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- 6 Sept 2016
Economic Diversification: Union Dicon to Set Up Processing Plan in Delta State
As Delta state seeks to diversify its economy, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has welcomed ideas and programmes towards stimulating the economy and create employment for the people of the state. Speaking…
- 9 Oct 2018
Why We are Hosting Editors’ cCnference – Delta State Govt
Delta State government said it is hosting this year’s All Nigeria Editors’ Conference, the flagship annual conference organized by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), because it believes that the…
- 20 Oct 2008
Delta State Teachers Get Zinox Empowerment
Zinox Computers has donated computers to teachers in Delta State to boost their productivity. In her speech, Mrs. E. Uvo Gardener, commissioner of Education, told the teachers that they now have the…
- 27 May 2018
“We’re Active in Delta State,” Shell
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), operator of the SPDC Joint Venture, has restated its active presence in Delta State against the belief in some quarters that the…
- 27 Feb 2017
Aniwura.com, Delta State Sign MoU on G2B- B2B Online Platform
aniwura.com, Africa's first multidimensional marketplace and a marketing platform that is purposely built to support interactions between businesses and Government as well as Business to Business…
- 1 Sept 2008
FG Partners Delta State on Youth IT Training
In line with the government’s three-point agenda for human capital development, security and infrastructural development, the Delta State government has partnered with the Federal Ministry of…
- 21 Aug 2014
Delta plans world-class film village
Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Delta State Governor, has said that the state government has concluded plans to build a world class film village that would change the face of the film industry in Nigeria. The…
- 30 Apr 2019
DR. Jerry Agbaike Emerges E-government Personality of the Year
Dr. Jerry Agbaike (fnim, fiica. Jp) a distinguished Permanent Secretary in the service of Delta State government under the watch of Governor Senator Ifeayin Okowa - emerged as the e-Government…
- 3 Aug 2016
Delta to Establish Innovation Development Fund- Okowa
As part of initiatives to sustain its innovation and science agenda, Delta State Government has initiated moves towards establishing a “Delta State Innovation Development Fund – IDF”. Dr. Ifeanyi…
- 26 Sept 2017
Gov Okowa Decries Low Turnout of Residents for NIN Enrolment
Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, executive governor of Delta State, has decried the low turnout of residents in the state for the National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment. He also charged all…
- 11 Sept 2016
Okowa Receives e-Government Certification
Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of Delta State make history recently as perhaps the first and only state governor in the federal republic of Nigeria to acquire the e--Government certification. In…
- 6 Jul 2017
Entrepreneurial Programme, A Panacea for Unemployment Says Gov. Okowa
Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has stated that skill acquisition and entrepreneurial programmes were the panacea in tackling the current youth unemployment problem in the country.…
- 26 Jun 2017
Okowa, Others Say MSMEs, Fastest way to Speedy Devt
Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State Governor; Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and others have identified Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) as the…
- 14 May 2012
Fashola Leads other Governors in Social Media Presence
ThinQThanQ, the research and database unit of financialtechnology, Africa's leading financial services technology publication has ranked Babatunde Raji Fashola, executive governor of Lagos State as…
- 5 Oct 2025
Police Prosecute Oliver, Activist for Calling Oborevwori ‘Sleeping Governor’ in Facebook Post
The police command in Delta is prosecuting Fejiro Oliver, an activist, accusing him of cyberstalking Sheriff Oborevwori, state governor. Fejiro Oliver, an activist Oliver, who was arrested in Abuja…
- 1 Jan 2019
Gov. Okowa Bags Silverbird Man of the Year 2018 Award
Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State Governor, has emerged the Silverbird Man of the Year, 2018 after securing the highest number of votes sent in by respondents to emerge victorious. Governor…
- 20 May 2015
PDP, APC Govs Unite Against Jonathan, Asks FG to Account for $20Bn Oil Money
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has asked , Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, coordinating minister of the Economy and minister of Finance, to account for $20 billion oil revenue. The governors insisted…
- 29 Jun 2026
Akara Business Can Pay More than Bank Jobs - Governor Aide
Ossai Ovie Success, special assistant on Media to the Governor of Delta State, has defended First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu over the backlash trailing her recent advice encouraging Nigerians to…
- 14 Mar 2021
Seven Governors To Attend Guardian Book Launch
No fewer than seven state governors are expected to attend the launch of the epochal book on the first ten years of The Guardian newspaper and the celebration of the founding publisher of the…
- 12 Dec 2016
Okowa, Judges Tell Tech Start-Ups to Scale Products to Market after 26 Hours of Coding
At last, the long awaited knowledge olympiad has arrived at the shores of Nigeria. Those who think that Software Nigeria cannot compete in the global IT Innovation market arena to solve critical…
- 6 May 2022
Groups Purchase N100m APC Nomination Forms for Emefiele, CBN Gov
Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Friends of Emefiele and Emefiele Support Group, have purchased the All Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for Mr. Godwin…
- 2 Aug 2016
Passion: The Force Behind DS-IHUB- Uwaje
Chris Uwaje, director-general, Delta State Innovation Hub (DS-IHub) has said that the world class eGovernment Academy was borne born out of passion to positively disrupt Delta State development…
- 23 Mar 2009
Delta Partners Enel Group on Power Generation
Delta State government is partnering with an Italian electricity power giant, Enel to build, on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement a 250 megawatts of electricity in the state. At a…
- 25 Jul 2014
CBN, States Sign MoU on MSMEs Fund
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Executive Governors of Delta, Osun, Oyo, Akwa-Ibom and Bornu States among others on the operation and…
- 29 Jan 2023
Danbatta Bags Vanguard's Regulator of the Year Award
Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), was at the weekend in Lagos, decorated with the 2022 Regulator of the Year Award at the prestigious 11th…
- 3 Nov 2013
Asset Confiscation Case against Ibori Collapsed for Lack of Evidence – Aondoakaa
Michael Aondoakaa, former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and minister of Justice, has explained the reason why the assets confiscation trial of James Ibori, former governor of Delta State,…
- 25 Nov 2016
Ndukwe Chairs Panel of Judges for DS-IHUB Hackathon
Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, chairman, OpenMedia and former, executive vice chairman of NCC has been appointed as chairman Panel of Judges for the 2016 Delta State ICT Hub (DSIHUB) DS-Open Innovation…
- 27 Sept 2020
Uzoka, GMD UBA Wins Coveted Zik Leadership Award
Kennedy Uzoka, group managing director/chief executive officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has been announced as a winner of the 2019 Zik Award for Professional Leadership. Kennedy Uzoka, GMD,…
- 7 Dec 2020
Uzoka, UBA’s GMD Dedicates Prestigious Zik Leadership Award to Staff and Customers
Kennedy Uzoka, group managing director/chief executive officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, was on Sunday night presented with The Zik Prize for Professional Leadership. l-r: Former Managing…
- 20 Oct 2015
Corruption, Politicians Killed Econet Wireless- Founder
Strive Masiyiwa, CEO and founder of Econet Wireless, the first GSM operator to go live in Nigeria (in 2001) has opened fresh cans of worms up on how the company was killed by Nigerian factors. Over…