Education

By Moses Darah The St. Vincent’s College Okwagbe Old Students Association under the leadership of the National President, Prof Gabriel Godini Darah has congratulated two alumni of the school, Olorogun (Dcn) Vincent Ogheneruemu Oyibode, JP and Barr Aghoghophia Otto on their appointment as Commissioner for Oil and Gas and Acting Clerk of the Delta State House of Assembly respectively. In a congratulatory message by the Association’s National Secretary, Mr Matthew Shaguolo described the appointment as…

The Monday Onyeme Foundation on Saturday, selected 390 undergraduates studying at different institutions of higher learning in the country to benefit from its scholarship scheme. The students were selected through a rigorous examination held at Utagba-Ogbe Grammar School, Utagba Ogbe, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State. For this year’s edition, 2,245 students from mainly Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West and Ukwuani Local Government Areas of Delta State applied for the examination, 981 students were…

Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Delta State Chapter, Barr. Victor Ebonka, on Tuesday, said workers in the 25 local government councils in the state would receive the same palliative packages approved for workers in the state public service by Governor Sheriff Oborevwori. Barr. Ebonka who doubles as the Chairman of Ika North-East Local Government Council of the state, disclosed this in an interview with Journalists in Asaba. He said arrangements…

By Fred Edoreh Delta State Governor Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori release of over 2000 new jobs across the state primary schools has been described as not only an economic relief for many graduates and families but also a signal of brighter future for the education sector. Chairman of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Comrade Titus Okotie, made the assertion in an exclusive interview in Asaba on Thursday. Within three months of…

Urhobo books lying in ruin By Moses Darah Prophet Haggai once spoke the mind of God querying the people of Israel, “How is it that it’s the ‘right time’ for you to live in your fine new homes while the Home, GOD’s Temple, is in ruins?” One can compare the above analogy to the state of the about 5,000 copies of a book sponsored by Engr Moses Kragha with the title, ‘Learning Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba…

Amidst the controversies caused by the allegations of result forgery levied against an Anambra student, Ejikeme Mmesoma by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Nigerians on social media have discovered an application that can be used to “upgrade” UTME scores. The application named “JAMB-Funfake” was discovered on both the Apple store and Google Play store by some Nigerians in a bid to get to the root of the controversies surrounding Mmesoma’s “fake UTME result.” It…

Insists she forged her result By Joseph Erunke THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced suspension of Ejikeme Joy Mmesome from writing its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for three years over alleged forgery of her 2023 result. It insisted that the result being paraded by Miss Ejikeme was forged, explaining that it had since stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after  the  2021  UTME for the simple reason that candidates were falsifying…

…Charged them to be focused in their studies and exhibit good moral standard. Immediate Past Special Assistant (SA) on youth development to former governor Ifeanyi Okowa, and Executive Director, Not Too Young To Lead Initiative, Amb. Elvis Akpobi Majority , has given out new school uniforms to fifty (50) pupils of Ekpu Primary School, Ute-Okpu, Ika North East local government area, Delta State. The excercise which took place today Monday 3rd July, 2023. Brought joy,…

The Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation has approved annual tuition fee support to four indigent students studying BA Linguistics/Urhobo in the Department of Languages and Linguistics, Delta State University, Abraka. The approval is in line with the Foundation’s cardinal objective in supporting the less-privileged in education. The four students according to the Chairman of the Foundation, Engr Dr Samuel Adjogbe “shall be the topmost or best in their first year of studies to be able…

Delta State Government on Thursday ordered massive clampdown on cultism and cult related activities in schools across the state. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu who gave the directive at a news conference in Asaba, said the directive became necessary following rising cases of cult related activities in secondary and primary schools in the state. He said the State Ministry of Education and relevant supervisory and regulatory authorities have been directed to ensure…