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A landmark peace settlement has been brokered by Delta State Government through the Special Adviser to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Peace Building and Conflict Resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor JP, as Aladja and Isaba communities sign pact to end 43 months feud. Taking turns to visit both communities in Udu and …

There is trouble in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party following former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s loss at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. The development, it was gathered, has made some members of Board of Trustees of the PDP to travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday (today) …

Despite the regular tears being shed by Governor Okowa of Delta State that the State is broke and cannot fund some of its strategic projects and create more employment for its citizens, an analysis of FAAC disbursements for the first half year 2019, ending in June showed that the three …

Barely one week after it met with SEPLAT Oil Company Limited to discuss the development of host communities, the executive of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has also met with the management of another oil giant operating in Delta State, Heritage Oil Company Ltd at its …

Fish farmers in Ekpan, Uvwie Local Government Council Area of Delta State are counting their losses,which run into millions of naira following recent flood that affected their fish farms. President General of Uvwie Kingdom, Chief Austin Ukuwrere told newsmen that fishes in over 3,000 ponds were carried away by the …

The Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has explained why he didn’t join other Niger Delta Governors to protest the newly nominated board members of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Wike said NDDC was turned into a cash cow to sponsor elections against him and his Party in Rivers …

Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported missing in the North-east region due to a decade of conflict in the area, according to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer. Maurer told reporters Thursday in Lagos that the figure is the highest number of missing …

is uneasy calm at Kiagbodo community, the hometown of elder statesmen, Senator Edwin Clark, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, over an attempt by an indigene, Mallam Abubakar Korokeme, to build a mosque in the predominantly Christian community. The matter has been simmering for some time until last …

The National Assembly election petitions tribunal sitting in Uyo has Dismissd the petition filed by Sen. Godswill Akpabio of the All Progressives Congress (APC), challenging the declaration of Ekpenyong by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as winner of the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in the Feb. 23 election, and …

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday morning received another batch of 158 Nigerians from Libya. Alhaji Idris Muhammed, the Head of NEMA Territorial Office in Lagos, told newsmen that the agency received the returnees on behalf of the Federal Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that …