NATIONAL VIBES

  “By Sunday, we’re going to pray specially for all families. We’re going to pray specially for your family.” With these words, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome on the first day of the Healing Streams Live Healing Services hinted of the special prayer session for families to round up the three-day miracles packed event today. The ongoing July 2022 Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris is reaching men, women, children, and families right in their homes, cities, and nations all over the world while God’s presence has been mighty, as the impact is ever increasing, with each day eclipsing the previous. Also, there is a special package in today’s service for families; including your family. According to Mr. Olajide Babasola, Media Manager of the Healing School of Christ Embassy, everybody is expected to be involved and urged participants to “tell everyone you know and have them ready to participate from the beginning of this special service”. “When we meet and start praying, so...

It was a moment of joy, excitement, testimonies of the demonstration of the power of God as the the long-awaited Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris started yesterday.  Watched by billions across over 200 countries and territories, and translated in over 4000 languages the Healing Streams Live Healing Services which is the world’s largest healing crusade commenced with the Loveworld Singers leading the participants in heavenly worship sessions. “All over the world the people  lifted their voices to worship and praise God. The atmosphere was charged, the aura was filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit, and praises rose as fragrant incense to the heavenlies,” Mr. Olajide Babasola Media Manager of the Healing School of Christ Embassy, said. In her opening address, the director of the Healing School, Pastor Dr. Deola Phillips, welcomed the global audience to this glorious healing crusade. She intimated the audience on what to expect. She said: “In this mon...

 Rivers State Deputy Governor Dr. (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo has urged eligible Rivers People to obtain their voter's card before the 5pm deadline of Sunday 31st of July 2022. Dr. Banigo stated this while playing host to Women Leaders/Stakeholders of Rivers West Senatorial District of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday, 28th July 2022.   Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo, with the Woman  Leader, Rivers West Senatorial District,  PDP ,Hon Ubah Joseph Gabriel  at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday, July 28th 2022. Dr. Banigo said the people must realize that their vote is their voice, stressing that they must get their PVCs now and participate actively in electing the right leaders of their choice, because our people deserve the best, and surely, every vote must count in 2023.  “We thank God for the new Electoral Act that has been signed into law, that Act does not a...

 On behalf of the Elumelu family, the good people of Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency and of course the Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives, I, with the utmost reverence and joy celebrate you, Your Royal Majesty, our father, the Asagba of Asaba, (Prof) Joseph  Chike Edozien, on your 98th birthday and 31st anniversary on the throne.   I give thanks to God Almighty always for keeping you in very sound health with great wisdom, grace and strength as the fountain and wellspring of blessings to the people of Asaba kingdom, our State Delta and our nation, Nigeria in general.   Since your ascendancy to the throne, you have continued to radiate a transcendental glory, love, uprightness, justice, fairness as well as inexorable source of inspiration in all virtues; honesty, diligence, industry, accommodation and peaceful coexistence for which our people are known.    At 98, you remain a living legend, an outstanding national Icon, a renowned statesma...

 By ONO K. AKPE Bayelsa State in the last two years has attracted global attention as a result of the state government's sustained commitment to sports development. Governor Douye Diri who was a former commissioner for sports, understands the importance of sports that is why he keyed into the three III's, Incentive, Infrastructure and Investment since he assumed office as governor. Since the creation of the state, both stakeholders in the sports sector and the general public have confessed a lot of improvement, especially with the arrays of victories that have greeted the various teams across different sports in the past couple of years. The just concluded prosperity cup which has been described as Nigeria's biggest grassroot football tournament that has driven youths away from crime and criminality with local players being hopeful of playing football at the international level. The Bayelsa Governors Football tournament, Prosperity  Cup 2022, started on the 2nd of May 2022,...

  -- PDP’s candidate has scores to settle with Rivers, says Dr. Chidi Lloyd Atiku’s response disappointing, betrays genuine reconciliation – SNPA Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, may have compounded his sour relationship with Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike after suggesting that he could not work amicably with the governor as running mate. Asked on Arise Television on Friday why he picked Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over and above Wike, Atiku had said he chose someone who has “the qualities to be President. The person must have an appreciation of the deep rot which our country has been put into by the rudderless All Progressives Congress government; understands the great suffering that most of our people are going through and the urgency of relieving them of that suffering; understands the critical importance of economic growth and development to provide our young people with jobs, hope, and a pathway to wealth.” He added: “...

  …Says PDP’s Victory in Osun State Marks APC’s Exit in 2023 On behalf of the members of our great Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives, I congratulate you, the Osun State Governor-Elect, Your Excellency, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, on your well-deserved victory in the Saturday, July 16, 2022 Governorship election. Your overwhelming defeat of a sitting governor underscores the well-founded confidence and trust the people of Osun State repose in you as the leader with the desired capacity, integrity, humility, love for the people and the political will to lead their state in the right direction.   Also, this victory and recovery of the mandate that was stolen from you by the APC in 2018 further reinforces your popularity and that of the PDP not only in Osun State, but also in the South West geo-political zone and the nation as a whole.   The indubitable triumph of the PDP over the APC in the Osun governorship election signposts the crushing d...

The Chairman, Anambra State Physical Planning Board, Chike Maduekwe is unfit to hold public office and Governor Soludo must checkmate his activities now. Maduekwe and his overzealous Anambra State Task force on demolition of illgal structure has continue in their activities around the state and this time around decided to cook up lies to manipulate the emotion of the public. Maduekwe who supervised the demolition of a property on the family land of ekwerekus alleged that a charm and a coffin was found on the property. In his claim the charm was to scare the task force from performing their duty , he also went ahead to declare Barrister   Harold Ekwerekwu as an "interloper" Maduekwe made him self the judge and presecutor in his own case what he failed to disclose to the public is how he criminally demanded for a plot of land from the ekwerekus and was turned down. A man with such corruption tendency and also a pathological lier should not be entrusted with such a position . Ma...

 Rivers State Deputy Governor Dr. (Mrs) Ipalibo Harry Banigo has reiterated the importance of Family Planning in the quest to improve the living standard of people. Dr. Banigo stated this in her goodwill message from the Government House in Port Harcourt on Monday, 11th July 2022, to commemorate the 2022 World Population Day. According to the Public Health Physician, the State Government in collaboration with implementing partners has built the capacity of health care providers in the public and private sectors to provide quality Family Planning Services and urged the people to take advantage of these services. The Deputy Governor who is a National and State Family Planning Champion said the State Ministry of Health engages community structures, such as Youth and Community Champions, Community Reproductive Health Influencers, and Religious Leaders, to facilitate counseling in communities and referrals to linked facilities. It would be recalled that the 11th of July each year has be...

 The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives calls on Nigerians to use the occasion of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir to pray for the nation as well as reignite their trust in God and sense of patriotism towards nation building. The Caucus urges Nigerians to use the occasion to eschew all parochial proclivities and reinforce the virtues of selflessness, love and care for one another despite the prevailing ugly economic, social and security realities we face as a nation. Indeed, the Eid-el-Kabir celebration presents to us, especially those in leadership positions, with the divine opportunity to draw nearer to God and submit to Him in all our dealings. As representatives of the people, the Minority Caucus is deeply pained by the agony, anguish and excruciating hardship that Nigerians have been subjected to in the last seven years.  We therefore urge leaders in every sector of life to use the Eid-el-Kabir to rededicate themselves to the demands of transparency, accountability, ...

 Construction work on the Onicha-Uku/Idumuje-Unor road project, a constituency project of the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has substantially progressed with the successful introduction of drainage system along the two sides of the road. The drainage system with concrete Drive-in slabs in each of the house along the road was to help in access, while the drain line and hydraulic structures is to control the massive flooding along the length of the road as well as its sustainability. A visit to Idumuje-Unor by Journalists on Thursday, witnessed increased activities at the site with workers putting finishing touches on the concrete drive-in slab linkages to houses along the road project, being handled by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Speaking with the site Engineer, Engr. Chidi Ikegwuonu, he told Journalists that they are not relenting in ensuring that the road is delivered, saying that despite the challenges assoc...

I most respectfully congratulate you, the Vice-Presidential Candidate of our great Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections and Executive Governor of Delta State, Your Excellency, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, on this auspicious occasion of your 63rd birthday. On this special day, I salute you for your unrelenting selfless service; your unmatched commitment and dedication towards the unity, stability and economic development of not only our dear Delta State but also our great nation, Nigeria. Indeed, you have over the years; as a medical doctor, Local Government Chairman, Secretary to the Government of Delta State, Distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, two-term Governor of Delta State and now Vice-Presidential Candidate of the PDP, continued to demonstrate extraordinary capacity for result-oriented leadership in all spheres of life. I particularly celebrate your astonishing humility, vision, proactiveness, resourcefulness, sincerity o...