Marginalisation: Ndokwa indigene Urges FG, Delta State Govt To Come To Their Aid
LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-An indigene of Obeche Inyi community of Ndokwaland in Delta State, Prince Uzor Otunuya Lukman has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Delta State Governor, Rt (Hon) Sheriff More...
Group Demands Scrapping Of DESOPADEC, Ex-Govs Pensions, Urges EFCC To Probe Its Account
LAGOS MAY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Considering the present economic realities bedeviling the country, a group, the Alliance for Good Governance and Accountability in Government , has urged Governor Sheriff Oborevwori More...
Nurses Across The Borders Int’l Signs MoU With DESOPADEC, Nani Honoured
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nurses Across the Borders International has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) at the UNFCCC More...
Human Right Lawyer Threatens To Drag DESOPADEC To Court Over Removal Of HODS
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Warri-based human rights lawyer, Barrister Timothy Ifere has threatened to drag to court and request for a revert to status quo ante or write to the state House of Assembly to More...
Tension Mounts In DESOPADEC Over Alleged Discrepancies In HODs Appointment
By Our Reporter LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH 9URHOBOTODAY)-Tension mounts in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC over the recent appointment of heads of departments in the agency by the More...
Alleged Embezzlement: Group backs Clark’s Okowa’s Investigation, Faults Group Suing For Peace
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group called Movement for the Survival of Niger Delta People (MOSOND) has thrown its weight behind elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark over his petition to the Economic and Financial More...
E.K. Clark Tackles Aniagwu, Says, “He Has Put Okowa Into More Trouble”
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In an interview with TVC News, Sir Edwin Clark, Elder Statesman, tackled Charles Aniagwu, Delta’s former Commissioner for Information, for saying he accused Okowa of lying and More...
Delta Oil Communities Drags Okowa To EFCC Over Alleged Diversion Of 1trn Oil Funds
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-OiL and gas communities in Delta State on Thursday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to urgently investigate the immediate past governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi More...
Okowa Reacts To Clark’s Allegations, Says He Re- Positioned Delta To Number One Oil Production State
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Immediate past Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa on Friday said the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC) got a total of N208 billion More...
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...