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By Theresa Ugbobu OWA OYIBU- THE Dein of Agbor Kingdom in Delta State, His Majesty, Ikenchuku Keagborekuzi I, last week, stunned the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, when he stirred up the relationship between his […]

The race for the second term for first time governors like our amiable governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has earnestly just begun. This period, no doubt is the time of re corning for these governors who […]

By Magnus Onyibe When Emmanuel Macron , President of France, Theresa May, prime minister of the United Kingdom,UK and Angela Merkel, president of Germany recently embarked on state visits to major African countries back-to-back, it […]

By Onyeagbor O. E Issues everywhere. The gale of defections ravaging the All Progressives Congress (APC) has made the temperature of Aso Villa unbearable that Mr president decided to defect temporarily to the Queen’s land, […]

By Eghebi Williams Lince Every worker deserves his or her wage. Our faith books also agree with this adage. It is however unfortunate that there are many workers whose daily drudgery are not rewarded as […]

By Solomon Omojie-mgbejume It’s true that the Governor of Delta state Dr Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa is from Owa kingdom, specifically Owa-Alero. But my question is where is the mega project in owa kingdom? While we […]

It is from our heart we conceive good or evil and not from our brain. The brain is connected with thinking while the heart is connected with action. The centrifugal force that pulls every man […]

My visit to Nigeria from the US after so many years of being away has changed the way I now see the country. When I left Nigeria in 1996, everything was analog. It was all […]

The last decade has experienced a tremendous increase in numbers of disasters. In 2004, and on boxing-day, an earthquake in Indian Ocean caused tsunami that ravaged the coasts of Asia and Africa continents leaving behind […]

Epistle 1 Honestly, this piece deserves a better title, but I can’t think of any other than this. The future of any united nation depends on some forces like peace, equality, social justice among others […]

Compatriots, it is in my most painful delight that I hazard to refresh your memory of the imminence of yet another election that will usher in a new administration at the local government level. That […]

According to the words of Napoleon Bonapart "a leader is to persuade his people when his political impact is below expectation and not to intimidate them with performances and achievements that lack credibility and purpose". […]

An Open letter to Abavo People My dear brothers and sisters, I feel highly constrained but with an obsessive compulsive inspiration laden with a deep sense of patriotism for Abavo to write this piece. I […]

It is generally believed that "politics is a dirty game" and as such, one must tell lies to be a politician. However, there are in politics, some realists and people of honour who tell the […]

 Igbanke is a town in Orhonmwon Local Govt. with six (6) villages independent of the other with each village headed by an Enogie (King). Igbanke has produced men and women in (big) positions in all works […]

A double-minded politician is like a wave of the sea, highly unstable both in reasoning, actions, thoughts and behaviours. This expression clearly depicts the character of those advocating for power shift to Delta North by […]

What really make people civilized? How can a people be measured in terms of civilization. These and other ancillary issues are the things I want to tackle in this write-up. A people are described civilized […]

Many people have been wondering and inquiring why I have been silent for some months. The two reasons for this are: firstly, to gauge the pulse of my readers after my down-to-earth analysis of the […]

I write to disagree with the assertion made by Barrister Eugene Uzum in condemning the statement credited to Ika Progressive Youth, as published in Anioma Watch of Tuesday, September 27, 2011, under the headline "Ika […]

My attention was drawn to the story, “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN: MAN SET ABLAZE”, carried in the Ika Weekly Newspaper, edition 185, published last weekend.                The story was as bizarre as it was fictional!  […]

The 20th anniversary for the creation of Delta state which was celebrated on 27th August, 2011, may have come and gone but Deltans both home and in Diaspora were greatly disappointed and highly embarrassed, considering […]

I have been fascinated to read in our esteemed Weekly newspaper, the “Ika Weekly Newspaper “ and the Ikaworld  Website, about miscreants  in our society being paraded and shamed in our our Market Places, with […]

st1:* There is no reason for any person in Delta State to celebrate considering the level of decay we are forced to face. I  am not satisfied with the Delta State in which I live […]

Nigeria is blessed with very capable and resourceful hardworking women. The general impression is that women are becoming incrementally more successful in the country’s work force. Today, more and women are represented in the work […]

According to Lawson, “education makes a people easy to govern but difficult to enslave”. Little wonder Victor Hugo postulated that “he who opens a school door, closes a prison”. Education which is a progressive discovery […]

In my article a few weeks ago, entitled: AGBOR, A HOUSE THAT IS DIVIDED, I stated that Agbor Kingdom did not do well in the April 2011 general elections because there was no unity and […]

The impediment to the development of Ika South local government area of Delta State lies directly in us and until this impediment is drastically subdued, all other attempts aimed at fast tracking our sustainable socio-economic […]

Ika South, no doubt, is one of the 25 local government areas in Delta State with its administrative headquarters at Agbor. The local government is indeed, blessed with abundant human and material resources needed to […]

executive council. From all indications, nobody from Ika South and Ukwuani/Ndokwa West Local Government Areas made it or has yet made it to these categories of appointees. However, shameless and hollow-headed  supporters of Dr. Uduaghan […]

Naturally I never would have responded to the ranting of Mr. Anthony Egun if not that he deliberately and fraudulently distorted facts in his childish write up. I really don’t know why Mr. Anthony Egun […]

st1:* Since I expressed my opinion captioned, AGBOR: A HOUSE THAT IS DIVIDED, I have received numerous reactions from Agbor sons and daughters and friends of Ndi Agbor from every part of Nigeria, the United […]

By Tonnie Egun Privileged subject of the Dein of Agbor Kingdom Special Assistant to the Queen Mother.   Can I defend the Queen Mother? I am very privileged to be the elder brother to the […]

OWA-ALERO OBODO- UKWU IN HISTORY The Discovery By Iyare Chuks Assisted By Okwunoji Silva   Right in the cool breeze of the equatorial forest, at the harmatan period, the founding fathers of Obodo –Ukwu left […]

A REJOINDER ON MR. JOHN EHIKWE’S ARTICLE:  AGBOR-A HOUSE THAT IS DVIDED. BY DR. A.E. MONYE                   The purpose of the article was very clear. The writer berated Agbor people for not following the […]

RE-AGBOR, A HOUSE THAT IS DIVIDED By Tonnie Egun Privileged subject of the Dein of Agbor Kingdom Special Assistant to the Queen Mother. It has taken me a very long time to think and consider […]

Hon. Godwin Ezedon is unarguably a major stakeholder as far as Ika South politics is concerned. The one time chairmanship aspirant OF WHAT has over time played key roles in the political  development of Ika […]

st1:* The April 2011 general elections have come and gone but the indelible marks left behind still remain and will remain for a long time particularly in Agbor Kingdom and Ika South in general. Just […]

“SALUTE TO MONSIGNOR DENNIS ARIMOKU AT 70”     Dear Monsignor Dennis,   My wife and Sons join me in congratulating you on your 70th Birthday on March 22, 2011. I remember very vividly coming […]

Indeed, power has started to change hands in Nigeria. With the recently concluded primary elections of all the political parties and the publication of the candidates for the forthcoming elections from state houses of assembly […]

In Ika land, when we are referring to our Monarch (Traditional Ruler), we say “Ledi enyi or Nedi enyi” depending on which part of Ika land you come from. Ledi enyi means our father or […]

Dr. Emanuel UDUAGHAN, I congratulate you for working your way back to GOVERNMENT HOUSE ASABA/WARRI. When somebody excels in what the majority of the people cannot do, it deserves acknowledgement and special commendation. It is […]

The judiciary is believed all over the world to be the bastion of hope for the common man, but the same cannot be said to be true in the case of Nigeria. Though we have […]

One of Nigeria’s prolific and legendary literary gurus Professor Chinua Achebe, once wrote in one of his novels, that “some mortals actually have their kernels cracked for them by the gods”; while some others have […]

Electioneering period and processes in different nations mean different things to different peoples. For the political actors, it is a period of intense activities, sleepless nights lobbying and manipulations. For the party control machines, it […]

SEMINAR ON ANGER MANAGEMENT AND PEACE BUILDING SUPPORT DURING ELECTIONS, HELD AT ORCHID HOTEL, ASABA FROM 24TH – 25TH AUGUST, 2010   THEME : MAKING IT HAPPEN : PEACE SECURITY AND STABILITY                    IN DELTA STATE […]

Senator Patrick Osakwe represents Delta North in the upper chamber of the National Assembly (NASS). He is a third term senator, having been there since 1999. In his first and second terms from 1999 to […]

The headline of this piece: Political Group Kicks Against Imposition, published in Ika Weekly newspaper, caught my attention but I felt disappointed that people of this caliber could appear in newspapers campaigning for a particular […]

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly […]

According to Franz Fanon "History will never forgive those who know the right thing, but decide to fold their arms and watch the forces of degradation and iniquity to prevail in our midst". Since the […]

Owanta-Aliosimi Community is an ancient community in Owa Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State. It is the gateway to other communities in Owa Kingdom and beyond. They are the goose […]