-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE National Executive Council of the Ambrose Alli University has promised to continue to engage the Edo State Government over the unwholesome interference in the management of the University and the enactment of the obnoxious…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: TAFA Balogun was a heavily built, haughty and hawkish cop who once traverse the length and breadth of our policing world. He was a former Inspector General of Police, who fell from office shamefully, with…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has moved towards finally relocating the people of Abadam local government, in the shores of the Lake Chad back to their homes. The governor in order to actualize this…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Federal Government has launched the Nigeria’s National Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Strategy document to tackle the challenges of deforestation and forest degradation. The journey towards the development of the REDD+…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: AMIDST the many compounded issues surrounding the ongoing trials of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Adeyemo, alias Igboho, nationalistic ethos and fabricated echoes are almost always sounding like a broken record in our collective…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): FORMER AAC presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore has been arrested by the Nigerian police at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sowore was arrested and whisked away while in court to show solidarity with the leader of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has called for prayers to God to enthrone a new era of justice, fairness and development in Nigeria. Bashorun Askia, who…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: HE missed death by the whiskers. And by sheer bravery, Flt Lt Abayomi Dairo, the hero fighter jet pilot, soldier on in the bushes of death, trying to save a nation so ravaged by terrorism…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the major challenges of the Nigerian state, especially in a supposedly majoritarian rule such as ours, is the gross insensitivity of our elites to the real issue plaguing the nation. The mismanagement of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: RT. HON. NDUDI ELUMELU, Nigeria’s House of Representatives Minority Leader, yesterday expressed worries over the many factors promoting voter apathy, political alienation and voter suppression, as well as extra – civic voting patterns in Nigeria….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA, Warri: AGAINST the backdrop of the furore generated by the debate on the mode of transmission of election results, a wider application of information technology will strengthen the democratic process by reducing the impact of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA Online Publishers Forum (DOPF), has called on the National Assembly to urgently jettison the obnoxious Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Acts amendment Bill that is presently before it. In a…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AFTER THE MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA AT THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, IKEJA, LAGOS STATE, ON MONDAY, 5TH JULY, 2021 NIGERIAJuly 5, 2021 THE Southern Governors Forum at the end of the meeting…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: FORMER Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima has thrown his weight behind the call for power shift to Southern Nigeria in 2023. He said it was only right for the North especially the All Progressives…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: KENYA High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. Wilfred Machage has denied the involvement of his home government in the extradition of leader of disbanded Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu’s family had earlier made…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: AMIDST the settling smoke of crossfire and the simmering waters of hate, vexation, rant, threat, abuse and wanton provocation in the Southeast between the government and IPOB agitators, the recent arrest and repatriation of Mazi…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKOROWE: Women and Men in their numbers from nine host communities of Isoko South, Isoko North and Ndokwa East local government area of Delta State, has staged a peaceful protest against Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC),…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: UNITED Kingdom has announced new funds to combat terror in Lake Chad Basin following the growth of terrorism on the African continent. Specifically in the new funding plan, United Kingdom will support efforts to combat…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Albert OGRAKA: FRONTLINE Communications expert, journalist and former Delta State Commissioner for Information, His Excellency, Mr. Oma Djebah, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand , was on June 25th 2021 received by the Director–General of the…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA State Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that separation of power, checks and balances were imperative for good governance in a presidential system of government. Okowa stated this in a keynote address he…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT is often said that when one is consistently nostalgic and desirous of the past, it is indicative of the fact that nothing is exciting about the present. Yet, this is where we found ourselves…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigerian Army has just been alerted to a submission by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi when he featured on ARISE TV Morning Show on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 alleging that the Nigerian Military is colluding…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: ONE of the most sensitive issues of discourse in Nigeria today is the security challenges in the South East. It is sensitive not because of the geographical location but the people, the enterprising and resilient…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: “So we are here with you and ready to go any length with you because what you have started in Asaba must be sustained to check degradation of the environment.” –Founder of Fight Against Desert…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE nation Nigeria, did not begin from June 12 1993; but her elongated dilemma and potpourri of woes can be partly traceable to that hysteric and historic date. That was the day ethno-religious politics was…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -Mike SOGBOLO: THE Federal Government has declared Monday, 14th June, 2021 as public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Joint Minority Caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has met over the ban on Twitter by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government and restated its condemnation of the embargo as draconian and unacceptable….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: ASABA/Nigeria: Following increasing security threats to lives, property and attack on state facilities in Delta State, the Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF), has called on the State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, to urgently activate the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLO: DRUGS suspected heading to Boko Haram/Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) enclaves in Borno State have been intercepted by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos. In the same…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLO: UNITED States has condemned the banning of Twitter in Nigeria, stating that it is a violation of Nigerians’ fundamental rights. The United States, in a statement by it’s Embassy in Nigeria on Saturday said: “Nigeria’s…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned, in its entirety, the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government describing it as a clear violation of freedom of speech and other democratic rights and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: FAMILIES of 61 district heads killed by Boko Haram since the outbreak of insurgency in the Northeast in 2009 have received humanitarian intervention from both Victims Support Fund (VSF) and Borno State Government. The VSF…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has decried ongoing call for the dismemberment of the country, even as it rolled out planned to fortify the unity of Nigeria. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has warned both local and state government levels not to depend on the federal government for fire fighting in their domains. Speaking at the commissioning of 20 newly procured…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: COMPTROLLER-GENERAL, (CG), of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has ordered the closure of Abia State Passport Office as a result of attack on the facility by suspected members of the Indigenous People of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NIGERIAN government has been asked to increase the tax on tobacco to meet the Article 14 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) which pegged it at 75 percent. Addressing a press conference to mark the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE House of Representatives Committee on Constitutional Review will hold its South South zonal public hearing in Asaba, Delta State. According to statement signed by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE escalating security situation in South Eastern Nigeria is getting to a fearsome crescendo. And from the way things are going, the mystery of the “unknown gunmen” need to be quickly unravelled and permanently addressed….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: GOVERNOR Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state, has suggested that to fulfill the stipulated Constitutional review of the revenue sharing formula, members of the RMAFC should be appointed by their respective states to remain detached from…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, led administration in the Country has failed on all fronts in the last six years. In a Statement signed by the Minority Leader…
