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Angozi commiserates with Okowa over father’s death
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By Festus Ahon, Asaba
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and a former Commissioner of Agriculture in Delta State, Chief Braduce Angozi, Thursday commiserated with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa Delta and his family over the demise of their father, Chief Arthur Okorie Uzoma Okowa.
Angozi in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant, Mr Ramsey Ufuomavefe Edigbue said: “It saddens my heart to hear that our father, Pa Okowa is no more. Words cannot express my condolences.
As a matter of fact, Pa Okowa left a very great vacuum particularly for his fatherly roles which most of us benefited from.
Bloody January: Nigeria loses 120 to violence, COVID-19, others in 7 days
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By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
AFTER surviving COVID-19 pandemic and other socio-economic challenges of 2020, death is the furtherest thing on the minds of most people who crossed over to 2021.
On December 31 of every year, many people troop to religious and prayer houses where they thank God for the ending year and supplicate for better tidings – good health, long life, prosperity and other favours in the new year. Many people outline a litany of lofty goals they want to actualise in the coming year.
They top it up with exchange of goodwill wishes and messages with friends and family. No matter how old, instant death is furtherest on the minds of most people. Even those who are ill expect to get well in the new year.
Bob Majirioghene Etemiku writes that the activities of some tank farms in Niger Delta are endangering lives
In November 2020, there were several reports that irate youths of Ute Okpu, Ika North east local government area of Delta State, took to the streets to protest the rising deaths of youths in the area. According to these reports, the youths got angry after four of them died. The protesters reportedly burnt a market, but were unable to get to their monarch’s palace. A team of soldiers and policemen stopped them. The deaths were said to be unexplainable, and the gist around town was that the gods or deities of the community affected were angry at misdemeanor of certain elders, and so had taken the lives of the youth as propitiation. But investigations have revealed that the youths were not killed by the gods. Rather, they had died from yellow fever and allied ailments from deadly fumes arising from the unregulated activities of tank farms in the Niger Delta. Five inhabitants of