Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Ehiedu Aniagwu, has said that peace and security is necessary for the realisation of the Stronger Delta vision of the Okowa led administration. Mr Aniagwu stated this when he received in audience the chairman of Team Search For Common Ground, Mrs Bridjet Effiah in his office in Asaba.…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on her emergence as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, an illustrious Deltan from Ogwashi-Uku, was a two-time Minister of Finance, who led Nigeria’s economy to exit foreign debt obligations during her first term under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.…
Delta Government on Monday gave owners of lands acquired from it in urban areas for over two years, three months to develop such lands or risk the revocation of the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O). The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, gave the warning at a news conference in Asaba. Aniagwu deplored the…
Sokoto State Governor, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and his Zamfara counterpart, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, on Sunday said the nation’s insecurity challenges requires concerted effort to resolve them. They stated this while speaking to journalists at Boji-Boji Owa, Ika North East Local Government Area, shortly after a condolence visit on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on…
Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday urged Nigerians to support ranching, saying it would drastically reduce herders-farmers clashes across the country. He said that the time to rise against open grazing was now, especially as governors of the Northern States had voted for ranching as the way to go in cattle-rearing. Okowa made…
Delta Government on Friday said plans were underway to upgrade the Asaba International Airport to a Category 9 Airport to enable it receive bigger planes. Special Projects Director of the Airport, Mr Austin Ayemidejor, disclosed this to journalists shortly after the arrival of United Nigeria Airline’s Maiden flight to Asaba. The airline marked 5N-BWZ which…
Delta Government on Thursday announced the approval of the construction and rehabilitation of no fewer than 15 roads across the state at a cost of about N16 billion. This was part of the decisions reached at the State Executive Council meeting presided over by the Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa. Briefing newsmen after…
The Delta State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday presented flags to its chairmanship candidates and their deputies in the 25 local government areas for the March 6, 2021 council elections in the state. Speaking at the event held at the party’s Secretariat in Asaba, Chairman of the party in the state,…
In pursuance of the Stronger Delta agenda and the promotion of public health in the State, the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have flagged off the 2020/2021 Rabies Vaccination Campaign and the distribution of biosecurity inputs to pig farmers and poultry marketers across…
In keeping with the Stronger Delta agenda of the Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa led administration to turn Delta State into a food basket as well as develop human capital through job and wealth creation, the Delta State government has today distributed bags of fish feed to fish farmers in the state. The distribution which is a…