Delta Assembly
18 Apr
Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Education has commenced visits to establishments under its legislative oversight to ascertain their level of commitment to quality service delivery.
14 Dec
The Delta House of Assembly, on Thursday, passed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N724.9 billion. The passage of the Appropriation Bill followed the adoption of the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation during plenary in Asaba. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN,) reports that the budget is made up of Recurrent Expenditure…
13 Sep 2023
Disturbed by daily harassments, maiming, raping and killing of farmers in Abraka and environs in Delta State by suspected herdsmen, the state Assembly, yesterday, called on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to urgently prevail on the State Police ...
7 Aug 2023
A staff of the Delta State House of Assembly, John AdjekeAkpoghene, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment over N14.5 million salary fraud. Akpoghene was charged by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before the Delta State High Court, Asaba.
4 Jul 2023
The Delta House of Assembly on Tuesday approved the request of Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori to appoint 20 Special Advisers (SAs) to assist in driving the administration of the state. The approval of the governor’s request followed a motion moved by the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Mr Emeka Nwaobi, during plenary of the Assembly, presided…
30 Jun 2023
Delta State House of Assembly has granted a request from Governor Sheriff Oborevwori for a credit facility of N40 billion from Zenith Bank Plc to offset backlog of pensions owed retired primary school teachers and local government employees in the state. In a request letter to the House, Oborevwori explained that the credit facility was…
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