Ughelli North

The President of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide, Olorogun Moses Taiga, has flayed the newly inaugurated Federal Government over the worsening state of security and deteriorating conditions in the country.

Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) have destroyed, what is considered as the biggest operated illegal refineries covering over 20 kilometres, located between Ogevugbe and Otujeremi in Ughelli North Local Government area of Delta State.

The Delta House of Assembly on Thursday passed the State Freedom of Information Bill.

Going by the official list of members-elect for the 9th House of Representatives assembly, a total of nine political parties will have representatives in the chamber.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday declared Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the 2019 governorship election in Delta.

Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is not against having the Card Readers embedded in law.

Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last Saturday’s National Assembly election, Evelyn Oboro, has called for the cancellation of the senatorial election in Delta Central District over alleged rigging and result manipulations.

The ruling PDP in Delta State has emerged winners in the just concluded 2019 presidential and National Assembly polls.

Former vice president and presidential candidate of the PDP Atiku Abubakar has defeated incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC in Delta State.

No fewer than four persons have been killed and eight others sustained gunshot injuries in a clash between two rival cult groups in Delta State.

The Social Democratic Party in Ughelli South Local Government of Delta State, has disclosed that the party was not supporting any other APC candidate apart from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Dr. Cyril Omorogbe, Delta State Resident Electoral Commissioner, has threatened that politicians and their surrogates who convert their houses and farms to polling units and deprive others access to exercise their franchise during the general elections would be handed over to police for prosecution.

The Commander, Sector 1, ‘Operation Delta Safe’, under the 6 Brigade Command of the Nigerian Army, Col. Alhassan Grema, has assured the indigenes within its area of responsibility of the cooperation of his men and officers in enhancing cordial relationship through its civil-military efforts.

The Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has arrested a suspected human trafficker who escaped from Delta.

Ovie Omo-Agege, Senator Representing Delta Central Senatorial District, has donated relief materials worth over N6 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Uwheru, Ohoror and Agadama communities in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Mr. Frank Agas, immediate younger brother of the Secretary to the Delta State Government, Festus Ovie Agas, has led his supporters to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

A former spokesman to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Olorogun Ima Niboro, has emerged the parallel candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Udu, Ughelli South and Ughelli North Federal Constituency in Delta State.

The tragedy, it was gathered, occurred on Saturday evening on the Agbarho Bridge, around Agbarhor/Okuokoko length of the East-West Expressway, Ughelli North Local Area of the State.