–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Dr. Askia Ogieh; the Majority Leader Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Tim Owhefere; the Director General…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has denied media publication reporting it to have indicted the Chairman of the UBA Group, Dr. Tony Elumelu, over a N41 billion allegation fraud. This followed a clarification…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Michael EKOKORUWE: In continuation of the peace advocacy to actualize the vision of a stronger Delta, the Special Adviser to Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA, North-East Bureau Chief:: A communique is expected later in the day as Governors of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, making the North East Region, are meeting in Maiduguri the Borno State…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Eighty-five (85) persons have been arrested for drug related offences by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Borno State. The NDLEA also got two persons convicted for drug offences, the Borno State’s Commandant…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Special Adviser to Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor JP, has urged community leaders, women and youths to take proactive actions in order…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: The Board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), led by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has commissioned all completed projects executed by the Commission in Isoko…
–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: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has felicitated with the former Governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, as…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Ozoro youths, alleged to be Yahoo Boys, went on rampage in Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, protesting over harassment, brutality and extortion by the police in the area. The youths…
-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): Former Managing Director of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Dr. Tony Elumelu has given the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition, Senator Ayo Akinyelure seven days, to retract a statement credited to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the war on insurgency should have been over had it not been for sabotage. The war on Boko Haram has been since 2009…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: For those who were familiar with Nigeria journalism in the late eighties and early nineties, ” Afghanistanism ” was a term used to describe the act of writing glowingly about the troubles abroad, while ignoring…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment towards improving secondary education opportunities for girls in seven states in Nigeria. The credit,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives is alarmed by Thursday attack on the convoy of the Governor of Borno State, Baba Gana Zulum by suspected bandits, insisting that the sad incident has again reinforced the urgent…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The people of Urhobo Ethnic Nation have joined many other Deltans to pour encomiums on the Bashorun Askia Ogieh led Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), as they unveil landmark projects executed by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated Nigerians, especially Muslim faithful on the occasion of this year’s Eid-el Kabir celebration. The Minority leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu in a statement on Thursday 30th July, 2020, called on…
**As Delta Speaker, Novena Varsity Boss, NAPS Senate, Others Laud Bashorun Askia led Board –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA has urged the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA -North East Editor: The gale of corruption recently uncovered in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as well as few other federal agencies may unleash “new marque of militancy, economic downturn, trust deficits in governments…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has felicitated the Asagba of Asaba, His Royal Majesty, Obi (Prof) Chike Edozien on the occasion of his 96th birthday anniversary. In his good will message on…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has distanced himself from the list of contractors handling projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC as contained in a letter by the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: In spite of the current global economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, the job and wealth creation programmes of the Delta State have continued to receive commendations, following the establishment of additional 107 STEP…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has promised to assist Igbo spare parts sellers in their business for not deserting the state at the peak of Boko Haram insurgency. The Governor made…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Ibrahim Dahiru DANFULANI: Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai the helmsman of the Nigerian Army (NA) is an enigmatic personality and a natural leader in all human calculations. In view of the outstanding achievements in the areas…
*As Ministers Of Women Affairs, Information, NASS Members Pay Condolence visit To CAS -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The remains of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF’s) first female combat helicopter pilot, who…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: With the offensive stench coming out of the Niger Delta Development Commission, one wonders what has become of Patriotism, accountability and the love for one another in Nigeria. The Agency, which was designed to…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Michael EKOKORUWE: Enforcement committee led by Chief Efe O. Okolosi, Chairman COVID 19 NCDC protocol enforcement committee, Isoko South, has arrested 21 persons at Oleh, Isoko South local government area of Delta State for flouting facemask…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, North-East The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said drugs worth over a billion were seized from 380 arrested suspects since the beginning of 2020 in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Borno State commandant…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has congratulated the Governor of Delta State, Senator, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on the occasion of his 61st birthday anniversary. In a statement on Wednesday 8th July, 2020,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has felicitated with the state governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on his 61 birthday…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has extolled the Commission’s Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Hon. Chief (Barr.) John Obukohwo Nani, on his 60th…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA/North East Editor The United Nations Air Services have been suspended in the troubled North East. This followed an attack on one of it’s helicopters in Damasak, Borno State by terrorist group. The helicopter had hoped…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): More than five years after the termination by the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency (NIMASA), of maritime security contract it entered with Global West Specialist Vessels Limited, a company said to be sponsored by ex-warlord, Chief Government Ekpemupolo,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Mike SOGBOLA: The Maiduguri Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 2, 2020, secured the conviction of one Lawan Zanna Ajimi before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of Borno State High Court. He was…
–Blank NEWS Online ( NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Without offence to modesty, Adams Oshiomhole can be aptly described as a quintessential character; a public performer, a motivational orator with a unique gift of the garb. He’s an exemplary leader of men. He…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Kashetu MOMOH: I am an ardent follower of Nigerian politics, especially because of its murky nature. Having read series of write ups on the emerging political brouhaha between Obaseki and his ousted god-father in Edo State, Adams…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA/North-East: Chief of State (CoS) to Borno State Governor (Prof. Babagana Zulum), Dr Babagana Wakil is dead. A statement by the spokesman to the Governor, Mallam Isa Gusau announced his death on Wednesday. Though the cause…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: “Major-General (Chief) Paul Ufuoma Omu is my mentor, father, bridge builder of repute and foremost peace ambassador.” Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Gift A Child Initiative, a non governmental organization, NGO in Benin City, Edo State in collaboration with four other NGO’s, weekend called on the Federal and State Governments to step up appropriate laws to end rape and all…
