This isn’t Warri we grew up in — Oki, Mene, Origho, elder statesmen reminisce
"The traditional institution should have learned its lessons and that the intertribal conflicts and other issues may have subsided somewhat”
Otuaro visits Delta aggrieved community, pleads for time to dialogue with Chevron
By Emma Amaize DEPUTY Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, Wednesday, visited Ugborodo Community, Warri South-West Local Government Area, where women and youths protested, Tuesday, against Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, over alleged abandonment, appealing for calm, as government has intervened in the dispute. The protesters complained that the company was not adhering to the […]
Warri ‘gra-gra’ no action
By Sunny Ikhioya THE name Warri, both as a city and a people, is a bundle of contradiction, a paradox of sort. A city with a deep history of commerce and business, but now in decline. A people of boldness and audacity – they conquered coronavirus with ogogoro and other local herbs – that they […]
Tears as Central Hospital, Warri loses consultant anaesthetist to COVID-19
By Francis Efe – Warri Doctors, nurses and other staff of Central Hospital, Warri, Delta State, cried profusely as a former Zonal Medical Director and consultant anaesthetist at the Hospital, Dr Toju Eresanara, lost his life to the dreaded COVID-19. Eresanara, who was undergoing treatment at the COVID-19 treatment centre in Asaba after testing positive, […]
Popular Warri Pastor Sisan Leigh dies
Jimitota Onoyume Founding Pastor of a popular Pentecostal church, Fathers House, Warri, Delta State, Pastor Dr Sisan Leigh is dead. News of his death hit social media yesterday with some saying he allegedly died from COVID-19. Pastor Leigh as he was fondly called ran a church that attracted the low and mighty in the oil-rich […]
Police arrest clergyman for allegedly raping 19-yr-old girl in Delta
By Francis Efe – Warri Police detectives from the Warri Area Command, Delta State have arrested the Founder/General Overseer of Victory Revival Fasting & Prayer Ministry, Bishop Elijah Orhonigbe for allegedly raping a nineteen-year-old girl (names withheld) in Warri. The popular Cleric who is cooling his heels in the police cell in ‘A’ Division Warri, […]
