There was pandemonium Sunday morning when a 28 year old boy, Jeffrey Otite, who had gone to make withdrawal from an Automated Teller Machine along Okpe Road in Sapele, Delta State started behaving abnormally.

The people of Sapele/Okpe community of Delta State, have warned political parties and the state government against fielding their respective candidates for House of Assembly from Sapele rural, an area they said has produced elected and appointed representatives for the entire community for the past 25 years to the deprivation of Sapele urban.

Former chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Godwin Edeki, has said  that Delta Central senatorial aspirant, Mr Evelyn Oboro, will get up to 80 percent of Sapele delegates in the forthcoming PDP senatorial primary election.

THE Police Area Command in Sapele, Delta State, has set up a Police/Community Relations Committee, PCRC, to assist it in combating crime, which has become rampart in the area in recent times.

The kidnappers of the popular timber merchant, Mr. Friday Igbayo, in Sapele, Delta State, are reportedly demanding N16 million as ransom for his release.

Mr. Cliff Chima, a Lagos-based energy lawyer has commended the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC, for completing major power projects in the nation.

BENIN—A $250 million Foreign Direct Investment electricity project is to be sited in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area,  Delta State, by Proton Energy Limited with a view to boosting the energy needs of the country.

The people of Ovwore community, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to pay compensation to them over their houses marked for demolition in the proposed Sapele/Agbor road dualization or they will block the East West Road and cause mayhem at the Amukpe roundabout portion of the road.

The people of Sapele, Delta State yesterday for the umpteenth time protested against poor power supply, blocking major roads, particularly the adjoining roads to the center of the city known as Olympia, causing traffic jam.

SAPELE—EMBA-TTLED Chairman of Sapele-Okpe Community, Sapele Local Government Area, Delta State, Michael Egbejule, yesterday, disagreed with the claim by the Sapele-Okpe Land Trust Association that peace had returned to the community.

By Godwin Oghre Sapele—As the blackout in Sapele, Delta State, enters its sixth day, despite several peaceful protests by the residents, thousands of protesters, yesterday, vowed that they will switch off the Sapele Power Station and the power generating National Independent Power Project, NIPP, a few days from now, as a measure to press home […]

There was total collapse of commercial and socio-economic activities in Sapele, recently, as over half of the population took to the streets in protest against the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, for failure to improve on power supply to the area since it took over from Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, over six years ago.

Sapele Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, SACCIMA, Sapele, Delta State, has advised the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on foreign exchange (forex) by stopping the financing imports of all non-government or essential commodities or settlements of important bills and BTA’s, as it was in the mid-80s when forex was allocated for essential imports only.

Chairman of Association of Past Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chairmen in Delta Central senatorial district, Delta State, Chief Godwin Edeki, has faulted what he termed the “unwarranted blackout and the underdevelopment of Sapele Local Government Area, by politicians in the area, whom the people voted into office.

Sapele—Residents of Oghara, the administrative headquarters of Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, have expressed worries over indiscriminate packing of tankers on the Oghara/Ajagbodudu dual carriage way, waiting to load petroleum products at Rain Oil Depot in the community.