–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, MAIDUGURI: The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) on Sunday discharged six COVID-19 patients. The six were part of the list of 24 patients kept at the hospital’s isolation centre after they were initially tested…
-As Some Churches Flout Facemask, Social Distancing Order -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Michael EKOKORUWE: The President and General Overseer of New Testimony Gospel Church, Oleh, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, Primate Dr. Moses Ogbodogbo (JP) has affirmed…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Foreign Desk Correspondent: President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence and most White House Aides would not stay out for 14 days, the recommended time frame to quarantine once exposed to the virus. Two staff members were diagnosed…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Nike SOGBOLA: Yobe House of Assembly member Lawan Nguru has agreed to the test that he was positive for COVID-19. He also said he had at no time refused to be isolated, though he still feel health….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Bawo Akpo OFERE/Albert OGRAKA: In a bid to ensure the safety of staff, ahead of the partial resumption to work after the government lockdown order, necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor: Delta State is poised to ensure maximum food production for the people in the midst of and after the Covid-19 pandemic. The feat is seen to be achievable as more beneficiaries of the Delta State Government’s…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: The Borno State High Powered Committee on COVID-19 seems to have shied away from the press and public scrutiny for fear that they may be compelled to divulge the cause of death of prominent…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor: Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, has said that public and private primary and secondary schools in the state will remain closed till May 30, 2020 as directed by the Governor…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor: Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has said that the free teleclass learning programme on radio and television will continue to run till schools resume in the state for the benefit of the target…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Our Crime Correspondent: A man has been arrested in Yobe State for defiling a-18 month old baby girl. A statement on Thursday by ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police Command said: “During…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Odio Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has felicitated with workers across the globe, as they mark Labour Day on…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Ex-militants in the Niger Delta region, have alleged that certain dubious and corrupt contractors to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) were sponsoring the incessant attacks against Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. The ex-militants who…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (HEOSL) the operator of OML 30 has taken very definitive action to cushion the impact of the novel COVID-19 pandemic on its host communities. Acting on behalf of the joint venture partners, NPDC…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: The two COVID-19 positive persons that were reported to have been on the run in Maiduguri, on Monday resurfaced. One of the two, Abbas Hassan, a 24 year-old male, who tested positive was found…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: A renowned Delta State based Biometrician Geneticist and member of International Biometrician Geneticist Convention (MIBGC), Olisemeka Isiekwe PhD, has predicted that Covid-19 flu infections, would rise, hitting a 3,000 high in May. He also said…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: Fear has gripped Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as two patients, Abbas Hassan, a 24 year-old male and Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female, are on the run after testing positive to COVID-19…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In compliance with the directive of the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, for all Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Commands to donate palliatives to members of NAF host communities in commemoration of the NAF’s 56th Anniversary, the Tactical,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Five persons were killed in the convoy of former governor of Borno State, Sen. Ali Sheriff along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, a security source has revealed. The source, who spoke anonymously to our correspondent, said the Boko Haram attacked the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: There has been no increase in incident of COVID-19 in Borno state in the last 24 hours despite the testing of 17 persons believed to have had contact with the index case….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA- Maiduguri: The Chief Medical Director of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital ( UMTH ), Professor Ahmed Ahidjo has revealed why it took time to discovered the COVID-19 index case in Borno State. The…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: Isoko nation is constrained to unravel the hidden intentions of the management of Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited, manager of the Oil Mining Lease 30 Isoko cluster groups, as the company writes to send hosts…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Bashorun Askia Ogieh has urged all Muslim faithful to show more love and compassion in this holy month of Ramadan just as he prayed…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians to use the holy month of Ramadan to pray for the divine intervention of the Almighty Allah, particularly as the nation and the world at large…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Prosper EDO/Albert OGRAKA: The President of Bashorun Askia Foundation, Odio Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, on Thursday, April 23, 2020, presented sundry Food Items to members of the Delta State Commercial Motorcycle and Tricycle Operators Association, popularly…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is often very worrisome to think that Africa ,over the years, have always been the victim of foreign negative machinations and the extra externalities of factors (clothed in various euphemisms) that often helped…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: Irri kingdom Federal Union sons and daughters at home and in the Diaspora, have presented palliatives worth Four Million Naira to the 12 communities of the kingdom to alleviate the effects of COVID 19 pandemic…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Oleh kingdom, Chief Believe Alakri and residents of Oleh ward 1 and 2, have commended Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State and Sir Itiako Ikpokpo, Chairman Isoko South local…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed sadness and pain over the death of Rear Admiral Good Omo-Owho Akpolo (rtd.). Rear Admiral Good Akpolo (rtd.) who was one time…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has condoled the Akpolo family, over the death of former Command Intelligence Officer, Eastern Naval Command,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has expressed sorrow over the death of legal luminary, former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, describing his death as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Chairman, Isoko North Local Government Council, Hon. Emmanuel Egbabor has conveyed the appreciation of the people of the area to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the state government for the provision of food items to cushion the effect…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Michael EKOKORUWE: The chairman of Isoko South local government area of Delta State, Sir Itiako Ikpokpo, has received and distributed the palliatives from Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State food bank set up to cushion…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The minority caucus in the House of Representatives has expressed shock and deep sadness over the death of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari. The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Editor The Presidency has announced the passage of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari. He died on Friday, April 17, 2020. Kyari had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Six years after the 112 Chibok schoolgirls remained in Boko Haram captivity, Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum sent a delegation to comfort their parents. Over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in Chibok six…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The less privileged and vulnerable residents of Okpe –Isoko community, Isoko North local government area of Delta State, have received food items from Isoko North political leaders and distributed through the President General of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Michael EKOKORUWE: To cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world and states in Nigeria, elected and appointed political class of Isoko North local government area of Delta State, has presented food items worth over 10…
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJAMONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020 Fellow Nigerians In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation Monday, April 13, 2020 at 7pm. Television, radio and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Oleh kingdom, Isoko South local government area, Chief Believe Alakri, has commended the United Leadership of Oleh kingdom for presenting over N4 million worth of food items to Oleh community to…
