China Explains Role in Blocking Taiwan From World Health Assembly

China Explains Role in Blocking Taiwan From World Health Assembly

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: CHINA has explained her role in the blockade of Taiwan from attending recently held World Health Assembly. A statement from the spokesman of Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, Zhang Hang said China could have unilaterally blocked…

FG Asked To Increase Tax On Tobacco To 75%

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NIGERIAN government has been asked to increase the tax on tobacco to meet the Article 14 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) which pegged it at 75 percent. Addressing a press conference to mark the…

ECOWAS Suspends Mali Until Return to Civil Rule

ECOWAS Suspends Mali Until Return to Civil Rule

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: MALI has been suspended from the West African regional bloc, Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) until the current military dictators vacant office and return the country to civil rule. The decision was announced…

Agbon Monarch Hails Bashorun Askia For Quality Service Delivery In DESOPADEC

Agbon Monarch Hails Bashorun Askia For Quality Service Delivery In DESOPADEC

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: HIS Royal Majesty, Ogurimerime Ukori I, Ovie of Agbon Kingdom, has lauded the Sterling qualities of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA,…

House Of Reps Constitution Review: S’South Zonal Public Hearing To Hold In Asaba

House Of Reps Constitution Review: S’South Zonal Public Hearing To Hold In Asaba

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE House of Representatives Committee on Constitutional Review will hold its South South zonal public hearing in Asaba, Delta State. According to statement signed by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House…

BELLARKS POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS URGED TO ACQUIRE SKILLS FOR SELF RELIANCE

BELLARKS POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS URGED TO ACQUIRE SKILLS FOR SELF RELIANCE

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mchael J. EKOKORUWE: THE student of Bellarks Polytechnic Kwale, Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, have been urged to acquire the necessary Skills that promote self reliance, towards addressing Nigeria’s unemployment problem. The Rector of…

OF GULAK’S GORY TALE AND THE UNKNOWN GUNMEN

OF GULAK’S GORY TALE AND THE UNKNOWN GUNMEN

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE escalating security situation in South Eastern Nigeria is getting to a fearsome crescendo. And from the way things are going, the mystery of the “unknown gunmen” need to be quickly unravelled and permanently addressed….

May 29: Elumelu Hails Okowa For Bringing About A Stronger Delta

May 29: Elumelu Hails Okowa For Bringing About A Stronger Delta

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has commended the steadfastness of the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, in bringing about rapid and sustainable overall developments across the State. In a congratulatory…

Constitutional Amendment: Tambuwal Wants States To Choose Reps In RMAFC, FCC, Others

Constitutional Amendment: Tambuwal Wants States To Choose Reps In RMAFC, FCC, Others

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: GOVERNOR Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state, has suggested that to fulfill the stipulated Constitutional review of the revenue sharing formula, members of the RMAFC should be appointed by their respective states to remain detached from…

May 29: Reps Minority Caucus Declares APC Administration Failure

May 29: Reps Minority Caucus Declares APC Administration Failure

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, led administration in the Country has failed on all fronts in the last six years. In a Statement signed by the Minority Leader…

2021 Delta Praise, Thanksgiving Day: Some Roads To Be Closed -Ukah

2021 Delta Praise, Thanksgiving Day: Some Roads To Be Closed -Ukah

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Organizing Committee of the 2021 Delta State Praise and Thanksgiving Day in commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa administration has announced that some roads leading to the Stephen Keshi International Stadium, venue of…

Profile of Buhari’s New Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen Yahaya

Profile of Buhari’s New Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen Yahaya

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): NIGERIA’S President Mohamadu Buhari has on Thursday, May 27, 2021 appointed Major-General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff to replace Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an air crash I. Kaduna on Friday, 21st of…

Children’s Day: NUJ Delta Felicitates With Children

Children’s Day: NUJ Delta Felicitates With Children

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council has congratulated children as they celebrate the 2021 Children’s Day. A statement signed by the NUJ Chairman,Delta State Council. Comrade Michael Ikeogwu and his Secretary, Comrade Patrick Ochei reads: “We…

FG Distributes 15,750 Utensils To FCT As 10m Pupils Benefit From NHGSF

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Albert OGRAKA: THE Federal government through the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on Tuesday flagged off the distribution of Utensils under the National Home Grown School Programme in the North Central Zone. In…

Delta Agog As CMB Gets Asaba Contact Centre

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Chinedu OKONKWO, ASABA: ONE of the leading mortgage financial institutions in Nigeria, the Cooperative Mortgage Bank, in grand style, Wednesday, opened a new contact centre in Asaba, the Delta state capital. The branch is expected to provide an all-inclusive home…

RE: £4.2m IBORI LOOT: PUTTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT

RE: £4.2m IBORI LOOT: PUTTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Editor’s DESK: THE Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has reacted to recurring media report on the £4.2m Ibori Loot. An official Press Release made available to Blank NEWS Online on Wednesday, May…

ECOWAS Parliament Holds 2021 First Ordinary Session

ECOWAS Parliament Holds 2021 First Ordinary Session

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be holding it’s 2021 First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament from 27 May to 12 June 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria. The session, which will be holding…

Zulum Reshuffles Cabinet, Orders Deployment of N1.4 Bn Newly Acquired Heavy Duty Machines

Zulum Reshuffles Cabinet, Orders Deployment of N1.4 Bn Newly Acquired Heavy Duty Machines

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has effected a ‘minor’ cabinet reshuffle with the redeployment three commissioners. The decision is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Acting Secretary to the State Government, Danjuma…

Nigeria Calls For  Release Of Malian Interim President, Prime Minister

Nigeria Calls For Release Of Malian Interim President, Prime Minister

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NIGERIAN government has asked from the immediate release of Malian Interim President and Prime Minister, Bah Ndaw and Moctar Ouane, reportedly detained by soldiers. A statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of the Ministry of…

Delta Youth Crop Farmers Get Support Packages To Boost Food Security

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE Delta State Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) beneficiaries in the 2020/2021 Crop Production Cycle have been given support packages to sustain their entrepreneurship endeavorus. The beneficiaries of the farm inputs who are all youth…

Delta Kick-Starts Orientation, Farm Enterprise Training To Boost Farm Projects

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA State Job and Wealth Creation Bureau has commenced its Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) with OFET for already existing youth farmers in Crop Production. Addressing the 158 YAGEP beneficiaries in Crop Production at Unity…

REPS MINORITY CAUCUS CELEBRATES EDWIN CLARK @ 94

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated a celebrated nationalist and former minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark as he celebrate his 94th birthday anniversary According to a Statement by the Minority Leader of the…

You Are A Bastion For Justice, Bashorun Askia Tells Clark @ 94

You Are A Bastion For Justice, Bashorun Askia Tells Clark @ 94

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE managing director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has described Pa Edwin K. Clark as the bastion of justice, fairness and integrity. In a message to the elder statesman on his…

Elumelu Hails Justice Diai on Her Elevation As Delta Ag. Chief Judge

Elumelu Hails Justice Diai on Her Elevation As Delta Ag. Chief Judge

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has congratulated Justice Theresa Diai, on her swearing-in As the Acting Chief Judge of Delta State. In a Statement, Elumelu expressed delight over her appointment and said…

PDP: Reps Minority Caucus Tackles EFCC Over Probe, Wants Same Invitation To APC, FG Officials

PDP: Reps Minority Caucus Tackles EFCC Over Probe, Wants Same Invitation To APC, FG Officials

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has said that it has noted with desmay the moves by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to “witch-hunt and pry into the books of the leading opposition Peoples…

Delta To Benefit From FG’s Multi-Million Naira Covid-19 Rapid Response Register

Delta To Benefit From FG’s Multi-Million Naira Covid-19 Rapid Response Register

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is rolling out Rapid Response Register (RRR), an intervention to assist those in the urban and semi-urban areas that are economically impacted by the COVID–19 pandemic. A…

Elumelu Applauds Okowa Over Full Autonomy to Delta State Judiciary

Elumelu Applauds Okowa Over Full Autonomy to Delta State Judiciary

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has applauded the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for signing the Judiciary Autonomy Law as passed by the State House of Assembly granting full operational…

Elumelu: Representing, Empowering His People In Many Ways

Elumelu: Representing, Empowering His People In Many Ways

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): SINCE his inauguration into the 9th National Assembly about two years ago, as Member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has continued to demonstrate his love and passion for the people, which to him is the…

Bashorun Askia Commends Dame Adewuyi For Establishing ICAN Resource Center In Delta

Bashorun Askia Commends Dame Adewuyi For Establishing ICAN Resource Center In Delta

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has described the National President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Dame Onome Adewuyi, as…

THE MANY FIGHTS OF GOVERNOR EL’ RUFAI

THE MANY FIGHTS OF GOVERNOR EL’ RUFAI

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT has become very obvious that Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the diminutive governor of Kaduna state, do not know how to choose his fights. When he’s not up ‘in arms’ against his Southern Kaduna people, or…

Delta: Gov Okowa Dissolves Exco, Drops Advisers

Delta: Gov Okowa Dissolves Exco, Drops Advisers

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 dissolves the State Executive Council (SEC) comprising the 25 commissioners, drawn from the 25 local government areas of the state. The governor also dropped the Secretary to…

Agriculture: Deltans Happy, As Govt Refurbishes YAGEP Fish Farm Clusters

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: ESTABLISHED beneficiaries of the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) in Fish Production in Delta State can now heave a sigh of relief, following recent government intervention to curtail flooding in some farms and boost the…

Black Sunday, As Gunmen Invade Delta, Kill 3 Police Officers, Burn Station @ Nsukwa

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Our Crime Correspondent: UNHOLY calm has descended on the Nsukwa community as unknown gun men allegedly attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters Nsukwa in Aniocha South Local government Area of Delta State, killed three Police officers and set…

Elumelu Distributes Empowerment Items Worth Over N300Mn To 456 Beneficiaries *Okowa, Gbajabiamila, Others Hail Donor

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on Saturday 15th May, 2021 flagged off the distribution of empowerment items worth over 300 Million Naira to 456 beneficiaries drawn from Anioha/Oshimili Federal Constituency of the State. The empowerment items,…

Education: Delta Not Recruiting Teachers – Ukah

Education: Delta Not Recruiting Teachers – Ukah

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): DELTA State Government has said that it is not recruiting teachers, describing an advertisement trending online to that effect as untrue. The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Patrick Ukah, in a statement in Asaba, advised…

Eid El Fitr: Bashorun Askia Calls For Deep Sober Reflections, Prayers

Eid El Fitr: Bashorun Askia Calls For Deep Sober Reflections, Prayers

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): MANAGING Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has called for deep sober reflections and prayers as Muslims mark the end of Ramadan fasting. Bashorun Askia in an…

Eid-el-Fitr: Reps Minority Caucus Congratulates Nigerians, Urges Peaceful Co-Existence

Eid-el-Fitr: Reps Minority Caucus Congratulates Nigerians, Urges Peaceful Co-Existence

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated Muslims on the completion of Holy Ramadan fasting and urged  Nigerians to use the occasion of the Eid-el-Fitr to  rekindle hope in the unity of the country The…

Isoko/Urhobo Monarchs, I.D.U, Restore Final Peace On Igbide/Emede Land Dispute

Isoko/Urhobo Monarchs, I.D.U, Restore Final Peace On Igbide/Emede Land Dispute

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE six months land dispute/crisis between Igbide and Emede communities in Isoko South local government area of Delta State that claimed many lives and property worth millions of naira destroyed, have been finally resolved…

Southern House of Reps Members’ Back Southern Governors Resolution

Southern House of Reps Members’ Back Southern Governors Resolution

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): SOUTHERN members of the House of Representatives have endorsed the resolution of Southern Governors demanding restructuring, true federalism, state police and ban on open grazing in the South. The members in a statement signed by the Minority Leader…

Southern Govs Ban Open Grazing, Call For National Confab, True Federalism

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Governors of Southern States of the country on Tuesday, announced their resolution to ban open grazing and movement of cattle by foot across the region as part of measures to check incursion of armed herders and banditry….