
The Winning Streak Of Legacy Board Of DESOPADEC In Delta (PHOTOS)
Ofagbe-Ibrede Road LAGOS MARCH 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As a mission statement expressly provided in the law setting up DESOPADEC by the Delta State House of Assembly in 2006 and fully activated in July 2007, the More...

DESOPADEC: Accelerated And Impactful Interventions In Health, Education, Roads And Transportation (PHOTOS)
Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, at the Matriculation Ceremony of the 4th batch of DESOPADEC Skills Academy trainees LAGOS MARCH 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Since 2019 when the current More...

How Gov Okowa And His Men Plunder DESOPADEC
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The establishment of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, by Governor James Ibori in 2006 was widely applauded and commended by all stakeholders More...

Why Deltans Must Reject PDP, Okowa, Oborevwori?
By Anthony Akpokene LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ughelli-Asaba highway dualisation project covers a distance of 162 kilometres and it is divided into three segments A, B & C. The project was flagged More...

Flood Victims And DESOPADEC Leadership By Proxy
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is well established axiom that leadership thrives where leaders demonstrate in right proportions a mixture of sympathy and empathy. While sympathy More...

2023: Free For All Fight As Youths Disrupt Michael Diden’s Consultation In Burutu
LAGOS MARH 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was free for all fight as Youths in Burutu recently disrupted the consultation train of Chairman of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Mr Michael More...

Militants Accuse Okowa Of Mismanaging 13% Derivation Funds, Threatens Return To Creeks
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A militant group, the Creek Dragons yesterday accused the Delta State Government of mismanaging of 13 percent derivation funds and relegating Ijaws to the background. The group said More...

Ijaw Monarch Alleged Cabal Take Over Of DESOPADEC
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Traditional ruler of Siembiri in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State Charles Botu has said the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has been More...

Member Of Delta Electoral Commission, Catherine Ilolo Passes On
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-A member of the Delta State Local Government Service Commission, Hon. (Mrs.) Catherine Ilolo, has died. The former lawmaker reportedly passed on Monday night, at an undisclosed hospital More...

Isoko People Jubilate As Okowa Inaugurates Five DESOPADEC Projects
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-When the amendment of the laws that established the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) was amended, not many exuded optimism and confidence that More...

Fire Razes DESOPADEC Project Located In Evwreni
By Young Erhuirhoro LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A full completed but yet to commission vocational and skill acquisition centre built by Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), an More...

DESOPADEC Fictitious Contractors Litter Delta Communities With Abandoned Health Centres
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Oghoritsewarani Mene, 62, sits on a small wooden stool chair inside a kitchen frying fish she caught in the Excravos River in Delta State, in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. More...

DESOPADEC Commences Move To Empower Delta Women
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission has commenced a two-day empowerment training for women from the six ethnic nationalities of Itsekiri, Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko, More...

APC Knocks Delta Govt Over DESOPADEC Budget Of N4bn For TV Programme
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has blasted the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission for allegedly proposing over N4 billion annually for its More...

Okowa Sends Names Of Members Of DESOPADEC, Warri Dev Agency To Delta Assembly
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The State Governor,Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has reconstituted the Governing Board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission DESOPADEC. The names of the nominees were More...

Ijaw Community Demands For Appointment Of indigene As DESOPADEC Chairman
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The people of Ogulagha Kingdom in Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State has appealed to Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa to appoint one of their indigene as Chairman More...

Activist Bemoans Rots In DESOPADEC, Calls For Its Restructure
LAGOS MAY 1TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A frontline Niger Delta activist, human right crusader and community leader, Comrade Mulade Sheriff has bemoaned the sorry state of Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, More...

Okowa Names Takeme, Fregene As Commissioners, Pirah, Talib, Odebala For DESOPADEC
Okowa LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi has nominated Mr Julius Takeme and Mr Freeman Orits Fregene for appointment as Commissioners and members of the State Executive Council. The More...

‘Deve’: Okowa Signs Bill Prohibiting Extortion On Land
Senator Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday [24-08-18] assented to a bill to outlaw illegal and forceful entry into development sites in the state More...

Taiga Visits Okowa, Decries Short-Changing Of Urhobos In DESOPADEC (PHOTOS)
Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State; welcoming Olorogun (Dr.) Moses Oghenerume Taiga, JP, President-General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Worldwide to Government House, Asaba when the National More...

Protesting Workers Finally Shut Down DESOPADEC, Management Meetings Relocated To Lagos (PHOTO)
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The unabated protest organized by junior staff of Delta State Oil Producing Area Commission (DESOPADEC) has finally led to the temporary suspension of activities in the Agency. The More...

Police Fires Colleague In Attempt To Disperse Protesting DESOPADEC Staff
Protesting DESOPADEC workers besieged headquarters of the Commission at Warri…. LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An overzealous mobile police officer on Tuesday mistakenly shot his colleague on the leg in More...

Protesting Isoko Youths Block Ughelli/Asaba Expressway, Demand Removal Of DESOPADEC Commissioner
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Thousands of travelers were on Monday, December 11 stranded as aggrieved Isoko youths at about 7am blocked the ever-busy Ughelli/Asaba Expressway with a call for the immediate More...

DESOPADEC Abandons Six Classrooms Blocks In Oginibo Secondary School
The sign board of the DESOPADEC cobtactor looking rusty and over grown with weed at the site of the abadoned six block xlassroom project LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development More...

Pat Utomi: My Concept Is To Create Three Brown New Industrial Cities In Delta State
Professor Pat Utomi in group icture with members of Urhobo Social Club, Lagos LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Renowned economist and scholar, Professor Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, largely known simply as Pat Utomi More...
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