By: Celestine Ukah 

**To encourage training, retaining of  teachers, sustain quality learning for students 

The Secretary General of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, Delta State , Mrs. Rose Obi says she will always work closely with the Chairman of the State NAPPS, Mrs. Young P.N and other executive in repositioning the association to enviable height.

Mrs. Rose Obi gave the assurance recently in Warri in a special chat with the Editor in chief of this newspaper, Celestine Ukah, Areanewsng.com, she rolled out their area of ficus to include engaging in regular meetings with their founding fathers and mothers retraining of teachers and proprietors among other notable development areas.

She added that activities will be slatted out for students and pupils, stressing that the administration is going to be all encompassing, assuring that all members of the association will be carried along.

The Delta State NAPPS Secretary General Mrs. Rose Obi who is also a member of the DBS Sports Club, will serve for a period of four years along side with the other executive according to her “I give God the glory for this honor done me by the members of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Delta State, It is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in my eyes. The work of a secretary is enormous because it is the engine room of any association, I will discharge my duties religiously and faithfully with equity and respect for all my colleagues.

Close associates of Mrs. Obi from Uvwie Chapter of NAPPS said they are proud of her.

Others in their solidarity and goodwill messages poured encomiums at Mrs. Obi saying “Congratulations to my own dearest Mrs. Obi on this your well deserved election into office as the General Secretary of NAPPS Delta State, You are truly the digital Chairman, no controversy . I celebrate you. More grace and more wins.

It would be recall that Mrs. Rose Obi was elected July 25, 2023 as the General Secretary of NAPPS along side with the Chairman and Nine other executive officers to pilot the affairs of the association and their term is four years tenure

**Alleges Connivance With Some Other Yoruba People

A Yoruba indigenous rights group, the Yoruba Rights Initiative, has condemned what it alleged to be the dispossession of 1,355 hectares of land in Eti-Osa in Lagos State from an 85 year old man, Pa Faloye Awosika, by two individuals of Southeastern extraction, Samson Nnadi and Jerry Erondu, through their real estate development company, Carter-Tech Ltd.

Addressing newsmen over the weekend in Lagos, the group, through its Convener, Bamidele Adebanjo, and spokesperson, Eniola Fafunwa, alleged a case of gross injustice and naked oppression done to Yoruba people in Yorubaland by certain individuals from the Southeastern part of the country that had recently come to its attention.

The group said:

“This case involves an 85 years old Yoruba elder, Pa C. Faloye Awosika, who has been most heinously duped of his land of 1,355 Hectares in Eti-Osa, Lagos State, by one criminally inclined fellow, Samson Nnadi and his equally crooked business partner, Jerry Erondu, through their criminal organisation masquerading as a property development company, Carter-Tech Ltd.

“The background to this matter is how building permit could have been issued on land belonging to Pa Faloye Awosika without any challenge to his documentation when the documents were submitted for planning permission, yet somehow those same documents *were later said to be defective after construction had completed on the land and it was time for Samson Nnadi and Jerry Erondu through their dubious company Carter-Tech Ltd to hand over the units belonging to pa Awosika.*

“In fact, the most astonishing aspect to the case is how the same Lagos State Government transferred the rights in the 1,355 hectares of land which the Awosikas bought from Ologolo Family in Ologolo Village in 1996, to none other than their development partners, Mr Jerry Erondu and Mr. Samson Nnadi in the name of Carter-tech Ltd! *We understand this dastardly act was possible through the dubious connivance of a said lawyer Olufon and some senior officials at Alausa who using a copy CoA claimed not to have known for over 2 decades that pa Awosika had encroached on his land*.

“Just imagine officials of a Yoruba state cheating a Yoruba elder and his family of their property and handing it over to the very two Ibo men who had initially approached them for development of their land on a partnership basis!

“We find it totally intolerable that two crooked businessmen can come all the way from the East to Lagos and have the effrontery to dupe an authentic Yoruba man of his property, even to the extent of reducing the octogenarian to tears at the insult meted to him by strangers young enough to be his children.

“The heartlessness and arrogance displayed by Samson Nnadi and his partner, Jerry Erondu, along with other dubious real estate developers from their section of the country, in their various nefarious activities in the real estate sector in Lagos, which has seen them duping several Yoruba people of their property and dubiously taking over their lands, will soon come to a head and create serious crisis in Lagos State if it is not immediately nipped in the board.

“To imagine that these two questionable characters had the boldness to drive Pa Awosika, a pensioner, for that matter, along with his wife and their children from their own land when they came to demand their entitlement under the terms earlier agreed on to develop the property.

“Just imagine people coming from the East to drive Yoruba people from their plot and forbidding them access to their own land in Yorubaland, for that matter!

“Who will tolerate that?

“Will their people tolerate it in their own place?

“Indeed it is a complete disgrace that Pa Awosika has had a pending petition on the desk of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, which the governor has completely failed to treat thus far because apparently the problem of Yoruba people in Lagos is not his priority.

“Why do we Yorubas keep doing this to our own people?

“Even members of the Elegushi Family of Eti-Osa connived with these two rascals from across the Niger to dispossess their own fellow Yoruba brother and cheated their senior brother, of his property!

“What a shame!

“Indeed, at a point, Pa Awosika was in court with the Elegushis only for Samson Nnadi and Jerry Erondu to come to him claiming that they had reached out to Oba Saheed Elegushi and he had demanded N100 million as his settlement to leave his Yoruba brother alone to peaceably enjoy his property!

“Thereupon, they managed to convince Pa Awosika that two houses be deducted from his share of the joint venture and awarded to the same Oba Elegushi as settlement!.

“As a proper Yoruba “Omoluabi”, he felt he must defer to a Yoruba monarch and forfeited the houses only for these same two common criminals to steal the entire property from him!

“To even worsen matters, the Awosikas had briefed one Barrister S. A. Oshodi of Ade-Oshodi and Co as their lawyer to represent them, protect their interest in the matter and ensure their just entitlement comes to them.

“Despite being paid fully for his services, both his spoken and body language gradually began to change while he began to seem more interested in protecting Nnadi and Erondu, the adversaries of his clients, rather than advancing the cause of the Awosikas, his fellow Yorubas, who had briefed him and even somehow managed to cough out a whooping sum of ten million naira, the bulk of which they had to borrow, in order to pay him!

“Even our elder statesman, Chief Robert Clarke, SAN, was later briefed by the Awosikas to monitor the case for them when they lost confidence in S. A. Oshodi and began to suspect him of throwing them under the bus.

The Awosikas even also managed to borrow heavily to pay Chief Clarke for his services only for them to wake up one morning to realize that the same Barrister Oshodi they had asked him to monitor for them had somehow succeeded in merging his law firm with Chief Clarke and made the legal luminary his consultant to the extent of using Chief Robert Clarke’s name in his various correspondences!

“This is what Yoruba people are doing to Yoruba people in Lagos, Nigeria!

“Whereas the Awosikas are adamant to reclaim their land through the prescribed judicial process, we find it unconscionable what they have suffered at the hands of those who describe Lagos as a NO MAN’S LAND in connivance with supposedly authentic Yoruba people they had trusted to see justice done to them.

“The Awosikas even decided to brief yet another lawyer entirely to take up their case given the highly suspicious conduct of S. A. Oshodi, only for the same Oshodi to refuse handing over the documents in his possession to the new lawyer unless the 87 year old Pa Awosika coughs out an additional 47 million naira for all kinds of imaginary fees with nothing to show for his phantom services!

“In short, Barrister Oshodi is asking the Awosikas to pay him a grand total of 47 million naira for doing absolutely nothing for them, while, from all indications, having stabbed them in the back whilst sleeping with their enemies all along!

“If we may ask, what has happened to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, For God’s sake, that we now have so many lawyers behaving like questionable characters these days?

“Pa Awosika rightfully bought the property in question from the Ologolo family, its original owners in 1996, a purchase thereafter ratified by a Deed of Assignment issued to him by the same Ologolo Family dated 4th December, 2003 and registered as No. 44 in Volume 2087 at the Lands Registry Office, Lagos.

“Yet it is the same Lagos State authorities, led by the Registrar Of Titles, that connived with two brazen and highly arrogant criminals from the South East claiming to be property developers and hiding under that canopy to dispossess Yoruba people of their land all over Lagos.

“Can any Yoruba man be so bold as to go to Iboland, pretend he wants to help an Ibo man to develop his property as a partnership only to then connive with their own government officials to dispossess the Ibo man of his hard-earned property and chase him and his family out of the land?

“Will any Yoruba man dare try that in Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abia or Ebonyi?

“If not that Yorubas have sold themselves to outsiders, can Ibos ever dare to try such nonsense in Delta State or even Edo State or Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom or even Cross River?

“We can assure you that there would have been serious crisis by now but we the Yorubas are just too tolerant of rubbish for our own good which is why those from the East think they can just keep coming over here and taking our people for a ride.

“We say “No more!” Absolutely no more.

“We are not taking this lightly and insist that Pa Awosika and his family be given justice immediately, failing which we will take all necessary, ordinary or extraordinary measures to effect justice in the matter.

“Anyone can call it self-help, if they like but self-help cannot be the watery threat and cheap blackmail of only one section of the country.

“While we are law abiding and committed to the rule of law, we are quite prepared to fully demonstrate that self-help is not the monopoly of people from Samson Nnadi and Jerry Erondu’s part of this country.”

While the Awosikas, themselves, where not available for comments, and Samson Nnadi and Jerry Erondu refused to pick their calls, it remains to be seen how the matter will be resolved in the coming days given the stance of the Yoruba rights group, the insistence of the Awosikas not to be cheated out of their property, and the recalcitrance of Nnadi and Erondu not to relinquish their entitlement under the agreement, especially against the backdrop of recent ethnic tensions in Lagos

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Udu Branch has frowned at the leadership of the Udu Local Government Council over the non inclusion of a representative of the NBA in the recent Palliatives Committee set up by the Udu Council which have representatives of various social political and traditional groups as well as the police, NULGE, and the church.

The NBA in a statement by its Chairman, Prince Kingsley Asagba Esq Sunday September 24 noted that it can be seen clearly that the Udu Council doesn’t have regards for the Nigerian Bar Association as there’s no representation from the NBA.

“It is even more appalling that the Council Vice Chairman, Mrs. Elohor Awinoron, who herself is a lawyer, was the one who inaugurated the Palliatives Committee, though on behalf of the Council Chairman, Chief Jite Brown.”

The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Udu Branch, who is also the Chairman of the forum of NBA Chairmen of Delta state while addressing the press stated that it has been observed that the Udu Council doesn’t regard the Bar in the taking of critical decisions affecting the lives of people living in Udu Local Government Area.

“We note with displeasure that only recently the Council imposed a curfew on commercial bikes riders not to carry on their trade beyond 8pm, without any consultation with critical stake holders such as the NBA.

“In spite of the visit of the Bar to the Council to ask the Chairman to reconsider his position to shift the time a bit further so as not to affect the economic life of the Udu community, which can evidently be seen as dying gradually, because residence can no longer move about after 8pm since the increase in fuel which made several residents to resort to the use of bikes, the Council refused vehemently to look into the issue, quickly citing security as a reason.

“We wonder how a slight shift in the time for the curfew will affect the security situation in the council.

“We are using the opportunity to call on the Council Chairman to always partner critical stake holders such as the NBA in taking critical decisions to avoid unnecessary litigations which will definitely unsettle the Council and in the long run will do no one any good.” He added.

By: Odeya Ogbetuo

A prominent Ijaw leader in Delta State, High Chief James Tangbowei JP has called on Nigerians to give President Ahmed Bola Tinubu the necessary support for his administration to achieve its set targets of promoting economic prosperity and peace.

Chief Tangbowei who made this call in Warri, Delta State, noted that now that President Tinubu has been victorious at the Election Petition Tribunal he should be supported to implement his programmes and policy of economic transformation.

Chief Tangbowei further said that Tinubu deserved the victory, adding that Tinubu is a strategist and well-focused leader.

According to him, “your victory is well deserved, your pedigree as a technocrat and strategist will raise our country’s level of development. Your remarkable service as Lagos state governor and a successful businessman will surely lead to a stable and progressive economy. Your victory has reminded us of your numerous achievements and initiatives that gave us assurances that we have a leader that will bridge the gap and bring development to all parts of Nigeria.”

Chief Tangbowei who is the Toimelemowei of Gbaramatu kingdom stated that under the benevolent favour of God, Nigeria will witness tremendous leadership and development in various spheres of life during the government of President Tinubu, adding that Tinubu is a visionary leader with wisdom and unwavering commitment to deliver the dividends of democracy to Nigerians.

Founder and General Overseer of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche has urged the Chairman and Board members of Revelation Micro Finance Bank Limited Ughelli, Delta State, to conduct their banking affairs with the highest level of sincerity, integrity, probity, financial accountability and function according to the rules of banking.

The popular Pastor who visited Delta for the official opening of the Revelation Microfinance bank and accompanied by his wife, Dr. Becky Enenche, stated this on Saturday, September 23, 2023 at Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State.

Pastor Enenche while commending the Chairman of the bank, Engr. Frank Esemudje for his vision, noted that what he saw is a sign of great efforts, great progress and great development for the land of Ughelli kingdom.

“This is just the beginning of many good things to come, and i believe that sons and daughters of the land will rise to bring such level of development home to empower people with skills, trade and expertise but do not have the resources to carry out their vision”.

He said Revelation Microfinance bank will be a platform to empower so many lives and congratulated the management and the entire kingdom for the blessings God has given to them.

He however advised the management to be financially prudent and understand that people are entrusting their lives, savings, resources, sweat and energy into their hands through banking operation, urging them to abide and function strictly according to best global standard and practices of banking and not to bend the rules in order to avoid issues of going distressed.

On his part, the chairman of the bank, Engr. Frank Esemudje disclosed that his visions were divine as he has done several businesses in Ughelli land and have never experience failure.

“I have businesses in Ughelli town with over 2000 persons under our employment. I didn’t just jumped into the banking sector, I was formally there in that sector and I seemed the faced of and God approves of the vision of establishing Revelation Microfinance bank before we ran with it”.

He said, with the establishment of Revelation Microfinance bank, more people will be gainfully employed and businesses will also be supported financially to grow and attract more development to the land of Ughelli.

He thanked the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche and his wife Dr. Becky for finding time to come and unveil the bank, noting that he didn’t worth it but grace of God only made it possible.

Recounting how Revelation Microfinance bank was birthed, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Engr. Okhimamhe Patrick said, the vision to establish the bank dated back to the last quarter of 2021 when the process of registering the bank commenced, though, rigorous he revealed and coupled with the closure of about 134 microfinance banks by the Central bank at the time, but the process began and was only approved and licensed by the Central Bank in August 2023.

Okhimammhe further disclosed that due to its preparedness and capacity, the bank decided to open its doors of operation to the public within two months of receiving the final approval, saying that Revelation Microfinance Bank prides itself on having robust management team consisting of seasoned microfinance bankers who are all certified by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), and that the Board of Directors is composed of individuals with proven business strategies and exceptional corporate and leadership skills that will provide good corporate governance and leadership in the bank.

The MD/CEO noted that the core values of the Revelation Microfinance Bank revolves around Transparency, Reliability, Accountability, Integrity, and Notability (TRAIN) with the vision to create an open doors where everyone, regardless of their social and economic status, has access to financial services and opportunities, maintaining that Revelation Microfinance Bank prides itself on being fully digital and equipped with modern technology’s to make banking easy and accessible to its customers.

He said he is very optimistic that the bank will excel because it was borne out of God’ s revelation hence the motto of tge bank is Empowering dreams and enriching lives.

Notable businessmen, captain of industries and top personalities from the banking sector as well as top government functionaries amongst whom were Sen. Emmanuel E. Aguariavwodo P
Senior Political Adviser to the Delta State Governor, Chief Anthony Oboroh, Hon. Godwin Adode and others attended the ceremony.

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has urged the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to collaborate with State Governments to ensure that the region benefits from quality projects in the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

Oborevwori stated this on Saturday when he received on courtesy visit the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Hon. Abubakar Momoh and his delegation at Government House, Asaba.

The Governor who congratulated the Minister on his appointment, said such collaboration was necessary in order to improve the living conditions of the people of the region.

He said: “A few days ago I received the Minister of Works, Engr David Umahi who was here to look at the state of the Federal roads in the State. He saw for himself the state of the Warri-Benin Road and also the East-West Road.

“I am happy for your appointment because you are somebody from this region and I know that when you appoint somebody from the region he will do something that he will be remembered for.

“You are already aware of the pains and challenges we are passing through because you have said it all but its not just about knowing the challenges and not dealing with them.

“You may know what is happening and not dealing with the challenges. You have passed through the road to Port Harcourt, the whole area is bad.

“This region produces the highest wealth that we use in running this country so attention ought to be paid to the region.

“This is the opportunity you have to put the records straight, those that are going to be in charge whether contractors or those giving out the contracts should do the right thing because what is causing this problem is shortcut.

“As a Minister for the Niger Delta, do your best to ensure that the region gets the best in terms of road projects, security, shore protection among others. Don’t also forget the issue of youths restiveness.

“Most of our riverine areas are being taken over by erosion and we need to also look at our roads and how we can fix them. That’s the reason the NDDC and Ministry of Niger Delta were created to focus on the Niger Delta”.

Governor Oborevwori further said that his administration was committed to the execution of quality projects, adding that he had also approved the payment of over N5.5bn promotion arrears for civil servants.

“When I came in, I said I need quality jobs and we have inaugurated some projects and we are consolidating on the old projects and finish them while also embarking on new ones.

“We are bringing Julius Berger to execute projects in Warri and Effurun. Exco has approved N78bn and between now and next month we will sign the agreement because we are mobilising them with 25 per cent.

“Most of those roads are Federal Roads. Is it the PTI junction, DSC and Effurun roundabouts or the Enerhen junction to Marine quarters?

“These are all Federal roads and if a Governor can approve N78bn to construct Federal roads then we need to collaborate to work for the people. Politics has come and gone and it is now time for us to see how we can develop the region,” he said.

Earlier, Engr. Momoh said the delegation was in the state as part of his stakeholders visit to the Niger Delta region to know what is on ground and the challenges.

He said: “As Governors of the states you are the authority and custodians of the states and as far as the Ministry is concerned, we need to collaborate with the Governors of the states in order to bring about development and peace to the Niger Delta region.

“We are here to carry out the assignment of President Bola Tinubu of the renewed hope agenda with eight presidential priorities of Mr President which if fully pursued vigorously Nigeria will be better for it.

“We have directed the NDDC on how to partner with state governments in order to target major projects executed across the Niger Delta and if the Ministry can come together with the state governments to identify some of these areas, I believe that we will do better than we were doing before”.

DAILY POST Newspaper Correspondent in Delta State, Mr. Matthew Omonigho is now a Certified Peace&Environment Protector of the (fellow member)of the Institute of Global Peace and Conflict Management, IGPCM.

The journalist was inducted alongside eighteen others by IGPCM President-in-Council, Dr. Asiwaju Adetunberu Oludotun during a training workshop certification of fellowship investiture and Global Peace Icon Award Ceremony organised by the IGPCM in Port-Harcourt Rivers State.

IGPCM, President-In-Council was ably represented by IGPCM Vice President, South-East Zone, Dr. Nworgu Okey-Theodore who charged the inductees to be good ambassadors of the Institute.

Responding on behalf of the inductees,Bob Eilwuribr thanked the management of the Institute for the institure and promised that they will be good ambassadors of the IGPCM.

On his part, Mr. Matthew Omonigho thanked the Institute for the honour done him and others just as he promised to preach the gospel of peace as well as ensure it reigns in any environment he finds himself.

He said peace is very essential in the lives of every human, community and country and as such, cannot be toiled with it in anyway.

Mr. Omonigho urged everyone including communities that are at war to tow the path of peace to attract dudtainablr development to their individual lives, communities, State and the nation at large.

**Gives two weeks ultimatum to embark on massive protest, to shutdown commission

By: Odeya Ogbetuo

The executive and members of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission [DESOPADEC] Indigenous Contractors Forum have expressed disappointment over delay in payment by the new DESOPADEC Board and have failed to look into the plight of Indigenous Contractors.

Rising from an emergency meeting in Warri, Delta State, the Contractors resolved to embark on a mass protest should the Board fail to accelerate payment of Contractors within two weeks.

Addressing newsmen shortly after the meeting, the chairman of the DESOPADEC Indigenous Contractors Forum, Engr. Samson Ogie said that the new DESOPADEC Board has not responded positively to the payment request made by the Contractors and despite the subtle approach to the Board to make payment to Contractors to avoid conflict or protest, but all to no avail.

Engr. Ogie further said that he had made several attempts to reach the Managing Director of DESOPADEC Hon. Festus Ochornogho and the Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Hon. Okome on how payment could be carried out to avoid conflict between Indigenous Contractors and the 2023 DESOPADEC Board, but all efforts to harmonize the system were not successful because the Board was adamant.

The Forum chairman reiterated that lack of payment of outstanding money and maltreatment of Indigenous Contractors have be very worrisome, adding that they have been very patient with the Board and they are expecting the Board to respond to payment before the end of September 2023 and draw the attention of Governor, His Excellency Oborevwori to the plight of Contractors and to do his best to avoid mass protest that may likely take place shortly at the expiration of the ultimatum.

A member of the Forum, Mr. Felix Akpoyibo called on the Forum to immediately embark on protest to draw attention to the plight of the Indigenous Contractors, but the chairman pacified members to wait until the end of September 2023.

The secretary of the Indigenous Contractors Forum, Prince Charles Ebigbagha said the decision of the exco should not be taken for granted in order to avoid protest by the aggrieved Indigenous Contractors, adding that if the Board fails to honour the Contractors request they may embark on mass protest.

He noted that the Board promised to pay monthly but they failed to fulfill their promise, stressing that the Board was unable to pay the Contractors thereby creating the present imbroglio.

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has congratulated the Pere, Ama-Okosu of Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom, HRM Couple Mackson Oromoni, Monbene III, on the eighth anniversary of his coronation.

Oborevwori in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba, commended the traditional ruler for the unity in Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom.

He enjoined the king to ensure peaceful relations between Ogbe-Ijoh and its neighbour, Aladja and urged the monarch to do more in reviving the economic well-being of both Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja.

The Governor described Monebene III as “a respected monarch with great love for his people,” whose reign had thus far resulted in an improvement in both the lives of his subjects and the kingdom.

He also expressed his admiration for the royal father for inspiring his citizens to support good governance and a reawakening of civic responsibility.

Governor Oborevwori further remarked that the king was a wonderful source of inspiration for his people and charged him to stay strong in his efforts to ensure that they had a good life and that there was peace in the land.

“On behalf of the Government and people of Delta, I warmly congratulate His Royal Majesty, Couple Mackson Oromoni, Monbene III, the Pere Ama-Okosu of Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom, on his eighth coronation anniversary.

“I join the people of Ogbe-Ijoh in honouring a great king and sending him my best wishes for continued strength, wisdom, and good health as he continues to be the traditional and cultural leader of his people.

“I must commend you for keeping the culture and tradition of Ogbe-Ijoh people by promoting harmony, socio-cultural cooperation and communal living.”