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…
An Abuja-based Vanguard reporter, Tordue Henry Salem has been found dead a month after he was declared missing. Vanguard newspaper revealed this in a report, noting that details of the circumstances surrounding the recovery of his corpse were sketchy. The deceased was a National Assembly correspondent of the newspaper, who covered the House of Representatives. He…
The Delta State Police Command has recently recorded major breakthroughs in its fight against crime and criminality in the State. A press release signed by the command's Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed some of the crimes busted to include rape, illegal arms, stolen vehicles, kidnap and ATM card snatching. According to…
Against the backdrop of the decision of the Urhobo Progressive Union, UPU, to screen and prune the number of Urhobo aspirants for the 2023 governorship election, an aspirant and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olorogun Fred Majemite, has advised the socio-cultural union to team up with the DC-23 lobby group in its quest…
...Says PDP has done enough damage to Delta State Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has welcomed thosands of decampees from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other parties to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. The decampees, who are from different clans across the entire…
Immediate past Commissioner for Housing in Delta State, Joseph Ogeh, has passed away on Sunday. The Delta-born politician reportedly collapsed in his residence in Warri during a political meeting. He was immediately rushed to an undisclosed hospital to receive medical attention. However, all efforts to revive him proved abortive as the former commissioner was pronounced…
...Supports restructuring and true feder After over six decades of oil exploration and exploitation without any apparent presence of the state or federal government in Urhobo land, the people have vowed to demand several trillions of naira in reparation and remediation from the federal government of Nigeria and oil companies whose activities over the years,…