Blank NEWS Online founding Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Albert Eruorhe Ograka, is a Graduate of Mass Communication. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Journalism from the International Institute of Journalism (IIJ).
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The 05 Initiative, a pet project of Her Excellency, Dame Edith Okowa, wife of Delta State Governor has sustained its celebration of orphans in Delta State to mark the World Orphans Day 2020. The O5…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Commissioner for Information, Delta State, Mr Charles Aniagwu, has reiterated his commitment to sustain the cordial working relationship existing between the state government and journalists in the state. Aniagwu stated this when he received the newly elected…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The eternal beauty (perhaps plague) of democracy is the rights of the electorate to periodically choose theirs leaders and live with such choice. In 2016, the Americans made the choice of Donald John Trump as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Okanga AGILA: Love or hate Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, but what catches that attention of everyone around him is his sagacious endowments and infectious aura are his admirably constant leadership qualities. It has secured and led…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Provost of Delta State University (DELSU), Oleh Campus, Professor Ifoghale Amata, has appealed to the law faculty students of the institution to remain calm as justice will prevail over the death of Jeffery Omatsayi,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (N-East Bureau): The Federal government on Wednesday indicated it’s willingness to start oil exploration in the Lake Chad Basin. The exercise was suspended by the Nigerian government in July 2017 after suspected members of Boko…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The 05 Initiative, a human and health development pet project of the wife of the Delta State Governor, Dame Edith Okowa, has continued to brace up in it’s efforts to make Sickle Cell Clinical facilities…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Members of the Borno State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists on Tuesday raised the alarm over continued attempts by one of the media aides to Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum to undermine the working…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Philip AGBESE: Anyone taken aback by the turn of events around the #EndSARS protests and the Lekki Toll Gate conundrum in Lagos State must have been negligent of the events that led to the 2019 election that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO : A leader always exudes confidence when he is sure that his followers are comfortable and happy. So, it was heartwarming, indeed, a welcome relief, to see Delta Caucus in the House of Representatives, led by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In order to cushion the effect of flooding in communities in the state, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has released funds to the affected local government areas to purchase food items for the affected communities. The Chairman, Association of Local…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Seven members of the Civilian Joint Task Force and local hunters were killed on Sunday in a remote village of Chibok local government area in Northeast Nigeria. According to a resident of Chibok local government area, who…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Members of Isoko South legislative arm on Wednesday honoured the Chief Executive Officer of Dantinajo Gold Resort Limited Oleh, Isoko South local government area, Engr. Daniel Elozino Omoyibo, with award of recognition as a philanthropist…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing situations today in Nigeria, especially at the wake of the recent hashtag protests, is the menace of Hoodlums everywhere. Their coordinated activities and the near similar methods of operation points…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, today, Tuesday, October 27, 2020 presented the Appropriation Bill of N378.48 billion for 2021 to the state House of Assembly for consideration. The budget presentation earlier scheduled for Thursday,…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Sylvester ILOBA: The Delta State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a private indigenous investor, Akewa Colmar Terminal Ltd for the development of the Burutu Ports in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The chairman of All branches of Irri indigenes in Diaspora, Mr. Eniye Isaac Ogbe, has condemned in strong terms the malicious false online publication by Daily Watch on 24th of October 2020 with the caption,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: To condole the bereaved families of the nine Oleh indigenes killed at Oleh farmland, the Oleh Christian Association in collaboration with Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (P.F.N) and Christian Association of Nigeria (C.A.N), Isoko South chapter,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: As the eerie smoke seems to be settling down and the rivers of tears simmers, distrust, accusations and counter accusations seems to be the order of the day in Nigeria. Those who murdered sleep are…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North East Bureau): ActionAid Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately act as a father by addressing the nation and stop the ongoing ENDSARS protesting from degenerating into full scale anarchy. The organisation,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Press Statement of the Isoko Association of North America (IANA) on the Ambush and Brutal killing of farmers from Oleh on 10/16/2020 The Isoko Association of North America (IANA) is shocked to learn about the ambush and savage…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Albert OGRAKA: The UDU of Isoko Nation and Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has expressed shock over the recent gruesome murder of nine sons and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has constituted an 11-man panel to probe allegations of violation of human rights by the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police unit was scrapped by the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The Nigerian Army is set to commence its annual military exercise ragged Crocodile Smile, nationwide. According to a press release by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, the exercise…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Odiologbo of Oleh kingdom and chairman Isoko Nation traditional ruler’s council, HRM Anthony William O. Ovrawah, Omogha 1, has called on the people of Oleh kingdom to remain calm and embrace peace as he…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In Nigeria today, times are tough, tempers are high, feathers are being ruffled, no thanks to the raging hashtag protest by the rampaging but hitherto ” lazy” Nigeria youth. It has become a test of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By AZUA ALONU: When we told our English teacher, we were going to put on stage J.P Clark’s Play. Ozidi, he said: You will murder the play. Our dramatic society in our estimation very virile, we were…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Isoko Nation has kicked against the alleged sale of a bar of Zamfara gold to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for N5 billion by the Zamfara state government and supported the Deputy Senate President…
***As CAS Commissions Residential Accommodation For Airforce Personnel In Calabar -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to deploy additional Super Puma Helicopter to Calabar to secure the southern axis of the Nigerian airspace and complement…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): Food items have been shared to 38,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) households in Borno State for the month of October. This is part of the monthly distribution directed by the Director General…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah has cautioned private school owners in the state against the resumption of academic activities for nursery/pre-primary (KG 1-3) pupils. He warned that anyone who goes contrary to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) after a mass protest by Nigeria. The Commission…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: I love Eyitayo Jegede, the PDP Governorship candidate for the just concluded Ondo gubernatorial elections. He came, he saw but couldn’t conquer. Though the Senior Advocate won convincingly in Isidore, Akure North and South local…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Determined to make youths to become entrepreneurs and employers of labour, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), is in the process of setting up an Academy where youths will be trained to become experts at various…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Very recently, there’s been so much noise, purportedly coming from the noise less one: our amiable Jolly good fellow, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, that is. The grapevine is replete with the news of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: The sound of the call for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation has become like that of a broken record. It comes in a bewildering staccato; it comes intermittently from both the usual and the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau): The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) In order to tackle the menace of Boko Haram insurgents has approached Cameroonian military structures for support. A press release signed on Saturday by the Chief of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: In the present equation and the many calculations towards the 2023 Presidential election, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seems to be a forgotten numerator or denominator. His name is hardly mentioned in serious political discourse and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Azua ALONU: And whilst we are still lamenting the doldrums of pain and poverty of our country, light intruded and instinctively we shouted up-nepa, my friend, a top attorney in the city of Asaba, whom I was…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: With a concocted feeling of joyful rhetoric in the midst of a collective discontent, the old drums are rolled out, once again, in celebration of Nigeria’s independence anniversary. It has become our favourite ethos, to…