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…
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…
-By Albert OGRAKA: Blak NEWS Online recently reports that the ongoing overwhelming campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have driven the opposition parties into their shell of shame. It is true that some political parties exist only by INEC registration…
“Okowa needs second term to consolidate because he is a good product. You don’t throw good product when you don’t know what the new one will bring.” -OBJ After he successfully steered the Peoples Democratic Party to what has been acclaimed as…
A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE DELTA ONLINE PUBLISHERS FORUM (DOPF) AT END OF ITS CONVENTION HELD IN ASABA ON 7TH NOVEMBER 2019. The Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF), a certified Corporate organization held its annual convention with the theme: The Role of…
**HAILS ATIKU’S EMERGENCE AS PDP PRESIDENTIAL FLAG-BEARER **LAUDS GOV. OKOWA’S TRANSPARENCY -By Albert OGRAKA: A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta state, Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh JP, has expressed satisfaction in the way the Chairman, Planning Committee of the…
The Delta State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has dismissed as a “pipedream” the statement credited to a former Governor of the State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, that the APC “will wrest power from the PDP” in 2019. In a statement…
-By Ashibuogwu Olisakwue: With the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa resolving to be totally neutral and allow delegates of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to freely decide who they desired as their candidates for the approaching elections, the contest…
-By Albert OGRAKA: Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively reveal that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leading presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2019 elections and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s visit to Delta state on Tuesday, July 26, 2018 in continuation of…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Executive Director (Finance and Administration) at the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh JP, has commended the people of Delta state for supporting the second term bid…
**Residents Gear Up For Protest Over Outrageous Estimated Bills, Negligence -By Albert OGRAKA: The unholy acivities of the Benin Electricity Development Company (BEDC) in parts of Delta state have become a torn in the flesh of Deltans as a result of gross…
–By Norbert Chiazor: There is something about the university. It is not just a school. It is prestige. Home of honorary self worth .Exact definition of development for both human and his habitat. University . “TO RESTORE THE DIGNITY OF MAN”…
*By Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr CHICAGO, United States of America/ — Finally, the world met in Geneva on Friday 13th of April to gather the necessary financing to bring relief aid to desperate people of DRCongo. And this, subsequently to the…
“Interestingly, Bashorun Askia Ogieh became the first Non-Indigene of Olomoro Kingdom to be conferred with the Chieftaincy Title of Senior High Chief. A honour done him for his good works..” OLOMORO – The proverbial golden fish that has no hiding place was…
Dr Cairo Ojougboh, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, he speaks on diverse political issues and insecurity challenges…
“I don’t belong to any political party, I am now an elder statesman.” -Ibori “Delta Governorship polls is all about Anioma, not me” -Okowa Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: The recent statement credited to former governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: We are a non-governmental, political pressure group. And just as our name suggests, our focus is to monitor developments and evaluate legacies of our leaders especially here in Delta State, which is our primary constituency with a…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: An open letter to Buhari on how Okowa is running Delta State without a budget 4th October, 2017 Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Aso Villa, Abuja. AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. PRESIDENT,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Chef: The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household. The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment. Butler: A manservant having charge of wines and liquors. The chief male servant of a…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Prosper Edo: As the Governing Board and Management of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), marked 2 years in office on 28th August, 2017, the Executive Director, Finance & Administration (EDFA) Bashorun Askia Ogieh…
“You are a favorite of the press.” –PMB Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: If you are wondering how Governor Ifeanyi Okowa became the “favorite” of the fourth estate of the realm, ask Mr. President. Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of oil…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State government has hailed the balanced reportage of the programmes and policies on the five pronged SMART agenda of Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa in the past two years, saying that the present…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Doris Yeri Warri Aboh: FOLLOWING the Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa’s SMART agenda, encapsulating strategic wealth creation project and provision of jobs for all Deltans, meaningful peace building platforms aimed at political and social harmony…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Dr Ebi Franklin Waboke: The Niger Delta referred to and meant by the ijaw struggle is strictly and unchangeably the area occupied by the ijaws, the aboriginal tribe of the delta basin of River Niger partitioned into…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Sunday Ikuesan: Rhetorically we say the world is a global village. Everyone thinks he can take advantage of this and find home away from home in any part of the world, especially Africans in Africa. The advantage…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –BY JOHNSON EBIGIDE: The Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), like many other trade unions in the country, has suffered(and still suffering) the debilitating impact of leadership tussle and unbecoming conducts of some of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Support for the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun mounted on Tuesday as prominent leaders of the party lauded his leadership qualities, describing him as “a man of honour, integrity and dignity”….
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Greetings to my leaders, brothers and sisters of Ndokwa Nation. I must say this without fear of any big name, but only with the fear of God! the creator of Heaven and Earth and for those of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Julius Oweh– For the past three weeks or so, I have wrestled with the idea of writing this article. Theissue is not the absence of the muse`s inspirations or materials to write on but I was caught…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– “Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.” –James 4:3.. The duo of Rt. Hon. Monday Owhigho Igbuya and Olorogun Williams Makinde makes a good story,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Julius Oweh– The birth of Delta State was mired in political intrigues and controversy as the political and military elites disdained the wisdom that found expression in the centrality of Abuja as the capital of Nigeria and…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – By Reuben Abati “Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?” “Bush meat?” “The lion in the zoo that became bush meat in Jos” “What’s my own inside? I don’t know any zoo worker in…
