NUJ President Isiguzo Gets Confidence Vote, As Union Dares FG On State Of Nation

NUJ President Isiguzo Gets Confidence Vote, As Union Dares FG On State Of Nation

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Frowns @ Non Payment Of Journalists By Media Owners Wants Covid-19 Bail-Out Fund For Media Practitioners Urges FG To Rejig Security Apparatus Tasks FG To Tackle Electricity Supply Problems Condemns Soaring Unemployment Expresses Worry With…

The World Has Asked Wrong Questions Since WW II -Indian Prime Minister

The World Has Asked Wrong Questions Since WW II -Indian Prime Minister

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Mike SOGBOLO: INDIAN Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has said the World has been asking the wrong questions since the end of the Second World War in 1945. The Prime Minister, in his address on Tuesday, at the…

ELITE PRETENCE, 2023 ELECTIONS AND THE REST OF US

ELITE PRETENCE, 2023 ELECTIONS AND THE REST OF US

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE shenanigans of the vicious Nigerian elites has for time immemorial, brought our Nation into a serious disrepute, knowingly or unknowingly. They have gradually put fire to the inflammable tail of our socio- cultural pluralism…

PREDATORS, VICTIMS AND ECHOES OF DISINTEGRATION

PREDATORS, VICTIMS AND ECHOES OF DISINTEGRATION

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: ONE of the palpably visible source of anger that readily culminates into feelings of separatism and other existential cry in our Nation today is insecurity. This is more so, given the level of workable strategies…

NIGERIA: THE FURY OF SEPARATISTS’ AGITATIONS

NIGERIA: THE FURY OF SEPARATISTS’ AGITATIONS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE rise of discontent and dissatisfaction as a result of crass carelessness, clumsiness and cluelessness on the part of our leaders to finding a solution to our Security challenges is taking a deeper step towards…

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: A WAR OF NARRATIVES (1)

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: A WAR OF NARRATIVES (1)

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most disturbing part of the blighting security challenges we are facing in Nigeria today, is the many tributaries of scary narratives associated with it. While the war of narratives is raging, the…

NIGERIA: WAITING FOR GODOT? (1)

NIGERIA: WAITING FOR GODOT? (1)

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Apart from the inherent contradictions bedevilling the Nigerian state from inception, which of course, was brought about by ethno- religious constructs and the fact of History, the immediate cause of the present agitations and conflagration…

SHEIK GUMI: THE NEGATIVE WAY OF A NEGOTIATOR

SHEIK GUMI: THE NEGATIVE WAY OF A NEGOTIATOR

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is daily becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to understand the personality called Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, the Kaduna based, controversial Islamic Cleric and self appointed negotiator. On one front, he’s a religious teacher;…

INSECURITY: THE SHEIKH GUMI’S ALTERNATIVE

INSECURITY: THE SHEIKH GUMI’S ALTERNATIVE

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Austen AKHAGBEME: UNUSUAL times have a way of breeding and bringing up unusual solutions from unusual sources by unusual people. The above aptly describes the scenario that prompt up the strange visitation of the Kaduna based Islamic…

N400bn Too Much, I Can Help FG Procure Vaccines For N150bn –Peter Obi Boasts

N400bn Too Much, I Can Help FG Procure Vaccines For N150bn –Peter Obi Boasts

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID/ South-East Bureau: Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi says Nigeria doesn’t need more than N150 billion to procure COVID-19 vaccines. Commenting on the issue when he featured on Television programme on Tuesday, Mr. Obi…

SUNDAY IGBOHO AND THE TRIUMPH OF ERROR

SUNDAY IGBOHO AND THE TRIUMPH OF ERROR

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The man, Sunday Igboho before now, may not be popular outside his ancestral territory. But he’s such a daring rebel, loved by his people especially the youth of Ibarapa, in Oyo state of Nigeria. The…

DELTA GAS EXPLOSION: Many People Roasted, Others Suffer Burns In Agbor [See Videos/Photos]

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Edited by Albert OGRAKA: * Dein Of Agbor Donates 1Mn To Support Victims * Blood Donors Wanted, As Govt Hospital Lacks Facilities Blank NEWS Online can reveal that unverified number of casualties and properties may have been lost…

AKEREDOLU: THE FORESTS AND THEIR OWNERS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Like the mosquito that perches on the scrotum, the menace of the criminal elements within the Fulani herdsmen parading in our bushes and forest must be handled with utmost care, albeit decisively. The recent call…

UGANDA:THE BAD EXAMPLE OF YOWERI MUSEVENI

UGANDA:THE BAD EXAMPLE OF YOWERI MUSEVENI

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Austen AKHAGBEME: The recent electoral, nay, generational clash between President Museveni of Uganda and Bobi Wine, the youth prodigy and opposition leader in the just concluded presidential elections, is another pointer to the continued domination of the…

TURNING THE TIDES AGAINST INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

TURNING THE TIDES AGAINST INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Yabo Chris EPHRAIM: It is said that the reward for hard work is more work. With consistency, resilience, diligence and dedication to duty, the Nigerian Army has blocked the routes of terrorists supplies, closing in and restricting…

‘NINvirus’ And The Plight Of Mobile Phone Subscribers

‘NINvirus’ And The Plight Of Mobile Phone Subscribers

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Johnson EBIGIDE: The Corona Virus Pandemic that took the entire globe with a storm is yet another inexplicable mystery about human existence on earth. It came without warnings and with a plethora of projections as to its…

Bashorun Askia Hails Prof Akpotu’s Emergence As IDU President *Pledges DESOPADEC Partnership

Pledges DESOPADEC Partnership, Cooperation With Leadership Of Isoko Development Union –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: The Udu of Isoko Nation, Odio Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has congratulated the newly elected executive of Isoko Development Union (IDU) and hailed…

BISHOP MATHEW KUKAH: BETWEEN PATRIOTISM AND PROPAGANDA

BISHOP MATHEW KUKAH: BETWEEN PATRIOTISM AND PROPAGANDA

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The Bishop of the catholic Diocese Sokoto, Rev Mathew Hassan Kukah is not one that needs an introduction. His fiery mien, speaks of a unique Clergyman, with a heart for service and a concern for…

DAVE UMAHI AND THE IGBO PRESIDENCY (1)

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most disturbing issues on the national question that most Nigerian political elites shy away from discussing, is the Igbo Presidency. The need and the quest for the Igbo Presidency has become like…

INSECURITY AND THE CRY FROM KANKARA

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is simply unthinkable, at the degenerate level of our already comatose and completely confused internal security system in Nigeria, in recent times. That the anarchists can strike without remorse, at a time the chief…

Buhari Shocks Nigerians, Cancels Plans To Appear Before NASS **Nigerians Worry

Buhari Shocks Nigerians, Cancels Plans To Appear Before NASS **Nigerians Worry

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): As Nigerians prepare to watch their President live, appear before a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday to address the security crisis across the federation, President Muhammadu Buhari may have cancelled the plan to appear before…

NORTHERN ELITES AND THE BLOOD ON THEIR DOORSTEPS

NORTHERN ELITES AND THE BLOOD ON THEIR DOORSTEPS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing phenomenon in Nigeria today is the continued display of bravado and reckless impunity by the ravaging Boko Haram sect and their equally deadly Bandit variant, in their nefarious operations…

ABDUKADIR BALARABE MUSA: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

–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…

NIGERIA AFTER THE PROTEST: A CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRATISATION

NIGERIA AFTER THE PROTEST: A CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRATISATION

-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…

General Buratai’s Doctrine On Probity

General Buratai’s Doctrine On Probity

–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…

Sanwo-Olu’s Kangaroo Court On Lekki

-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…

Okowa Recounts #EndSARS Experience

Okowa Recounts #EndSARS Experience

-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…

HOODLUMISM IN NIGERIA: A CLOSER LOOK

–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…

OF PREDATORS AND VICTIMS

–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…

GOODLUCK JONATHAN: THE RUMOURED ADVENT OF THE SHOELESS HERO

GOODLUCK JONATHAN: THE RUMOURED ADVENT OF THE SHOELESS HERO

-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…

OSINBAJO, THE PRESIDENCY AND THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

OSINBAJO, THE PRESIDENCY AND THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

–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…

NIGERIA THINK! NIGERIA THINK!! NIGERIA THINK!!!

NIGERIA THINK! NIGERIA THINK!! NIGERIA THINK!!!

–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…