02.01.2023 INTRO ECONOMY
RIV: Nigerians are hopeful that year 2023 is year of hope and good things to come their way.
For this better life to be reaped by the populace, the nation’s economy has to record a turnaround for good.
But an analyst, Mr Kelly Orien says the administration of President Buhari is yet to take the right step towards improving the economy.
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02.01.2023 INTRO/NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
RIV: Fireworks and knockouts heralded midnight of New Year 2023.
Camera lens of Joelson Esiete captured these sights and sounds that saw the dawn of a new year.
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02.01.2023 VOICE/NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
Nigerians joined other countries of the world to welcome year 2023.
Though some countries entered the New Year before Nigeria and other European countries, the celebration in Warri and other parts of Delta State recorded shooting of bangards and other fireworks.
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The celebrants shouted happy New Year even as many entered churches to ask God’s forgiveness.
Investigations revealed that no sooner had the youths came out of churches of their choice place of worship than they joined their friends at different joints and spots in town to continue the celebration.
It was gathered that some celebrated dawn of New Year into early hours of Sunday being 1st January 2023.
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02.01.2022 INTRO FOREIGN NEWS
RIV: to the foreign scene where tens of thousands of people are paying their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI at his lying in state in the Vatican.
Details of this and other foreign news are brought to you from our foreign desk.
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Late Pope Benedict XVI who passed away on Saturday at the age of 95 will be laid to rest on Thursday, January 5, at a funeral in Saint Peter’s Square, to be presided over by the Holy Father Pope Francis
The Pope Emeritus died on New Year's Eve, almost a decade after he stood down because of ill health.
Pope Francis will preside over Thursday's funeral - the first time a Pope will be buried by his successor.
As dawn broke over the Vatican, a queue was already forming at the edge of St Peter's Square.
Elsewhere in Mexico, Dozens of inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico after gunmen, suspected to be members of a drug cartel, opened fire on the facility.
The men arrived outside the Chihuahua state prison in armoured vehicles and began firing on the guards, authorities say.
Ten were killed, along with four prisoners, during the audacious and brutal attack in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Police say some 24 inmates escaped.
Fighting within the prison, where inmates from differing criminal bands and drug cartels are housed in separate cell blocks, also left 13 people injured.
Authorities said four of them are being treated in hospital, prison.
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02.01.2023 INTRO/NEW YR EVE MKTS
RIV: Prices of food items and ingredients for the celebration of New Year were on the high side but people still bought what they required.
The markets bubbled with traders on old layers, broilers and others connected to ingredients for the New Year celebration made money from their sales.
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02.01.2023 VOICE/NEW YR EVE MKTS
This is a section of Ugbuwague Market in Warri where fowls old layers, broilers and parent corks are sold.
New Year eve recorded presence of customers. Patronage however picked up Saturday evening as owners of old layers mainly from the Northern part of Nigeria.
Elsewhere within Ugbuwangue NPA Expressway recorded beehive selling and buying.
Housa traders moved parent cork, old layers, turkey in cages to sell during the New Year eve.
This turkey sold for 45,000 naira, parent corks sold for N20,000.
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While buy and selling were going on in different parts of Warri and Uvwie, spots to butcher fowls sprang up also across the two cities.
Other ingredients meant for the new year were also displayed for people to buy.
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02.01.2023 INTRO 2023 ELECTIONS REACTION
RIV: 2023 general elections hold months of February and March with the Presidential and National Assembly polls coming towards end of February.
Campaigns are being stepped up by politicians across the country even as eligible voters visit INEC offices to collect their Permanent Voters Card, PVCs.
A community leader Chief Larry Adanike has however advised Nigerians to vote wisely and according to their consciences.
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02.01.2023 INTRO/NEW YR EFFURUN MKT
RIV: Major markets and other business outfits are yet to spring back to life with two days into the new year.
Effurun Market traded every seven days held Monday with only few traders and buyers transacting.
Banks, private transport parks and other businesses remain shut.
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02.01.2023 INTRO/PETROL REACTION
RIV: Forty eight hours into the New Year 2023, vehicle owners and commercial transport operators spend several hours at filling stations to buy petrol.
A litre of petrol now sells for either N260 or N300 naira or more.
Correspondent Joelson Esiete reports that a cross section of the people are blaming the Federal Government over its inability to repair the nation’s four refineries.
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02.01.2023 VOICE/PETROL REACTION
Fuel scarcity that has forced Nigerians to spend several hours at petrol stations is yet to abate.
Long queue of vehicles are recorded in petrol stations who are major markets.
These filling stations sell a litre of the product for one hundred and sixty naira.
This, perhaps have made many vehicle owners to form long queue.
Some of them express their frustrations.
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Many of the petrol stations owned by independent marketers do not have petrol to dispense to members of the public.
For the few ones that have the products, a litre sells for two hundred and eighty nairia or three hundred naira.
Mr James Osude is a tricycle operator. At his age, government should pick up their daily spendings as foreign countries do.
But the aged pensioner rides tricycle to fend for his family. He gave his thoughts on petrol scarcity.
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Petrol scarcity in Nigeria is hitting hard on all in a country where there are four refineries. Though President Muhammadu Buhari who is Minister Petroleum Resources promised to revamp nation’s economy, nothing has happened as the refineries in Warri, PortHarcourt and Kaduna remain moribund.
This has elicited sharp reactions from petrol users.
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It would be recalled that shortly after Federal Government announced turnaround maintenance of the nation’s four refineries early last year, Rivers Governor Nyesson Wike said he was waiting for the refineries to work first before praising the Buhari led administration.
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02.01.2023 INTRO 2023 MORALS
RIV: As Nigerians plan for the new year, the need to reawaken people’s consciousness and exhibit the required morals and character for the good of society have been stressed by an educationist, Dr Ochuko Akpeme.
Dr Akpeme believes that many parents have failed in their duties to bring up their children and must endeavor to improve in 2023.
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02.01.2023 VOICE 2023 MORALS
For Nigeria to move forward in the right direction, government at all levels should do the needful as it concerns survival of the people.
These were the views of an educationist Dr Ochuko Akpeme who also expressed worry at moral decadence in Nigerian society.
He noted that for Nigerian children to change their character and behave normally, the parents must sit up to face the challenges of raising of good children.
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Dr Akpeme also feels uncomfortable over how people litter the environment while those entrusted with enforcing laws on traffic not doing enough to restore normalcy.
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The educationist expressed hope that Nigeria will be great as God has so much blessed the nation and advised government and the people to make it work for good of all.
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02.01.2023 INTRO/FUEL SUBSIDY REACTION
RIV: Meanwhile, fuel subsidy and deregulation of the downstream oil sector has been described a scam to deceive Nigerians.
A Warri based legal practitioner Sir Monday Atane made the allegation following persistent fuel scarcity and government’s continued importation of petrol.
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02.01.2023 INTRO SPORTS UPDATE
RIV: And to the world of sports where the body of Brazilian football legend Pelé has been moved from the hospital where he died to the stadium of his former club Santos and will be buried Tuesday.
In the English Premier league Arsenal football club moved seven points clear at the top of the table with an entertaining victory at Brighton on New Year Eve with more league matches ahead.
Details of these and more are brought to you from our sports desk.
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The final burial rite of Brazilian football icon Pele on Monday which started with a wake was held at Santos Football club.
The casket carrying the remains of the football legend was placed in the centre of the pitch for the public to pay respects.
Pele died at the age of 82 in São Paulo on Thursday.
To the English Premier league where Arsenal football club on New Year Eve retained its top point on the log with the thrashing of Brighton 4-2.
The game saw Arsenal football club moving to 43 points seven points clear of Manchester City which is on 36 points.
Other matches played last week Friday saw West Ham versus Brentford ending 0-2, Liverpool 2 Leicester City 1.
While Saturday matches saw Wolves and Man United played 0-1, Man City 1 Everton 1, Fullham 2 Southampton 1, Bournemouth 0- Crystal Palace 2, while that of Newcastle versus Leeds United ended goalless.
Tottenham on Sunday were beating 2 goals to null by Aston Villa while the match of Nottingham Forest versus Chelsea ended one goal at piece.
Liverpool football club on Monday January 2 2023 visit Brentford for match day 19.
On Tuesday January 3 2023 Leicester City will be hosting Fullham, Arsenal will look forward to continue its lead by hosting Newcastle, Everton will welcome Brighton and Man United with welcome Bournemouth to Old Tranford.
Wednesday January 4 2023 will see Southampton locking horns with Nottingham Forest, Leeds United taking on West Ham, Aston Villa versus Wolves and Crystal Palace will play Tottenham.
Chelsea football club on Thursday 5 January 2023 will welcome Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.
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02.01.2022 INTRO FOREIGN NEWS
RIV: Moving to the foreign scene where tens of thousands of people are paying their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI at his lying in state in the Vatican, just as China return to regular activities amid COVID surge.
Details of this and other foreign news are brought to you from our foreign desk.
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Late Pope Benedict XVI who passed away on Saturday at the age of 95 will be laid to rest on Thursday, January 5, at a funeral in Saint Peter’s Square, to be presided over by the Holy Father Pope Francis. The Pope Emeritus died on New Year's Eve, almost a decade after he stood down because of ill health.
Pope Francis will preside over Thursday's funeral - the first time a Pope will be buried by his successor. As dawn broke over the Vatican, a queue was already forming at the edge of St Peter's Square.
In China, where some people in Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan are braving the cold and a spike in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity, confident of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections.
Among those who gathered to sledge or ice skate on a frozen lake in the capital’s Shichahai Lake Park were some upbeat about the opening up after China dropped stringent “zero-COVID” measures on December 7 to adopt a strategy of living with the virus.
However, a wave of infections has since erupted nationwide, after borders had been kept all but shut for three years amid a strict regime of lockdowns and relentless testing. Traffic is building on the capital’s roads as people quickly return to outdoor sites, such as lakes, rivers and shopping malls. But business is still slow at some smaller, confined places such as restaurants, owners said.
People who had been infected were not as anxious any more, added Wu, a tutor at a private education training centre.
Elsewhere in Mexico, Dozens of inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico after gunmen, suspected to be members of a drug cartel, opened fire on the facility.
The men arrived outside the Chihuahua state prison in armoured vehicles and began firing on the guards, authorities say.
Ten were killed, along with four prisoners, during the audacious and brutal attack in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Police say some 24 inmates escaped.
Fighting within the prison, where inmates from differing criminal bands and drug cartels are housed in separate cell blocks, also left 13 people injured.
Authorities said four of them are being treated in hospital, prison.
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02/01/23 INTRO/JOELSON ESIETE/RETIRES
RIV: If you are an ardent listener of one of Delta Broadcasting Service, DBS warri popular pidgin English programme, "Make Country better", then the pseudo name " Waka Waka" rings a bell as a strong voice known for his contributions on salient socio political and economic issues.
Let me save you the suspense, Waka Waka as he is popularly known on that program goes with his real name, Mr Joelson Esiete, and the anchor person of the Pidgin English programme "Make country better".
He is a staff of Delta Broadcasting service, Warri, an Education Correspondent Mr Joelson Esiete after a meritorious service with Delta State Government will retire Friday 6th January, 2023 being his 60th birthday.
DRTV correspondent Oghenekaro Ofogba reports that the seasoned investigative journalist was given a surprise during the last programme for the year 2022 of make country better which happens to be Mr Esiete's last anchored programme on make county Better as he bows out of Active Service .
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02.01.2023 VOICE/ JOELSON ESIETE/RETIRES
Popular anchor of the Pidgin English programme Make Country better on Radio Delta 88.6 FM, Mr Joelson Esiete known by his pseudo name as Waka Waka is a voice which resonates issues of public concern.
A seasoned journalist that would go down history as reference point for the younger crop of journalists.
A man who honed his skills of analytical, investigative and interpretative reporting from the Nigeria institute of journalism, Lagos , Mr Joelson Esiete has displayed courage in his reports, and the extent he goes to gather reports.
Hanging his pen from active civil service after 35 years of meritorious service with Delta Broadcasting Service Warri with a strong mind and body goes to show his tenacious and resilient spirit and love for journalism.
Performing his last duty as the anchor for the popular pidgin English program on radio delta, make country better, colleagues who came around to celebrate him described Mr Joelson Esiete as a man of different parts, one whose dedication is equal to none as his style of news reportage were all geared towards ameliorating the suffering of the people.
Colleagues who spoke include Mr Linus Chima, Mr Felix Ekwu and Mr Daniel Oji as well as other union leaders including chairman Nigeria union of journalist, DBS Warri chapel, comrade John glover and the chairman, Nigeria union of women journalists, NAWOJ, Delta state chapter, Comrade Sonia Unobunjo. They noted that the seasoned journalist has carved a niche for himself and contributed significantly to journalism in Delta state especially his human interest reports.
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Fans of Mr Waka Waka of make country better program including Chief Edward Adobo, a safety specialist and Chief Ochuko Akpeme, an Educationist who were on a special appearance on the program lauded Mr Joelson Esiete for his dedication and commitment to duty and service to humanity.
The crew members of make country better were not left out, as Kedekede, County man and Madam better say they will surly miss Waka Waka for his contributions to the programme. UP SOUND ....
One of his mentees also spoke with DRTV news on the influence of Mr Joelson Esiete's style of writing news report on him.
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For his contribution to journalism development Mr Joelson Esiete would be remembered greatly as a human interest reporter and a seasoned life coach per excellence.
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02.01.2023 VOICE/NEW YEAR MARKETS
This is Effurun market in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.
The once busy market that records traffic congestions is free in all the routes leading to Effurun market.
This is the first Effurun market day to be traded.
Few buyers and sellers were into transactions Monday morning.
Some of the traders explain the lull in Effurun market.
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The Effurun market traders are however hopeful in the New Year as some of them went religious to meet their targets in year 2023.
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For other traders however, government at the state and federal levels should pump money into their businesses.
They alleged that politicians have not done enough to empower petty traders praying for a better administration during the 2023 general elections.
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Higher prices of commodities were what Nigerians struggled to cope with in the past years with government doing virtually nothing to bring down prices of essential commodities.
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02.01.2023 INTRO/UVWIE CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS
RIV: Uvwie Local Government chairman, Honourable Ramson Onoyake has commissioned another borehole water project.
The borehole water project executed by Councilor representing ward three, Honourable Valentine Agbaisi brings to eighteen number of such projects commissioned within December last year.
The report by correspondent Joelson Esiete is presented from our studio.
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02.01.2023 VOICE/FUEL SUBSIDY REACTION
Officials of Nigerian National Petroleum Company ltd, major marketers and federal government have said the current fuel scarcity and hike in pump price of petrol were as a result of deregulation and removal of petrol subsidy.
But not many Nigerians hold to this view.
A legal practitioner based in Warri, Sir Monday Atane holds this view describing the current scarcity and government subsidy removal as a trick to deceive the people.
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Sir Monday Atane noted that the fuel scarcity has affected all aspect of human life.
The Warri based lawyer wondered should there be petrol scarcity in the first place when Nigeria has four refineries accusing federal government of not having the political will to maintain the refineries.
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Sir Atane faulted Federal Government’s continuous exportation of the crude abroad to refine for consumption.
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