-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…
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…
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…
–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…
-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”…
-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…
–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…
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,…
–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) – 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…
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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Ambrose OLOGIDE, WARRI: It was a day of mourning for Arewa Community in Warri as four Hausa young men lost their lives during an alleged illegal bunkering in a riverine area known as Omare Bush in Warri…
**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…
-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…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) BOOK REVIEWER; NKECHI MADUEMEZIA Shadows of pain Shadows of gain Shadows of despair Shadows of repair Shadows and nothings Shadows of love Shadows of hate Shadows of today Shadows of yester years Shadows and nothings Shadows I see…
–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…
-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…
–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….
*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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Ejime UDUEME: Offering sincere gratitude to God and carrying out duties with the fear of God comes with great reward. The Senior Pastor of the Four Square Gospel Church, Sanctuary of God’s Mercy, Zonal Headquarters Asaba, Pastor…
–-Blank NEWS Online (ACCRA, Ghana)-: Leading mobile payments company WorldRemit saw a 43% growth in remittances to Africa from higher income nations in 2019. The top five countries receiving remittances from the diaspora in 2019 included, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, with Nigeria…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Four persons were said to have died during a suicide attack on a mosque in Gwoza, southern Borno. Gwoza was at the peak of ongoing Boko Haram insurgency, the administrative capital of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): The military has again sealed off another office of an international non governmental organisation in the Northeast. It was learnt that soldiers invaded the Borno office of Adventist Development and Relief Agency…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO: “Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh is a grassroots politician, a true Isoko son who is using his position as the Managing Director of DESOPADEC to complement what Governor Okowa is doing in the area of providing…
–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 said he decided to appreciate God for using Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to bring him to limelight…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) From SUNNY A. DAVID: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two hundred and forty-nine persons suspected for various drug crimes in the year 2019 as thirty seven of them were convicted. In a release signed by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sogbola, Maiduguri: Four cases of Lassa Fever have been reported in Borno State with one of the patients dead. Commissioner of Health, Dr Salihu Kwaya-Bura disclosed this at a press conference in Maiduguri on Thursday….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of the Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has been commended for his human capital development and various empowerment programmes across the Isoko nation and beyond. The…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): PRESS RELEASE WARNING AGAINST ACTIVITIES OF RECRUITMENT FRAUDSTERS: NIGERIAN AIR FORCE IS NOT CURRENTLY RECRUITING The attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to the activities of some unscrupulous individuals who are fraudulently extorting…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Nine lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, defected to the All Progressives Congress from Peoples Democratic Party, All Progressives Grand Alliance and Action Alliance. The lawmakers who defected are Authur Egwim (Ideato North) from…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Soldiers and mobile policemen may have reconnected Maiduguri back to the rest of the nation as they have cleared the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway off remnants of Boko Haram that have terrorized motorists in…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) Delta Government on Tuesday approved 11 new roads in the state for construction. Commissioner for Works, Chief James Auguye, made this known while briefing newsmen at the end of the state’s Executive Council meeting in Asaba. Auguye disclosed…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: The Borno state chapter of Network of Civil Society Organisations (NECSO) on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari has lived below expectations, insisting that his administration has not secured the promised security of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State House of Assembly is to collaborate with the State Command of the Nigeria Police Force in ensuring effective crime fighting and prevention at the grassroots.The Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori made…
-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) – From Mike Sogbola, Maiduguri: A High Court in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, on Monday remanded Hajiya Aisha Wakil, popularly called Mama Boko Haram to a custodial centre. Mama Boko Haram was standing trial alongside Tahir Saidu and Lawal…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday said the Court of Appeal Complex for the Asaba Division would be inaugurated on Feb. 3, 2020. Okowa who inspected ongoing work at the complex located at Mariam Babangida Way,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA’, Damaturu: The Network of Yobe Civil Society Organizations has condemned government reaction to the rising insecurity in the Northeast. The group in a signed statement on Monday by it’s Comrade Baba Shehu, said it…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA’ Maiduguri: The United Nations has condemned an attack on its facilities in troubled Northeast. It had last Thursday shown apprehension over growing insecurity in the area, even as it had been reported that some…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: Boko Haram on Sunday attacked Geidam, one of the major town in Yobe state, forcing the residents into flight. Many of the fleeing residents had to send the night in nearby bushes as the streets…
