How Gov. Okowa Changed My Unemployment Story to Testimony, Says YAGEP Beneficiary

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh EROMEDOGHENE EZEKIEL (2016/2017 CYCLE)LGA: ISOKO NORTHENTERPRISE: FISH PRODUCTION That the Delta State Government’s job creation programme has taken thousands of Deltan youths off the streets by training and establishing them in vocational and agricultural enterprises of their choice is stating the obvious. Testimonies abound of their business successes across the state. One…

Delta Targets 70 Percent Universal Health Coverage By 2023

Expanding the Delta State contributory health insurance scheme to achieve 70 percent universal health coverage by 2023 through improved financing mechanisms was brought to the front-burner yesterday. The one-day seminar organized by the State Contributory Health Commission (DSCHC) featured the Chief Economic Adviser to the Governor, Prof Sylvester Monye; the Chief Economic Adviser to the…

Okowa, others eulogise late Justice Samuel Oseji

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, on Wednesday, eulogised the late Supreme Court Judge, Justice Samuel Oseji, saying he was an incorruptible jurist and a man of unassailable integrity whose death was a great loss to Delta and Nigeria. Okowa spoke at a “Night of Tributes” for the late Jurist held at the Court of Appeal, Asaba.…

Okowa mourns ex-commissioner, Joseph Ogeh

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has expressed sadness on the passing of immediate past Commissioner for Housing in the state, Mr Joseph Ogeh. Ogeh, a renowned consulting architect, reportedly died in the early hours of Sunday in Warri. He was 56. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, the…