Warri, Nigeria News

GENERAL Superintendent of Assemblies of God Church, Prof. Paul Emeka has described the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as an astute defender of the faith, adding that his fearless disposition has saved the Nigerian Church several embarrassment.

A Market popularly known as Igbo Market in the oil city of Warri was gutted by fire this afternoon.

Nigerian athletes who shone at the maiden African Youth Athletics Championships held in Warri, Delta State are eagerly looking forward to running and winning at the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine scheduled for July 10-14.

National President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, will tomorrow, present a pidgin English audio version of the New Testament Bible.

MINISTER of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, said, yesterday, that his relationship with elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, who tongue-lashed him, last month, over his ambition to rule Delta State, was still friendly.

By CLIFFORD NDUJIHE & DAUD OLATUNJI LAGOS -TWENTY years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections presumably won by late business tycoon, Chief M.K.O Abiola, the Head of Abiola family, Mubashiru, yesterday, exonerated former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida from the complicity that led to the death of ... (more)

NATIONAL President of Concern Citizenship of Niger Delta Forum, CCNDF, Mr. Matthew Daniel, has charged Northern leaders to support President Goodluck Jonathan in his effort to curb terrorism in the northern part of the country.

Harrison Okene, 29, spent two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat.

As 4 Delta communities lament power outage, send SOS to NDDC, Delta government, others BOMADI-Coastal erosion has again hit Gbekebor community, a coastal community on River Forcados flat in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, destroying the seawall jointly built by the community and the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development ... (more)

A resource control campaigner in the Niger Delta, Alhaji Mumakai-Unagha, weekend, said President Goodluck Jonathan has the right to re-contest for President in 2015, but was not a messiah to the South-South people.

LOCAL investors have accused the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, of colluding with foreign broadcast outfits to rip-off the Nigerian economy by not providing a level playing ground between local and foreign competitors.

Edo State Government, yesterday, said that the Federal Government lied about roads in the state, noting that many federal roads in the area had not been attended to.

FOUR suspected kidnappers nabbed by men of the 3 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State have confessed to have been involved in various abduction escapades and pleaded with the military authorities to forgive them.

WARRI/DAKAR, 4 June 2013 - Oil theft - known as bunkering - in Nigeria's Niger Delta region is soaring following a brief lull, leading residents and community leaders once again to call on the federal government to do more to address the area's chronic under-development.

THE most wanted kidnap kingpin in Delta State, Kelvin, suspected to be a drug addict, ambushed and killed three officials of the Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, Warri, with his gang, 48 hours after he phoned the state Commissioner of Police, Mr.

Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has great credentials: a lawyer, an administrator, Ijaw national leader, a nationalist, a freedom fighter and leader, South South Peoples Assembly.

He is a selfless, determined, young on-air personality with a difference. He is devoid of pride and superiority over the younger ones, the have-nots and he considers it a duty to assist the needy.

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in his second term is running an aggressive campaign on the ground to erect a legacy that would endear him in the hearts of the populace.

Families of the five Pakistani nationals on board an oil vessel, Mt Matrix 1 , abducted last Saturday at 40 nautical miles off the Bayelsa coast have told the management of the company, Matrix Energy, in Warri, Delta State, not to pay any ransom to the abductors to get them released, promising to take revenge on Nigerians in their hundreds in ... (more)

As indigent students receive scholarship Friday, May 10, in Warri, Delta State, the dream of 16 intelligent but indigent students of acquiring qualitative education was made possible courtesy of Morgan Smart Development Foundation .