Warring Communities Agree On 6-Point Resolution To Cease Hostilities –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Apex body of Isoko nation, Isoko Development Union (IDU), on Monday 21st of December 2020, brokered peace between the two warring communities of Igbide and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The euphoria that greeted the return of the abducted students of the Government science secondary school, Kankara, Katsina state, was palpable. It was a thorough relief from the usual double speak and empty yarns that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Bureau: Nigerian monarchs have asked the military why can’t you occupy Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad region still housing Boko Haram insurgents. Speaking on Monday, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of…
-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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The much awaited security outfit in Delta State, codenamed, “Operation Delta Hawk”, has been formally inaugurated to residents of the state to assist in tracking down criminals and their cohorts. Inaugurating the new security outfit…
>>The two suspects are members of a 15-man kidnap gang of Nigerian/Nigerien extraction –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North East Bureau: Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested two members of a trans-national kidnap syndicate involved in the kidnap of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sent truckloads of relief material for the families and people of Zabarmari, whose loved ones were slain on a rice field by Boko Haram. The President’s gesture came 48 hours after he had…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO North-Eest Bureau: The Nigerian Governors’ Forum Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said that the nation’s security challenges are beyond the Nigerian military, insisting that they are surely overwhelmed and cannot…
>>Isoko Sons In Govt To Meet Thursday, 26th Nov. 2020 –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)– By Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Isoko Development Union, High Chief Iduh Amadhe has called on the state government to urgently send a delegation to console the…
-Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Oleh kingdom women in their hundreds, on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 protested over the delay for justice on the gruesome killing of 12 indigenes hired for farm work at Ada farmland on 16th of October…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau): The Nigerian Air Force has said there was no helicopter crash in Bama. Speaking to our correspondent, the spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola said the military has done…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau): Suspected members of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram have shot down a Nigerien helicopter in Bama, Borno State. Security source who spoke anonymously to our correspondent, said five yet to be identified passengers…
–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…
-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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Seven members of the Civilian Joint Task Force and local hunters were killed on Sunday in a remote village of Chibok local government area in Northeast Nigeria. According to a resident of Chibok local government area, who…
–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…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: To condole the bereaved families of the nine Oleh indigenes killed at Oleh farmland, the Oleh Christian Association in collaboration with Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (P.F.N) and Christian Association of Nigeria (C.A.N), Isoko South chapter,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North East Bureau): ActionAid Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately act as a father by addressing the nation and stop the ongoing ENDSARS protesting from degenerating into full scale anarchy. The organisation,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Albert OGRAKA: The UDU of Isoko Nation and Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has expressed shock over the recent gruesome murder of nine sons and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The Nigerian Army is set to commence its annual military exercise ragged Crocodile Smile, nationwide. According to a press release by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, the exercise…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Odiologbo of Oleh kingdom and chairman Isoko Nation traditional ruler’s council, HRM Anthony William O. Ovrawah, Omogha 1, has called on the people of Oleh kingdom to remain calm and embrace peace as he…
–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…
***As CAS Commissions Residential Accommodation For Airforce Personnel In Calabar -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to deploy additional Super Puma Helicopter to Calabar to secure the southern axis of the Nigerian airspace and complement…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): Food items have been shared to 38,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) households in Borno State for the month of October. This is part of the monthly distribution directed by the Director General…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) after a mass protest by Nigeria. The Commission…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau): The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) In order to tackle the menace of Boko Haram insurgents has approached Cameroonian military structures for support. A press release signed on Saturday by the Chief of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Chairman of Isoko South local government area, Sir Itiako Ikpokpo, Hon. Juan Governor, chairman Ndokwa East, Hon Perez Omoun, chairman Patani local local government area, represented by the vice chairman, Hon. Perekeme D.J. Obi…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North East Bureau): The convoy of Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum was again attacked on Sunday morning around Baga. The latest attack, which recorded no death, happened when the convoy was on their way…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Editor): Police on Saturday confirmed the attack on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum. In the convoy the governor was however absent as he chose to travel by air to Baga…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Combatant men of the Nigerian Police are said to have rescued some of victims who were allegedly kidnapped by hoodlums who attacked Tungan Maje village, a community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Niger State. A joint team…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The village head of Mashio in Fune local government area of Yobe State, Isa Mashio has been released by his abduction, the Police said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the freed village head has…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA, North-East Bureau Chief:: A communique is expected later in the day as Governors of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, making the North East Region, are meeting in Maiduguri the Borno State…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Eighty-five (85) persons have been arrested for drug related offences by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Borno State. The NDLEA also got two persons convicted for drug offences, the Borno State’s Commandant…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Special Adviser to Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor JP, has urged community leaders, women and youths to take proactive actions in order…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Ozoro youths, alleged to be Yahoo Boys, went on rampage in Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, protesting over harassment, brutality and extortion by the police in the area. The youths…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the war on insurgency should have been over had it not been for sabotage. The war on Boko Haram has been since 2009…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: For those who were familiar with Nigeria journalism in the late eighties and early nineties, ” Afghanistanism ” was a term used to describe the act of writing glowingly about the troubles abroad, while ignoring…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives is alarmed by Thursday attack on the convoy of the Governor of Borno State, Baba Gana Zulum by suspected bandits, insisting that the sad incident has again reinforced the urgent…
*As Ministers Of Women Affairs, Information, NASS Members Pay Condolence visit To CAS -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The remains of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF’s) first female combat helicopter pilot, who…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA/North East Editor The United Nations Air Services have been suspended in the troubled North East. This followed an attack on one of it’s helicopters in Damasak, Borno State by terrorist group. The helicopter had hoped…
