-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Mike SOGBOLA: The Maiduguri Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 2, 2020, secured the conviction of one Lawan Zanna Ajimi before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of Borno State High Court. He was…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA/North-East: Chief of State (CoS) to Borno State Governor (Prof. Babagana Zulum), Dr Babagana Wakil is dead. A statement by the spokesman to the Governor, Mallam Isa Gusau announced his death on Wednesday. Though the cause…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Gift A Child Initiative, a non governmental organization, NGO in Benin City, Edo State in collaboration with four other NGO’s, weekend called on the Federal and State Governments to step up appropriate laws to end rape and all…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: When Afenifere, the yoruba cultural and political organisation signed the fatal accord with former President Obasanjo in his bid for a second term, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu saw ahead of them all. Which is…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Our Correspondent: Borno State Government said about N132 million is expended monthly on members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), hunters and vigilantes from the local government fund to secure the state from Boko Haram. The state said…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: That Edo State has gradually become a Political ” War zone “, full of intrigues, subterfuge, Confusion and desperation is a known fact. No thanks to the desperate combatants from both divide, championed by their…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The bond of brotherhood in Africa is very tight and unique that distant cousins can even compete for attention with your own children and siblings. That is why it is very common when an African…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: United Nations has condemned Saturday’s attacked by terrorists group on parts of Borno State. A statement by the Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, said the action of the group is vehemently condemned, It…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on leaders at all levels as well as the Nigerian citizenry to cherish, respect and uphold the tenets of democracy, not only as a system of government but…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (Editor, Nort-East Bureau): United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commenced the distribution of radio sets to all internally displaced and other vulnerable children in Borno State. This, according to the UN agency, would ensure that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA ((North East Bureau Editor): Boko Haram visited fury on a Borno village for allegedly sharing information about them to the military. In the reign of terror, the insurgents killed over 70 people at a…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has applauded His Excellency, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa for initiating the process for the setting…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor Delta state commissioner for information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has appealed to the people of Delta state to follow the health protocols prescribed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the government as part of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, NORTH EAST BUREAU EDITOR: Towards rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has put measures in place to fast track the building of 10,000 housing units in…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) , Lt . Gen. Tukur Buratai has said that Nigerian troops withstood the rigour of Lent and Ramadan to inflict major defeats of Boko Haram, killing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described this year’s Eid el Fitr celebrations as sobering with great lessons learnt following stringent restrictions…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): NAF DEPLOYS SPECIAL FORCES ELEMENTS, ADDITIONAL PLATFORMS TO BOOST ONGOING OPERATIONS IN KATSINA In furtherance of President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive on the launch of a major crackdown against bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements in Katsina and other States…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -Edited By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, speaks on the Impact of COVID-19 on Oil Bearing Communities of the Niger Delta region and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Odio Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has felicitated with workers across the globe, as they mark Labour Day on…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: A renowned Delta State based Biometrician Geneticist and member of International Biometrician Geneticist Convention (MIBGC), Olisemeka Isiekwe PhD, has predicted that Covid-19 flu infections, would rise, hitting a 3,000 high in May. He also said…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is often very worrisome to think that Africa ,over the years, have always been the victim of foreign negative machinations and the extra externalities of factors (clothed in various euphemisms) that often helped…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Six years after the 112 Chibok schoolgirls remained in Boko Haram captivity, Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum sent a delegation to comfort their parents. Over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in Chibok six…
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJAMONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020 Fellow Nigerians In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has asked Nigerians to remain focused on God as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic, saying God is revealing his awesomeness. In an…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It was the renown Canadian scholar, Naomi Klein who first drew the world’s attention to the concept of Disaster Capitalism in her book,THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, where she scholarly observed and narrated the underbelly of evil…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, (FCNA, CrFA) has donated cash, food and sanitary items to the Isoko nation, in a bid…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to adopt an even disbursement and distribution of palliative funds and other essential materials to all states of the federation to cushion the effect of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has rejected the decision of the Federal Government to import Chinese doctors into the country over the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The minority Caucus, in a statement issued by its Leader…
**As Churches in Oleh, Environs Comply To Stay At Home Order Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The Archbishop of Bethesda Gospel Mission, Irri, Isoko South local government area, Archbishop Christian A. O. Apena, has urged Christians in Nigeria to pray…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: Residents of Oleh kingdom, Isoko South local government area, complied with the sit at home order by Delta State governor Sen. Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, to prevent the transmission of coronavirus pandemic ravaging some states in…
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 Fellow Nigerians, From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Direcrot/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has delivered a speech in Pidgin English on how to protect ourselves against the Corona…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Former Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), Suleiman Achimugu has died over night from Coronavirus. He is the first casualty in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease…
We will easily defeat the spread of this virus if everyone sees himself/herself as a potential carrier who does not want to spread the virus.
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: There’s something I love about a particular childhood friend of mine. Despite the fact that he’s not as educated as the rest of us, he sometimes have this knack for stirring up a political debate…
**Ikpokpko, Bashorun Askia, Chief Etaluku, High Chief Amadhe, Sir Eto, Brig. Gen. Omu (Rtd), Prince Ewenede, CSP. Mohammed, Archbishop Apena, Bishop Oyede, Others Attend Peace Parley… –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: There is time for everything, time of war, time…
* -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: His morbid desire has always been that of ascending the throne of his fore fathers. He desired it far more than the Presidency of Nigeria. He got it against the run of play…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Our Reorder: The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) to stop further collection of electricity bill under the estimated billing system. The suspension order signed by NERC’s Chairman, Mr. James…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Nigeria’s Apex court, the Supreme Court has nullified the election of Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon and his running mate Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. The Supreme Court’s Thursday judgement has however put aside the mega preparations for Governor-elect David…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Africa witnessed over 90 conflicts in 2018 alone, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has decried. The United Nations’ body while insisting that investing in resilience and food security…
