-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…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Ruth UGBECHIE: Lest we forget, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State qualified as a medical doctor at the age of 22. That was in 1981 when he earned his MBBS from the University of Ibadan. Ahead…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: The Fury, zest and the emotion with which Justice Amina Augie read out the decision of the Supreme Court on the application of the APC to the apex court to review itself on the…
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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The riots and mayhem that ensued after the Supreme Court verdict that disqualified the join ticketed mandate of the governor- elect of Bayelsa state, David Lyon threw to the fore the staccato of emotion, avowed…
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) – 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) –By Omoshola DEJI: Security is the principal obligation of government, because it is the most important need of man. Life is universally considered sacred, but only the lives of the ruling oligarchy is sacred in Nigeria. Being alive…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By:Austen Akhagbeme: Nigerians are interesting People: and this makes us so special. Sometimes,(depending on which side of the buttered bread one is standing on) our logic of argument can be so illogical one wonders whether the rules…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen Akhagbeme: Like a bolt out of the blues, the news coming in from the office of the minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, was swift, thunderous and appears unbelievable:but…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By: Austen Akhagbeme: There’s no denying the fact that a larger part of Nigeria’s many knotty problems is the elites’ hegemonic tussle and fragmentation. The fight for relevance and inclusion is usually fierce and thrives on subterfuge and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By : Austen AKHAGBEME: Unlike a child learning how to walk, Gov Makinde’s steps were firm, steady and promising from the very beginning. His audacious disposition drew the irk of those who thought he was not real, especially…
– Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGEME: Citizen Omoyele Sowore was never my delight; not with the too many controversies and litigations sorrounding him, especially in his most fiery days, during the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. To me, he was the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The crow, reveling and gloating by the ruling party over the recently announced loss of the Kogi-west senatorial supplementary election by the enigmatic Senator Dino Melaye , showed how petty, self-serving and vindictive Nigeria politics can…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Senator Sabi Abdullahi of the APC and the Present Deputy Chief whip of the upper chambers, may not be a household name. But his controversial bill, THE PROHIBITION OF HATE SPEECH BILL, has become a…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the recent wonders of the world is the recent ignoble return of the controversial and underperforming governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Adoza Bello. To the ruling party, it’s a fait accompli ; but…
By Nduka Orjinmo BBC News, Lagos Nigeria’s first family, the Buharis, are embroiled in a still-developing story resembling one of Nollywood’s many Sunday-evening soap operas. It is a story about the president purportedly taking a second wife – a female cabinet member…
The tragedy of our time is the continuous repetition of history by the so called book makers. Ordinarily one won’t even veer into sordid matters as less time and attention should be thrown at inconsequential issues but history and posterity will not…
By Charles Aniagwu “Greatness lies not in ruling a people, it lies in being the cause of happiness in their lives.” ― Abhijit Naskar As Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa celebrates his Diamond jubilee, today (July 8, 2019), all attention is…
By Wole Soyinka: This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be more accurately described as…
From Mike Ebhosa SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION ACT (SSMPA) OF JANUARY 2014: On January 7, 2014, Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan, signed the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill (SSMPA) into law. The notional purpose of the SSMPA is to prohibit marriage between persons…
Delta State Commissioner for Information, Hon Patrick Ukah, has stressed the need for information to be made available to the right audience in the right format and at the right time, as an integral part of good governance in constitutional democracy.Ukah, who…
By Gifty Omashola Rarely has any political office holder been so bedeviled by his own ‘constituency as Mr. Patrick Ukah has been. From outright sabotage by some of his staff, to calls for his removal by his ‘constituents’ on grounds of ineptitude…
We wish to, as a matter of urgency draw the attention of the general public to a ploy by some disgruntled political elements and persons deliberately to smear the name of the Delta North Senator Elect and Anioma Star Prince Ned Nwoko,…
On February 23, 2019, Nigerians across various parts of the country trooped out in their numbers, to their different polling units, and elected a President and Lawmakers that will represent them in the 9th National Assembly. These lawmakers include 109 senators from…
Journalists in Abuja gather on March 9 during Nigeria’s gubernatorial and state assembly elections to report on a press briefing at the Civil Society Situation Room, which collected information from thousands of election observers, including on attacks against the press. (Jonathan Rozen/CPJ) Abuja,…
Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential Election Results At A Glance as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
-By Chris Okobah PhD Nigeria’s democracy is in crisis. The 16th of February 2019 botched elections was supposed to move the country to a higher rung on the democratisation ladder, create a more conducive environment to resolve its many internal conflicts and…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, may have perfected plans for President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, having accused him of colluding with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in…
-By Omoshola Deji Nigerian is reminiscent of someone destined to be king, but becomes a slave in the king’s palace. The nation’s situation chronicles the life of Wazobia: a boy destined to be a lawyer, but grows up to become a roadside…
