Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Babatunde Fashola Fashola born June 28, 1963 in Lagos State is a lawyer and a politician. He won the governorship election of Lagos State in 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the defunct All Progressives Congress (APC)….
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, has condemned the attack on Sen. Ike Ekweremadu at the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival held in Nuremberg, Germany, on Saturday. Okowa said in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Sunday…
Delta state Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has decried the frequent loss of lives from herdsmen attack on defenseless farmers and other Nigerians, insisting that the Federal Government must curb the menace through stringent measures. He therefore urged the Federal Government to…
The State Task Force on Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration set up by the Delta State Governor Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa is already being courted by foreign partners as the Grand Explorer Production GEP studio of Russia and Dublin seeks for its…
The outspoken Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives, headed by Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has called on Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of love, forgiveness, and sacrifice in order to move the nation forward. The caucus made the call in an Eid-el-Kabir…
-From Mike Sogbola: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara has called for prayers for those in the trenches fighting Boko Haram. This is just as his Yobe state counterpart, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni called for prayers for improved security, unity, peace and socio-economic development…
***Seeks Judicial Panel Of Inquiry The minority caucus of the House of Representatives, has condemned in strong terms, the killing of three police officers allegedly by military personnel in Taraba State and the purported escape of a kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala…
African Action Congress (AAC) has slammed its 2019 Presidential candidate and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore suspension for six months. The suspension took place during a Special Congress of the party held in Owerri, Imo state on Friday, August 09, 2019. A…
Former Military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has spoken on the need for credible and robust opposition in a constitutional democratic country like Nigeria, noting that the robust engagement of the ruling party by the minority in the National Assembly…
Amid the intrigues surrounding the Minority Leadership positions of the House of Representatives, it has emerged that a recent petition sent to the Peoples Democratic party, PDP leadership, discrediting the Committee set up by the PDP Board of Trustees to investigate the…
FROM SUNNY A. DAVID / AWKA The Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Lady Ndidi Mezue says the Ministry is desirous of riding Anambra State of Mentally Challenged People and Beggars. Lady Mezue disclosed this while parading Fake Beggars in her Office…
**Recommends standard walkway of 1.5m high to discourage anyone who might want to jump from the bridge into the river FROM SUNNY A. DAVID / ONITSHA The Federal Controller of Works in Anambra State, Mr. Adeyemo Ajani, on Saturday said the second…
FROM SUNNY A. DAVID / AWKA South-East Governors have denied allocating any portion of land in the region for the Ruga Fulani herdsmen settlement, even as they promised to tolerate herdsmen who carry out peaceful trade. In a statement signed by the…
FROM MICHAEL EKOKORUWE: Flood victims from Isoko South local government area at the weekend, received relief materials from the state government and were disbursed by SEMA AND NEMA Officials at the local government council secretariat Oleh. Anonymous beneficiary that witness the disbursement…
***Wants PDP NWC To Rescind Decision The newly elected Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Honourable Ndudi Elumelu has expressed shock over his alleged suspension from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC). The NWC under…
The Midwest Movement has brazenly rejected the renewed plot by the Federal Government to forcefully annex lands belonging to various ethnic nationalities in States across Nigeria, in a bid to settle Fulani herders in colonies to be known as RUGA Settlements. The…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday renamed the National Stadium Abuja to Moshood Abiola National Stadium as mark of honour to the late winner of the June 12 1993, Presidential Election. This was announced by the president while delivering his 2019 June 12…
List of Senate Presidents from 1999 till date 1• Evan Enwerem PDP 1999-1999 2• Chuba Okadigbo PDP 1999-2000 3• Anyim Pius Anyim PDP 2000-2003 4• Adolphus Wabara PDP 2003-2005 5• Ken Nnamani PDP 2005-2007 6• David Mark PDP 2007-2011 7• David Mark…
By Albert OGRAKA: It is no longer news that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has on Tuesday issued the certificate of return to former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, who was hitherto denied issuance of the certificate, until the Commission…
By Wole Soyinka: This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be more accurately described as…
…Okowa Seeks Executive, Legislative Co-operation For Stronger Delta …Bashorun Congratulates Owefere, Ogba, Onwo, Others By Albert OGRAKA: Following the formal inauguration of the 7th Delta State House of Assembly on Monday, June 10, Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and other notable…
“I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; I was father to the poor.” -Job 29: 15-16 -By Albert OGRAKA: Senator Dr Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa and Barr. Kingsley Burutu Otuaro have been successfully inaugurated for a second…
From SUNNY A. DAVID / ONITSHA About 10 persons were trapped while two people were rescued as three storey building under construction collapse in Onitsha. The building collapse took place at about 1.30 pm on Tuesday when workers were busy carrying out…
BIDS for the concessioining of the Asaba International Airporweas been opened. The bids were opened on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 with two consortia, FIDMA/MA and AIMS becoming the favourite bidderAt At the opening of the bids by the transaction adviser on the…
From Mike SOGBOLA (Maiduguri): Eighty (80) million people, representing over 40 percent of Nigeria’s population still defecate unhygienically, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lamented. Speaking during a workshop to intimate journalists on the danger of open defecation in the country,…
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oando Plc, one of Nigeria’s largest indigenous energy companies, Mr. Wale Tinubu on Tuesday said the humanitarian needs of crisis ridden North East is beyond the Nigerian government and any international agencies. Tinubu, who led other…
DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has urged the Federal Government to ensure that reports from studies, especially, those from the National Institutes of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru are made available to respective states of the country for implementation….
From Mike Sogbola- The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned stakeholders in the humanitarian aid support to the North East against duplicating interventions. The Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja told a meeting of the stakeholders on Wednesday in Maiduguri…
-BY MICHAEL EKOKORUWE: Isoko women in their numbers from Isoko communities clusters of OML 30 community Development Board (CDB), has stage a peaceful protest against Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited at Oleh / Olomoro flow station, Uzere flow station, Igbide flow station…
Abuja, Nigeria, 25 April, 2019 – At a meeting with the African Development Bank President in Abuja, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari commended the Bank for its successes and pledged Nigeria’s continuous support for the institution. “I want to recognize the support that…
MEMBERS of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) have said the topic, MANAGING POST-ELECTION CHALLENGES: Nigeria As Case Study, chosen for discussion at the first Maris Annual Lecture is “apt, relevant to strengthen peace and unity of Delta…
Journalists in Abuja gather on March 9 during Nigeria’s gubernatorial and state assembly elections to report on a press briefing at the Civil Society Situation Room, which collected information from thousands of election observers, including on attacks against the press. (Jonathan Rozen/CPJ) Abuja,…
-From Sunny A. DAVID: AWKA- The Chairman of the National Peace Commitee, General Abdulsalami Abubakar has urged Candidates in the State Assembly elections to remain committed to ensuring peaceful conduct of the March 9 elections. The Former Military Head of State made…
Nigerian authorities should immediately drop charges against journalist Obinna Don Norman, release him from prison, and reform the 2015 cybercrime act to ensure it is not used to prosecute journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Norman, owner and editor-in-chief of…
-By Albert OGRAKA: AS Deltans prepare to go to the polls this Saturday, March 09, 2019 for the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh JP, has…
“We totally condemn Mr. President’s moves and schemes and say that they are mean and uncomplimentary….. We warn that he should not do anything that would be seen as his interference in the process that will make Saturday’s election not to be…
Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential Election Results At A Glance as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Deltans have continued to count their losses through alleged denial of their legitimate civic duties by the Nigerian military during last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls. More than 400 electorates were allegedly disenfranchised at ward 13 unit 3 of Owhelogbo in…
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARION FRIDAY 22ND FEBRUARY 2019 Dear Nigerians, Finally, we have reached the eve of the rescheduled first round of this year’s general elections. 2. Tomorrow, the polls open. Tomorrow, we affirm that Nigeria stands as a democracy…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, may have perfected plans for President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, having accused him of colluding with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in…
