The National Headquarters of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has been thrown into mourning state following a fatal accident which claimed the life of Commandant General’s lead outrider, Assistant Superintendent of Corps 1 (Asc 1), Dickson Dike who was loved…
The burial ceremony of HRM Queen Eunice Ichiofu Ovrawah, the Ovieya of Oleh Kingdom, earlier scheduled to hold on the 23rd of April 2022, has been postponed by the family. Prince Anthony Ovrawah in a statement said, the postponement was due to…
The burial ceremony of late Mrs. Maria Etatsemi, mother of an Assistant Director of Information in the Delta State Ministry of Information and the Public Relations Officer in Ministry of Justice, Dr. Onoriode Etatsemi will hold on Saturday, April 9 , 2022….
The Federal Government of Nigeria has commended Saudi Authority over compensation of Nigerians who died in the 2015 during the annual pilgrimage to Holy sites in the Islamic country. Five Nigerians lost their lives and two sustained various degree of injuries, however…
Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) who was in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, is dead. According to reports, Egbunike died on Tuesday, after he slumped in his office, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The DIG,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the sudden death of the country’s High Commissioner to Nigeria. Ambassador Wilfred Machage, Machage was also accredited ambassador of his country to 12 other countries in Central and Western Africa. The…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Compiled by Albert Ograka: Executive Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa attended St Paul’s Anglican Church, Uzere in Isoko South Local Government Area of the state for Funeral Service for Late Prof. Odio Abednego Ekoko on…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Prof. was cooking something big. He asked for my contributions. I did and on October 28, 2021, he sent me this on WhatsApp: “This is brilliant. Again, big congratulations. God bless you greatly.” Days after, Prof. passed on….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The remains of Prof. Abednego Ekoko, former Delta State Commissioner for Education and one time Sole Administrator of the Delta State University, Abraka, will be laid to rest on Saturday, 12th February, 2022 at his…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed shock over the sudden passage of an illustrious Isoko son, Arc. Joseph Ajirioghene Ogeh. A message titled…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed profound shock of the death of Hon. Ikechukwu Akozor, Commissioner representing Ndokwa nation on the Board of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has visited the family of Pastor Bitrus Tumba whose son died during a reaction to an attempted demolition of a branch of EYN church in Maiduguri on August 5,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has lamented the death of eminent statesman and former Deputy President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Ibrahim Mantu. In a statement on Tuesday August 17, 2021 by…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: CHIEF (DR.) CJ OGBODU, father of the publisher and Managing Editor of BIGPENNGR, an online media, is dead. Chief Ogbodu died on Sunday, August 15, 2021, after a protracted illness at 84 years. His first…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE sociocultural organization of Isoko ethnic nationality, Isoko Development Union (I.D.U.) at the weekend, paid commiseration visit to the family of the clan Otota of Olomoro Kingdom, High Chief Stephen O. Akpotu, who passed on…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: MYSTERIOUS thunderstorm has allegedly killed three persons in Delta state. According to anonymous sources, a young man known as Victory Emuobor was allegedly knocked out while playing football with other boys at Evoja primary school…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: JUST as everything in life that has a beginning must come to an end, President Idriss Deby of Chad has met his Waterloo at the very frontline where he courageously went to visit his fighting…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has commiserated with the family of Rt. Revd. Jonathan Francis Edewor, just as both political and prominent leaders of Isoko nation eulogized his demise at Oleh,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE remains of the late pioneer Bishop of Oleh Dicocese, Anglican Communion , Rt. Rev Jonathan Edewor will be laid to rest on Saturday, April 17, 2021, after a funeral service at St.Paul Cathedral Oleh,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described former Acting Governor, Late Rt. Hon. Prince Sam Obi as a statesman and a bastion of…
-Blank NEWS Online –By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described Emeritus Bishop of Oleh Diocese of the Anglican Church, Late Right Reverend Jonathan Edewor, as the Gold standard…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Editor Members of the Board and Management of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), has paid a condolence visit to the State Governor, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, on the death of his father. The Managing…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Sylvester ILOBA: Death has been described as a notable end faced by the righteous people of God in fulfillment of God’s word in the bible which says that if we live, we live for the Lord, or…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has expressed deep sadness over the death ofthe Majority Leader in the Delta State House of Assembly, representing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Edited By Albert OGRAKA: DELTANS at home and in the Diaspora were on Thursday, January 28, 2021 woken up to sad news about the demise of two great personalities. First, was the breaking news of the passing of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: THE Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has commiserated with the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, over the passing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of the social cultural organization of Isoko Nation, Isoko Development Union (IDU), Dr. Chris Akpotu has described the sudden demise of Hon. Tim Owhefere as ‘shocking and horrendous emotional attack on Isoko…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Chike C. OGEAH: I met Egba sometimes in 1989 while I was working with the Law Firm of Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe & Belgore. He was with CentrePoint Merchant Bank…we had gone to their office for an All…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Notre Dame College Ozoro Old Boys Association (NODACOBA) has described the death of a former Electoral Commissioner in the defunct Bendel State and its pioneer President, Olorogun Atuyota Ejughemre, as a great loss to the country particularly…
–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 AZUA ALONU: When we told our English teacher, we were going to put on stage J.P Clark’s Play. Ozidi, he said: You will murder the play. Our dramatic society in our estimation very virile, we were…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Isoko Development Union, High Chief Iduh Amadhe at the weekend commiserated with the family of High Chief Patrick Wilson Omonose as he was laid to rest at Olomoro, Isoko South local…
–Blank NEWS Online ( NIGERIA) – Front Albert Ograka: Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has described the death of the Emir of Zazzau (Zaria), Alhaji Shehu Idris, as a personal loss…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Archbishop of Bethesda Gospel Mission, Irri, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, Archbishop Christian Aggrey O. Apena, has eulogized Hon. Mrs. Catherine Ilolo, former commissioner, local governmentl service commission, Delta State over…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, along with the Chairman of the Board, Evangelist Michael Diden, paid a condolence visit to the family of late Catherine Ilolo, a PDP…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, today led Executive Directors and Management, on a first-call condolence visit to the family of Hon. Joyce Overah,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA,, has expressed shock and sadness over the death of one of the board members of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The early hours annual, ritual rainfall of June 1 may have unknowingly announced his passage to greater glory. It heralded a sad news. Majekodunmi Fasheke, known by his stage name Majek Fashek or the rainmaker…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) From Mike SOGBOLA: The death has occurred of Honourable Justice Garba Musa Nabaruma, the Yobe State Chief Judge. Nabaruma, who has been sick for sometime, died on Monday night at the National Hospital, Abuja. Nabaruma who was sworn…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed sadness and pain over the death of Rear Admiral Good Omo-Owho Akpolo (rtd.). Rear Admiral Good Akpolo (rtd.) who was one time…
