Ibabu/Iselegu Feud: Ugiliamai Shares Boundary With Iselegu, Not Ibabu -Says Ugiliamai Community

Ibabu/Iselegu Feud: Ugiliamai Shares Boundary With Iselegu, Not Ibabu -Says Ugiliamai Community

As the Delta state government and security agencies intensify efforts to curtail the raging crisis in Ndokwa West council area of the state, Ugiliamai Community has brazed up in the heat of the crisis to clarify some grey issues. A statement made…

2015: "I Did Not Say I will Kill Anybody" -Akpabio Cries Out

2015: "I Did Not Say I will Kill Anybody" -Akpabio Cries Out

The Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Chief Godswill has flayed media reports in the press and online insinuating that he said he will kill Governorship aspirants. Reacting to the reports which he described as another smear campaign by traducers, through his Chief…

2015 Governorship: No Selection Panel, No Crisis In Abia PDP

2015 Governorship: No Selection Panel, No Crisis In Abia PDP

In this season of politicking as the nation gears up for the 2015 general elections politicians would characteristically employ every imaginable method to achieve their goals. There would be kite flying, innuendoes, intrigues, blackmails, false allegations and even blatant lies. To this…

Libel: Okowa Sues Detractor For N20Bn *Writes Jonathan On Political Plot Against Him

Libel: Okowa Sues Detractor For N20Bn *Writes Jonathan On Political Plot Against Him

In a bid to curtail the excesses of political detractors who are head-bent on destroying the reputation of Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, ahead of the 2015 Delta governorship elections, a N20 Billion libel suit (A/151/2014) has been filed against one Mr. John…

Strike: JOHESU Threatens To Sue Medical Doctors

Strike: JOHESU Threatens To Sue Medical Doctors

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), Federal Medical Center (FMC), Asaba chapter has threatened to drag the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria and Nigeria Medical Association (MDCAN/NMA), to court over the irrational decision to embark on the on-going strike action…

Rejoinder: Abia Govt Denies Involvement in Ihejirika’s Alleged Governorship Ambition

Rejoinder: Abia Govt Denies Involvement in Ihejirika’s Alleged Governorship Ambition

The Abia State government has described the report written by one Willy Eya of The Sun newspaper linking the Abia First Family to the purported governorship ambition of the former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ihejirika (retd.), as deceitful and malicious. A…

Right Of Reply: Deconstructing Uche Igwe’s Lies Against Abia State Government -By Charles Ajunwa

Right Of Reply: Deconstructing Uche Igwe’s Lies Against Abia State Government -By Charles Ajunwa

A man who calls himself Uche Igwe had set out on a “regrettably long” journey from Port Harcourt to Aba and found himself trapped in traffic jam. According to him, the journey which would have lasted for less than an hour took…

"No Amnesty For Boko Haram" -Says Presidency *As Jonathan Dissociates Self From Amnesty Deal

"No Amnesty For Boko Haram" -Says Presidency *As Jonathan Dissociates Self From Amnesty Deal

The respite and indignation that greeted the recent report of President Goodluck Jonathan’s grant of amnesty to the unrepentant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has taken a new dimension as the President and Commander In Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces denies ever…

Memo Of Genocide: Nigerian Govs Lambast Nyako @ Enlarged National Security Meeting

Memo Of Genocide: Nigerian Govs Lambast Nyako @ Enlarged National Security Meeting

The controversial and widely condemned “memo of genocide” written by Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has been derided by Nigerian governors who also cautioned the “dissident” Nyako to mind his utterances on national security issue. The governors took a swipe at Nyako…

Right Of Reply: Maku Attacks Nyako On ‘Irresponsible’ Memo Of Genocide

Right Of Reply: Maku Attacks Nyako On ‘Irresponsible’ Memo Of Genocide

Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Labaran Maku,, has described Adamawa state governor, Murtala Nyako’s comment and accusation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of carrying out genocide in the north eastern Nigeria as “irresponsible and unfortunate”. The governor had in a memo sent to…

Re-Lawyer Charges Uduaghan To Stop Inflamatory Comments ***”They Are Bare-faced Lies, Mischief, Threat Of People’s Rights” -Ogeah

Re-Lawyer Charges Uduaghan To Stop Inflamatory Comments ***”They Are Bare-faced Lies, Mischief, Threat Of People’s Rights” -Ogeah

Delta state Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah Esq, has described as a threat of people’s freedom to free speech and association, the recent contemptuous statements attributed to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, where the state governor was alleged to have claimed that the “People’s…

Right Of Reply: Eghagha Denies Bursary Scam Claim In Unilag *Says Allegation Were Spurious, Libellous

Right Of Reply: Eghagha Denies Bursary Scam Claim In Unilag *Says Allegation Were Spurious, Libellous

The Delta state Ministry of Higher Education has reacted to alleged statements published by an online portal, following the recent demonstration by some students of University of Lagos, which accused the state Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Hope Eghagha of fraudulent actions…

Ebikeme Clark: Delta Govt Denies Paying N500m Ransom To Kidnappers  *Says MEND’s Allegation Is Blackmail, Foolish

Ebikeme Clark: Delta Govt Denies Paying N500m Ransom To Kidnappers *Says MEND’s Allegation Is Blackmail, Foolish

The Delta state government has denied in strong terms the billowing allegation issued by a militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), that Ebikeme, son of Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark had colluded with the Delta State…

Niger Delta Group Knocks APC For Abusing President Jonathan

Niger Delta Group Knocks APC For Abusing President Jonathan

THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has knocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) for raining insults on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the party was behaving like a rejected child. In a press statement signed by its President, Nelly Emma;…

Police Rejoinder: Murder Of Barr. Dafiogho Egwuono, Samuel Ekwaghanju @ Ozoro In Delta

Police Rejoinder: Murder Of Barr. Dafiogho Egwuono, Samuel Ekwaghanju @ Ozoro In Delta

THE GRUESOME MURDER OF BARRISTERS DAFIOGHO EGWUONO AND SAMUEL EKWAGHANJU IN A LONELY OIL COMPANY SERVICE ROAD AT OZORO Delta State Police Command deeply regrets the gruesome murder of Barristers Dafiogho Egwuono and Samuel Ekwaghanju on Thursday 27th March, 2014, at about…

Suspension Of Rivers’ Chief Judge: NJC’s ‘Macabre Dance’ & ‘Jungle Justice’ -By APC

Suspension Of Rivers’ Chief Judge: NJC’s ‘Macabre Dance’ & ‘Jungle Justice’ -By APC

Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has enjoined the National Judicial Council (NJC) to reverse its decision in the suspension of Justice Agumagu barely days after he was sworn-in as Chief Judge of Rivers State by the State Government….

N9bn Excess Crude Fund: Delta Govt Denies Dino Melaye’s Claim Of Embezzlement

N9bn Excess Crude Fund: Delta Govt Denies Dino Melaye’s Claim Of Embezzlement

Delta State Government has debunked allegations by Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption campaigner and former member of the House of Representatives, Otunba Dino Melaye, that it mismanaged N9 Billion Excess Crude funds released to the state in December 2012. Reacting to a purported press…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Nigerian Anti-Gay Law

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Nigerian Anti-Gay Law

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer from Nigeria. She has been called “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”. Chimamanda Adichie recently spoke out…

Right Of Reply> Death of John Ndubuka: My Story…Chinedum Orji

Right Of Reply> Death of John Ndubuka: My Story…Chinedum Orji

Following last Saturday’s 15th February 2014 tragic death of my beloved cousin, Mr. John Ndubuka, a section of the online media has been appropriated by mischief makers to prosecute a mindless hatchet job of casting aspersions on my humble self; with innuendos,…

Delta PDP Zoning: Isoko Group Lambasts Nwaoboshi On Anti-Politics

Delta PDP Zoning: Isoko Group Lambasts Nwaoboshi On Anti-Politics

Chairman of Isoko Grassroots Movement (IGM) Hon Sunday Elueni has asked Barrister Peter Nwaoboshi, the Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to address issues raised by the Secretary to the State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay. He also challenged other…

Delta LG Transition C’ttee Chairmen Fault Sahara Reporters On Alleged Diversion Of  SURE-P Funds

Delta LG Transition C’ttee Chairmen Fault Sahara Reporters On Alleged Diversion Of SURE-P Funds

The 25 Transition Committee Chairmen of the Delta State Local Government Councils, has today (Thursday, January 16, 2014), described as false, a media report published by Sahara reporters and tagged: “Council Chairmen accuse Uduaghan of treading with SURE-P funds through unknown accounts.”…

Rivers Tragic Rally: APC Seeks CP Mbu’s Redeployment *Condemns shooting of Abe, killing of 5 children

Rivers Tragic Rally: APC Seeks CP Mbu’s Redeployment *Condemns shooting of Abe, killing of 5 children

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter says it has noted the barefaced lies spewed out by the State Police Commissioner, CP Joseph Mbu, in his desperation to minimize the public outrage that has rightly trailed the death of five innocent…

Delta Oil Community Killing: Navy Denies Invasion *Accuses Media Of Sensationalism

Delta Oil Community Killing: Navy Denies Invasion *Accuses Media Of Sensationalism

The Nigerian Navy has denied and disproved claims of its alleged invasion of the oil-rich Ugborodo community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. Although it recognised that there was fracas in the area between the Arotun and Madagho communities…

Right Of Reply: “Enemies Of Progress Against $16 Billion Gas City Project In Delta” -SSG

Right Of Reply: “Enemies Of Progress Against $16 Billion Gas City Project In Delta” -SSG

Delta state government has reiterated its awareness that enemies of progress are out to thwart the realisation of the $16 Billion Gas City Project in Ogidigben, Delta state. An urgent press statement made available to Blank NEWS Online by the Secretary to…