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By Onomiguren Agbamu Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori on Monday, said his relationship with the grassroot and common man would not be affected by his meteoric rise to becoming Governor of the state. Oborewori stated this at his inauguration thanksgiving/60th birthday anniversary service, Living Faith Church, and reception ceremony in Asaba. He said that his relationship with the people at the grassroot was very key in his political sojourn and would never stop. He said: “I want to start by thanking all of you who have come to celebrate with me. Your presence means a lot to me.…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, says it arrested 31,675 drug offenders and convicted 5,147 between 2021 and 2023 . The NDLEA added that over 6.3 million kilogrammes of assorted drugs were seized in the last 29 months. The Chairman of the NDLEA, Buba Marwa disclosed this on Monday during a joint press briefing with the country representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Oliver Stolpe, to flag off weeklong activities marking the 2023 World Drug Day. Marwa represented by Secretary of the NDLEA, Shadrach Haruna said, “In the past two and a half years, we have…

By Onomiguren Agbamu A Member Representing Delta North Senatorial District, at the National Assembly, Senator Ned Nwoko has vowed to work and deliver the dividend of Democracy. Nwoko made the vow when he spoke to newsmen in his hometown, Idemuje-Ugboko, Aniocha North,Delta State, during a grand reception to make his Inauguration as member of the 10th National Assembly. He said, “I was born and brought up in the village here, I am a village boy, I love the people, I love the environment, adding, as a grassroot man who was born and breed in the village, I deem it necessary…

Our reporters ” I have been working with MAPOLY (Moshood Abiola Polytechnic,Abeokuta,)  for a couple of years, but, today, I have my restrictions because of my health. “There are things I would have loved to do that I won’t do again, so, it is not a matter of I have the money to take care of myself. ” It is a matter of the kind of restrictions you are going to give such a child. I would love to travel and see places but, there are things I can not easily do. Intending couples will not have to think…

The administration of Bola Tinubu has secured first World Bank loan approved running into $750m to boost Nigeria’s power sector. According to the statement on the website of the bank, the fresh loan as additional financing for the Power Sector Recovery Performance-Based Operation, which was first approved on June 23, 2020. PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the loan with project ID P174622 was approved on June 9, 2023. On May 19, a document published titled ‘Nigeria – Power Sector Recovery Performance Based Operation Project: Additional Financing (English)’, it was disclosed that the parent project will end on June 30, 2023. Further…

First City Monument Bank has said that no fewer than 25,800 Small and Medium Scale Enterprises have accessed between N5m and N100m facility to purchase equipment needed to grow and expand their businesses. The bank said it has provided about N45.9bn loan guarantee support to SMEs with inadequate collateral coverage in the start-up stage and has disbursed over N637.08bn in loans to entrepreneurs. With a four years repayment option, the bank said the asset finance facility was open to early-phase businesses of less than five years and growing SMEs to help fund new equipment addition or replace depreciating assets to…

Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, wife of Adamu Bulkachuwa, Senator who represented Bauchi North in the 9th Assembly, has broken her silence, saying, said the insinuation that she abused her office as past President of the Court of Appeal. was far from the truth. Bulkachuwa was reacting to comments by her husband that he used his position to ask favour for his colleagues from his wife when she was the President of the Court of Appeal. The senator had on the floor of the Senate at the valedictory session of the 9th Assembly, said: “I look at faces in this chamber whom…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has has lamented that Nigeria has not been fair to farmers in the country. Obasanjo complained of the inability of farmers to access sustainable funding from financial institutions,saying, the current double-digit interest rate given by banks is too prohibitive and cannot sustain any agric business. According to him, the researchers, financial institutions and government have all conspired to victimise those who are in the business of farming. He spoke in Lagos while delivering his keynote address at the Agribusiness Investors’ Network organised by the Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) in partnership with International Institute of Tropical…

Former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday. escaped assassination attempt on his life when gunmen attacked his convoy, killing a policeman PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the incident occured when Okorocha’s convoy was heading for Enugu after dropping him off in Owerri, Imo capital, when the attackers opened fire at Ihube, along Okigwe-Enugu Expressway. The hoodlums were reportedly attacked the convoy when it was en route to Owerri, thought the former governor was heading back to Enugu. The former governor, who confirmed the incident on Sunday at Amaimo in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state, at…

Ms. Taiwo Ajayi has called out her ex-husband, Pastor Joseph Okpongete of the House on the Rock Church, citing domestic violence, financial abuse amongst others. She urged the Christian Body of Nigeria to intervene in the matter, and called him to order. The relationship coach narrated her ordeals in a series of posts titled “a cry for help !” on her Instagram page. She wrote, “Fellow Nigerians, my name is Taiwo Ajayi. I have been separated from the ex-husband for the past 4 years. I was married for 12 horrible years to Joseph Okpongete. ‘For those 12 years I suffered…