A Peoples Democratic Party stalwart in Delta State, Mr. Tony Omatseye, has commended Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, for setting up the state urban mass transit scheme.

AS controversies continue to trail last week’s bye-election in Akoko-Edo, state Constituency , elders of the local government area have commended Governor Adams Oshiomhole for leaving true to his promise that electoral fraud, ballot snatching, stuffing and booming of guns would be a thing of the past in the state.

A member of the Federal House of Representatives representing the Isoko Federal Constituency, Mr. Leo Ogor, has said the much-taunted amnesty for the Niger Delta militants would yield the intended objectives.

SPECIAL Project Director, Ughelli /Asaba road dualization, Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, yesterday frowned at the slow pace of work on section ‘A’ of the project that is being handled by Workson Nigeria Limited.

THE Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Edo/Delta states branch has appealed to the government of both states to set up a committee of industrialists and business men to draw up a strategy on how to develop industrial estates in their states.

ILORIN- The Kwara State Government has approved the commencement of construction work for the International Aviation College, Ilorin, scheduled to take off in February 2010 just as it revoked two road contracts in the state.

Briefing newsmen on the outcome of the state Executive Council meeting at Government House, Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr [...]

FORMER deputy governor of Edo state, Reverend Peter Obadan, and former Chief whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday joined other Nigerians in mourning the death of Edo North leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Chairman of Setraco Nigeria Limited, Alhaji Inu Umoru.

ABAKALIKI – Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi state has charged the young in the state to concentrate their efforts on how to create jobs for themselves, especially through agriculture, rather than wait for none existent white collar jobs that he said creates shadow or disguised unemployment.

The Governor bemoans situations where university graduates wait endlessly [...]

Gombe – The Gombe State Ministry of Health has taken pro-active measures to handle any outbreak of diseases in the state, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Mohammad Umar, has said.

Umar said in Gombe yesterday that the state government had released N3 million for the re-stocking of the state medical stores adding that the stores [...]

Speaking shortly after his inauguration, Chairman of the executive committee of the chapter, Prince Ben Oru, expressed happiness and said they adopted consultation amongst Urhobo people and other ethnic groups in the state and maintained that the UCF “recognizes that even in physical weakness of ones neighbors’ attributes, that could be harness for common good”.