-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…
–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,…
-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…
–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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: Boko Haram on Sunday attacked Geidam, one of the major town in Yobe state, forcing the residents into flight. Many of the fleeing residents had to send the night in nearby bushes as the streets…
-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…
–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…
–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…
–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…
-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…
-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…
–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…
-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…
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…
–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…
-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…
–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…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By:Austen Akhagbeme: Nigerians are interesting People: and this makes us so special. Sometimes,(depending on which side of the buttered bread one is standing on) our logic of argument can be so illogical one wonders whether the rules…
-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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: In fulfillment of the promises made during the 2019 elections, the Managing Director/CEO, Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh, (FCNA, CrFA), through the Bashorun Askia Foundation (BAF) has donated the sum of N5 Million to Isoko Market…
–Blank NEWS Online ((NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: A total number of 850 unemployed youths have been engaged by the Delta State Government to train as entrepreneurs in the Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Training (STEP) and in the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme…
–Blank NEWS Online ((NIGERIA) – BY Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Government has commenced Orientation and Personal Effectiveness Training for STEP beneficiaries enrolled in the 2019/2020 cycle of its job creation programme. According to a statement issued by the Communication Officer, Gertrude…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA says the Commission has commenced the inspection of projects to ascertain the level of work done…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By A Special Correspondent: Though Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa is barely seven months into his second and final term as Governor of Delta State, the politics of who succeeds him in 2023 seems to have become the major…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has condemned moves to increase electricity tariff in the country and cautioned the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to end all contemplation in that direction. The Minority Leader…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Ndudi Elumelu has hailed the Supreme Court Judgment affirming the victory of the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, saying that it is a victory for the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/ Chief Executive of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh has congratulated Delta Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on his victory over the governorship candidate of the APC,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it would commence the sales of its registration forms for 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from January 13, to February 17. This was made known by Fabian Benjamin,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Joel GRANDBALL Special Assistant to Delta State Governor on DESOPADEC Matters, Hon. Chief Prosper Edo has presented a complete set of welding equipments to one of the beneficiaries of his free empowerment scheme, Mr. Akpoviroro Ugala….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Michael EKOKORUWE: The general overseer and president New Testimony Gospel Church Oleh, Isoko South local government area, Primate Dr. Moses Ogbodogbo (JP) in his new year message at the church headquarter on Sunday, commended the governor…
Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq. The 62-year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. He was killed at Baghdad airport,…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), has appealed to traditional rulers, youth and community leaders in the various communities that form the oil producing areas of the State to continue to maintain…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), has pledge to run a transparent and people-oriented Commission, that is accountable at all times to all stakeholders. The pledge is contained in a 2020 unique…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Hotel De Pearl located at Okpavie community in Oleh kingdom, Isoko South South local government area, has been commissioned by HRM Anthony William Ovrawah Omogha 1, the Odiologbo of Oleh kingdom and chairman Isoko traditional…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara on Friday signed the 2020 appropriation bill into law with a warning to commissioners not to come to him with any expenditure outside the budget. The governor told the…
-Blank NEWS Online (Moroni, Comoros Islands): A 23 km new road network, 100% funded by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), has been inaugurated in the Comoros Islands. President of the Union of the Comoros Islands, Mr. Azali Assoumani, joined government officials…
Nomalcy has returned to Shell Petroleum Development Company’s (SPDC) Beniseide Flow station as Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has waded into the crisis between the company and Ojobo community in Burutu Local Government Area. The governor met representatives of Shell and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen Akhagbeme: Like a bolt out of the blues, the news coming in from the office of the minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, was swift, thunderous and appears unbelievable:but…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: As part of his pledge to building human capacity, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has issued appointment letters to a total…
Ononye Fetes Oshimili South PDP Leaders At Christmas In the spirit of Christmas, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Oshimili South Local Government Area, yesterday deepened its intimacy among members at the gesture of Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye. In attendance at…
