will become a thing of the past, GbaramatuVoice reports. “The major flood control and storm protection works been carried out by His Excellency, in addition
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Nigerian highighlife music legend, Victor Uwaifo is dead
By Ebi Perekeme One of Nigerian highlife music legends, Sir Victor Uwaifo, has passed on in Benin on Saturday at the age 80 years. The music icon whose tracks “Joromi” and “Mammy Water” were hits till his demise, was a multi instrumentalist and a renowned virtual artist. One of his children, Uwaifo Peter de Rock,
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NIMET predicts heavy rainfall, thunderstorms across Nigeria
By Our Correspondent In the early hours of Saturday, thunderstorms are anticipated over parts of Gombe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba as well as later in the day over parts of Kaduna, Yobe, Borno, Gombe, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Sokoto States, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency has said. Over the North central region of the country, cloudy skies
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FENND begins legal process for self-determination in Niger Delta
By Our Correspondent The Forum for Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta says it has begun legal process for the actualisation of self-reliance, saying that the law by which the region was conscripted into, forced contraption in Nigeria had long elapsed. The region lamented that the three per cent allocated to host communities from the operating
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30 years of building road infrastructure in Delta
By Nelson Egware Delta State, with the sobriquet as the Big Heart of the nation, became 30 years on August 27, 2021, after its creation by the military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida on August 27, 1991. The government and people of Delta State lined up programmes to celebrate the anniversary and appreciate the grace of
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State-of-the-Nation: Convoke national dialogue, Okowa tells FG
Delta Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has called on the Federal Government to create avenue for a national dialogue to dissect and seek panacea to various challenges facing the country. Okowa made the call at an interdenominational thanksgiving service to mark the 30th anniversary of the creation of Delta State held at St. Peters Anglican Cathedral,
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DELTA AT 30: More Questions Than Answers
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The GbaramatuVoice Newspaper joins the entire Deltans to give glory to God for the gift of life as the state celebrates 30 years of creation. Though the state has in the past 30 years under different leaderships made some appreciable progress in political, socioeconomic and infrastructural sectors, however, looking at the
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Popular Nollywood actor, Victor Olaotan is dead
By Beauty Suobai Veteran Nollywood actor Victor Olaotan, who had a ghastly motor accident nearly four years ago, has died. According to information available to GbaramatuVoice says Olaotan died on Thursday, August 26. The 69-year-old actor, who is best known for his role as Fred Ade-Williams in the popular TV series, Tinsel, was bedridden for
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Rivers
[BREAKING] Many injured as helicopter shoots passenger boat in Bonny
A yet-to-be identified helicopter has reportedly shot at a local passenger boat travelling from Port Harcourt to Bonny in Rivers State. There are fears of casualties, with some occupants severely injured and rushed to the hospital. An eye witnesses at the Bonny-Nembe waterside where the boat took off from in Port Harcourt, told newsmen that
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Retired matron jailed 10 years for buying Six-year-old boy N50,000, selling him N200,000 in Akwa Ibom
A 47-year-old woman in Akwa Ibom State has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for buying a six-year-old boy in Uyo, the state capital. The convict, Gertrude Thompson Akpan, was said to have transferred the boy after buying him, to Owerri in Imo State where she sold him to one Kate Ojukwu Ogbonna, a native
Bayelsa
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How father of 6 killed wife with hammer, commits suicide in Bayelsa
A 40-year-old father of six, Patrick Markson, has reportedly killed his wife with sledge hammer, over alleged protracted marital dispute. The incident occurred Thursday morning, at Odede Street, in the Tombia Amassoma Road area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The 35-year-old wife, simply identified as Hannah, is from Okotiama community, in Gbarain Clan, Yenagoa, the state
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President Buhari announces ₦287b NNPC Profit After Tax for 2020
By Enaibo Asiayei The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) made of N287billion after paying tax in 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed. Buhari made this disclosure in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina on Wednesday. He said the President’s announcement was in fulfillment of an earlier pledge by his
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Real reasons why former aviation minister, Stella Oduah dumped PDP for APC
By Joshua Williams Senator Stella Oduah dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday. Oduah, a former Aviation Minister, represents Anambra North in the National Assembly. A statement by APC Director of Publicity, Salisu Dambatta quoted Oduah as saying she defected to co-change the “political narrative” in the Igbo-speaking States. “She
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Crisis tears PDP apart as court reinstates Secondus as national chairman …Governors back Akinwonmi as Ag. chair
By Daniel Kokoricha A Kebbi State High Court has ordered Prince Uche Secondus to return to his position as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A vacation Judge, Justice Nusrat Umar, gave the order in a suit brought before her in Birinin Kebbi, the state capital. In the case, cited as KB/AC/M. 170/2021,
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Tears in Delta as 7 female wedding guests killed in auto crash are Buried in Bomadi
The seven women-wedding guests who died in a vehicular accident on Aragba-Orogun in Ughelli North of Delta State last Saturday were buried in Bomadi communities on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 admist tears from thousands of residents in the area. Watch video below…
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DELTA GUBER 2023-The PDP ALBATROSS: Against APC an Urhobo candidate will be a cheap concession
“And so it seems that people who write about happenings in their environment both intended and extended, whose thoughts grip the perception being quantified, do not stumble accidentally into their status, they achieve it through the deep knowledge they have acquired often painfully about their society” The Center for Politics and Strategic Studies, a non-governmental
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DESOPADEC is not owing Isoko youths – INYA
…Such claim not only false but vexatious, Ogbokor-Etaluku, INYA President By Gbenga Nicholas The Isoko National Youth Assembly (INYA) has refuted the claim by Isoko Development Union (IDU), Youth Wing, who recently alleged that Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC of owing them N80 million Social Security Funds, describing it as not
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Death of seven female wedding guests in Bomadi: Questions Before Delta State Government
The GbaramatuVoice Management is alarmed that after over 48 hours news report of how seven innocent Deltans who were said to be returning from a wedding feast perished in a fatal motor accident along Orogun road in Ughelli North Local Government Area, the state has not deemed it necessary to visit the deceased families or
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Sorrow, tears in Bomadi as 7 female wedding guests who died in Delta road accident set for burial
The burial for the seven wedding guests who perished in a fatal motor accident along Orogun road in Ughelli North Local Government Area, have been scheduled for Wednesday, August 25, 2021 in Bomadi town. GbaramatuVoice gathered that the accident involved a Toyota Sienna with about nine passengers on board. The occupants who were from Bomadi
Delta
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Delta police dispel rumour kidnap of Loyibo, 26 community leaders in Tuomo
By Our Correspondent The Delta State Police Command has debunked media reports alleging that 26 persons, including a senior traditional chief in Tuomo community in Delta State, had been abducted by unknown gunmen following disagreement over who becomes the community development council (CDC) leader. The state police command spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, said in a
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Isoko youths threaten to shut down oil facilities over non payment of N80m DESOPADEC Security Fund
By Our Correspondent Isoko Development Union, IDU, Youth Wing, weekend, told the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, to address with immediate effect, the issue of non-release of N80 million social security funds allegedly owed them by the commission, failing which it would commence a total lockdown of oil facilities in the Isoko
Opinion
Behold! Bauchi As An Oil Producing State?
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir The rains weren’t going to come this year and I was quite petrified, seeing that the sector with the largest contribution to our GDP has been the non oil sector; with agric leading the fray. The clouds would gather and the thunderstorms would rage on, but then they would just disappear
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How Osinbajo, Atiku, Governors, top dignitaries graced Pa Okowa’s burial ceremony in Delta
By Ebi Perekeme Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has described the late Pa Arthur Okowa, as a foremost educationist and committed public servant who contributed to the growth and development of education in the country. Osinbajo spoke on Saturday at St Michael’s Anglican Church, Owa-Alero, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta at the thanksgiving
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Behold, the new Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III
By Our Correspondent Today marks the dawn of a new era in Itsekiri nation. The 21st Olu of Warri Kingdom has been crowned. He is Omoba Tsola Emiko, who is now being addressed as Ogiame Atuwatse III. The development comes sequel to a series of activities lined up for the coronation of the monarch who
Life & Living
11 Things You Need to Know About the 21st Olu of Warri, Omoba Tsola Emiko
Here are some 12 quick facts about Prince Tsola Emiko, full name Utieyinoritsetsola, who will be crowned today as the 21st Olu of Warri in Delta state. 1. Omoba Tsola Emiko will become the 21st Olu of Warri kingdom at the young age of 37. 2. He was born 2 April 1984 into the family
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Osinbajo, 35 Governors, others to grace Pa Okowa’s burial ceremony in Owa today
Delta State Government has revealed that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and governors from the 35 states are expected to be in attendance for the burial of Pa Arthur Okowa. Pa Okowa died on January 28 after a brief illness at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, at the age of 88. Governor Okowa had earlier
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Sylva Inaugurates Steering Committee To Implement Petroleum Industry Act
By Gbenga Nicholas Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has inaugurated the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act signed by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. This is coming a day after President Buhari approved the constitution of the committee after which he directed them to immediately commence the implementation
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PIB: IYC warns Buhari, Sylva to stay away from Niger Delta
Ijaw youths under the auspices of the Youth Council (IYC) have condemned the signing of the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, declaring that he was no longer welcomed in the Niger Delta. The IYC also warned the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva not to step his
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PIA: Niger Delta Ministry now to manage 3% on behalf of Host Communities
By Ebi Perekeme Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has said to avoid any crisis that may arise in the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act, a trust fund would be opened for the 3% allocated to host communities. He said the Ministry of Niger Delta would ensure that the funds are used on
Bayelsa
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Niger Delta fishermen hail President Buhari for assenting to Petroleum Industry Bill
The Artisanal Fishermen Association of Nigeria (ARFAN) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. Mr Samuel Ayadi, the Coordinator of ARFAN in the Niger Delta, made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Yenagoa. Ayadi noted that the new law had
Opinion
Bayelsa and the nation’s emerging power house
By Jerome-Mario Utomi Few days ago, precisely on Tuesday August 10, 2021, I listened with real curiosity to Mr. Daniel Alabrah, Chief Press Secretary to Senator Douye Diri, the Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, speaks at the recently held GbaramatuVoice Newspaper 6th anniversary lecture at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos. Among other things, Alabrah,