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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Uwvie mourns as Regent, Cyril Agbofodoh passes on By Osaro Okhomina Wednesday, August 11, 2004 WARRI — UVWIE Kingdom in Uvwie local government area of Delta State was yesterday thrown into mourning following the death of their Regent, Chief Cyril Agbofodoh. In a statement issued yesterday by the Uvwie Traditional Council, Unuevwhoro R’Uvwie, they announced that the death of the Regent yesterday in Effurun, came exactly eight months after the demise of Ovie (King) of Uvwie, Erhuovwo II. The Chairman of Uvwie Council of Chiefs, Chief Atiyota Egere and Chief J. M. Urhobodoro, Secretary, at a news Conference in Ekpan said the home call of the regent, who had been acting in the stead of the late Ovie came as a shock to the people of the kingdom. As part of the mourning rites, the Chiefs announced that markets and business places in Uvwie Local Government Area would not open on Saturday, August 14. Reacting, the Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, said the death of the late regent was “a great loss, not only to the people of Uvwie, but to Delta State.” Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who stood in for the governor, recalled the numerous peace initiatives of the late regent during the trying periods of the local government and prayed God to give the family the fortitude to bear the loss. Uduaghan expressed joy that the demise of the Regent came at a period that a lasting peace had returned to the area, promising that the government would actively participate in the burial rites. Uduaghan said, “Government is aware and proud of his contributions. At the time he died, Uvwie was at peace. God took him and knows why. On behalf of the governor, Chief James Ibori, who could not come because he is still mourning his mother, we pray that God will grant the family and the people of Uvwie the fortitude to bear the loss.”   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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