–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Unlike Bathsheba, the lead character in Thomas Hardy’s epic novel titled: “Far from the madding Crowd” who later got married to his heartthrob, Gabriel Oak, the late Balarabe Musa could not realise his dream for…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In any procedural Democracy, the right to free speech, freedom of association and the demand for citizenship inclusion in governance, is the vent from which civil liberties breathes. Therefore, public protests becomes an active and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The eternal beauty (perhaps plague) of democracy is the rights of the electorate to periodically choose theirs leaders and live with such choice. In 2016, the Americans made the choice of Donald John Trump as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Okanga AGILA: Love or hate Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, but what catches that attention of everyone around him is his sagacious endowments and infectious aura are his admirably constant leadership qualities. It has secured and led…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Philip AGBESE: Anyone taken aback by the turn of events around the #EndSARS protests and the Lekki Toll Gate conundrum in Lagos State must have been negligent of the events that led to the 2019 election that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO : A leader always exudes confidence when he is sure that his followers are comfortable and happy. So, it was heartwarming, indeed, a welcome relief, to see Delta Caucus in the House of Representatives, led by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing situations today in Nigeria, especially at the wake of the recent hashtag protests, is the menace of Hoodlums everywhere. Their coordinated activities and the near similar methods of operation points…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: As the eerie smoke seems to be settling down and the rivers of tears simmers, distrust, accusations and counter accusations seems to be the order of the day in Nigeria. Those who murdered sleep are…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In Nigeria today, times are tough, tempers are high, feathers are being ruffled, no thanks to the raging hashtag protest by the rampaging but hitherto ” lazy” Nigeria youth. It has become a test of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Very recently, there’s been so much noise, purportedly coming from the noise less one: our amiable Jolly good fellow, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, that is. The grapevine is replete with the news of the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: In the present equation and the many calculations towards the 2023 Presidential election, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seems to be a forgotten numerator or denominator. His name is hardly mentioned in serious political discourse and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Azua ALONU: And whilst we are still lamenting the doldrums of pain and poverty of our country, light intruded and instinctively we shouted up-nepa, my friend, a top attorney in the city of Asaba, whom I was…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: With a concocted feeling of joyful rhetoric in the midst of a collective discontent, the old drums are rolled out, once again, in celebration of Nigeria’s independence anniversary. It has become our favourite ethos, to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Ogbeide Osas KENNEDY: We lost Awo, yet we proclaimed he was the president that Nigeria never had.Achebe wrote in his book, There was a country, a book meant to tarnish the image of Pa Awo, but unfortunately, the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: This is surely not the best of times for the Governor of Ekiti State and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Yet, he seems to be riding in the storm, purportedly…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Not everybody saw it coming, neither do I, too. Not with the vociferous echoes of assurances coming from the APC national leadership and the misunderstood demagoguery of her local chieftains. It was a rude shock…
PRESS RELEASE OFISOKO ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (IANA)ON THE DEMANDS OF THE ISOKO NATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA The Isoko Association of North America (IANA) is the umbrella organisation of people of Isoko descent living in North America, committed to…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —By Ogbeide Osas KENNEDY: Chief Obafemi Awolowo the only Nigerian referred to as the late SAGE. Have you ever wondered the dictionary meaning of a sage ‘’wise, knowledgeable, learned; shrewd, skillful”. No other Nigerian till date has been…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: To the average political pundit and the avowed political watcher, Sen Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his politics needs no introduction. This owes partly to his near cult figure among his followers and his many political…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In my earlier treatise, ( far before the NBA and El-Rufai’s “search” for the true Nigerian), I had made attempts to dispassionately look at the possibility of one thinking Nigeria first before Tribe and its…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is widely known for one conspicuously obvious reason. And that is far from his accidental appointment as the Nation’s Aviation minister or his biological ties with the famous Fani Power of the…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: When the ecclesiastical come calling, every other duty or obligation of mine takes the back seat. This is the very reason yours sincerely couldn’t catch up with the trends of events in the national and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Against the backdrop of both the objective and subjective conditions that have helped to shape Nigeria’s Political History over time and her citizens’ perception of one another; it is also pertinent to seek to know…
-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…
-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) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: When Afenifere, the yoruba cultural and political organisation signed the fatal accord with former President Obasanjo in his bid for a second term, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu saw ahead of them all. Which is…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: Amidst the political fireworks, permutations and calculations, Pastor Ize- Iyamu came in handy as the much taunted bride. Paradoxically, his suitors were his nemesis in an earlier daring and keenly contestation that broke his…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The bond of brotherhood in Africa is very tight and unique that distant cousins can even compete for attention with your own children and siblings. That is why it is very common when an African…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Olise IFEAJIKA: He came in the midst of storms even though the electoral victory was phenomenal. The challenges on ground were so many; the heat generated could melt a warship. The State’s debt profile was so intimidating…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Boniface ONYEDI: Just like yesterday, the rave and captivating moments of the second half of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration began with a resounding symphonies on May 29, 2019 after securing the mandate of Deltans once again. It…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Oyolo KIGHO: QUOTATION: “If there are any who desire to be strangers in their own country, foreigners in their own Cities and always children in knowledge; let them Please themselves, I write not for such humours”. …
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- Dame Edith Okowa, wife of Delta State Governor and founder of 05 Initiative, has stressed the need for couples to allow God’s blessing to manifest in their marriages by continually renewing the bond of love for each other….
-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) –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) – 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…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It was the renown Canadian scholar, Naomi Klein who first drew the world’s attention to the concept of Disaster Capitalism in her book,THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, where she scholarly observed and narrated the underbelly of evil…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Abubakar TSAV: The world is replete with very many tinges of experiences. A man’s bad deeds lives long after his demise, but his good deeds are interred with his bones. President Muhammadu Buhari accepted the burden of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: There’s something I love about a particular childhood friend of mine. Despite the fact that he’s not as educated as the rest of us, he sometimes have this knack for stirring up a political debate…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Patrick OCHEI: The veteran journalist and Chairman, Board of Delta Broadcasting Service, DBS Asaba, Comrade Felix Ofou has been showered with encomiums by friends and staff of DBS to celebrate his birthday. The man, Ofou, born on…
* -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: His morbid desire has always been that of ascending the throne of his fore fathers. He desired it far more than the Presidency of Nigeria. He got it against the run of play…
