TONY NWAKA’S ‘SHADOWS AND NOTHINGS’: A 21ST CENTURY CLASSIC ROMANCE

TONY NWAKA’S ‘SHADOWS AND NOTHINGS’: A 21ST CENTURY CLASSIC ROMANCE

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….

NERC ABOLISHES ESTIMATED BILLING BY DISCOS, MANDATES METERING APRIL 30

NERC ABOLISHES ESTIMATED BILLING BY DISCOS, MANDATES METERING APRIL 30

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Our Reorder: The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) to stop further collection of electricity bill under the estimated billing system. The suspension order signed by NERC’s Chairman, Mr. James…

OPERATION  RATTLE SNAKE 3: NAF DESTROYS BOKO HARAM STRUCTURES, LOGISTICS FACILITIES AT GARIN MALOMA, PARISU IN BORNO

OPERATION RATTLE SNAKE 3: NAF DESTROYS BOKO HARAM STRUCTURES, LOGISTICS FACILITIES AT GARIN MALOMA, PARISU IN BORNO

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (South East Correspondent):   The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has destroyed some Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) structures and logistics facilities at Garin Maloma and…

CHAIRMAN SOUTH EAST GOVS’ FORUM COMMENDS NIG ARMY, **SOLICITS FOR ARMY UNIT IN SOUTHERN EBONYI

CHAIRMAN SOUTH EAST GOVS’ FORUM COMMENDS NIG ARMY, **SOLICITS FOR ARMY UNIT IN SOUTHERN EBONYI

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (South East Correspondent): The Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman South East Governors’ Forum Chief David Umahi, has acknowledged the contributions of the Nigerian Army in the settlement of land border disputes and bloody…

UZERE WOMEN PROTEST RENEWED KINGSHIP TUSSLE **AS YOUTHS CLASH, 15 PERSONS SUSTAIN INJURIES

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The women of Uzere kingdom, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, have protested peacefully to the local government council over renewed kingship tussle by supporters of the traditional rulers of Uzere kingdom as…

INTERVIEW: We’ll Clean Up Delta And Turn Waste To Wealth Through Foreign Investments –Emmanuel Bazim Chinye

INTERVIEW: We’ll Clean Up Delta And Turn Waste To Wealth Through Foreign Investments –Emmanuel Bazim Chinye

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Waste Management Board was inaugurated on September 24, 2019 with Hon. Emmanuel Bazim Chinye as Executive Chairman; while Mr Jude Onya, Mr  Mofe Edema and Mr Daniel Ighedo are members. No doubt,…

We Need 100,000 More Soldiers To Win Against Boko Haram –Gov. Zulum

We Need 100,000 More Soldiers To Win Against Boko Haram –Gov. Zulum

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the nation might need about 100,000 more soldiers to win the war against Boko Haram. He advised that at least 50,000 people from Borno should be…

UZERE MONARCH INSTALLS 18 NEW MEMBERS OF COUNCIL OF CHIEFS

UZERE MONARCH INSTALLS 18 NEW MEMBERS OF COUNCIL OF CHIEFS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Michael EKOKORUWE: The Ovie of Uzere kingdom HRM Odhebeodhiwu Udogri 1 (JP) has installed 18 new traditional Chiefs with various titles as members of Uzere council of chiefs, held at Uzere, Isoko South local government area…

Environment: Oshimili North Council Boss Tasks Stakeholders On Synergy

Environment: Oshimili North Council Boss Tasks Stakeholders On Synergy

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Chairman of Oshimili North local government area, Chief Louis Ndukwe has emphasized on the need to promote advocacy towards ensuring a healthy and cleaner environment. He appealed to stakeholders in the private sector, including…

Music Maestro, Morocco Maduka To Celebrate 60 Years On Stage In October

… As London Based Promoter Gives Reasons For Shift In Date -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Patrick OCHEI: The oldest Igbo performing musician alive and Ekpili music crooner, Chief Emeka Morocco Maduka will be celebrating his 60 years anniversary on stage come…

Okowa’s Choice As Chairman Of South South Govs Forum Is Apt, Says Macaulay

Okowa’s Choice As Chairman Of South South Govs Forum Is Apt, Says Macaulay

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): COMRADE Ovuozourie Macaulay has hailed the emergence of His Excellency the Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as the chairman of the South South Governors Forum, Macaulay who was a former Secretary to the State Government (SSG)…

Residents Reject PSP Operator Hygrace Global Ventures Over Fraudulent Extortion, Incompetence

Residents Reject PSP Operator Hygrace Global Ventures Over Fraudulent Extortion, Incompetence

-Plan Protest To Oshimili North Council, Waste Management Board –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Residents of Ogbogu Onyeayana close, Ogbe-Owele Quarters in Okpanam Community, Oshimili North Local Government Area have complained about the shoddy services of a PSP operator…

ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was a quintessential Unionist; a nationally acclaimed Charismatic leader and a tactical mobilizer of people, especially in a cause he truly believes in. He’s populism was hinged on a general perception…

PDP S’South Govs’ Forum: Bashorun Askia Lauds Okowa’s Emergence As Chairman

PDP S’South Govs’ Forum: Bashorun Askia Lauds Okowa’s Emergence As Chairman

Says He’s “A Round Peg In A Round Hole” -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of the DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has joined other Nigerians and Deltans to felicitate with the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr….

Rev. S.W. Martin Lives on as Pilgrim Baptist Hospital Issele-Uku Reopens Feb. 22

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): All is now set for the official reopening of Pilgrim Baptist Hospital Issele-uku for full medical services. The reopening follows the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Hospital established by a renowned Baptist Minister and founder of the Pilgrim Baptist…

PDP S’South Govs’ Forum: Elumelu Congratulates Okowa on Emergence As Chairman

PDP S’South Govs’ Forum: Elumelu Congratulates Okowa on Emergence As Chairman

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Ndudi Elumelu has felicitated the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on his emergence as the Chairman of the South South Governors’ Forum, saying that the recognition accorded…

African Missions Global Holds Inaugural Sport Festival Among IDPs Camps In Borno

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent:  Sport Festival is currently being organized by African Missions Global (AMG) among internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri, the birth place of Boko Haram. The Festival, which commenced on Tuesday at…

Former President Jonathan Congratulates New Bayelsa Gov Douye Diri

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Albert OGRAKA: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO HIS EXCELLENCY SENATOR DOUYE DIRI I congratulate His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri who was sworn in today as the 5th Civilian Governor of Bayelsa State, in compliance with the Supreme court verdict…

Breaking: Okowa Emerges Chairman S’South Govs Forum

Breaking: Okowa Emerges Chairman S’South Govs Forum

– Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has emerged the Chairman, South-South Governors’ Forum. Dependable clues obtained by Blank NEWS Online revealed that Governor Okowa was selected after elaborate consultations to take over…

Nigeria Targets Zero Importation Of Lubricants – SON

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Sunny A. DAVID: Nigeria may soon record zero importation of lubricants, as local production is coming on high and big.This was stated by the Director General, Standard Organization of Nigeria, SON, Mr. Osita Aboloma when he…

Delta Govt Set To Tackle Flooding In Warri, Environs **As Master Drainage System Commences

Delta Govt Set To Tackle Flooding In Warri, Environs **As Master Drainage System Commences

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Communities in Warri, Uvwie and environs have been charged to embrace peace to enable the commencement of the drainage project conceived to end the perennial flooding and the attendant consequences in the economic nerve center of the…

Day Before Inauguration:  S’ Court Sacks Bayelsa Governor-Elect, Deputy Over Forgery

Day Before Inauguration: S’ Court Sacks Bayelsa Governor-Elect, Deputy Over Forgery

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Nigeria’s Apex court, the Supreme Court has nullified the election of Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon and his running mate Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. The Supreme Court’s Thursday judgement has however put aside the mega preparations for Governor-elect David…

30 Teams Vie For Honors at US$5-Million Mohamed Bin Zayed Int’l Robotics Challenge 2020 in Abu Dhabi

Teams Representing Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and UAE to Compete in Four Iconic UAV and UGV-Related Challenges –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Khalifa University of Science and Technology, organizers of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge, announced a total of 30…

True Story Of Bashorun Askia’s Penchant For Entrepreneurship Among Youths, Womenfolk

True Story Of Bashorun Askia’s Penchant For Entrepreneurship Among Youths, Womenfolk

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA (Editor): The good intentions in the human resource policy of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in Delta State, have started yielding good fruits, as the wealth creation strategies are being carefully replicated in the oil and…

Valentine’s Day: Gaucho Dubai Announces AED 250,000  “Diamond Dining”  Experience

Valentine’s Day: Gaucho Dubai Announces AED 250,000 “Diamond Dining” Experience

-Blank NEWS Online (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) – From Albert OGRAKA: Award-winning Argentinian restaurant, Gaucho Dubai, has gone all out this Valentine’s Day to one very special wedding proposal. The stylish restaurant located in Dubai’s DIFC, is offering a their “Diamond Dining”…

MEDICAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA JOINS FIGHT AGAINST FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

MEDICAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA JOINS FIGHT AGAINST FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Edited By Albert OGRAKA: As part of measures to eliminate the harmful traditional practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria, the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) has pledged its readiness to collaborate with the Federal…

Hunger On The Rise In Africa, FAO Has Decried

Hunger On The Rise In Africa, FAO Has Decried

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Africa witnessed over 90 conflicts in 2018 alone, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has decried. The United Nations’ body while insisting that investing in resilience and food security…

Environment: Anambra Has A Lot To Borrow From Kigali, Says Ibuzo

Environment: Anambra Has A Lot To Borrow From Kigali, Says Ibuzo

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -From Sunny A. DAVID, ONITSHA: The Lawmaker representing Onitsha-North 2 State Constituency in the 7th Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon. Edward Obiefuna Ibuzo, has suggested reasons the governnent of Anambra State should borrow a leaf from Kigali,…

Education Experts Unveil JOLLY READERS Free Download In Delta

–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…

US Senate Impeachment Trial of Trump and Nigeria’s Legislative Conduct: An Assessment

US Senate Impeachment Trial of Trump and Nigeria’s Legislative Conduct: An Assessment

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Omoshola DEJI: In Athens, 510 BC, Cleisthenes instituted democracy to foster greater: accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and the law. Today, the tenet is being flouted with impunity, especially in developing nations, where most…

DELTA CJ APPROVES RELOCATION OF COURTS

DELTA CJ APPROVES RELOCATION OF COURTS

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In a bid to make Courts in Asaba Capital Territory easily accessible to stakeholders in justice administration and enhance efficient performance of judges and magistrates, the State Chief Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro has caused the relocation of High…

OLEH WOMEN STAGE PROTEST TO HERITAGE ENERGY OIL FIRM OVER AWARD OF PUMPS RENTAL SERVICES CONTRACT

OLEH WOMEN STAGE PROTEST TO HERITAGE ENERGY OIL FIRM OVER AWARD OF PUMPS RENTAL SERVICES CONTRACT

**As Hon. Kenneth Ogba Sues For Peaceful Dialogue -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: Oleh Community women in their numbers on Monday staged a peaceful protest to Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited Oleh, at Oleh – Olomoro Field /Flow Station cluster…

OF INSECURITY, POLITICS AND RELIGION: THE BUHARIAN DILEMMA

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The public protest, demonstration and outcry of some prominent Christian Religious group yesterday, brought to the front burner, once again, the demoralizing state of insecurity in the nation and the resultant insensitivity of government to…

Trending: Yoruba, Ibo Appointed As Special Advisers By Borno Governor

Trending: Yoruba, Ibo Appointed As Special Advisers By Borno Governor

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday swore-in an Ibo and Yoruba men as special advisers. The two Chief Kesta Ogualili from Anambra state (Southeast Nigeria) and Alhaji Yusuf Alao from…

“Madmen” On Rampage: Boko Haram Slaughters Two, Carts Away Frozen Fish At Maiduguri Military Checkpoint

“Madmen” On Rampage: Boko Haram Slaughters Two, Carts Away Frozen Fish At Maiduguri Military Checkpoint

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Ruthless and notorious terrorists operating in Nigeria’s North-East, code-named “Boko Haram” have slaughtered two persons sleeping overnight at a military checkpoint in Maiduguri. The insurgents, according to source, also carted away some…

Isoko Renowned Author Idodo-Umeh Dies At 76, Okowa, Others Mourn

Isoko Renowned Author Idodo-Umeh Dies At 76, Okowa, Others Mourn

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has expressed sadness on the passing of renowned author, publisher and politician, Dr. George Idodo-Umeh. Idodo-Umeh died at a hospital in Benin on Monday after a brief illness. He was aged 76….

Service Delivery: Gov. Okowa Desirous To Change Narrative In DESOPADEC -Bashorun Askia

*Aa Commission Holds Management Retreat For Board Members, HODs @ Lagos Business School -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa is desirous to change the narrative in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC) and…