Unreported news
Fleecing Student Nurses
Within the week about 4,000 applicants wanted spaces in the state various schools of nursing.
The Ministry of Health got more than 60 million Naira from the exercise.
Each applicant paid 15k.
The sad news is that only 400 were successful out of the 4,000 applicants.
The money 15k was non-refundable. This is daylight robbery of these innocent victims.
The worse part of this clearly fraudulent exercise is that less qualified candidates were given admission.
These are the relatives of top government officials and their cronies.
Nursing education is becoming the exclusive right of the very rich and powerful. The Ukudo is only meant for the very few.
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Rumblings in Sports Commission
More than a year in office, the Oborevwori administration is still finding it difficult to appoint chairman for the Delta State Sports Commission.
The Pond News understands that it boils down to the power play between Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, the former governor and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.
The sports commission is a gold mine and every governor would want his relation to be in charge.
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa walked this ignoble path of administration.
Today Oborevwori would want his brother to occupy that position but his hands are tied.
Despite the denial of Tonibok Okowa that he was no more interested in the position, the body language of his elder brother Senator Ifeanyi Okowa sends a different message.
It is becoming apparent every day in the state that the power behind the throne is Okowa. Too bad for the government and worse for sports development.
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Izeze and durable roads
Recently Comrade Reuben Izeze, Commissioner of Works in a media parley in Asaba boasted that roads in the state were meant to last a minimum of twenty years.
But rains in the state shattered that tall dream. Roads and drainages are collapsing all over the state and the unlucky citizens are groaning.
Apart from the Warri mega projects handled by Julius Berger, there is little to cheer about roads, bridges and drains construction.
In Ndokwa East , the Kwale Beneku Bridge is under threat. In the state capital, Asaba, when it rains, it is a deluge giving the impression that the previous administration did a bad job.
These are some of the issues the government should address rather than adorn the garb of peacock of constructing roads that would last for twenty years.
