A MESSAGE BY RIVERS PEOPLE THROUGH GOVERNOR WIKE

The Rivers State Police command, particularly two of your senior police officers, Akin Fakorede & Steven Hasso who instead of being professional police officers they have turned to political thugs and politicians, they manhandled and maimed our people and also aided Rotimi Amaechi in the disenfranchisement of our people through rigging. We have come to tell the Nigeria Police that "Enough Is Enough" and we demand with immediate effect that Akin Fakorede and Steven Hasso be made to leave our state, if they don't leave this state, then we would do all we can to make them leave this state since they have left their 1at assignment of protecting lives and properties.

   ~~~~Gov Wike (Speaking at the protest by Rivers people at the Rivers State Police Command)

DELTA GOVERNMENT SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

It is hereby announced for the information of the general public, particularly officers in the Delta State Civil Service that the Committee for the Verification of Dates of Birth and Employment of certain Public Officers in the Delta State Civil Service has re-scheduled another round of verification exercise for all officers who were absent at the last exercise.
The rescheduled exercise will hold between November 7 and 9, 2016, at the Conference Room, Project e-Delta Building, New Secretariat Complex, along Okpanam Road, Asaba at 9.00 am each day.

The schedule for the next round of verification is as follows:
DAY 1: MONDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2016:
Officers who were absent at the verification exercise of October 13 to 18, 2016, and those with BVN issues in the Civil Service, Higher Institution, HMB and Parastatal sectors

DAY 2: TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2016:
Staff with different dates of birth and employment in the Civil Service, Parastatal and BHM, and other issues

DAY 3: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2016:
PPEB staff within retirement age, PPEB staff with different dates of birth and employment and PPEB staff with BVN issues

Accordingly, Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Extra-ministerial Departments are by this announcement enjoined to inform affected staff in their MDAs to attend the verification exercise as scheduled. Also the Personal and Confidential files of all affected staff should be submitted to: The Secretary to the Chairman, Civil Service Commission on or before Friday November 4, 2016, without fail.

It is stressed that the Civil Service Commission will sanction any MDA that fails to comply.

Paul Osahor
Director of Information

DELTA STATE GOVERNMENT TO CELEBRATE, 2016 AFRICA YOUTH DAY

The Senior Special Assistant to the Delta State Governor on youths Development, Comr. Hope George, welcomes you to the celebration of the 2016 Africa youth Day.

Tagged: " Promoting Youth Mainstreaming as the Catalyst toward Harnessing the Demography Dividend"

Date : 1st of November, 2016.

Venue : Conference Hall of Delta State youth House, 6 DLA Road Asaba.

Chief Host : His Exellency Sen. Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa ( Governor Delta State).

Delta shines at ADVAN awards

Delta State's 25th Anniversary Campaign emerged the winner of the maiden PUBLIC SECTOR MARKETING CATEGORY of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN) Awards for Marketing Excellence 2016 at the MUSON Centre in Lagos at the weekend.

Delta State Commissioner for Information, Hon. Patrick Ukah, who  received the award on behalf of the State Governor, Dr Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, dedicated it to all Deltans and praised them for giving the governor the opportunity to serve, stressing that Governor Okowa is determined to fulfill his electoral promises anchored on the S.M.A.R.T agenda.

According to Ukah, the 25th Anniversary campaign which was anchored on the foundation laid by the SMART agenda of the Governor was funded strictly by the public sectors’ investment, for, according to him “we believe the government cannot do it alone”.

Appreciating ADVAN for the award, Ukah said “this is the first, and so far, the only award the governor is accepting because of the credibility of ADVAN and am not sure we would accept another soon until we can be properly judged”.

In his welcome address, Mr David Okeme, President of the association, highlighted the place of marketing in the growth of the nation’s economy and enjoined private and public institutions to take advantage of it to grow their businesses.

Speaking earlier at the well attended event, the Guest Speaker, Segun Ogunsanyan, the CEO Airtel Nigeria, said the awards must be seen as the reward for outcome or results and not just efforts as nobody rewards effort but results. He emphasized that digital advertising is now the new medium of advertising which when well employed is a very strong channel to reach the people and endear many companies and their products to the youths.

The ADVAN Awards for Marketing Excellence 2016 which was in several categories saw Indomie win “The Brand of the Year Award”. The position also carries a dual award of  “The Brand Manager of the Year Award”. The second position went to Coca-cola while Heineken took the third position.

The event attracted very important stakeholders within and outside the country in the marketing industry.

DRIVING AND SUSTAINING THE CHANGE CAMPAIGN USING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

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e Federal Government of Nigeria through the Ministry of Information and Culture recently launched a National re-orientation campaign “CHANGE BEGINS WITH ME;” The campaign is designed to change citizen’s attitude in all facets of life.

Over the years, Government has implemented several campaign programs such as War against Indiscipline (WAI), MAMSA, and Heart of Africa etc. They were all amongst other objectives geared towards having the citizens change unacceptable attitude and behaviours. Effective engagement of citizen that will integrate public consultation and interaction which can be achieved through effective use of Social Media platforms is essential before policy implementation and indeed formulation. This is instructive and beneficial in giving the citizens a sense of involvement and ownership of national issues.

The current National re-orientation campaign of “Change Begins with Me” requires an aggressive reach out via relevant media like TV, Radio, Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials and the Social Media platforms, amongst others.

Globally, the New/Social Media platforms has proven to be the widest medium through which messages and campaigns such as these are deployed to reach Citizens and overcome the problems of barriers. Information Technology (IT) has provided the technical means/drivers to deliver a wide range of services quickly, conveniently and more efficiently. It has a very wide reach: it is immediate: it is interactive and it is multi-media (Sight, Sound, Photo etc). Deploying Social Media tools like Facebook, Flicker, Youtube, Twitter, Online Discussion Forum, use of external bloggers, Web Portals and Sites will provide integrated, interactive and end- to-end platform that will ensure a common and user friendly interface. However out of the Thirty Six State in Nigeria and Abuja only 27 have online presence and sites that can be said to be functional today.

In a recent survey carried out by Social Media bloggers, it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that youths between (15 – 30 years) are the most active and spends more time using the social media platforms through their smart phones, android, iPAD, Laptops etc than watching regular television stations or listening to the radio. Instructively, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) these age groups constitute well over 50% of the Nigeria population. This same age group happens to be one of the main targets of this Campaign.

Social Media is highly interactive and a very effective means to reach out to the grass-root populace; however, it is very open and very susceptible to being abused. It is therefore imperative to expect followers whose sole aim will be to continue to post irrelevant comments, response and unwarranted insults, just to embarrass Government and officials of Government. Being internet based, it is also susceptible to being hacked onto. (How do we manage this?)

The attendant benefit of using these medium to sustain and drive this campaign therefore brings to fore the problem of security and cyber-attack on these platforms. Cyber-attack are increasing daily and it might not necessarily be fraud related. Some persons might attack your sites or platforms because they do not like the policies you are introducing or the change being advocated might whittle their power or strength. Sites can equally be attacked because perceived enemies want to run people against the government. These portend grave danger. Cases abound where hackers take advantage of loopholes and security breaches to deface entire websites with irrelevant content or deny regular users or followers from accessing such medium.

Website and portal platforms can be reinforced and secured by increasing the levels of security layers on the infrastructure regularly where such sites are hosted. This is however not fool proof against your site being hacked “You are only

CALABAR CARNIVAL: WILL THE RECESSION STOP NIGERIA'S BIGGEST STREET PARTY

Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River, has inaugurated the 2016 dry run to signify the commencement of the 2016 annual Calabar Carnival.

Speaking after the inauguration on Sunday in Calabar, Ayade said that the celebration marked the 12th anniversary of the carnival.
The governor, who disclosed that the theme of the 2016 carnival is `Climate Change,’ described the carnival as `the largest street party in Africa.’

He said that the carnival had promoted talent and creativity, adding that it had united the people of Cross River and Nigeria in general.

“Today, we are flagging off the 12th annual Calabar carnival, the largest street party ever; the greatest show in Africa.

“We promised to make this year’s carnival the best and fun loving ever,’’ he said.

Ayade lauded the efforts of the people of Cross River and the participants for coming out en mass for the dry run.

He used the occasion to invite tourists from all over the world to visit Calabar during this season to experience an exciting carnival.

Mr Gabriel Onah, Chairman, Calabar Carnival Commission, said the carnival had continued to grow from strength to strength with new innovations added yearly.

“We are celebrating 12 years of Cross River carnival, 12 years of oneness and unity, 12 years in showcasing what we have and what we are’’, Onah said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that five carnival bands which include Seagull, Master Blaster, Passion 4, Freedom and Bayside will be participating in this year’s carnival.

NAN also reports that the participants were beautifully dressed in different attires, while security was mounted in all the carnival routes.

Dignitaries at the ceremony included, the Deputy Gov. Prof. Ivara Esu, Speaker of the state Assembly, Mr John Gaul-Lebo, Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa among others