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LG poll: Omo-Agege woos non-indigenes for APC Dele Ogunyemi, Warri DEPUTY Senate President, Omo-Agege on Saturday hosted the non-indigenes across the state as part of efforts to mobilise support for candidates of the All Progressives Congress in the March 6, 2021 local government elections in Delta State. Several non-indigenes used the occasion to inform the lawmaker about the downtown of the economy and its effects on their livelihoods. Omo-Agege took time out to inaugurate a constituency offi...

Dele Ogunyemi, Warri THE Delta State Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday assured all stakeholders that it would conduct a free, fair and ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A  total of 48 political parties have filed a lawsuit before the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, challenging the conduct of the March 6, 2021 Local Government Elections by the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission. The suit with reference No. FHC/ASB/CC/19/2021, instituted by All Grand Alliance Party, Mega Party of Nigeria and New Generation Party of Nigeria on behalf of others, is praying the Court to compel DSEIC to include them o...

Delta mortuary attendant nabbed over missing corpse of 58-year-old woman Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A mortuary attendant in Oghara, Delta State, has been arrested by the police over the missing corpse of a 58-year-old woman, Mrs Patience Amughoro. The deceased woman was said to have died late last year after a brief illness and her corpse kept in a private hospital mortuary at Oghara, while the family prepared for burial. Sources said the family was stunned when, on Saturday morning after all prepara...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A middle-aged butcher at the popular Sapele main market, simply identified as Efe, was on Sunday shot dead in the community by gunmen. Efe’s murder was coming up barely 24 hours after Okiemute Sowho, a Senior Special Assistant on Youth Development to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, was killed in the same Sapele metropolis. The PUNCH gathered that Efe, who was into cow meat sales was shot dead along New Road axis by Poultry Road Junction in the town. Sour...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri The Nigerian Bar Association has slammed the Minister of Defence, Major-General Bashir Magashi (retd.), over his call on Nigerians to defend themselves against gun-wielding bandits and kidnappers. The NBA described such call as “a sign of failure” on the part of regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). It also urged the Inspector-General of the Nigeria Police to investigate all the circumstances surrounding the murder of...

Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A pregnant lawyer, Nkiru Agbasu, was on Wednesday shot dead by suspected armed robbers on the Warri-Sapele highway in Delta S...

Punch Newspapers Sections A father of three, Mr Emeke Ojere, has been shot dead by gunmen. The victim, who resided at the PTI axis of Warri, was shot in his car on Saturday at Ugbomro community in the Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. His driver, identified only as Egbehon, told journalists that he was in the car with his boss and another occupant when the gunmen struck. “We went to Ogbomro community to visit one of our townsmen, but suddenly gunmen blocked us and asked us to lie do...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A father of three, Mr Emeke Ojere, who hails from Oyoko-Abavo in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State but resides at the PTI axis of Warri has been shot dead by yet to be identified gunmen. Witnesses say that Ojere was gunned down in his car on Saturday at Ugbomro community in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta. Mr Egbehon who drove the G-LK Mercedes Benz car told journalists that he was in the car with his “Oga” (the deceased), who...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters Kidnappers and gunmen have sustained attacks in different parts of the country abducting  75 persons and killing  18 others. In Niger State, no fewer than 50  persons were abducted in the early hours of Thursday when bandits attacked   Bassa community in the Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. Nine people were killed very early on Thursday during an attack by bandits on  Sarki Sheme village in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina Sta...