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Jul 11, 2021 · The Nation July 11, 2021. Agency Reporter Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Sunday, congratulated his Akwa Ibom counterpart, Mr Udom Emmanuel, on his 55th birth anniversary.
Jun 16, 2022 · In the April 2011 election for the Delta North Senatorial seat, Okowa won 98,140 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Prince Ned Munir Nwoko of the Democratic People’s Party, who polled ...
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- Debt Profile
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- IGR
- Poverty Rate
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- Budgetary Allocations to Critical Sectors of The Economy Under Okowa
- Health
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Ease of doing business The Ease of Doing Business (EODB), a borrowed innovation from western institutions, is a yearly appraisal conducted by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) coordinated by the Office of the Vice President. In the Nigerian domesticated version of the innovation, six indicators are usually used to deter...
The rate of employment is always high in a productive economy. Conversely, the rate of unemployment is high where productivity is low. One of the key elements that can facilitate high productivity is when the ease of doing business in an environment is positive, which, invariably, will also bring about more employment opportunities. One contextual ...
One of the major accusations levelled against Governor Okowa by the opposition in the just concluded general elections was that it accumulated huge debts in the last eight years. Based on its ‘State of the States’ report for 2022, Budgit ranked Delta State as the 10th most indebted state in the country, coming after Bayelsa, which occupies the 9th ...
This is another metric to determine the financial solvency or robustness of a state or private institution. By fiscal sustainability, it means the ability of the government to sustain its current spending, tax and other policies over a long period without threatening government solvency or defaulting on some of its liabilities or promised expenditu...
The internally generated revenue (IGR) of a state offers a window on how financially buoyant (or otherwise!) a state is without dependence on statutory receipts from the federal purse. In Nigeria, most governors don’t bother to expand the IGRs of their states because of their over-dependence on statutory cash inflows from the federation account. Be...
Interestingly, despite the high rate of unemployment in the state, it has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country based on a 2019 survey by the NBS released in 2020. In that survey tagged “Nigeria Poverty and Inequality Survey Report 2019, released on 5 May 2020, NBS ranked Delta State second after Lagos among the states with low poverty rat...
Although the Gross Domestic Product of a country or any of its subnationals does not tell precisely how productive or buoyant the economy is, it nevertheless gives an insight into the size of the economy (market) and its potential for greatness (or otherwise), other things being equal. As of 2021, Delta State has the fifth highest GDP out of the 36...
Education, health and agriculture are sectors that drive the economy of any nation or state. This implies that government must continuously invest heavily in these sectors to boost human capital development, improve the standard of living, raise per capita income, enable food security, e.t.c
As they say, health is wealth; that’s, a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Put succinctly, a healthy workforce is a productive workforce. No wonder a scholar, G.C Sokoh, in a research publication in 2023 titled ‘IGR in Delta State: A tool for infrastructural development’, published in the Journal of Policy and Administration (Vol 8, No.1 2023), r...
Without education, a nation is dead. Most developed countries have a huge number of well-educated citizens and thus are ranked high on the human capital development index. Conversely, poor countries have a miserly number of educated nationals which impacts the overall economic productivity of such countries. Delta State, under the leadership of Gov...
May 27, 2023 · The most visible of Governor Okowa’s accomplishments are his remarkable accomplishments in the area of Delta State’s infrastructure. During his tenure, the state has witnessed the construction ...
Jun 16, 2022 · Okowa was born to Arthur, Okpara-Uku of Owa-Alero, and Victoria, his mother, on July 8, 1959. He began his education at Iroro Primary School, Owa-Alero, before proceeding to Edo College, Benin ...
Nov 14, 2022 · World. Uduaghan declares support for Okowa, seeks unity in PDP. By Chido Okafor, Warri. 14 November 2022 | 3:40 am. [FILES] Okowa. Immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel...
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Jun 16, 2022 · Atiku announced Okowa’s nomination on Thursday at an unveiling event of his running mate held in Abuja. Okowa will thereafter be screened by a committee set up by PDP national working committee.
