Trending: Yoruba, Ibo Appointed As Special Advisers By Borno Governor

Trending: Yoruba, Ibo Appointed As Special Advisers By Borno Governor

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday swore-in an Ibo and Yoruba men as special advisers. The two Chief Kesta Ogualili from Anambra state (Southeast Nigeria) and Alhaji Yusuf Alao from…

“Madmen” On Rampage: Boko Haram Slaughters Two, Carts Away Frozen Fish At Maiduguri Military Checkpoint

“Madmen” On Rampage: Boko Haram Slaughters Two, Carts Away Frozen Fish At Maiduguri Military Checkpoint

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Ruthless and notorious terrorists operating in Nigeria’s North-East, code-named “Boko Haram” have slaughtered two persons sleeping overnight at a military checkpoint in Maiduguri. The insurgents, according to source, also carted away some…

Isoko Renowned Author Idodo-Umeh Dies At 76, Okowa, Others Mourn

Isoko Renowned Author Idodo-Umeh Dies At 76, Okowa, Others Mourn

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has expressed sadness on the passing of renowned author, publisher and politician, Dr. George Idodo-Umeh. Idodo-Umeh died at a hospital in Benin on Monday after a brief illness. He was aged 76….

Service Delivery: Gov. Okowa Desirous To Change Narrative In DESOPADEC -Bashorun Askia

*Aa Commission Holds Management Retreat For Board Members, HODs @ Lagos Business School -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa is desirous to change the narrative in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC) and…

Pastor Afobunor Commends Gov. Okowa **Counsels Christians On Intimacy With God

Pastor Afobunor Commends Gov. Okowa **Counsels Christians On Intimacy With God

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Ejime UDUEME: Offering sincere gratitude to God and carrying out duties with the fear of God comes with great reward. The Senior Pastor of the Four Square Gospel Church, Sanctuary of God’s Mercy, Zonal Headquarters Asaba, Pastor…

Growth In Remittances To Africa: Ghana Ranks 2nd Highest With 43% In 2019

Growth In Remittances To Africa: Ghana Ranks 2nd Highest With 43% In 2019

–-Blank NEWS Online (ACCRA, Ghana)-: Leading mobile payments company WorldRemit saw a 43% growth in remittances to Africa from higher income nations in 2019. The top five countries receiving remittances from the diaspora in 2019 included, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, with Nigeria…

Military Seals Off Maiduguri Office Of Int’l NGO, ADRA

Military Seals Off Maiduguri Office Of Int’l NGO, ADRA

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): The military has again sealed off another office of an international non governmental organisation in the Northeast. It was learnt that soldiers invaded the Borno office of Adventist Development and Relief Agency…

Random Thoughts As Okowa Inaugurates DESOPADEC Projects

Random Thoughts As Okowa Inaugurates DESOPADEC Projects

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO: “Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh is a grassroots politician, a true Isoko son who is using his position as the Managing Director of DESOPADEC to complement what Governor Okowa is doing in the area of providing…

“I Will Not Fail Our Good People Of Delta State” –Bashorun Askia Pledges At Thanksgiving

“I Will Not Fail Our Good People Of Delta State” –Bashorun Askia Pledges At Thanksgiving

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has said he decided to appreciate God for using Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to bring him to limelight…

NDLEA Arrests 249 Suspects In Anambra, Seizes Kilograms Of Drugs

NDLEA Arrests 249 Suspects In Anambra, Seizes Kilograms Of Drugs

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) From SUNNY A. DAVID: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two hundred and forty-nine persons suspected for various drug crimes in the year 2019 as thirty seven of them were convicted. In a release signed by…

Isoko Women In Diaspora, Oduduwa Group Salute Askia On Appointment  **As BAF Gives Gospel Artist N3M For Musical Equipment

Isoko Women In Diaspora, Oduduwa Group Salute Askia On Appointment **As BAF Gives Gospel Artist N3M For Musical Equipment

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of the Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has been commended for his human capital development and various empowerment programmes across the Isoko nation and beyond. The…

WARNING:  NIGERIAN AIR FORCE NOT RECRUITING –DARAMOLA

WARNING: NIGERIAN AIR FORCE NOT RECRUITING –DARAMOLA

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): PRESS RELEASE WARNING AGAINST ACTIVITIES OF RECRUITMENT FRAUDSTERS: NIGERIAN AIR FORCE IS NOT CURRENTLY RECRUITING   The attention of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has been drawn to the activities of some unscrupulous individuals who are fraudulently extorting…

Lawmakers In Imo Assembly Defect To APC

Lawmakers In Imo Assembly Defect To APC

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Nine lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, defected to the All Progressives Congress from Peoples Democratic Party, All Progressives Grand Alliance and Action Alliance. The lawmakers who defected are Authur Egwim (Ideato North) from…

Soldiers, MOPOL Reconnect Maiduguri Back To Nigeria

Soldiers, MOPOL Reconnect Maiduguri Back To Nigeria

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Soldiers and mobile policemen may have reconnected Maiduguri back to the rest of the nation as they have cleared the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway off remnants of Boko Haram that have terrorized motorists in…

Buhari Administration Has Lived Below Expectations –NECSO

Buhari Administration Has Lived Below Expectations –NECSO

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: The Borno state chapter of Network of Civil Society Organisations (NECSO) on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari has lived below expectations, insisting that his administration has not secured the promised security of…

Delta Security  Challenges: Assembly To Collaborate With Police Command

Delta Security Challenges: Assembly To Collaborate With Police Command

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State House of Assembly is to collaborate with the State Command of the Nigeria Police Force in ensuring effective crime fighting and prevention at the grassroots.The Speaker of the State Assembly,  Rt Hon  Sheriff Oborevwori made…

Oxford Dictionary Updates With 29 Nigerian Words, Expressions

Oxford Dictionary Updates With 29 Nigerian Words, Expressions

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): 29 Nigerian words and expressions have been added in the latest (January 2020) updates of Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) said some of the  words are borrowed while others are coinages. Here is a list of…

“Mama Boko Haram” Remanded In Prison Over Fraud

“Mama Boko Haram” Remanded In Prison Over Fraud

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sogbola, Maiduguri: A High Court in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, on Monday remanded Hajiya Aisha Wakil, popularly called Mama Boko Haram to a custodial centre. Mama Boko Haram was standing trial alongside Tahir Saidu and Lawal…

Court Of Appeal Complex, Asaba To Be Unveiled Feb. 3  -Gov. Okowa

Court Of Appeal Complex, Asaba To Be Unveiled Feb. 3 -Gov. Okowa

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday said the Court of Appeal Complex for the Asaba Division would be inaugurated on Feb. 3, 2020. Okowa who inspected ongoing work at the complex located at Mariam Babangida Way,…

Rising Insecurity: Goup Faults Govt Response  **As INGOs Condemn Attack On Humanitarian Facilities

Rising Insecurity: Goup Faults Govt Response **As INGOs Condemn Attack On Humanitarian Facilities

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA’, Damaturu: The Network of Yobe Civil Society Organizations has condemned government reaction to the rising insecurity in the Northeast. The group in a signed statement on Monday by it’s Comrade Baba Shehu, said it…

North East: United Nations Condemn Attack On  Facilities

North East: United Nations Condemn Attack On Facilities

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA’ Maiduguri: The United Nations has condemned an attack on its facilities in troubled Northeast. It had last Thursday shown apprehension over growing insecurity in the area, even as it had been reported that some…

The Politics Of Amotekun Creation And Attempted Outlaw

The Politics Of Amotekun Creation And Attempted Outlaw

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Omoshola DEJI: Security is the principal obligation of government, because it is the most important need of man. Life is universally considered sacred, but only the lives of the ruling oligarchy is sacred in Nigeria. Being alive…

Insurgency: NAF Receives 2nd Batch of Agusta 109 Power helicopters to boost operational capability

Insurgency: NAF Receives 2nd Batch of Agusta 109 Power helicopters to boost operational capability

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to induct the second batch of 2 new AgustaWestland 109 Power Attack Helicopters procured by the Federal Government as part of the fleet enhancement efforts to enable more…

Boko Haram Crisis To Be Explained In Art, Drama, Music, Poetry

Boko Haram Crisis To Be Explained In Art, Drama, Music, Poetry

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: The Boko Haram crisis that have engulfed part of Nigeria’s Northeast would be explained through art, poetry, drama and music.The Borno Literary Society will on Saturday (18th January, 2020) host the first-ever performance of local…

SECURITY WATCH: POLICE BOSS AVERTS IMPENDING CRISIS BETWEEN FARMERS, HERDSMEN IN ISOKO

SECURITY WATCH: POLICE BOSS AVERTS IMPENDING CRISIS BETWEEN FARMERS, HERDSMEN IN ISOKO

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Isoko South local government area, CSP Mohammed Nahala, has averted impending crisis between farmers and Fulani herdsmen at Emedel farmland Okpe – Olomoro over malicious destruction of…

Attack On Emir’s Convoy: Yobe Gov Calls On Security Agencies To Step Up Game

Attack On Emir’s Convoy: Yobe Gov Calls On Security Agencies To Step Up Game

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni has called on security agencies to step up their game and put a stop to growing insecurity in the nation. Reacting to the attack on the convoy of Emir of…

NIGERIA: Degenerating Insecurity In N’ East Worrisome, Says United Nations

NIGERIA: Degenerating Insecurity In N’ East Worrisome, Says United Nations

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: The United Nations has said that the degenerating security situation in the Northeast of Nigeria has become worrisome.  Commenting on the release of three aid workers and some civilians abducted by insurgents, UN said…

Court Kicks Ifeanyi Uba Out Of Senate For Using Forged NECO Certificate To Contest Election

Court Kicks Ifeanyi Uba Out Of Senate For Using Forged NECO Certificate To Contest Election

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA):  By Our Political Correspondent: Senator Ifeanyi Uba representing Anambra south and candidate of Young Peoples Party (YPP) has been shamefully kicked out of the revered Red Chambers of the Nigerian Senate. Uba lost the appeal to rescind the court…

AMOTEKUN AND THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM

AMOTEKUN AND THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the many things that makes Nigeria an amazingly impossible knot in the eye of some people, and public policy a nightmare, is the multiplicity of contrasting opinion and the plurality of emotion displayed…

Delta Vocational Education Centres: Uzum Implores Parents To Enrol Children, Ward

Delta Vocational Education Centres: Uzum Implores Parents To Enrol Children, Ward

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Johnson EBIGIDE: Director General of the Delta State Orientation Bureau, Eugene Azuka Uzum Esq, has advised parents in the state and beyond to encourage their children and ward to embrace vocational education towards the acquisition of useful…

Perform Or Face Sack: Delta Internal Revenue Boss Reads Riot Act To Tax Officers

Perform Or Face Sack: Delta Internal Revenue Boss Reads Riot Act To Tax Officers

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, Sir Monday Onyeme has read the riot act to tax officers operating as Assistant Tax Controllers, Resident Coordinators and Motor Licensing Officers across the State, to be more creative and…

DELTA NEWS:   UKAH PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR ADULT EDUCATION AGENCY

DELTA NEWS: UKAH PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR ADULT EDUCATION AGENCY

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) : Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has pledged his continued support for the board of the Agency for Adult and Non-Formal Education to enable them actualise their mandate. Chief Ukah gave the…

S’ Court “Validates” Mbaka’s Prophecy, Nullifies Ihedioha’s Electoral Victory, Declares Hope Uzodinma Imo Governor

S’ Court “Validates” Mbaka’s Prophecy, Nullifies Ihedioha’s Electoral Victory, Declares Hope Uzodinma Imo Governor

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Nigeria’s Apex court, the Supreme Court has nullified the victory of the sitting Governor of Imo state, Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and has declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Party (PDP) as…

Breaking: Gov. Okowa Approves New National Wage For Delta Workers …Labour Commends Govt

Breaking: Gov. Okowa Approves New National Wage For Delta Workers …Labour Commends Govt

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Albert OGRAKA: Al last, after series of meetings between the Delta State Government and mounting pressure from Labour unions on the new national minimum wage for workers in the state, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has finally agreed to…