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The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has said that the Deputy President of the Senate will Chair the Constitution review committee of the Ninth Assembly. Lawan who said the committee would be inaugurated soon said the task has traditionally be saddled on the office of the Deputy President of the Senate and this will not change under his watch. The President of the Senate who addressed the media at the guest house of the President of the Senate as he flew into Abuja from his country home said the Senate would also meet with revenue generation agencies to provide the legislative intervention that would enable them to meet their revenue target and the successful implementation of the budget. He said the nation’s security situation is not as it should. Details later…

The Governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa has urged all Nigerians to be agents of change to engender peace and speed up development in the country. He made the call on Sunday at a thanksgiving service by Mr. Samuel Mariere, a former member of the Delta State House of Assembly representing Ughelli North Constituency 1. The thanksgiving service took place at St.Paul's Anglican Church, Evwereni. According to the governor, Nigerians should be committed to making the country a better place by rendering assistance to others for speedy growth. "We should do our best for the nation to be better and we can start with our neighbours. "Note that any help that you offer to your neighbour is also offered to the Lord because, we need to show genuine love for one another.  "What Mariere is doing with this thanksgiving is the best thing to do, as in all circumstances, we should give thanks to God.   "Even some of those who have ...

Within three months of the creation of Delta in 1991, the first secretariat complex popularly referred to as ‘Works’ was hurriedly put in place by the then military administrator, Group Captain Luke Ochulor, in Asaba, the capital. The complex barely accommodated the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the army of public servants relocated from Benin City, the capital of defunct Bendel State, where Delta was carved out from. Many public offices, including the Government House and Deputy Governor’s quarters, operated in rented apartments, but successive governments headed by late Felix Ibru, Group Captain Ibrahim Kefas (retd), Brig-Gen. Bassey Asuquo (retd), late Col. John Dungs, Navy Captain Walter Feghabor (retd), Chief James Ibori and Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, who all administered the state between 1994 and 2015, saw to the construction of some office buildings in Asaba to complement the State Secretariat now known as Olorogun Felix Ibru Secretariat, built by the Feder...

Political patronage is the appointment or hiring of a person to a government post based on partisan loyalty. Elected officials at the national, state, and local levels of government use such appointments to reward the people who help them win and maintain an office. Patronage is typically understood as rent-seeking: a strategy whereby politicians build and maintain clientelistic networks and steer bureaucratic efforts for political and/or private gain, which may hurt development. In contrast to this view, it is necessary to look at how and when political appointments and connections can enhance the maintenance of society’s social and political stability. The argument is not that patronage is universally good, or that it comes with no costs. The net benefits of patronage are more likely to be positive in contexts where there are no easy substitutes for this governance approach. This is often the case in developing contexts, and particularl...

The Governor of Delta State,   Ifeanyi Okowa has called for mentorship among Christians to provide legacy of genuine discipleship of Jesus Christ. The governor made the call on Saturday at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Anglican Diocese of Warri at the Bishop's Court, Warri. According to him, mentorship and discipleship are very important in the growth of the church. He said, "I congratulate the diocese for attaining 40 years, a period with which the church has grown in leaps and bounds. "I am happy that we are growing as a church; this Diocese has given birth to other dioceses and churches. "We should rededicate ourselves to God as we move beyond 40 years; we have won souls and we should continue to win more souls for Christ." The governor commended the church for documenting the activities of the church in a book and urged the faithful to not only have a copy of the book, but to read it. Earlier in an address, the Bishop of the Di...

The Governor of Delta, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Sunday, reaffirmed his commitment to rendering selfless service to Deltans. The governor made this known while inaugurating five projects in Isoko South and Isoko North Local Government Areas of the state. The projects, which were naugurated amid jubilation by the people, were Opute Hall, Ozoro; Ultra-Modern Civic Centre, Uzere; Model Secondary School, Uzere; Students Hostel at the Delta State University, Oleh Campus and Six three-bedroom bungalows for visiting Lecturers also at the university. "This administration has always been on course; we have come to Isoko to inaugurate some infrastructure development projects executed by Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission (DESOPADEC), an arm of government. "We are committed to providing adequate service to our people and we will remain focused; as you can see, the amendment of the laws establishing DESOPADEC has given room for more resources to...

David Ricardo true to classicism, saw the social system of his time as permanent. He thought of social organization as something that had changed materially in the past but had reached maturity and would not change materially in the future. The reality, nonetheless, is that every well-ordered scheme is in a constant state of flux, tending always to a well-balanced arrangement of things. Every endeavour is constantly threatened by circumstances that work at cross-purposes to the attainment of equilibrium under the guidance of natural law. Most social phenomenal are in constant state of flux, they change in general ways that precedes the establishment of a new order or direction of action. And the unwritten policy of power rotation in the State cannot be insulated from changes and uncertainty. Politics is competition for political power. It is a rivalry for the capacity to influence or determine official governmental decision making and action on questions of public policy. ...

Asaba was made capital city in 1991, it was a sleepy town with a low-density population dominated mainly by farmers and indigenes who are involved in petty trading. As Delta State capital, Asaba is a hub of government action and business activities.  Asaba is strategically located on a hill at the western edge of the majestic River Niger. The historic River Niger is a trans-African link beginning from Futa jallon mountain in Guinea and down into the Atlantic Ocean. Asaba forms a connector between western, eastern and northern Nigeria through the River Niger from the north and via the Asaba Niger Bridge, an east west link and a Nigeria landmark. The rate of development the State has achieved these past five years is quite visible, especially, in Asaba, the State capital. The city is gradually growing into an urban area, which could be comparable to any old Nigerian cities like Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano among others. Under Senator Ifeanyi Okowa...

Iran learned the lessons that Trump has obviously failed to learn from Vietnam and Afghanistan: 1.      You cannot win a war with naval or air power. You can break a lot of things, but only boots on the ground can win a war and the US does not have enough boots to force a win in countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iran. 2.      The same wars also taught that George Washington was right —- the easy way to fight a superior military power is to refuse to lose. It’s called asymmetric warfare and the Iranians are fully prepared to go asymmetric from the get-go. 3.      The US simply does not have another 50,000 American lives and $6 trillion to throw at a war it cannot win.