Delta Force acquired the slot of Kada City last season but has struggled to fulfil their financial obligations.
The deal was sealed on Wednesday, after a thorough discussion between the management of the two sides with the General Manager of Kwara United FC, Bashir Badawiy leading the club’s charge.
Addressing the media on this development, Kwara United’s chairman Olakumbi Titiloye claimed his management will blend with the league and its challenges.
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Suspected Fulani herdsmen have resumed hostility on Issele-Uku/Ubulu-Uku Road, in Aniocha North and South Local Government Areas of Delta State, reports say.
It was gathered that on Saturday evening a driver of a vehicle was shot dead on the road, with four other occupant believed to have been abducted by the suspected herdsmen. The attack came barely a few hours after another another attack on a man and daughter were attacked, the man sustaining matchete injuries, while his daughter was abducted.
In the previous attack, local vigilantes gave chase to the abductors as soon as they got news of the …
Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, wednesday presented the 2020 Appropriation Bill of N389,190,799,362 approximately N389.19 billion to the state House of Assembly.
Okowa noted that he was presenting the 2020 Budget Estimates, christened Budget of Sustained Development ‘’from a position of cautious optimism’’ due to certain prevailing circumstances in the country.
The budget estimate comprised Recurrent Expenditure of N171,549,384,315 and Capital Expenditure of ₦217,641,415,047.
This disparity between total recurrent and capital estimates signalled a positive development, indicating that the state government intended to spend more on capital projects than recurrent …
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, wednesday said that the Niger Delta governors were behind the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to audit the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Wike explained that the governors had told the President during their visit to about the rot in the commission and the need for a forensic audit of the interventionist agency.
Wike, who made these revelations when members of the commission’s interim board visited the Government House in Port Harcourt, added that apart from the demand for the audit of the commission, the Niger Delta governors also urged the President to …
Contrary to claims by the Presidential Amnesty office that their parley with first phase camp leader of the scheme and other stakeholders in Calabar, Cross River State was successful and addressed issues, the meeting was inconclusive and never addressed any of their concerns for which they want him removed from office.
According to the national leader of the First Phase camp leader, Chief Selky Torughedi, aka Young Shall Grow, they had anticipated the meeting for a long time and were hopeful that they were going to address all knotty issues militating against the proper working of the scheme; only …
Delta State Government has expressed worry at the increasing number of persons displaced from their homes by ravaging flood, noting that the number of such persons being sheltered in many camps set up for displaced persons by the state government has almost doubled that for the same time last year.
Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG) and Chairman of the State Flood, Risk Alert and Management Committee, Mr. Chiedu Ebie, who stated this when he visited six camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Delta South and North senatorial districts.
Ebie, however, warned of stiff penalty for camp …
The coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo, said at the weekend that though he observed distortions in the structure of the programme on assumption of office, he has maintained zero tolerance for any form of illegality under his watch.
He said even as he had never altered the structure he inherited, especially with regards to beneficiaries captured in the database of the Amnesty Programme, he took steps to redress glaring irregularities and cases of injustice. He spoke yesterday in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, at a meeting with 97 leaders of Niger Delta ex-agitators at the Transcorp …
The Hausa community in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, have requested for identity cards as a step towards curbing security challenges in the area.
They made the request at a community stakeholders’ meeting convened by the leadership of the youths in the area.
The meeting came on the heels of the invasion of Azagba Mixed Secondary School in Issele-Azagba in neighbouring Aniocha North Local Government Area by gunmen who unsuccessfully attempted to kidnap five teachers.
Two persons reportedly died in the attack.
At the Ibusa meeting, stakeholders frowned at the perpetuation of crime under any guise, …
The Western Delta University, Oghara, Delta State has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Wema Bank Plc, to introduce the institution to the Electronic Bills Payment (e-BillsPay ) and WebPay platforms.
The MoU was to enable students and other residents of the university community to receive payment and other transactions through the platform.
A statement explained that the bank also agreed to provide a School Portal Solutions through their technical partner (Upperlink) to the university.
In addition, the MoU would bring the WDU and the bank in a close relationship that would see the bank aiding the university, especially …
• Accuses governors of plotting to takeover commission
• ‘Presidency must probe petroleum development fund’
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) yesterday accused governors of the Niger Delta region of plotting to hijack the commission.
It made the allegation following last week’s order by President Muhammadu Buhari calling for a forensic audit of the commission from 2001 to 2019.
“With the amount of money that the Federal Government has religiously allocated to the NDDC, we will like to see the results on the ground. Those that are responsible for that have to explain certain issues,” Buhari said on Thursday when …
The ravaging flood resulting from the overflow of the River Niger has rendered residents in over ten communities along the shores of the river homeless.
The communities which spread across four kingdoms are in Oshimili South and Ndokwa East local government areas of Delta State.
As at the time of filing this report on Thursday, the four traditional rulers had abandoned their palaces for fear of being submerged by the flood.
Farmlands, houses and other properties in the affected kingdoms including Oko, Abala-Oshimili, Aika and Okpai had gone underwater.
The worth of the properties destroyed are said to in …
