Tag: Delta State.

Nigerian Father Who Raped His 4 Yr-Old Daughter Jailed For Life

Abibat Babalola

A Nigerian High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, and presided over by Honourable Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge, has sentenced a 28-year-old father, Amechi Ogo, to life imprisonment for raping his four-year-old daughter. The defendant was arraigned on a charge of rape for having unlawful carnal of his child at Asaba on 31st May 2018, contrary to Section 218 of the Criminal Code Law of Delta State. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Tems Becomes First Female Nigerian Grammy Winner in History Heavily Pregnant Woman Dies Over New Naira Crisis Caged, Raped And…

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Ex-Footballer Trafficks Cocaine After Failed Career In Brazil

Ganiyu Amodu

Emmanuel Okafor Junior, a former football player, was apprehended by agents from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, as he arrived from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on a flight operated by Ethiopian Airlines, carrying 1.40 kilogrammes of crack cocaine. Anti-narcotic officers discovered the 33-year-old Arochukwu Local Government Area, Abia State native had concealed the illegal substance in the handles of his bags and had padded the top edges of the bags when they found him on Monday, September…

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U-TURN: Buhari Awards Tompolo Multi-Billion Pipeline Protection Contracts

Efe Wellington

Buhari who stopped a similar contract initiated by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, reverses self as Nigeria’s loss to crude theft surpasses $40 million every 24 hours   Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has awarded the former militant leader and Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, a pipeline surveillance contract. Platforms Africa reports that this came as the Nigeria’s losses to oil theft surpasses $40 milliin every 24 hours. Buhari who stopped a similar contract initiated by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan,…

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Quality Petroleum Education to solve Energy Transition Challenges – Wabote

Abibat Babalola

There is an urgent need for the Nigerian Government and other stakeholders of the oil and gas industry to intensify efforts in the promotion of quality petroleum education and development of competent manpower who would help Nigeria meet the challenges of the ongoing energy transition and expected boom in the gas sector. This was the key recommendation by the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote in the convocation lecture he delivered on Friday at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE)…

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1 Year-Old Pupil Who Was Given 31 Strokes Of Cane by Proprietor Dies

Precious Ibekwe

Obinna, a pupil of Arise and Shine Nursery and Primary School, Asaba, Delta State, was given 31 strokes of cane for playing with water and getting wet. Proprietor, son, re-arrested A toddler simply identified as Obinna fell into coma, died after he allegedly received 31 strokes of cane from his school’s owner, Mrs Ogbo, and her son. The sad incident was made known by Ebenezer Omejalile, Chief Operating Officer of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable People’s Network, a human rights group. The baby, a pupil of Arise and Shine Nursery…

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Shell Appeals Judgement on Gas Flaring in Niger Delta Community

Efe Wellington

Shell challenges judgement on gas flare in Niger Delta community Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has filed an appeal challenging a judgement of the Federal High Court, Benin City, ordering a halt to the continued flaring of gas in Iwhrekan, Delta State. Platforms Africa reports that Justice J. Nwokorie of the Federal High Court, Benin, had in a case instituted by Mr. Jonah Gbemre on behalf of Iwhrekan community ordered SPDC to stop the development forthwith. But SPDC filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin with…

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