–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has confirmed the attack on a custodial centre in Oyo State. A statement on Saturday by the Media Adviser to the Minister. Sola Fasure said: “At about 10.00 pm yesterday (Friday), October…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in collaboration with the European Union Delegation and the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) have launched the User’s Guide to counter terrorism in Nigeria. A statement on Thursday…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: THE United States (US) has told Nigeria of her readiness to lend support towards the country’s bid to contain insecurity. The assurance was given during a meeting between the visiting US Deputy Security Adviser, Jonathan…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: DELTA Government on Monday, expressed dismay over the recent travel advisory reportedly issued by the United Kingdom to its citizens in Nigeria. The Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who expressed the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: NIGERIAN lawyers have been urged to appliy international best practices to distinguish themselves as legal practitioners of repute. Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A pastoralist association, Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) has called on governments of southern states of the country to reconsider their decision to ban open grazing in their domain, insisting that they…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Sidie Mohammed Tunis has lamented that the sub region is attracting bad image with recent military putsches, tenure elongations and undemocratic…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: SOME members of the Governing Board of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) are warning that the activities of the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume are beginning to impede the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NO fewer than 110 drug dealers were arrested in a raid on hideouts in nine states across the country in the past one week. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the National Drug…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –:From Editor’s DESK: The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr.FolashadeYemi-Esan, in a move to deepen on-going reforms and the streamlining of operations at the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), has instructed the Governing Board and Management to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: CHAIRMAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) has said that legalization of cannabis sativa as propounded by few Nigerians cannot be allowed under the prevailing security situation…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: ActionAid has called on governments across the globe to step up their efforts to stamp out tax avoidance, advising Nigerian government particularly to put in place measures that will ensure that proceed of corruption are…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: AMIDST mounting security and existential challenges confronting the county as she marks the 61st Anniversary of her Independence, Nigerians have been enjoined to keep hope alive as the people will prevail over the current travails….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: LAGOS State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, signed the bill to prohibit open cattle grazing and trespass of cattle on land in the state into laws. “By the powers vested in me as the Governor…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK MINORITY Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has said that returning the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to power in 2023, remains the best hope for Nigerians to enjoy a life of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday said the world should be worried about happenings in the sub Saharan region, especially the Lake Chad axis. Addressing a press conference in Abuja after…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK DELTA Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has been called upon to make himself available for the president of Nigeria come 2023. The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu made the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: North East Development Commission (NEDC) on Friday decried the destruction by Boko Haram on the North East region, lamenting that 500,000 structures from the existing 4 million in the region were destroyed. Speaking at the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State is to export wheat and gum arabic to Sudan. This follows discussion between Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum and a team of experts at theheadquarters of Arab Bank for Economic Development in…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE spate of killings and the orgy of evil pervading the land, especially at the twilight of this regime, has become a painful riddle waiting to be unravelled. Families have been wantonly decimated by daredevil…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has cautioned against the reported approval by President Muhammadu Buhari for the payment of the $418 million suspicious debt despite wide spread national objection by stakeholders, including…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has described the sack of two Ministers by President Muhamadu Buhari as a diversionary gimmick geared towards covering failure. In a Statement on Thursday September 2, 2021…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: AS part of Nigeria’s military collaboration with the United States, 24 officers of the Nigerian Navy are currently participating in a four-week intensive U.S. Coast Guard Boarding Officer training programme which kicked off on Monday,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: ActionAid Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation has condemned the alleged planned increase of electricity tariff, saying this action may further erode the purchasing power of Nigerians and add to impoverise them. The organisation in a signed…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has flayed the Federal Government over an unwarranted harassment of Channels Television and its staff; a development that smacks of another toxic push against press freedom and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Delta State Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated the Governor of Delta state, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and the entire people of Delta State on the 30th anniversary of the creation of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: OUR attention has been drawn to an online video making rounds in the social media by one Young Elder and produced by Anthony Jay. In the video, the so called Young Elder attempted to draw…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: JUST like the three witches in William Shakespeare’s classic play, Macbeth, Nigeria politicians from all geopolitical zones, came in thunder, lightning and in the rain; invited and uninvited, fair or foul, just to meet with…
-Blank News Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has commenced consultations on how to react to the massive surrender of Boko Haram with a visit on Mondayto the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor in Abuja….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: ANOTHER abducted Chibok schoolgirl has resurfaced with two children birthed in captivity seven years after Boko Haram kidnapped her alongside over 200 others. Hassana was one of over 200 schoolgirls abducted at a Government Secondary…
Germany To Build Dog School In Nigeria -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE German Government is to build a Dog School in Nigeria for the training of sniffer dog to enhance the ongoing war on narcotics The project is expected…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigeria Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commended the decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja which ruled in favour of six women harassed and abused during raids in the capital city by Environmental Protection…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigerian Government on Tuesday summoned its Ambassador to Indonesia, Muhammed Buba Ahmed for debriefing over the circumstances surrounding the manhandling and arrest of the one of the nation’s diplomat in Jakarta. A Nigerian diplomat…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a coordinated raids of seven states have seized a total of 8,268.2 kilogrammes of assorted illicit drugs. The states raided in a weeklong exercise include…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: RUTH PAGU, one of the girls abducted by Boko Haram at a secondary school in Chibok seven years ago on Saturday reunited with her parents with a gift of two grandchildren. Ruth was one of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE Bishop of the Anglican Communion, Oleh Diocese, Rt. Revd. John U. Aruakpor has advocated for the restructuring of Nigeria to reflect true federalism where the states will be in control of their resources…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: ONE person was killed and five others injured in a fracas between security attached to operatives of Borno Geographical Information System and some worshippers at a branch of EYN Church in Maiduguri, the Governor of…
-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…
