The Delta State Board of Internal Revenue today had a special seminar session with the South South Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) with over 1,000 clergy men present from the region on a sensitization program on taxation and the responsibility of the church to government. Speaking at the seminar the chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, Mr Joel Onuawokpo Thomas pointed out that the church ...

The presiding judge on the case, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, has set the 10th July for the Federal and Delta state governments to argue which side should claim the $15 million recovered from former governor of Delta state, Mr. James Ibori. At a resumed sitting of the court, Justice Kolawole adjourned the case for hearing for the claimant, Delta State, to make its case for the money. The $15m cash was said to ...

The Isoko North Local government council in collaboration with the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has built a 46 bed fully equipped cottage hospital including a doctors and nurses quarters and a theatre in Ekuigbo Iyede. During the commissioning of the hospital, the secretary to the state government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macualay commended the effort of the state government ...

Market men and women in Sapele town, Delta State, have decried the abandonment of the Sapele market which was razed by fire seven years ago. Sapele, which is one of the oldest cities in the state, was one of the biggest commercial centres in the 1980’s. Traders in the market say they have been abandoned by the government as the old market is yet to be restored to a state fit for business. Hence, the traders ...

The United States Consul-General, Mr Jeff Hawkins and a team of other foreigners paid a courtesy visit to the delta state governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, at the new government house,Asaba.The purpose of this visit is to synergize with the state government on areas of cooperation  and unity. During the visit,the state governor, pointed out insecurity is now a thing of the past and this administration has don ...

The House of Representatives is set to investigate the Minister of Petroleum Resources,  Diezani Alison-Madueke over allegation of suspicious oil deals worth N59 trillion. Speaking on a matter of public importance, member Representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency in Anambra State, Representative Victor Ogene accused the minister of impropriety and abuse of due process in the transaction leading to the sale o ...

The jailed former Delta State governor, James Ibori, lost a legal appeal on Thursday against a 13-year prison sentence for embezzling more than $250 million. Mr Ibori, a founding member of Nigeria's ruling party and a behind-the-scenes kingmaker who ran Delta State for 8 years, was trying to get his sentence reduced. His lawyers argued that the original judge had indicated the term would be shorter. Judge A ...

The Minister of Health, Prof.C.O.Onyebuchi Chukwu has said that Nigeria loses about N480billion yearly to malaria while reiterating the ministry’s committment to fighting the deadly disease in order to achieve a "Malaria free Nigeria." The minister who was represented by the deputy director, Steve Uzodinma said this during the official flag off of the Long Lasting Insecticide Net (LLIN) Universal Campaign i ...

In Delta state, south-south Nigeria two young men arrested by soldiers have confessed to the crime of kidnapping. Parading them in Effurun, a township area in Warri, the Commanding Officer 3 Battalion, Nigeria Army, Lieutenant Colonel Ifeanyi , said the young men allegedly kidnapped a staff of Petroleum Training Institute, Warri, took  her to an undisclosed hotel, raped her, took photographs of the act and ...

Nigeria’s pop diva; Omawumi in this week’s episode of Rubbin’ Minds revealed her humble background which she is very proud of, as she narrates her growing up while cooking Nkwobi and Isi Ewu and as well tendering for customers at her mother’s ‘glorified beer parlour’ in Warri, Delta state. Famed for her regular use of Pidgin English, the West African Idol explains her choice of expression, claiming it saves ...