-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Patrick Ukah, has applauded the Okowa administration’s role in driving the education sector to enviable heights through infrastructural investment, school expansion, educational framework and capacity building…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: ONE of the newly proposed universities in Delta State has been named after the former Premier of defunct Midwestern region, Chief Dennis Osadebay. This is coming on the heels of the passage of three Bills…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Education Desk Delta State government has ordered the immediate closure of all Lesson Centres across the state in order to ensure sanity in their operations. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Patrick Ukah, who disclosed this…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Compiled By Michael EKOKORUWE: Bellarks Polytechnic Kwale, Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, is set to commence academic session as the institution has been accredited by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). The statement signed…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: A book written by Comrade Utoware G.O Udumubrai on the ‘History of Isoko Nation in the Niger Delta’ at the weekend, was unveiled and presented to the public at the National secretariat of Isoko Development…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: 18 inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) studying with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Corrections’ Special Study Centres have graduated. They graduated on Saturday, February 02, 2021 in various fields with various…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLO: Personnel of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have been deployed to markets, schools, motor parks, churches and mosques, recreation centers and other public facilities across the nation to enforce compliance with COVID-19 protocols….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): …Launches DESOPADEC Skills Academy The Managing Director of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, says Governor Ifeanyi Okowa does not interfere with the running of the commission. Askia said DESOPADEC, an interventionist…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The people of Emonu-Orogun community, in Ughelli North local government area of Delta State have expressed gratitude to the State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) for…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has cancelled the recent transfer of over 4,500 secondary school teachers across the state by the Post Primary Education Board (PPEB). The Commissioner in charge of the ministry, Mr. Patrick…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has confirmed the resumption date for second term for all public and private primary and secondary schools in the state. According to a statement by the State Commissioner for Basic…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): >>Says Resumption Test Forms Part Of Assessment Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has announced new resumption date for second term for all public and private primary and secondary schools in the state. According to the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (Editor N’East Bureau): Yobe State Government has said 3,000 new teachers would be recruited in 2021 to address the acute shortage of teachers. The government who had earlier declared a state of emergency in the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Bureau: Twenty two thousand, five hundred and fifty six ghost workers have been unearthed in Borno State. This was the finding after two simultaneous verification exercises ordered by Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum. The…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The euphoria that greeted the return of the abducted students of the Government science secondary school, Kankara, Katsina state, was palpable. It was a thorough relief from the usual double speak and empty yarns that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -From Sunny A. DAVID: Modern School buildings have been erected at the Community Secondary School, Ufuma, Orumba North Local Government Area, Anambra State. The Project Coordinator of Bid Engineering and Contractors In-charge of the project, Mr. Okey Ezekwelu,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: St. Michael College Benin, Edo State, has grabbed the grand prize of N7 million at the just concluded 9th edition of the NPDC/Seplat Preparing Exceptional and Responsible Leaders (PEARLs) quiz competition. The annual PEARLs quiz competition…
–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) – 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): 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) The Secretary to Delta State Government (SSG), Chiedu Ebie Esq., has urged newly recruited 1,000 teachers and 75 Education Officers to strive towards qualitative service delivery and discharge their duties to the benefits of the state especially children…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Primary schools in Delta State are to resume academic activities as primary six pupils have been asked to resume school on Wednesday, September 16, 2020.In the same vein, all primary school teachers in the state have been ordered…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) Students in JS 3 in public secondary schools in Delta State are to resume academic activities tomorrow, September 8, 2020. The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Patrick Ukah, in a statement in Asaba yesterday, said…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: The leadership of Isoko Development Union (IDU) and Traditional rulers of the various kingdoms in Isoko Nation have commended the efforts of the Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC),…
Lady Stella Njaka Bows Out, As Obini Onuchukwu Gets EMC Endorsement Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From SUNNY A. DAVID The Honourable Minister of Education, Malla Adamu Adamu has approved the appointment of Mr. Obini Onuchukwu as the Acting Registrar of Federal Polytechnic…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has expressed satisfaction with the level of teachers’ and students’ compliance as SS 3 students in the state resumed school today (04/08/2020) preparatory to their West African…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has said it is ready to move on with the resumption of Senior Secondary schools in the state, in strict adherence to the Federal Government guidelines…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (Editor, Nort-East Bureau): United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commenced the distribution of radio sets to all internally displaced and other vulnerable children in Borno State. This, according to the UN agency, would ensure that…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor: Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has said that public and private primary and secondary schools in the state will remain closed till May 30, 2020 as directed by the Governor…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor: Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has said that the free teleclass learning programme on radio and television will continue to run till schools resume in the state for the benefit of the target…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Universal Learning Solutions, a UK not-for-profit organization, has launched the Nigerians Educate Everywhere at a Distance (NEED) project for students and pupils to learn at home with ease. According to the CEO…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: Ultra modern six classroom building of Egbedi Primary School, built by Isoko Association of North America has been officially unveiled by the Delta State Commissionee for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, at Ibrede,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new method of checking the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination after shutting down its portal. According to the examination body, the portal was shut down due to the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Ruth UGBECHIE: Lest we forget, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State qualified as a medical doctor at the age of 22. That was in 1981 when he earned his MBBS from the University of Ibadan. Ahead…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The House of Representatives on Wednesday , 4th March, passed to second reading a bill seeking for the establishment of a Federal University of Technology in Asaba, Delta State. The Bill sponsored by the Minority Leader of the…
SHADOWS AND NOTHINGS(A Review) As a journalist, I have had cause to review a number of books. And I must confess, reviewing this particular book was not a task but an admirable pleasure. Maybe because I have an unbreakable bond with fiction….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In a bid to promote reading amongst teachers and pupils in the State, using jolly phonics, the Universal Learning Solutions Initiatives, managers of Jolly Phonics in Delta State public primary schools have donated the newly developed decodable story…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): 29 Nigerian words and expressions have been added in the latest (January 2020) updates of Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) said some of the words are borrowed while others are coinages. Here is a list of…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Johnson EBIGIDE: Director General of the Delta State Orientation Bureau, Eugene Azuka Uzum Esq, has advised parents in the state and beyond to encourage their children and ward to embrace vocational education towards the acquisition of useful…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) : Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has pledged his continued support for the board of the Agency for Adult and Non-Formal Education to enable them actualise their mandate. Chief Ukah gave the…
