Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s Debt Management Office has disclosed that the Federal Government is planning to borrow N120bn ($387m) in local-currency denominated bonds at an auction on September 14. The DMO said on Tuesday it would raise N40bn each from…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Two major security agencies have asked that the Edo State governorship election set for Saturday, September 10, 2016 be postponed. The Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Service gave this advice to the Independent National Electoral…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has finally responded to the published letter from US Congressman, Tom Marino, to the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, which called for security sanctions against the country, and alleging that the former…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “The House has passed the bill and I have to assent it, it becomes a law from today that if you do anything to the contrary you will be punished by the law. Any herdsman caught with…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his Sokoto State counterpart, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal have said dialogue rather than violent agitations would bring about speedy development of the country. The two governors made the submission on…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – A former Chief Judge of Delta state, OFR (Rtd), Honourable Justice James Omo-Agege, OFR (Rtd), is dead. A statement made available to Blank NEWS Online and signed by his son, Obaisi of Urhoboland, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege disclosed…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Military action seems imminent in the troubled oil and gas wealthy but impoverished Niger Delta region, as the Military hierarchy embarks on enlightenment campaigns ahead of intensive Army invasion against strong militants’ bombardment of oil and gas…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively report that the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has extended the tenure of the caretaker committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi by another twelve months. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “We have been told that we will be paid but that is coming only to deceive us to vote again for this government.” –Edo pensioners Retired civil servants in Edo state have vowed to boycott the September…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –Albert OGRAKA– The Delta state government has vowed to declare all Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) that are not electronically generated into its “FastTrack Delta” data base invalid within 90 days. The ultimatum was issued on Friday,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Local newspaper publishers in Bayelsa State, under the auspices of Bayelsa Federated Newspapers Publishers Association (BFNPA), have given the state government and security agencies in the state a 48-hour ultimatum to produce Chief Jones Abiri, publisher of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Embattled Nigeria’s Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has denied reports alleging that he had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as he insisted he was still loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC), having contributed to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – To facilitate development in the Niger Delta region, South-South and South East lawmakers have urged the Federal Government to review the ownership structure of oil wells in the country. “The people of the Niger Delta region should…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as provided for under Section 1(2) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Act of 1997, as amended. Mr. Buhari also…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Tension seems to have gripped Nigerians, expecially the Military top brass, following the revelation by a dominant Niger Delta Militant group, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), that the Nigerian military is currently scheming to cause crises…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointment of Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as the new Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP). Mr. Idris, an Assistant Inspector General of Police, is expected to succeed Mr. Solomon Arase who…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Minister of Power, Work and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has disclosed that President Mohammad Buhari has pledged to continue and prioritize the completion of the 2nd Niger Bridge. The Hon. Minister made the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari may have been diagnosed with cancer, sources at the Royal Hospital London, where he reportedly underwent medical check-up reveal. A source said: “President Buhari went for check-up hours after he arrived in London….
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta state born former Nigeria’s Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi, is dead. Keshi, who hails from Illah in Oshimili North local government area of Delta state, was said to have suddenly died of cardiac…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Claims that the alliance between the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his predecessor in office, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan had ceased, may have been put to rest, as the duo, to the admiration of…
“We see that the greatest challenge lies with Nigeria. The arrears that Nigeria is owning is 694,000 dollars because there was no payment made between 2015 and 2016. Because of the debt burden it carries, ECOWAS is now losing its credibility” –President…
Corruption charges, a deepening economic crisis and insurgency by opponents led to the downfall of Rousseff. Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – BRASILIA Brazil‘s Senate voted on Thursday to put leftist President Dilma Rousseff on trial in a historic decision brought on by…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has formally removed subsidy from sale of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol with immediate effect, an action which now allows marketers to bring in cargoes and sell, subject…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – A new militancy group – the Niger Delta Avengers, which came on the scene with a bang in February, blowing up strategic pipelines in Delta State, and are currently rocking Nigeria’s oil economy, has released a list…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Qaddafi was not killed for humanitarian purposes but for the oil and for money. His ideas of an African gold-backed currency were his major undoing. The recent Hillary Clinton email leaks have opened a can of worms…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta state government has raised alarm over the continued presence of fraudsters at the Bureau of Local Government Pensions, (Governor’s Office) Asaba. The public outcry is coming on the heels of myriad of complaints by members of…
“The cardboard box was completely blank and contained a small piece of rock, instead of the gold watch that he bought in an online auction and paid for with a credit card.”. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates–(Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– …
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Operatives of Nigeria’s anti-drug agency the NDLEA have dismantled a drug trafficking organization’s laboratory in Asaba, Delta state capital and arrested eight persons, including four Nigerians and Mexicans with 1. 5 kilograms of methamphetamine with street value of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The first executive governor of Delta State and former distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olorogun Felix Ovuodoroye Ibru, is dead. Olorogun Ibru, died at the age of 80, after a brief illness. The former…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – As former Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Engr. Victor Onyekachi Ochei marks his 47th birthday anniversary with pomp and pageantry on Thursday, February 25, 2015, the state legislature on the other hand initiated a probe…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Government has disengaged the heads of the six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the disengagement during a meeting he held with…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Enalo James– Christopher Erhodyne Anirah, flagbearer of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the House Representatives (Sapele, Okpe, Uwvie Federal Constituency) who was alleged to have died ahead of the 2015 general elections in Delta State, has…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– The Delta state government has adduced reasons for the delay in payment of January 2016 workers salaries in the state to an alleged attempt to defraud the state government of about N7billion. The disclosure was…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– Governor of oil and gas wealthy Delta state, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has assented to the 2016 Appropriation bill of N268 billion for the fiscal year. The 2016 appropriation bill showed an increase of N2.5 billion…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Okpala-Uku of Umusadege, Utagba-Uno, Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, Ogbu-Ewu Egbononwu Ojugbeli has raised alarm over threat to peace in his domain and postponed the annual general meeting of the community. According to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri has sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winner of the April 11 Abia state governorship election and the April 25 supplementary election respectively. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Benin Division of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, Edo state has nullified the election and Tribunal victory of Chief Ighoyota Amori of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will substitute its candidate as a result of the death of Abubakar Audu last Sunday, after leading in…
Nigeria, November 23, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Prince Abubakar Audu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded governorship election in Kogi State, has died. Audu, a former governor of the state, who was ahead in the…
Nigeria, November 18, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday screened and confirmed Barrister Peter Ovo Agbaja as secretary to Uvwie Local Government. The House also rejected the nominee for the Auditor General of Delta State….
