Zulum Expresses Support For Buni’s Led APC Committee

Zulum Expresses Support For Buni’s Led APC Committee

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has expressed support and confidence in the Mai Mala Buni led All Progressives Congress (APC) national caretaker committee. Zulum expressed his support on Saturday in Mafa, his local government…

Iteire Inspects Council Offices, Provides Furniture

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE Executive Chairman, Isoko North Local Government Council, Hon. Christian Othuke Iteire on Tuesday, embarked on an unscheduled inspection of directorate offices in the Council secretariat Ozoro, and provided furniture to the staffs of…

Dame Okowa Commissions 16th Sickle Cell Clinic In Delta **Hails Warri South LG People For Actualization

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: WIFE of the Delta State Governor and founder O5 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa has formally inaugurated the 16th Sickle Cell Clinic in Delta State, located at the Central Hospital, Warri. Commissioning the project on Friday…

ABBA KYARI: A FLY IN THE OINTMENT?

ABBA KYARI: A FLY IN THE OINTMENT?

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: TAFA Balogun was a heavily built, haughty and hawkish cop who once traverse the length and breadth of our policing world. He was a former Inspector General of Police, who fell from office shamefully, with…

Elumelu Constituency Projects: Harvest Of Projects In Aniocha South As Okowa Commissions More Projects Executed By Elumelu

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: IT was a harvest of people oriented projects on Thursday, 29th July, 2021 as the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa continued with the commissioning of Constituency Projects executed by the Minority Leader of…

Access Bank Risks Litigation Over Assault, Unlawful Detention, False Accusation Of Staff *As Attorneys Issue 7 Days Ultimatum

Access Bank Risks Litigation Over Assault, Unlawful Detention, False Accusation Of Staff *As Attorneys Issue 7 Days Ultimatum

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE Management of Access Bank Plc have been issued a seven-day ultimatum to urgently cause an independent investigation and redress the wrongdoings to one of its staff, with a written apology or risk legal action….

How GEEP Made Me Gainfully Employed, Says GEEPreneur Oge

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: UCHUNU DOMINICA OGE: Many beneficiaries of the Delta State Government’s Job Creation Scheme have continued to share amazing testimonies of how the scheme took them out of the streets and made them meaningfully engaged to…

Onoyona Resuscitates Grassroot Musical Talent Hunt In Delta

Onoyona Resuscitates Grassroot Musical Talent Hunt In Delta

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE Second Edition of the Grassroot Musical Talent Hunt, an initiative of the Delta Youths of Today Association (DYT) was held at the weekend, at the Anglican Women Hall, Oleh, Isoko south local government area…

Zulum Finalizes Relocation of IDPs, Refugees to Abadam

Zulum Finalizes Relocation of IDPs, Refugees to Abadam

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has moved towards finally relocating the people of Abadam local government, in the shores of the Lake Chad back to their homes. The governor in order to actualize this…

FG Launches Strategy Document To Tackle Deforestation, Forest Degradation

FG Launches Strategy Document To Tackle Deforestation, Forest Degradation

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Federal Government has launched the Nigeria’s National Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Strategy document to tackle the challenges of deforestation and forest degradation. The journey towards the development of the REDD+…

Ghanaian Govt Denies Alleged Addo’s Disparaging Comment On Nigeria

Ghanaian Govt Denies Alleged Addo’s Disparaging Comment On Nigeria

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Ghana government has denied a disparaging comment credited to it’s President Akufo Addo on Nigeria and Nigerians. The Ghanaian President in the report on the social media was alleged to have asked Nigerians to…

Okonjo-Iweala Laments Rate Of COVID-19 Vaccination In Nigeria, Says WTO Will Change Narrative

Okonjo-Iweala Laments Rate Of COVID-19 Vaccination In Nigeria, Says WTO Will Change Narrative

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: DIRECTOR General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has lamented the rate of COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria and in the rest of Africa, promising that her organisation is working to change the story. Speaking…

BETWEEN PATRIOTIC PLATITUDE, EMOTION AND JUSTICE

BETWEEN PATRIOTIC PLATITUDE, EMOTION AND JUSTICE

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: AMIDST the many compounded issues surrounding the ongoing trials of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Adeyemo, alias Igboho, nationalistic ethos and fabricated echoes are almost always sounding like a broken record in our collective…

Isoko North LG Boss Iteire Rescue Child Delivered By Mentally Challenged Woman

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE Executive Chairman, Isoko North Local Government Council, Hon Christian Othuke Iteire on Monday, visited Ozoro General Hospital, Isoko North local government area and rescued mentally-challenged, homeless woman who delivered a male child on…

BREAKING: Court Adjourns Kanu’s Trial To October 21, As Nyako Orders DSS To Produce IPOB Leader

BREAKING: Court Adjourns Kanu’s Trial To October 21, As Nyako Orders DSS To Produce IPOB Leader

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court Abuja has been adjourned because of Kanu’s absence in court, just as Justice Binta Nyako called the DSS…

BREAKING: Sowore Arrested At Abuja Federal High Court

BREAKING: Sowore Arrested At Abuja Federal High Court

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): FORMER AAC presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore has been arrested by the Nigerian police at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sowore was arrested and whisked away while in court to show solidarity with the leader of…

Eid-el-Kabir: Greater Devotion To God Will Enthrone Justice, Fairness -Bashorun Askia

Eid-el-Kabir: Greater Devotion To God Will Enthrone Justice, Fairness -Bashorun Askia

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has called for prayers to God to enthrone a new era of justice, fairness and development in Nigeria. Bashorun Askia, who…

YAGEP Beneficiary Ascribes Business Success To Efforts Put Into Training

YAGEP Beneficiary Ascribes Business Success To Efforts Put Into Training

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: HELEN MORRISTER: The testimony of Helen Morrister is another success story of the Delta State Government’s Youth Agricultural and Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP). She is the Managing Director of Odhi Technical and Energy Services Fish Farm…

DAIRO’S DEADLY DIARY AND THE REST OF US

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: HE missed death by the whiskers. And by sheer bravery, Flt Lt Abayomi Dairo, the hero fighter jet pilot, soldier on in the bushes of death, trying to save a nation so ravaged by terrorism…

NDLEA Arrests Anambra Drug Kingpin **Nabs Notorious Interstate Traffickers In Adamawa, Benue

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -From Mike SOGBOLO: A major Anambra illicit drug kingpin, Okeke Chijioke, 44, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). He was caught with 548,000 tablets of Tramadol branded as Tarkadol stored in…

MSF Opens Malnutrition Treatment Centre in Maiduguri

MSF Opens Malnutrition Treatment Centre in Maiduguri

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -From Mike SOGBOLO: MÉDECINS Sans Frontières otherwise called Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has opened a centre in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital for the treatment of children with complicated forms of malnutrition. The MSF in a statement on…

OF ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY AND ELITE INSENSITIVITY IN RECENT TIME

OF ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY AND ELITE INSENSITIVITY IN RECENT TIME

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the major challenges of the Nigerian state, especially in a supposedly majoritarian rule such as ours, is the gross insensitivity of our elites to the real issue plaguing the nation. The mismanagement of…

2023: Elumelu Expresses Worry Over Voter Apathy, Suppression, Political Alienation, Extra-Civic Voting In Nigeria **Proffer Solutions

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: RT. HON. NDUDI ELUMELU, Nigeria’s House of Representatives Minority Leader, yesterday expressed worries over the many factors promoting voter apathy, political alienation and voter suppression, as well as extra – civic voting patterns in Nigeria….

Application Of Technology Strengthens Democratic Process, Says Bashorun Askia

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA, Warri: AGAINST the backdrop of the furore generated by the debate on the mode of transmission of election results, a wider application of information technology will strengthen the democratic process by reducing the impact of…

FG Declares next Tuesday and Wednesday Public Holidays for Eid-El-Kabir

FG Declares next Tuesday and Wednesday Public Holidays for Eid-El-Kabir

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Federal Government has declared Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21, 2021, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf…

Online Publishers Want NASS To Quash Obnoxious NBC, NPC Amendment Bills

Online Publishers Want NASS To Quash Obnoxious NBC, NPC Amendment Bills

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA Online Publishers Forum (DOPF), has called on the National Assembly to urgently jettison the obnoxious Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Acts amendment Bill that is presently before it. In a…

FOUR YEARS AFTER, STEP BENEFICIARY SHARES AMAZING SUCCESS STORY -Says Gov. Okowa’s Job Creation Programme Real, Well Thought Out

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: ATANO, OCHUKO KELVIN has a BSC in Accounting and a PGD in Business Management from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. He hails from Ughelli North Local Government Area. He got enrolled in the Delta State Government’s…

Iteire Partners Isoko NUJ On LGA Programmes, Commends Gov Okowa For Flood Alert

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE executive chairman of Isoko North local government area of Delta State, Hon. Deacon Christian Iteire has commended Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State for flood alert sensitization. Iteire said this when…

Neither My Parents Nor I Would Have Afforded Starter Pack, Says STEPreneur Esienakerien

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: ESIENAKERIEN MERCY OMA: This episode of our weekly testimony features Mercy Oma Esienakerien, one of the beneficiaries of the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) enrolled in the 2017/2018 Cycle. She was trained in Catering and…

Bashorun Askia Hails Okowa At 62, Says He Remodelled DESOPADEC To Deliver Dividends

Bashorun Askia Hails Okowa At 62, Says He Remodelled DESOPADEC To Deliver Dividends

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has felicitated with Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa on his 62nd birthday anniversary. Bashorun Askia Ogieh, in…

Aguleri/Umuleri For Peace Initiative Resolve Communal War, As Lawmaker Set To Empower 3,800 Youths

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Sunny A. DAVID: THE Youths under the new name of Aguleri/ Umuleri For Peace Initiative in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State has resolved that the two Communities have decided to end the over…

Elumelu Congratulates Okowa @ 62

Elumelu Congratulates Okowa @ 62

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has congratulated the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on his 62nd birthday anniversary. In his goodwill message on Thursday July 8, 2021, Elumelu…

Chinese President Promotes Globalization

Chinese President Promotes Globalization

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: CHINESE President Xi Jinping has expressed the willingness of Communist Party of China and indeed China to collaborate with political parties worldwide to lead the economic globalization toward a direction that is more open, inclusive,…

Nigeria, UAE Quarrel Continues On Travel Ban Over Covid-19 Protocol

Nigeria, UAE Quarrel Continues On Travel Ban Over Covid-19 Protocol

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NIGERIA and United Arabs Emirates (UAE) have continued to exchange words over the traveling ban imposed into the Arab country. The Nigerian government had last week come out that contrary to insinuation that the United…

ECOWAS Parliament To Discuss Use Of Cryptocurrency For Trade In W/Africa

ECOWAS Parliament To Discuss Use Of Cryptocurrency For Trade In W/Africa

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold its delocalized meeting under the theme: “Cryptocurrency as a facilitator of Community trade in West Africa”, from July 6 to 10, 2021…

NIDCOM, Swiss Embassy Partner on Diaspora Re-integration

NIDCOM, Swiss Embassy Partner on Diaspora Re-integration

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: CHAIRMAN/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa and Switzerland Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Georg Steiner at an interactive Session in Abuja on Monday discussed the issues of Diaspora Reintegration, Diaspora Data Mapping and…

Employment Scam: NSCDC Warn Applicants Against Fake Recruitment List in Circulation

Employment Scam: NSCDC Warn Applicants Against Fake Recruitment List in Circulation

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Controller General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Audi has set up a committee of enquiry to investigate the individuals or group of persons behind the fake 2019/2021 replacement and recruitment…

DIDA Chairman Expresses Joy Over Commencement Of Work At DELFRASCO

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Sylvester ILOBA: THE Chairman, Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA), Mr. Paul Nmah, has expressed joy over the commencement of work at the Delfrasco Tower Manufacturing and Testing Facility Issele-Uku in Aniocha North Local Government Area of…