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4 weeks ago | 
nigerdeltatoday.com | Ovie Okpare |Emmanuel Aziken |Sunny Awhefeada
By Ovie Okpare The Governor Council of Southern Delta University, Ozoro, has approved the appointment of Professor Akpovughaye Taiga as the pioneer Provost of Orerokpe Campus of the institution in Okpe, Delta State. Taiga, a professor of Botany, until his appointment was the Dean of the Faculty of Science of the university. Prof Taiga’s appointment followed the recommendation of the institution’s Senate during its emergency meeting held on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
nigerdeltatoday.com | Sunny Awhefeada |Nelson Egware |Godknows Igali
By Sunny Awhefeada Ogoni implicates agony whenever it is mentioned. To underscore this reality, a 1998 book titled Ogoni’s Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria edited by Abdul Rasheed Na’ Allah, frames the totality of the perennial agony occasioned by the exploration and exploitation of crude oil in Ogoniland.
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2 months ago | 
independent.ng | Sunny Awhefeada
Brigadier Sani Abacha, as he then was, it was who announced the 31 December, 1983 putsch that torpedoed the ill-fated government of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and sounded the death knell for the second republic. An unforgettable line in Abacha’s coup speech was that our hospitals had become “mere consulting clinics”. That criticism of our public health sector was a searing indictment of the failure of government in that sector.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
nigerdeltatoday.com | Sunny Awhefeada
A new socio-political group that seeks to protect and project the interest of the people of Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State has been formed ahead of the 2027 governorship election in the state. The group, Delta North Progressives (DNP), was formed by a coalition of professionals, politicians, and thought leaders from the various ethnic groups that make the Anioma speaking tribe in the Delta. According to a statement issued by the convener of Delta North Progressives (DNP), Prof.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
nigerdeltatoday.com | Sunny Awhefeada
By Sunny Awhefeada I do not know the last time Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, had the opportunity of teaching in the classroom. I surmise that it must have been more than twenty years ago before he escaped from the austere classrooms at Nsukka to join the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Chief Economic Adviser and later becoming the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
independent.ng | Sunny Awhefeada
The raison d’etre of government which is the welfare and security of the citizens remains a perennially violated concept in Nigeria. Despite the multiplicity of avowals by government officials to a commitment to the twin concept of welfare and security, what Nigerians have had to contend with in the last forty years has been to suffer the breach of what ought to have been a hallowed and reassuring credo.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
nigerdeltatoday.com | Sunny Awhefeada |Hope Eghagha
By Sunny Awhefeada The raison d’ tre of government which is the welfare and security of the citizens remains a perennially violated concept in Nigeria. Despite the multiplicity of avowals by government officials to a commitment to the twin concept of welfare and security, what Nigerians have had to contend with in the last forty years has been to suffer the breach of what ought to have been a hallowed and reassuring credo.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nigerdeltatoday.com | Hope Eghagha |Sunny Awhefeada
By Hope O’Rukevbe EghaghaJolomi: At last President Bola Ahmed Tinubu agreed to participate in the traditional media chat after one and a half years in office. For so long, he simply and stoically ignored jibes about his refusal to speak at some length to the media. Of course, there were all kind of mischievous insinuations bordering on incapacity and inability to sustain prolonged discourse. This no doubt arose from glitches and gaffes during the presidential campaign.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
independent.ng | Sunny Awhefeada
Humanity is ever susceptible to the changing patterns of reality and existence so that what was once inconceivable could become the norm. The ineluctability of change has continued to push boundaries beyond human imagination. In the course of time, novel phenomena emerge to engender new realities which soon evolve to become a way of life. This new “way of life” will also run its course and get subverted or replaced by another “new way of life” and humanity continues in its ever forward movement.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
independent.ng | Sunny Awhefeada
I have in the last sixteen years been a willing pupil, or better put student, to my children, their friends, playmates and schoolmates. The experience has been a big learning curve that has been more rewarding than all the formal education I have acquired. Bringing up children is beyond being an act. It is also an art which mutates as there is no exact formula, but nuances which are determined by situations.
