-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: After taking delivery of 3.92 million doses of Covishield vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Tuesday, India has promised Nigeria yet another 100,000 doses of…
-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) –From Sunny A. DAVID/ South-East Bureau: Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi says Nigeria doesn’t need more than N150 billion to procure COVID-19 vaccines. Commenting on the issue when he featured on Television programme on Tuesday, Mr. Obi…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Editor A Judge of the High Court of Delta State, Hon. Justice Anthony Ezonfade Okorodas, PhD, has made a mind-blowing revelation about his extranged wife’s infidelity, which led to his fathering three children that were allegedly not his….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has sacked the State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Salihu Kwayabura. The reason for his sack remained unknown, though it has become a source of speculation among those in government….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -From Donald OJEBO: As part of efforts to assist the victims of the gas explosion which occurred on Friday (22/01/2021) in Agbor, the Delta State Government has deposited the sum of three million naira for the continuation of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -Edited by Albert OGRAKA: Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has reached to the Friday gas explosion in Agbor and has officially confirmed on Saturday, that “We lost four persons, three children and a woman.’.He however noted there…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Edited by Albert OGRAKA: * Dein Of Agbor Donates 1Mn To Support Victims * Blood Donors Wanted, As Govt Hospital Lacks Facilities Blank NEWS Online can reveal that unverified number of casualties and properties may have been lost…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Deputy Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria and Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori has narrated his recent ordeal with the Covid -19 pandemic. Oborevwori,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Wife of the Governor of Delta State and founder of 05 initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, on Friday December 1, 2021 presented gifts and offered prayers to Baby Joy Ogwu Ogbeta, the first baby born in…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively report that the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has ordered a new partial lockdown of all public activities across the state, as a result of the second wave…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Chief of Bureau: Sweden has donated N460 million towards fighting acute malnutrition in the North East, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. A statement by UNICEF on Tuesday said Sweden is partnering with…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Comptroller General of Nigerian Correctional Service, Ahmad Jafaru, has lauded the efforts of the wife of Delta State Governor and founder of 05 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, for continually assisting the inmates and staff…
–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) Delta State Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Wednesday inaugurated a Newborn Screening equipment for the treatment of sickle cell in the state. The equipment was donated to the Sickle Cell Referral Centre, Asaba Specialist Hospital, Asaba, by…
-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) –By Sunny A. DAVID: The Executive Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano signs the Anambra State Sickle Cell Law. This was made known to the public by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on General Hospital,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The world, as it does every June 19, today pauses to mark the 2020 World Sickle Cell Day, with the aim of shining light on the sickle cell disorder. In this regard, wife of the Delta State Governor…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has suspended an entire paid staff of an hospital in the state for abandonment of duty post. The governor, who paid an unscheduled visit to the hospital, General Hospital…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor Delta state commissioner for information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has appealed to the people of Delta state to follow the health protocols prescribed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the government as part of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: There’s no denying the fact that everyone is being negatively mesmerized by the trends of unforeseen events trailing the advent of the covid 19 pandemic. Even those who earlier dismissed the notion that covid 19…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, MAIDUGURI: The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) on Sunday discharged six COVID-19 patients. The six were part of the list of 24 patients kept at the hospital’s isolation centre after they were initially tested…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Foreign Desk Correspondent: President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence and most White House Aides would not stay out for 14 days, the recommended time frame to quarantine once exposed to the virus. Two staff members were diagnosed…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Nike SOGBOLA: Yobe House of Assembly member Lawan Nguru has agreed to the test that he was positive for COVID-19. He also said he had at no time refused to be isolated, though he still feel health….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Bawo Akpo OFERE/Albert OGRAKA: In a bid to ensure the safety of staff, ahead of the partial resumption to work after the government lockdown order, necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: The two COVID-19 positive persons that were reported to have been on the run in Maiduguri, on Monday resurfaced. One of the two, Abbas Hassan, a 24 year-old male, who tested positive was found…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: A renowned Delta State based Biometrician Geneticist and member of International Biometrician Geneticist Convention (MIBGC), Olisemeka Isiekwe PhD, has predicted that Covid-19 flu infections, would rise, hitting a 3,000 high in May. He also said…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: Fear has gripped Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as two patients, Abbas Hassan, a 24 year-old male and Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female, are on the run after testing positive to COVID-19…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: There has been no increase in incident of COVID-19 in Borno state in the last 24 hours despite the testing of 17 persons believed to have had contact with the index case….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA- Maiduguri: The Chief Medical Director of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital ( UMTH ), Professor Ahmed Ahidjo has revealed why it took time to discovered the COVID-19 index case in Borno State. The…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is often very worrisome to think that Africa ,over the years, have always been the victim of foreign negative machinations and the extra externalities of factors (clothed in various euphemisms) that often helped…
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJAMONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020 Fellow Nigerians In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation Monday, April 13, 2020 at 7pm. Television, radio and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, (FCNA, CrFA) has donated cash, food and sanitary items to the Isoko nation, in a bid…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has rejected the decision of the Federal Government to import Chinese doctors into the country over the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The minority Caucus, in a statement issued by its Leader…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Deltans have been commended for their impressive compliance to the Stay-at-Home directive by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa ,to curb the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 into the state. The Managing Direcrot/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Ifeanyi ANYIM: An American based Movie Director, Sylvester Afam Ogbolu, has commended the Executive Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on his efforts towards making Deltans safe as a result of the Covic19 pandemic. He…
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 Fellow Nigerians, From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Direcrot/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has delivered a speech in Pidgin English on how to protect ourselves against the Corona…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Former Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), Suleiman Achimugu has died over night from Coronavirus. He is the first casualty in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease…
