A meeting arranged by the management of the NPDC/Elcrest Joint Ventures Ltd, operator of OML-40 in Warri North Local Government Area, to address the grouse of protesting youths of Egbema Kingdom was yesterday, put off indefinitely. This was because a faction of the youths allegedly sponsored by the company’s liaison officer attempted to attack the…
As former Labour leader and elder statesman, Comrade Frank Ovie Kokori celebrates his 77 birthday, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has described him as one of the architects of modern democracy in Nigeria. In a goodwill message personally signed by him, Omo-Agege described the Septuagenarian Comrade as a worthy and true…
Less than one week after a 12-year-old Deltan boy, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr. was allegedly tortured to death in a private school, Dowen College, in Lekki Phase I, Lagos State, a classroom teacher in yet another private school in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, has been allegedly beaten to death on Thursday…
The Late former Senate President in the Second Republic, Senator Joseph Wayas, has been described as an apostle of true federalism and one who promoted harmonious relationship between the legislature and the executive. Dr. Joseph Wayas who was the President of the Senate in the Second Republic (1979 - 1983) passed on in a London…
Member representing Ethiope Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Ben Rollands Igbakpa, has moved a motion of urgent public importance on the need to address the protracted blackout in Mosogar and Edjemuoyavwe communities in Ethiope West Local Govt Area of Delta State. This is coming on the heels of a recent outcry by the…
Delta State Police Command has continued in its streak of successes in proactively tackling crime in the state as it apprehended several suspected criminals in different parts of the State in the past one week. This is even as the Commissioner of Police, Ari Mohammed Ali, has continued to reassure Deltans of the command's commitment…
Media guru and Chief Executive officer of Jeremi FM Radio 95.1, Delta State, Prince George Ugen, is dead. The New Diplomat learnt that the former CEO of the pioneer private FM radio station in Delta State, passed on in the early hours of today at his country home, Otu-Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government…
Okwagbe community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP, alleging plans by Owawha community, to secure the release of suspects arrested over the murder of five of their indigenes. The victims allegedly murdered by the detained suspects, The New Diplomat learnt, were (a) Faith Miller,…
A former Commissioner for Economic Planning in Delta State, Olorogun Kenneth Okpara, who recently joined the 2023 governorship race is dead. While breaking the news of his death, Chairman of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu on his Facebook page, wrote "one of the Governorship aspirants for the 2023 Governorship…