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Chief James Augoye, Delta commissioner for works shows sympathy on fellow Nigerians been killed , miam , humiliated and brutalised , turned homeless, that with serious concern the worsening Xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa in which Nigerians have been major victims. We have had enough of our citizens being targets of attacks in South Africa their actions is evil and barbaric .

Such act of Xenophobic violence is condemnable anywhere; more so in South Africa, a country whose citizens benefitted from the unwavered support and solidarity of Africans and freedom lovers across the world in their historic struggle against apartheid.

It is unacceptable irony that a section of South Africans would so soon, after now, choose other Africans in their country as the targets of mindless violent attacks over frustrations for which the innocent victims have no control.

The enormous contributions of Nigeria to this historic struggle is underscored by its recognition as a frontline state in the prolonged confrontation against the powerful racist regime that had held generations of Southern Africans in bondage and subhuman conditions.

By Akpovoke Otiti

ASABA – Barr Peter Mrakpor , Delta state Attorney general and Commissioner for justice has said that the unity of Delta state and Nigeria as a whole is sacrosanct and non-negotiable.

The Commissioner told aljaziralreporters Editor as part of consultations for peace against the backdrop of agitations for secession by some group of people for governor, he said Delta cannot be like Rwanda or Somalia hence God have his children on top, that the state government is on his best to address the root cause of agitations which are poverty, unemployment and hardship in the State.

He urged party Chieftains and stakeholders to work in line with the doctrines of the founding fathers to promote peace, that the unity of Delta is sacrosanct, is non-negotiable and we all have to work together to educate our people.

“The message is for Deltans to work more together and collaborate. We have more to gain when we are united. We cannot afford disunity of purpose because of selfish interest and greed, ”

Mrakpor appealed to the media to concentrate on stories that unite rather than sensationalism, adding that if the Delta should not be in unity , everybody will be the looser.

He said, “To you the media look for what unites us and not sensations news.

Barr. Peter Mrakpor and Style !!!

Many people wonder, though! many have heard of him through his good wills @Campaigns with his Groups, ( Mrakpor movement for Okowa) 🤣 these political group is seen on ground eventually in all the LGA in Delta during campaigns rally and it have become a household name in all parts of the state.

Barr. Peter Mrakpor, he is a socialman😂,feel with the heart of love not only for his family but whosoeve come in contact with him. He is a man of possibility of genuine interest about development and who do not compromised. He say things as they where.

Barr. Mrakpor disposition is to render services to the entire state , either you an APC , SDP , PDP, etc his office is open to all critically in terms of problems, but constructively in terms of positive programs. Success stories have contribute to his general sense of optimism that he generate more momentum for democracy and development.

Mrakpor sit down with people from high to low discussing the meaning of development thereby generating “an enormous range of visions” as well as “how-to” insights. Thus he get a voice as expert in law and jury line with the stronger Delta preceding ideas of the Governor Senator Dr. IfeanyiArtpeople okowa😎.

His humane simple nature is what ought to happen to every politicians out there in a democracy system.

While no definition of his personal life may satisfy everyone, it is hard to disagree that Barr. Peter Mrakpor has provide a reasonable framework in the Ministry of Justice to understand the essentials of the concept and its people and the government 🤣😃..

By Akpovoke Otiti (editor)

ASABA- T H E Hon. Commissioner for oil and gas, Chief Emmanuel Amgbaduba, (former Delta South PDP Chairman, also former S.A on foriegn affairs to Gov. Okowa, and was also former a member of scholsrship board, first and second member of state universal basic education Board ), he has ensure victories to all people’s Democratic Party, PDP, at all levels during the last general elections.

Amgbaduba who was reacting to questions in his office recently, told journalists that his Positive leadership as the Commissioner for oil and gas will try to carry youths, women and men along for development and empowerment in the oil and gas sector, Deltans will continue to enjoy the peaceful co-existence being maintained by the state government, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa

The Commissioner who explained that one of their major task is to exercises supervisory role over the operators and stakeholders, to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in the Oil and Gas Sector, with maintainace of pipeline and proper monitory of oil and gas facilities to make their is relative peace within the operators and the host communities

“Okowa is determined to make far reaching changes and ensure the speedy production of oil and gas industry on exploration, exploitation, production and distribution of our products to Nigeria and bring it in line to rate Delta as No 1 in oil and gas practice and to maximizing the net economic benefit from oil and gas resources and enhance the social and economic development of the Delta while meeting the people’s needs, and urged oil and gas companies to relocate back to Delta for relative peace across the state.

The governor of Delta, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated Africa’s reigning long jump queen, Ese Brume, for winning long jump gold at ongoing All African Games in Rabat, Morocco.

Brume, Commonwealth champion, leapt 6.69 meters on Thursday at the Moulay Abdellah Sports Stadium, to win the long jump event at the games which is in its 12th edition.

The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Friday in Asaba, commended 23-year-old Ese Brume, who hails from Ughelli in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta, for making the state and the nation proud.

He said that his administration was proud of the various feats achieved by Deltans in several endeavours of sports, assuring that the state government would continue to support the budding talents in sports as a strategy for building a stronger Delta.

Congratulating the athlete on behalf of government and people of Delta, Okowa said “as a state, our greatest asset is not just in our rich oil and gas deposits but in human capital which we have continued to develop.
“And, we are delighted that Deltans have continued to maintain their winning streak and excelling in their chosen field of sports, thereby justifying government’s investment in the industry.

“In our quest to build a stronger Delta of our dream, we will continue to use sports as a tool for massive human capital development especially as the future of sports in Delta and Nigeria remains very bright,” he added.

Brume, who is a student at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus, has since qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

She became a Commonwealth Games Champion in 2014 and has won three consecutive Long Jump titles at the African Championships (2014, 2016 and 2018), making her the first athlete (male or female) in African championships history to accomplish such feat.

By Akpovoke Otiti

Olise Ifeajika t h e Chief Press Secretary (CPS), to the Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr). Ifeanyi Okowa,who takes over from Charles Aniagwu, who is now the Commissioner for information. Ifeajika was first appointed as pointer newspaper Board member, who hails from Illa Community, Oshimili North LGA, is a seasoned journalist and a Political Editor with the News Agency Of Nigeria, (NAN), is a news reporting agency owned and run by the federal govt just like NTA

The former political Editor of NAN now Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Delta State play host to Online Media Practitioner Association of Nigeria , OMPAN, Delta recently, @govt house Asaba. Chanllenged practicing Journalists to add value to themselves befor the general public, that the world has narrowed into a neighborhood in a global village of technology

Ifeajika who noted Information Technology application is higher there is the likelihood of more and more social and economic integration or inclusion of social factors in the economy, that there is need of collaboration to source and dessimination of information .

The new CPS further said his office is open for delivery of services to the Governor and to journalists for speedy dissemination of information to all citizens. The up-gradation of the above factors is a challenge but opportunities are there for transparency in governance for journalists to balance and practice objective and developmental Journalism.

In ther words Journalists should work together imbibing skills from one another. We should be very particular to promoting our people and government, that all Journalists will be progressively covered under the umbrella of Commissioner for information and the Chief Press Secretary to the gov.

The Editor of Aljaaziralreporters, Comrade Akpovoke Otiti has called upon Delta journalists to use the skills of information dissemination to attract development to Arhavwarien Kingdom, especially construction of Arhavwarien bridge and urged Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for appointment of his kinsmem. He said, the urge for development must be ignited among the people so that they are fully involved and participate in development.

Otiti was presiding over the valedictory function of the Online media Practitioners Course in development Journalism for the new admitted online media practitioners in Asaba recently.

The Editor who said that the biggest beneficiary of democracy is the media and journalism. Since media has the biggest stake in democracy, journalists have to have a commitment to their profession, to their nation of which they are citizens and democracy. He said, newspapers must not be considered as a commodity. It has to be a vehicle of learning, change and development. The world is changing at a phenomenal pace and the developmental online news has been the biggest causality in the fast changing technologies and commercialization of the media.

Referring to Arhavwarien, Otiti said that some self centered politicians crushed the spirit of Arhavwarien people, sheer enterprise of Arhavwarien women, their profound creativity, beauty and openness. The spirit of the Arhavwarien people has not yet been restored since the Death of Dr. Brown Adasen, and late Senator Pius Ewherido but our creativity has to be fully vitalized and conveyed effectively. It is here that our journalists have the greatest role to play to involve the people and the govwrnment

Otiti said that in a democracy there are power frictions among different players. But it is the media, which moderates the hard attitudes in a multi-ethnic society in states like Delta and Nigeria. It helps to bring harmony among different groups. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Peter Mrakpor thanked the Government of Delta for not only appointing but also gives employment to 14 Deltans to mark Delta @28.

As part of efforts by Delta state government to keep civil engineers in the Ministry of Works abreast with world standards in the performance of their duties, five engineers will be sent to Las Vegas in the United States of America to attend the 2020 International Civil Engineers Conference.

The commissioner for Works chief James Augoye disclosed this at the closing of the 2-day Annual training organized for civil engineers in the ministry at Gordon Resort, Abraka in Ethiope East Local Government Area.

According to the Chief Augoye, the conference will afford the engineers the opportunity to be abreast with modern techniques in road construction which will benefit the state.

According to the commissioner, another set of four engineers have been nominated to understudy concrete Mattresses at submar West Africa in Lagos next week.

Chief Augoye also stated that the next technical meeting of engineers in the ministry would be held at the second Niger Bridge under construction to enable the engineers understudy the bridge and have firsthand information about bridge construction.

The commissioner assured the engineers that the communique on their findings at the training workshop would be sent to the governor, as it would form the basis of road construction in the state.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr Fred Edafioghor, thanked Governor Okowa for giving the ministry the opportunity to organize the training.

Delta State Government has reiterated the imperativeness of regular update and upgrading of those changed with the responsibility of driving the implementation machineries to ensure that processes and derivables are in tune with international best practices.

The State Governor, Sen Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa stated this today in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government while declaring open the third edition of the annual 2day training for civil engineers in the Minisyry of Works.

Gov Okowa who was represented by the Deputy Governor Barr kingsley Burutu Otuaro, disclosed that his administration highly values the partnership of the civil service establishment in the implementation of her programmes.

One of the cardinal programmes of my administration is rural-urban intergration/ urban renewal through massive development of sustainable infrastructure which is critical to achieving the Stronger Delta Vision, the Governor added.

He stated that since the inception of his administration in 2015, government has significantly advanced urban-rural integration with the construction of 455 road projects comprising of 1,269,42kms of roads and 517,34kms of drainage channels across the State.

Gov Okowa maintained that the provision of roads and physical infrastructure is critical to building a stranger and more resilient economy.

“It helps to decrease inequality, creates employment, enhances I dividual productivity, stimulates growth of micro, small and medium scale enterprises and facilitates better living conditions in our communities and cities,” Governor Okowa stated.

He also said that the provision of physical Infrastructures provided services that meet daily requirements of citizens and increased aggregate demand for goods and services that stimulates more production and expansion of the economy.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye said that the ministry had decided to organize the third edition of the training to keep engineers in the employ of the state government abreast with modern construction techniques and to sharpen their skills while carrying out their assigned responsibilities.

Chief Augoye who noted that some noticeable and positive gians were derived from the first and second editions of the training in respect of projects supervision explained that this made the ministry to institute the training as an annual event.

He appealed to the participants to be serious with the training as the state government had put a lot of mental and financial resources together to organise the programme.

Present at the event were the Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, the acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works, Mr Joshua Ebube among others.

By Akpovoke Otiti

As Preparations heighten for the celebration of the creation of Delta State since 28 years ago, the Delta State Commissioner for works, Chief James Augoye says he appreciates and thanked Deltans for believing in stronger Delta and Thanked everyone in making Delta a confortable place for us all, especially voting for Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, it is a reason to celebrate Delta @28

Augoye who was fielding questions in Asaba with Aljaziralreporters News said , “as a state created 28 years ago, our leaders and indeed, all Deltans have cause to celebrate because the state has recorded huge socio- economic and political transformation within the period. We may not have been able to develop to a level we anticipated, but today we have been able to record considerable number of milestones that we can be proud of as a state in various areas of development”.

‘He said successive and present administration in the state have been able to focus on construction and maintenance of the vital infrastructure like roads , bridges and drains.
Specifically , Chuef Augoye pointed out that the Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration since assuming office has embarked on construction of roads , covering a distance of kilometers , realizing that road development and construction is the backbone for the achievement of the SMART agenda and STRONGER DELTA.

The roads, he pointed out , “ are intended to link up our various communities to enhance social- economic development in the state. The movement of farm produce from one locality to another has been enhanced with the provision of motor able roads linking our communities.”
“The unprecedented growth in our state capital as witnessed in recent times is indicative of the fact that the dividend of democracy is gradually trickling down to the masses” , he opined, adding “ today the state capital is growing at a phenomenonal speed, we have been able to add a level of momentum , the fact is that the state capital has moved away from a glorified local government headquarters to something that looks more like an urban center”, he added.

He said Asaba , being the state capital has been enjoying unprecedented level of peace, as a result of the conscious efforts of our past and present leaders of the state. You will agree with me that the rapid socio-economic development of asaba, especially the invasion of Nollywood actors into Asaba is as a result of the peaceful nature and environment of the fast growing city.

In the area of education, Chief Augoye explained that, “we are still registering a level of progress as the state is paying more attention to vocational training for our students to reduce the incidence of unemployable graduates . The state is focusing on graduating students who can not only employ themselves but graduates who can become employers of labour” .
Commissioner for works said , “ It is on record that the state government has repositioned the technical and vocational schools in the state by investing huge resources to ensure that they become center of excellence, for example, His Excellency Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa approved the upgrade of infrastructure and equipment in Agbor, Ofagbe and Sapele technical colleges as well as the Issele-uku, Ogor and Utagba-Ogbe technical colleges”.
According to him, a lot of policy initiatives have also been directed at the tertiary institutes as the Delta State University and the state polytechnics have received various degrees of attention from the government in the recent times in terms of upgrade of facilities and funding.
He further stated that the state has also achieved a lot in the areas of Healthcare ,

Agriculture , Transport, culture and tourism and many more.
He said in spite of the huge successes recorded as a state within this 28 years, the state government is not rolling out the drums , He said Governor Okowa is building on the foundation laid by the administrations of James Ibori and Emmnauel Uduaghan, “ we are sustaining the mother and child healthcare programme, the aged are also being taken care of , we just introduced the contributory health insurance programme , a number of hospitals are being revamped , we are hoping that our revenue improves , so that we can start addressing some other challenges in the state.”

He pointed out that “ As a state government we are not owning our workers, the state government has taken steps to pay the pensioners.