Legacy of a Better Business Environment (PART 2)

Okowanomics Fact Sheet No. 9, October-B 2022 1.0 INTRODUCTION Okowanomics Fact Sheet Series is a semi-monthly [twice-a-month] bulletin of evidence-based “Fact Sheets” showing Governor Okowa’s spectacular achievements in the social, infrastructural and economic development of Delta State. The Fact Sheet Series is a “book of chronicles” of Governor Okowa’s legacies and footprints in the geopolitical…

Delta to issue white paper on Evwreni crisis

Delta Government, on Tuesday, said it would issue a white paper on the report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the intra communal conflict in Evwreni town, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.  The Commissioner for Works in charge of Highways and Urban Roads, Mr. Noel Omodon disclosed this while briefing journalists…

Delta State Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria Postpones 2022 Final Year Examinations

By Donald Ojebo The November 2022 Nursing and Midwifery Council Examination for the final year Nursing Students in the various State Schools of Nursing and the Delta State University, Abraka has been put on hold pending when all the contending issues are sorted out and a new date will be communicated to them. The Delta State Commissioner for Health Dr. Mordi Ononye made this known today when he addressed…

Okowa presents N561.8bn Budget for 2023

Delta Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday, presented an Appropriation Bill of N561.82 billion for 2023 to the state’s House of Assembly. Christened “Budget of Seamless and Stable Transition”, the governor told the lawmakers that the Bill was made up of N326.6 billion for Capital…

Delta bags US award for sustainable healthcare financing

Delta Government has been conferred with the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC) Award for exemplary leadership in healthcare financing.  The award – Partnership for Sustainability Healthcare Financing (Budgeting, Release and Expenditure) was announced at the USCDC Biannual Program Performance Review Meeting/2022 End of Project Cycle Symposium held in Abuja.  Receiving the award at…

You can’t become governor with lies, Delta tells Omo-Agege

Delta Government on Tuesday advised All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in the state, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to desist from telling lies to hoodwink unsuspecting Deltans into supporting his already failed ambition. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, at a news conference in Asaba said no amount of lies and propaganda deployed by the…

Delta’s Agric Ministry Donates Items To IDPs

In light of the recent flooding in Delta State and following the recent world food day celebration, the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has reached out to Internally Displaced Persons in the state. The visit was led by the Commissioner, Dr Godfrey Enita, who had in his team the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry,…

Delta 2022: Okowa tasks contractors on projects’ delivery

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged contractors handling projects on facilities for 21st National Sports Festival being hosted by the state to redouble their efforts and meet completion deadline. Okowa made the call on Thursday while speaking with newsmen after inspecting ongoing projects at Stephen…