Osuoza Charges Deltans to Embrace Peace, Harmonious Co-existence For Success Of M.O.R.E Agenda

Delta State Commissioner for Information, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, has emphasized the need for Deltans, especially youths, to embrace peace and harmonious coexistence which would provide the enabling environment for Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s administration to implement and deliver more dividends of democracy under the MORE Agenda, to the people.

The Commissioner’s admonition was contained in a brief statement which reads: “Since May 29, 2023, when he assumed office as the Executive Governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. (Elder) Sheriff Oborevwori has made it very clear that Peace is Priceless and his administration would ensure that sustainable peace reigned across the Three Senatorial zones in Delta State.

“To achieve this very crucial governance mandate, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori made sure it was enshrined in the MORE Agenda under the Enhanced Peace and Security mandate”.

According to the Information Commissioner, “Peace and security creates the right atmosphere for social and economic life, it enhances Job Creation efforts and strategies for youths, improves living conditions for our people, ensures Social stability and security of lives and properties, and most importantly, encourages the administration to embark on massive and life impacting social and infrastructural development and the delivery of more democracy dividends for the people.

“Let us support our dear Governor Sheriff Oborevwori by embracing peace and harmonious coexistence as he continues to deliver MORE goodies for Deltans”, the statement concluded.

Delta Council Polls: Be Transparent With the  people — Olorogun Kingsley Aghworo

*** Let Them Know How You Are Going To Generate Revenue For Developmental Projects In Okpe LGA

*** Asks Deltans To Continue To Pray, Support Governor Oborevwori To Succeed

As Deltans are gearing up for the State Council Polls July 13th, 2024, the CEO Of A. Shuttle Limited, Olorogun Kingsley Aghworo has advised chairmanship aspirants in Okpe Local Government Area of the State to be sincere and transparent with the electorate, saying that they should not make electoral promises that they cannot fulfill.

He equally advised Okpe chairmanship aspirants in the Delta State forthcoming council polls to let the people know how they are going to generate revenue for developmental projects if elected into office in the July 13th, 2024 council polls.

In a press statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Effurun, he implored Okpe chairmanship aspirants not to see the forthcoming council polls as business as usual, “But let the people know about your policies, ideals and things you are actually going to do for them when elected and how to generate revenue for developmental projects in our great Okpe local government area”.

Olorogun Kingsley Aghworo admonished Okpe Local Government Area Chairmanship aspirants not to campaign dropping the name of the Delta State Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, adding that; “Stand out and do a proper campaign on your own without intimidating people with the name of our Governor.

He added that; “We should not campaign as regard of who is a boy to His Excellency or who is more closer to our dynamic Governor, but go out there and campaign with your track records, go out there and campaign with what you have upstairs and we should not result to insult or blackmail but show our good people of Okpe Local Government Area of what you can do, show them your capacity, capability and the leadership qualities that you have”.

The PDP Chieftain said that he had always believed in the leadership qualities of the State Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori and never had any doubt about his ability to lead the state to victory in the 2023 Governorship election in the state, adding that; “As a member of PDP, I worked hard in last year election in the State, even before the primary, I believed in the leadership qualities of His Excellency, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to lead our great party to victory and I spent my personal funds and even used my position as a leader in Okpe Union to canvas vote for him and to the glory of God, we all are seeing the rapid development in the state since he assumed office May 29th, 2023”

Olorogun Kingsley Aghworo added that; “I do not support people for benefit or sing praises for lobbying but for my ideology and believe and that is why today I am not among those who have been appointed E.A, SSA, SA etc and I am not feeling bad or sad about it because I am very happy about the job His Excellency is doing in the state and we as Deltans should continue to pray and support him to succeed. God bless Nigeria, God bless Delta state,God bless Okpe Local Government”.

DBS sports club honours Nze Onuora, Coordinator Nushe, Okwekum, Ossai

**Our vision include having a bus, car others in future- Nurudeen declares 

*We have developed massively under leadership of coordinator Nushe

By: Celestine Ukah

The Delta Broadcasting Service Sports Club, DBS Sports club, Warri, Delta State has honoured the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Oborevwori of Delta State,  Nze Francis Onuora, Dr. Felix Okwekum, Engr. Patrick Ossai both Patrons of the club and also recognised, Chairman of Welfare Committee, Evang. Engr. Nurudeen Oluoboh for their outstanding and committed support to the upliftment of the Club.

The award which was a surprised goodwill package to the recipients were presented to them immediately after the weekly exercise held at DBS premises with other activities at the Games Village, while celebrating April Birthday Celebrants Saturday May 4, 2024.

DBS Sports Club also commended (Dr.) Mrs. Rose Obi for her generosity to the club and for also showing steadfast support in the affairs of the club.

While responding on behalf of the recipients, Dr. Felix Okwelum commended the entire members of DBS Sports club for their recognition on them assuring that they will do more as the honour have propelled them to do more to the growth of the club.

He stated further that under the leadership of Comrade Louis Nushe as Coordinator DBS Sports club, the club is now a social arm of Delta Broadcasting Service, it has developed massively, he appreciated the effort of the management team and members for their continuous cooperation.

Photo grid: Members of DBS Sports Club at the weekly Aerobics exercise & at the Birthday Bash 

Welfare Chairman of DBS Sports Club, Evang. Engr. Nurudeen Oluoboh notes that the vision of the club include having a car and bus as part of its future plan.

Engr. Nurudeen Oluoboh appreciated members and all that supported in making the April birthday bash a successful event, assuring that hopefully going forward others will be celebrated monthly by the club.

Mulade to Oborevwori: “For now what we have are concrete walk-ways to enable us access each other as estate”, wants road to connect to other communities

**Commends Gov. Oborevwori For Visiting, Inspecting projects in Riverine Communities

Gbaramatu Kingdom: A renowned environmental rights and development advocate, Chief (Comrade) Mulade Sheriff has commended the Executive Governor of Delta State, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori for paying a working visit to riverine communities in Delta State which included the oil-rich Kokodiagbene Community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of the State.

Chief Mulade, who is the Ibe-Serimowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, appreciated Governor Oborevwori for personally and painstakingly inspecting some of the ongoing projects in the riverine communities ahead of his one year anniversary in office, and to ascertain the quality of works done by his predecessor, Sen Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the immediate past Governor of the State in these areas.

“I sincerely thank and appreciate you for giving hope to us that government is continuity; therefore, no project will be abandoned in the state, especially riverine projects,” Chief Mulade stated.

Speaking further, he said, “However, it is imperative to draw the attention of His Excellency, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to some of the disadvantages of the concrete walk-way projects in the riverine area of the State.

“This project constructed here in Kokodiagbene Community, and others can only be meaningful, useful as well as add economic value to the people and the state only when they are linked and connected to the neighbouring communities. That is when we can refer to them as roads; for now, they are just concrete walk-ways to enable us access each other, as estate.”

“I want to strongly appeal to our amiable Governor Rt Hon Sheriff F. O. Oborevwori to kindly link together the under-listed communities in the same island, namely Okerenkoko, Pepe-ama, Ogidadino, Edeba, Ekpemu, Kokodiagbene and Jones Creek Flow Station communities to transform the concrete walk-way to become a road, in order to add economic value to the people and the state.” when they are linked and connected to the neighbouring communities.

The peace ambassador, therefore, appealed to Governor Oborevwori to expedite the necessary action needed to transform the walk-ways to the status of befitting legacy projects by linking them to other communities as his administration MORE AGENDA Posterity project for riverine communities of the State.

TFP currently runs at 95 percentage Terminal Recovery Factor daily, Itsekiri Pipeline Surveillance Stakeholders, tells NNPCL

The Itsekiri Pipeline Surveillance Stakeholders, have queried what they described as the pin drop silence from the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL since January 2024, over the raging controversy surrounding the Trans-Forcados Pipeline, TFP, surveillance contract in Delta State, urging the NNPCL to speak up, insisting, the Terminal Recovery Factor of the TFP, which was, “at an alarmingly low level of around 35%-45%”, in 2019 when Ocean Marine Solutions, OMS, was awarded Surveillance and Maintenance services on the TFP, currently “runs at a maximum Terminal Recovery Factor of at least 95% daily.”

Representative of the Olu of Warri/Liaison to NNPCL, Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema, who addressed the media in Warri, Delta State, Monday May 6, on behalf of Itsekiri Pipeline Surveillance Stakeholders, stated: “Pipeline Surveillance of the Trans-Forcados-Pipeline (TFP) began around 2019 when the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) awarded a contract to OCEAN MARINE SOLUTIONS (OMS) to provide Surveillance and Maintenance services on the TFP, due to emerging threats from third- party interference and weak material integrity of the pipeline, which sadly put the Terminal Recovery Factor of the TFP at an alarmingly low level of around 35%-45%.

“Due to the excellent performance of OMS in their job offshore as affirmed by the International Oil Companies (IOC’s), their scope was extended into onshore/swamp due to emerging threats. OMS took over the TFP in 2019, within the first six months of when OMS came onboard the TFP, with rare display of tenacity, efficiency, and rare camaraderie, they improved the TERMINAL RECOVERY FACTOR of the TFP from around 35% to between 90% – 100%.

“This rare feat not only drastically improved Nigeria’s crude oil export, but also led to Delta State becoming the number one Oil Producing State in Nigeria. Since 2019, OMS has maintained an effective workforce of over 1,500 community workers in protecting the TFP, aside from other stakeholders/interests, Community Contractors including Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Sometime in 2022, it was found out that the Trans-Niger-Pipeline (TNP), and other lines aside from the TFP, were not operational and totally down. The NNPCL then decided to replicate the OMS successful TFP model on other crude oil pipelines, by engaging non-state actors.”

Edema, who noted that “PINL is not the contractor on the TFP, but the job was novated to them by her sister Company, OMS”, asserted: “There has been a renewed spate of propaganda, falsehood, blackmail, mudslinging, character assassination, and malicious damage by different groups, sponsored by agents of darkness against the person of His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, the Olu of Warri, and Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL) over Pipeline Surveillance Contracts.

“Sometime in the third week of January 2024, a faceless group, the Niger Delta Forum for Truth and Justice (NDFTJ), published an article that cast aspersions on the integrity of the Executive Vice President Upstream of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) – Mrs. Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan over ethnic bias in the renewal of Pipeline Surveillance Contracts.

“It went further to denigrate the Sacred Ancient throne of the Olu of Warri by maligning His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, the Olu of Warri and a company he has vested interest in, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL), accusing them of incompetence in the Monday May 6, 2024 discharge of their duties.

“This tirade of accusation went on until around March 2024 and cooled off until recently when a new group, Niger Delta Stakeholders Forum (NDSF), came up with another set of lies, falsehood, blackmail, spurious allegations, and character assassination, not only against His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, the Olu of Warri, but also against Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL) over Pipeline Surveillance Contracts, especially on the Trans-Forcados Pipeline (TFP).

“We realize that as critical stakeholders in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry, with approximately 33% of Nigeria’s daily production, it will be foolhardy not to put the facts before the public as they are, and separate facts from fiction, especially as the Itsekiri Nation owns at least 70% of the TFP. The Trans-Forcados-Pipeline (TFP) is one of the largest trunk lines in Nigeria and is often referred to as inside the Western Trunk line geographically.

“It will interest us to know that OMS is the pioneer Maritime Security Company in Nigeria and has been in operations since 2008. It was in charge of offshore facilities, FPSO, PLATFORMS, RIGS and other offshore assets.

“This was what brought the non-state actors onboard Pipeline Surveillance due to NNPCL intervention. We begin to wonder how and where the new faceless group, known as the Niger Delta Stakeholders Forum (NDSF), came about with accusations of “incompetence and non-performance made against Pipelines Infrastructures Nigerian Limited (PINL) in the handling of the Trans – Forcados Pipelines network system surveillance and protection contract,” which they also claimed “led to the termination of the $3.9M Monthly Contract by the NNPCL.”

Chief Priest Yomere Oti Roland, representative of the Olara – Aja (Eldest Man) and Council of Elders of Omadino Community, who stated that Itsekiri owns 70% percent of the land where Trans – Forcados Pipelines network runs through, was among Itsekiri Pipeline Surveillance Stakeholders, present during the media engagement.

Jaluwa Community Trust Chairman, Engr. Esijimi Tenumah, Pa Engr. J. A Omagbemi, the Secretary Elders’ Council HostCom of Itsekiri chapter, Elder Otimeyin Tonukarin and the National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, Comrade Ben Eburajolo, were among Itsekiri Pipeline Surveillance Stakeholders, that graced the media briefing.

Delta LGC election: Those Blackmailing Me Think Politics Is Their Farm Land – Ada Anioma, Onyemaechi

By Patrick Ochei

In an apparent show of superiority in the game of politics, the Honourable Commissioner for Technical Education and former House of Representatives member for Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, Hon. Pastor Joan Onyemaechi popularly known as Ada Anioma, has made known her stance as far as Aniocha South Chairmanship election is concerned in line with the zoning arrangement which currently favours the Ubulu clan, stating that those trying hard to blackmail her think that politics is their farm land where they can always harvest even without sowing.

The Ada Anioma made this revelation in a special interview session with some select media representatives who had approached her to make comments on recent protest and allegations by some politicians from her local government area.

She started by giving a background of her meteoric rise in politics, giving credence to her long standing loyalty which has continued to earn her some juicy patronage from government.

According to her, this had been the bane of contention and conflict from the opposing political side in her local government area, who prefer to always drag her name whenever there was issue of contest of political interest.

Her words, “I refuse to be blackmailed by those who see politics as their farmland. The tussle for power is normal, but when you do it in the wrong way, it becomes injurious to you. I perfectly understand what it means to have power and to be in power.

“Nobody can blackmail me because I am an appointee of Government and my brother at the same time is contesting for the office of Chairman in our local government area. I am not the first person who had been favoured to be in government and at the same time having a relation who is also in government. My appointment is at the discretion of the Governor, while that of my brother is his right to contest, and based on the zoning arrangement in my local government area, he deserves to do a second term as Chairman.

“The Nsukwa clan did theirs for two terms, the Ogwashi clan completed theirs of two terms, now is the turn of Ubulu clan. The young man had done one term and he deserves his second term in office. How is it my fault that I am patronised by government with an appointment? Our party the PDP and government respect zoning. They knew that my brother was the chairman of our local government before appointing me as Commissioner.

“The worst of their mischief was coming to protest with a forged Governorship election result of the last election. They had claimed I did not win my ward and units with a fake result, but here is the authentic result which is in the public domain (she shows it to the press in her phone). They said the local government does not belong to me and my siblings. What does that mean? They were just clever by half and ended up shooting themselves in the foot.

“I am a grassroots politician and a woman who knows how to press the button. They can never undo what they can’t undo; so they should stop wasting their time and face the reality.

“I have a slogan of Thank You for everything that had ever been done to me in politics. That had kept me going. I advise these set of blackmail politicians to imbibe the virtue of contentment, which is a great virtue in politics. Because when you are desperate, you can never be balanced.

“To me, experience matters. I had been PA to former Deputy Governor and then Commissioner in the Local Government Service Commission from where I moved into Legislature as member of the State Assembly and then member of the Federal Assembly. Now, I am a Commissioner in the State who must be able to make presentations at Exco and administer a Ministry. It makes me a rounded politician and one who has brought experience to bear in governance, and as a platform to mentor the younger ones in government. This shouldn’t be anybody’s problem but an added advantage to my people.

“Those clamouring to bring Ada Anioma down and using the youths in a wrong way should have a rethink. How many of them did they empower positively when they had the opportunity? They should support human capital development and not negatively influence the youths to do their illicit bidding”, Ada Anioma maintained.

Delta Governor, Oborevwori mourns Ex-Minister, expresses shock over Gbagi’s demise

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has expressed his heart-felt condolences to the family of former Minister of Education (State), Chief Kenneth Gbagi, who passed on May 4.

Gbagi a senior lawyer, businessman, governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP in the 2023 general election and industrialist, passed on at 62, after a brief illness.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, Governor Oborevwori described the passing of Gbagi as tragic, unfortunate and heart-wrenching.

He commiserated with the people of Ughelli South Local Government Area and Oginibo community, in particular, over the demise of the renowned politician and former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain.

He noted that the departed Gbagi, a Criminologist, entrepreneur and lawyer, was Chairman, Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, and, later, Minister of Education (State) during President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

Oborevwori said, “On behalf of the government and people of Delta State, I mourn the passing of a renowned politician and astute businessman, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, who passed on in Lagos on Saturday.

“The news of his death came to me as a terrible shock and my heart-felt condolences go to his family, the people of Oginibo and the members of the Social Democratic Party, SDP”.

He prayed God to accept the deceased’s soul and grant fortitude to the family and friends he left to bear the loss.

Just In: Former Education Minister and owner of biggest plaza in Delta, Gbagi Dies @62

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the last election in Delta State, Olorogun Barr Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, FNIM OON, is dead.

Gbagi, a former minister of Education and an industrialist died at the age of 62.

The Renowned Criminologist and senior lawyer died on Saturday May 4th 2024.

A statement signed by his eldest son, Chief Emuoboh Gbagi on behalf of the Gbagi family, said: “It is with profound sadness but gratitude to God, that we announce the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, husband, and brother, Olorogun (Barr.) Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, FNIM, OON; Former Minister of Education, who departed this life on the 4th of May 2024 at the age of 62.

“We take comfort in the fond memories of his life, his achievements, and the impact he made on the lives of countless individuals and communities.

“We kindly request your thoughts and prayers for our family during this challenging time of loss.

“May his soul rest in perfect peace”, the statement added.