By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh Ngozi Stella Nwanagbogwu hails from Oshimili North Local Government Area. She is the CEO of Hi Style, a hair beauty salon. She enrolled into the 2018/2019 STEP cycle as a Brown STEPreneur when she could not establish herself for lack of funds. She is an SSCE holder. Her business potentials came alive when…
By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh and Ifeanyi Omenogor Glory Chioma Nwafor hails from Aniocha South LGA. She is the CEO of Chioma Farms. She is an SSCE holder; she enrolled into the 2018/2019 YAGEP cycle wherein she was trained and given farm support in Cassava Production. With the support, she progressed from subsistence farming to commercial…
By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh and Clementina Wewele Festus Amukpo is a graduate in Business Administration and Management who hails from Ethiope West LGA. He enrolled, trained and was established in the 2017/2018 STEP cycle in Audio-Visual Services. He is the CEO of Fechristo Production. He speaks on his journey so far after five years in business. “The STEP…
Okowanomics Fact Sheet No. 13, February 2023. 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 of job and wealth creation, development of infrastructure, urban renewal, transformation of education and health systems, peace and security, social harmony and overall economic development. The Series is a journal of Governor Okowa’s legacies and…
Delta State government has assured Deltans of a peaceful resolution of the long aged dispute between cattle herders and farmers in Delta, particularly those in Uwheru, in Ughelli North Local Government Area. The Chairman of the Delta State Livestock Management Committee (DLMC) and Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Godfrey Enita, gave the assurance…
by Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh and Isioma Okeleke Malvin Nnamdi Kukaye is the CEO of Dave Agro Services. He hails from Ndokwa East LGA and has M.Sc. in Environmental Management. He enrolled into YAGEP in the 2015/2016 cycle, and was supported to start business in Fish Production. Seven years later, Malvin is still in business. He shares…
Vanguard Newspapers on Friday night, honoured Mr Ejiro Otarigho with a Hero’s Award for driving a blazing petroleum tanker out of a point where lives and property would have been consumed by a huge fire. Otarigho, Agbarho-born driver in Delta, sometime in 2022, at a high risk to his life, steered a burning tanker laden…
Delta Government on Monday said contrary to the misinformation being peddled by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, it was not seeking fresh N100 billion loan as being alleged. Commissioner for Finance, Chief Fidelis Tilije, stated this at a joint press conference with his Information counterpart, Charles Aniagwu and the Chief Press…
Delta Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Godfrey Enitan, has said that 35 flashpoints of illegal cattle grazing has been identified in the state. Enitan, who doubles as the State Chairman, Delta State Livestock Management Committee (DSLMC), disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the committee’s meeting on Wednesday in Asaba. He noted that the…
National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, on Wednesday deplored the poor living condition in Niger Delta, saying that in spite of the region’s huge contributions to the nation’s economy, poverty rate in the area had continued to rise. He said that the situation in the zone was bizarre, given the volume…