ISOKO SOUTH LEGISLATIVE ARM HONOURS OMOYIBO WITH AWARD OF RECOGNITION

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Members of Isoko South legislative arm on Wednesday honoured the Chief Executive Officer of Dantinajo Gold Resort Limited Oleh, Isoko South local government area, Engr. Daniel Elozino Omoyibo, with award of recognition as a philanthropist…

HOODLUMISM IN NIGERIA: A CLOSER LOOK

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing situations today in Nigeria, especially at the wake of the recent hashtag protests, is the menace of Hoodlums everywhere. Their coordinated activities and the near similar methods of operation points…

DELTA GOV OKOWA PRESENTS 2021 FISCAL BUDGET OF N378.48BN TO HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

DELTA GOV OKOWA PRESENTS 2021 FISCAL BUDGET OF N378.48BN TO HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, today, Tuesday, October 27, 2020 presented the Appropriation Bill of N378.48 billion for 2021 to the state House of Assembly for consideration. The budget presentation earlier scheduled for Thursday,…

Delta Govt Signs MoU On Development Of Burutu Port

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Sylvester ILOBA: The Delta State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a private indigenous investor, Akewa Colmar Terminal Ltd for the development of the Burutu Ports in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State….

FALSE PUBLICATION: OGBE SPITS FIRE, THREATENS REDRESS FOR DEFAMATION

FALSE PUBLICATION: OGBE SPITS FIRE, THREATENS REDRESS FOR DEFAMATION

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The chairman of All branches of Irri indigenes in Diaspora, Mr. Eniye Isaac Ogbe, has condemned in strong terms the malicious false online publication by Daily Watch on 24th of October 2020 with the caption,…

OLEH 9: C.A.N, P.F.N PRAY FOR PEACE, REVELATION OF PERPETRATORS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: To condole the bereaved families of the nine Oleh indigenes killed at Oleh farmland, the Oleh Christian Association in collaboration with Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (P.F.N) and Christian Association of Nigeria (C.A.N), Isoko South chapter,…

#ENDSARS Protest: ActionAid Wants Buhari To Address Nation, Stop Looming Anarchy

#ENDSARS Protest: ActionAid Wants Buhari To Address Nation, Stop Looming Anarchy

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North East Bureau): ActionAid Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately act as a father by addressing the nation and stop the ongoing ENDSARS protesting from degenerating into full scale anarchy. The organisation,…

Press Statement Of IANA On Ambush/Brutal Killing Of Farmers From Oleh On 10/16/2020

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Press Statement of the Isoko Association of North America (IANA) on the Ambush and Brutal killing of farmers from Oleh on 10/16/2020 The Isoko Association of North America (IANA) is shocked to learn about the ambush and savage…

Bashorun Askia Condemns Murder Of Oleh 9: *Says Not In Our Character, Name, Culture

Bashorun Askia Condemns Murder Of Oleh 9: *Says Not In Our Character, Name, Culture

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Albert OGRAKA: The UDU of Isoko Nation and Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has expressed shock over the recent gruesome murder of nine sons and…

NHRC Sets Up Panel To Probe SARS

NHRC Sets Up Panel To Probe SARS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has constituted an 11-man panel to probe allegations of violation of human rights by the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police unit was scrapped by the…

Nigerian Army To Commence Operation Crocodile Smile Nationwide

Nigerian Army To Commence Operation Crocodile Smile Nationwide

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The Nigerian Army is set to commence its annual military exercise ragged Crocodile Smile, nationwide. According to a press release by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, the exercise…

KILLING OF 9 OLEH INDEGENES: MONARCH CALLS FOR CALM, COMMISERATES WITH BEREAVED FAMILIES, URGES PEACE

KILLING OF 9 OLEH INDEGENES: MONARCH CALLS FOR CALM, COMMISERATES WITH BEREAVED FAMILIES, URGES PEACE

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Odiologbo of Oleh kingdom and chairman Isoko Nation traditional ruler’s council, HRM Anthony William O. Ovrawah, Omogha 1, has called on the people of Oleh kingdom to remain calm and embrace peace as he…

OF PREDATORS AND VICTIMS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In Nigeria today, times are tough, tempers are high, feathers are being ruffled, no thanks to the raging hashtag protest by the rampaging but hitherto ” lazy” Nigeria youth. It has become a test of…

JP CLARK: You Will Murder The Play

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By AZUA ALONU: When we told our English teacher, we were going to put on stage J.P Clark’s Play. Ozidi, he said: You will murder the play. Our dramatic society in our estimation very virile, we were…

Isoko Nation, Groups Kick Over Zamfara, CBN N5Bn Gold Deal **Berate FG’s Injustice In Niger Delta Region

Isoko Nation, Groups Kick Over Zamfara, CBN N5Bn Gold Deal **Berate FG’s Injustice In Niger Delta Region

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Isoko Nation has kicked against the alleged sale of a bar of Zamfara gold to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for N5 billion by the Zamfara state government and supported the Deputy Senate President…

Internal Security: NAF Plots More Operational Platforms For S’South Region

***As CAS Commissions Residential Accommodation For Airforce Personnel In Calabar -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to deploy additional Super Puma Helicopter to Calabar to secure the southern axis of the Nigerian airspace and complement…

October Ration: NEMA Shares Food To 38,000 Displaced Households

October Ration: NEMA Shares Food To 38,000 Displaced Households

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): Food items have been shared to 38,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) households in Borno State for the month of October. This is part of the monthly distribution directed by the Director General…

No Resumption For KG 1-3 Pupils In Delta -Ukah Cautions School Owners

No Resumption For KG 1-3 Pupils In Delta -Ukah Cautions School Owners

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah has cautioned private school owners in the state against the resumption of academic activities for nursery/pre-primary (KG 1-3) pupils. He warned that anyone who goes contrary to…

NHRC Calls For Prosecution Of Culpable SARS Men

NHRC Calls For Prosecution Of Culpable SARS Men

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) after a mass protest by Nigeria. The Commission…

EDO-ONDO ELECTIONS: BETWEEN MUSIC AND WAR SONG

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: I love Eyitayo Jegede, the PDP Governorship candidate for the just concluded Ondo gubernatorial elections. He came, he saw but couldn’t conquer. Though the Senior Advocate won convincingly in Isidore, Akure North and South local…

Bashorun Askia Reveals DESOPADEC Plan To Train Youths On Skills

Bashorun Askia Reveals DESOPADEC Plan To Train Youths On Skills

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Determined to make youths to become entrepreneurs and employers of labour, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), is in the process of setting up an Academy where youths will be trained to become experts at various…

GOODLUCK JONATHAN: THE RUMOURED ADVENT OF THE SHOELESS HERO

GOODLUCK JONATHAN: THE RUMOURED ADVENT OF THE SHOELESS HERO

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Very recently, there’s been so much noise, purportedly coming from the noise less one: our amiable Jolly good fellow, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, that is. The grapevine is replete with the news of the…

BETWEEN PASTOR ADEBOYE’S CALL AND PRESIDENT BUHARI’S  REBUFF

BETWEEN PASTOR ADEBOYE’S CALL AND PRESIDENT BUHARI’S REBUFF

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: The sound of the call for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation has become like that of a broken record. It comes in a bewildering staccato; it comes intermittently from both the usual and the…

Boko Haram: Nigeria Approaches Cameroonian Military For Support

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau): The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) In order to tackle the menace of Boko Haram insurgents has approached Cameroonian military structures for support. A press release signed on Saturday by the Chief of…

OSINBAJO, THE PRESIDENCY AND THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

OSINBAJO, THE PRESIDENCY AND THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: In the present equation and the many calculations towards the 2023 Presidential election, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seems to be a forgotten numerator or denominator. His name is hardly mentioned in serious political discourse and…