DESOPADEC Parley With Ethnic Nationalities Is Directive Of Gov. Okowa –Bashorun Askia Reveals

DESOPADEC Parley With Ethnic Nationalities Is Directive Of Gov. Okowa –Bashorun Askia Reveals

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA,CrFA) has said the essence of the ongoing town hall/stakeholders meeting with oil bearing host communities, is in line…

2023: Oshimili North Youths Tip Ken Ekitu Agboma For Delta State House Of Assembly

2023: Oshimili North Youths Tip Ken Ekitu Agboma For Delta State House Of Assembly

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The sole sponsor of Ebu Unity Cup 2019/2020, Mr. Ken Ekitu Agboma, has pledge his commitment to the continued empowerment of youths and the less privileged persons in Oshimili Oshimili North local government area of Delta state. The…

ISOKO TRADITIONAL COUNCIL HONOURS ASKIA OGIEH WITH CHIEFTAINCY TITLE

ISOKO TRADITIONAL COUNCIL HONOURS ASKIA OGIEH WITH CHIEFTAINCY TITLE

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)-By Michael EKOKORUWE Isoko Traditional Ruler’s Council over the weekend conferred the title of “Udu of Isoko kingdom” on Dr. Bashorun Askia Ogieh, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of DESOPADEC to honor and celebrate his recent appointment by…

Askia Hails Gov. Okowa’s Victory At Tribunal  **Says Stronger Delta Agenda Is Sure

Askia Hails Gov. Okowa’s Victory At Tribunal **Says Stronger Delta Agenda Is Sure

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of e Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA,CrFA), has hailed the victory of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. The Tribunal on Friday, September 20, 2019…

Elumelu Hails Okowa, Says Tribunal’s Judgment Well Deserved

Elumelu Hails Okowa, Says Tribunal’s Judgment Well Deserved

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has commended the Judgment of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba on Friday, September 20, 2019, which affirmed the victory of Senator Okowa as the winner of the…

DESOPADEC Town Hall Meeting: Bashorun Askia Assures Ijaw Of Development

DESOPADEC Town Hall Meeting: Bashorun Askia Assures Ijaw Of Development

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Managing Director/CEO of e Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA,CrFA), has reiterated that the ongoing town hall meetings across various ethnic nationalities in the mandate areas of the Commission is to brainstorm with…

Encomiums Pour In As Bashorun Askia Commissions DESOPADEC Projects In Isoko

Encomiums Pour In As Bashorun Askia Commissions DESOPADEC Projects In Isoko

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Albert OGRAKA: Living up to his promises to rebrand the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), the Managing Director/CEO of the Commission, Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA,CrFA), led the Executive Directors and Board Members to the…

Federal Roads Rehab: Delta Govt To Spend Over N1Bn

Federal Roads Rehab: Delta Govt To Spend Over N1Bn

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Government of Delta says it will spend more than N1 billion to rehabilitate degraded federal roads in the state. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, made this known while briefing newsmen on the outcome of State…

Buhari Appoints Prof. Salami, Soludo, Rewane, Others In 8-Man Economic Advisory Council

Buhari Appoints Prof. Salami, Soludo, Rewane, Others In 8-Man Economic Advisory Council

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted an eight-man Economic Advisory Council (EAC). The council which would report directly to President Buhari has former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Charles Soludo and renowned economist, Bismark Rewane as…

Ogwashi-Ukwu Royal Family Insist Obi Ifechukwude Okonjo Was Legitimately Installed

Ogwashi-Ukwu Royal Family Insist Obi Ifechukwude Okonjo Was Legitimately Installed

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The royal family of Ogwashi- Ukwu monarchy has faulted claims making the rounds that the newly crowned Obi of Ogwashi- Ukwu, His Royal Majesty , Obi Ifechukwude Chukwuka Okonjo , was crowned in error . In a statement…

New Monarch Emerges In Ogwashi-Uku, As Obi Okonjo Joins Ancestors

New Monarch Emerges In Ogwashi-Uku, As Obi Okonjo Joins Ancestors

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Kingmakers in Ogwashi-Uku kingdom, Delta state have crowned a successor to the throne, following the passing on of His Royal Majesty (HRM), Obi (Prof) Chukwuka Okonjo. Dependable sources disclosed that son of the Late monarch, Ifechukwude Okonjo,…

VETERAN JOURNALIST, JAMES OTHIHIWA BURIED AMIDST ENCOMIUM FROM FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS

VETERAN JOURNALIST, JAMES OTHIHIWA BURIED AMIDST ENCOMIUM FROM FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —From Michael EKOKORUHE: The remains of the veteran journalist and media practitioner, James Odafe Othihiwa, has been laid to rest as friends and family members eulogized him at Owhodokpokpo – Igbide community , Isoko South local government area…

PROFILE: DENNIS BURUTU OTUARO –A MAN COMMITTED TO THE NIGER DELTA QUESTION 

PROFILE: DENNIS BURUTU OTUARO –A MAN COMMITTED TO THE NIGER DELTA QUESTION 

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): He is a household name in the entire oil-rich Niger Delta Region as a result of his deep commitment to the betterment of the Region and it’s people.  Chief  Dennis  Burutu Otuaro is no stranger to activities in…

Insult To Political Leaders: Middle Belt Youths Berate Wike, Say He Has Crossed The Red Line

Insult To Political Leaders: Middle Belt Youths Berate Wike, Say He Has Crossed The Red Line

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Middle Belt PDP Progressive Youth Forum, a socio-political pressure group made of PDP youths in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, has lambasted Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over his recent statement, accusing the panel set up…

DESOPADEC Boss Askia, Parleys SEPLAT On Synergy In Developing Delta Oil Producing Communities

DESOPADEC Boss Askia, Parleys SEPLAT On Synergy In Developing Delta Oil Producing Communities

By Albert OGRAKA –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA,CrFA) has put measures in place to engage oil and gas prospecting companies operating within the Commission’s mandate areas…

Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal: PDP Youths Unhappy With Wike For Congratulating Buhari

Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal: PDP Youths Unhappy With Wike For Congratulating Buhari

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has been berated for congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari over his victory at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. The PDP youths under the aegis of PDP South South Youths Vanguard, also criticised Wike for…

DESOPADEC TOWN HALL MEETING: Askia Assures Host Communities Of Legacy Projects **As Isoko Nation Make Demands

DESOPADEC TOWN HALL MEETING: Askia Assures Host Communities Of Legacy Projects **As Isoko Nation Make Demands

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA,CrFA) has assured the Isoko nation that the Commission will engage in legacy projects as part of the infrastructure and human capital development…

HoR Minority Leadership: Prof. Ayu Led C’ttee Submits Report to PDP BOT, Exonerate Elumelu, Six Others

HoR Minority Leadership: Prof. Ayu Led C’ttee Submits Report to PDP BOT, Exonerate Elumelu, Six Others

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Committee constituted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BOT, to look into the Minority leadership crisis in the House of Representatives, has finally submitted its report. Chairman of the Committee and former President of…

COMMUNITY NEWS: OLOMORO EXCO MEMBERS HOLD CONFERENCE OF STEWARDSHIP

COMMUNITY NEWS: OLOMORO EXCO MEMBERS HOLD CONFERENCE OF STEWARDSHIP

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): -From Michael EKOKORUWE: The executive members of Olomoro community over the weekend held the community conference and rendered stewardship of successful administration to the people of the area. The conference was held at Olomoro civic center, Isoko South…

O5 Initiative Commemorates World Charity Day **Rescue 23 Patients With N5.9M At FMC

O5 Initiative Commemorates World Charity Day **Rescue 23 Patients With N5.9M At FMC

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The O5 Initiative pet project of the wife of the Delta state governor, Dame Edith Okowa, has commemorated the World Charity Day with patients at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta state by paying the hospital bills of…

GROUP COMMENDS PRESIDENT BUHARI ON APPOINTMENT OF ODUBU, OKUMAGBA, OTHERS INTO NDDC BOARD

GROUP COMMENDS PRESIDENT BUHARI ON APPOINTMENT OF ODUBU, OKUMAGBA, OTHERS INTO NDDC BOARD

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A pan Niger Delta group, the Esan Solidarity Movement of Niger Delta, ESMOND, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the well meaning decision to constitute a substantive Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission. NDDC, with his approval…

AMORI IN AMERICA: COMMENDS URHOBOS IN DIASPORA **SAYS URHOBO NATION MUST UNITE MORE THAN EVER FOR 2023

AMORI IN AMERICA: COMMENDS URHOBOS IN DIASPORA **SAYS URHOBO NATION MUST UNITE MORE THAN EVER FOR 2023

-Blank NEWS Online (Philadelphia, USA): Chief Ighoyota Amori, Chairman, Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency has called on Urhobo People all over the World to unite more than ever to ensure that an Urhobo Son or daughter emerges as Governor in 2023….

Delta Govt Approves N1.5bn 2019 UBE Counterpart Funds **Plots 2020 Work-Plan for Job Creation

Delta Govt Approves N1.5bn 2019 UBE Counterpart Funds **Plots 2020 Work-Plan for Job Creation

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In a bid to sustain the payment of its counterpart fund to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Delta Executive Council has approved the release of N1.5 billion for funding of primary education in the state for 2019….

Dredging Biz Feud: River Niger Sand Dealers Absolve Police Of Complicity

Dredging Biz Feud: River Niger Sand Dealers Absolve Police Of Complicity

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): River Niger Sand Dealers in Asaba, Delta State, have absolved the police of alleged complicity and favouritism in the subsisting feud between the group and their opponents of Sand Dealers Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society led by David Ossai (aka…

FG Okays Facilities At Asaba Int’l Airport   **Lauds Transparency In Concessioning Process

FG Okays Facilities At Asaba Int’l Airport **Lauds Transparency In Concessioning Process

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Federal Government has commended Delta State Government for the quality of facilities at the Asaba International Airport, saying the facilities are of international standards. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika stated this on Sunday in Asaba shortly…

EDUCATION: Delta State Govt Launches Back to School Programme

EDUCATION: Delta State Govt Launches Back to School Programme

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education is to partner with corporate bodies, individuals and the political class to fully actualise it’s “Back to School Programme”, which is an offshoot of Support-a-School Programme, starting from this…

NDDC:GROUP SAYS APPOINTMENT OF OKUMAGBA AS NEW MD IN ORDER   **URGES STAKEHOLDERS TO GIVE  HIM  MAXIMUM SUPPORT

NDDC:GROUP SAYS APPOINTMENT OF OKUMAGBA AS NEW MD IN ORDER **URGES STAKEHOLDERS TO GIVE HIM MAXIMUM SUPPORT

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A pressure  group,  United Front For Niger Delta  ( UFFND)  has hailed the  appointment of former Commissioner for Finance in Delta State,  Olorogun  Bernard Okumagba as the new Managing  Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission  ( NDDC…

Delta Youth Group Hail Buhari’s Approval of NDDC Board

Delta Youth Group Hail Buhari’s Approval of NDDC Board

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Isoko National Youth Council (INYC), a body of Isoko youths has has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the appointmentt of the new Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. National President of INYC, Comrade Utomudo Fidelis Obokparo, in…

ELUMELU DECLARES NASS MEMBERS “ONE FAMILY” **As Nwokocha Calls Him Special Breed With Great Interpersonal Relationship

ELUMELU DECLARES NASS MEMBERS “ONE FAMILY” **As Nwokocha Calls Him Special Breed With Great Interpersonal Relationship

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Asaba international airport on Friday was besieged with a mammoth crowd of men, women and youths who came from the Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency, Delta state, to receive Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, minority leader of the Federal House of…