By Albert OGRAKA: Delta state governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, has appointed Prince Victor Efeizomor, Delta state Correspondent with ThisDay Newspaper as Press Secretary (PS). Prince Efeizomor, an erudite professional journalist and former Chairman of the Correspondents Chapel, ASABA, would work closely…
Blank NEWS Online can disclose that Senator Bukola Saraki has been elected as the Senate President of the 8th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was duly nominated and elected unopposed by 57 Senators that were present at plenary….
Respite came the way of four communities in Delta State, as the Supreme Court ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited to pay them the sum of N30,288,681 for the oil spillage that adversely affected the communities about 32 years ago….
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has announced former Director General of the Direct Labour Agency (DLA), Hon. Festus Agas as the Secretary to the Delta State Government. The Governor made the disclosure today, Sunday, May 31, 2015 at a reception organised in his honour…
SENATOR (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa and Barr. Kingsley Otuaro have taken oaths of office as Delta State Governor and Deputy Governor respectively. The Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Marshal Umukoro administered the oaths of office today, May 29, 2015 at the occasion…
“The pain I went through in the hands of the officers was unimaginable. In my whole life, I have never been subjected to such inhuman treatment… I sincerely hope the authorities will listen to the voice of Amnesty International. I want Amnesty…
-By Ejovwoke Udi, Warri, Delta: The crisis between youths of Orhuwhorun and steel township a satellite residential area of Orhuwhorun Community has left one Stanley Okobiebie having his right hand chopped-off with several other youths in various degree of injuries sustained during…
April 26, 2015/ Blank NEWS Online reports that Chief Rochas Okorocha, Imo State Governor and candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), in the April 25 supplementary gubernatorial election, has been re-elected for a second term in office. The State Returning Officer (SRO)…
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Blank NEWS Online can report that following a high magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior’s search and rescue team has departed for Nepal to help with the international relief operation after…
Libreville, 16, April, 2015: Blank NEWS Online can report that a vehicle belonging to the Embassy of Nigeria in Gabon was set ablaze on Sunday by rioters. The vehicle, a Toyota mini jeep with matriculate number 097CD016 was completely burnt down on…
Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship candidate has coasted home victory in the April 11, 2015 election in the state. Senator Okowa of the PDP scored 724, 680 votes to defeat the Labour Party (LP),…
The All Progressive Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate in Isoko Federal Constituency, Chief (Barr.) Daniel Magnus Oyowe has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Hon. Leo Ogor may have rigged at the March 28 polls, which results is yet…
“Muhammadu Buhari, of the APC, having satisfied the requirement for the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected.” These were the words of Prof. Attahiru Jega, ChIrman of the Independent National Electoral…
Delta State government has ssued N500 million to deserving 100 fisrt class graduate students of Delta sate origin in the year 2013 First Class Graduate Scholarship Scheme. Uduaghan on Monday, March 23, 2015 presented the N500 million cheques to the 100 first…
Igbo indigenes residing in Asaba and environs have endorsed the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governorship flag bearer, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as the next governor of Delta State and thrown their weight behind all the PDP candidates contesting for the various…
True to bookmakers’ predictions and recent pressure on the Chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body, Prof. Atahiru Jega to urgently postpone the 2015 polls, owing to non availability of the Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC), the Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) has postponed the 2015 general elections…
Ahead of the February 28 governorship polls in Delta State, a political ‘Big fish’ and a gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Sir Okenmor Fidelis Tilije has formally decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While receiving Sir Tilije into the PDP, in…
Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has assured Nigerians, especially Deltans, that the ground breaking for the the $16 billion Delta Gas City project and the Export Free Zone (EPZ) was feasible. President Jonathan, who explained that it will not be possible…
Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has expressed worry over the non collection of more than seven hundred thousand (700, 000) permanent voters cards (PVC) in the state. Addressing a mammoth crowd of Deltans who turned out for PDP campaign rally at…
As Nigeria gears up for the general elections that begin on February 14, 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the decentralization of the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from local government to ward levels. In effect, registered voters…
Speaker of Delta state House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Onwusanya has had his first ugly experience with the staff of the legislature, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), Delta state chapter, as they embark on an indefinite strike…
Former Nigeria Head of State and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), may face hitches ahead of contesting in the forthcoming Presidential election, going by the discrepancies surrounding the whereabouts of original copies of his academic…
The governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has approved the payment of weigh-in allowance for staff of parastatals in the Ministry of Information, including the Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) and The Pointer newspaper. The approval effectively meets the key demand…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared that the Shipping Line Agency Charges (SLAC) levied and collected from Nigerian shippers by shipping companies since 2006 is illegal. The Court therefore ruled that the shipping companies should account and pay to…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has made a breathtaking revelation by letting the cat out of the bag on how he personally averted several plots by yet to be named aspirants and their supporters to disrupt the last Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary by…
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has on Monday, December 08, 2014 emerged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)governorship candidate for Delta state after defeating 24 other aspirants in the primary election in which 1,121 delegates voted. The returning officer, Hon Karim…
Nigeria’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed that the Director General of the Delta State Direct Labour Agency (DLA), Emmanuel Odafe Igbini, is being investigated by the Commission in a case of abuse of office and money…
Prominent Delta state governorship aspirant, Sir Anthony Chuks Obuh has formally declared his interest to contest in the 2015 gubernatorial election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Obuh, who made his intention known while addressing Deltans who turned out…
The Mega rally for the public declaration of frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant, Sir Tony Chuks Obuh will hold today, Friday, November 07, 2014. A statement made available to Blank NEWS Online by the Director-General of Obuh Project 2015, Chief…
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have secured the approval of the Presidency to enable them control the political structures in their respective states ahead of the 2015 general elections. The trend will allow the outgoing governors…
Former Zambian Vice-President, Guy Scott has been appointed the country’s interim president following the death of the incumbent Michael Sata. Scott becomes Africa’s first white president since the end of the South African apartheid regime in 1994 Guy Scott has been appointed…
Donations from individuals, groups, party men and communities, amounting to about N98 million have been made available to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to pick up the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination form today, (October 30, 2014) as the ruling party’s candidate in…
Family members of late Mr. Ifeayi Obi, the Senior Driver of Delta State Commissioner on the board of the NDDC, Chief Tom Amioku, who was shot during last Saturday’s local polls in Delta State, have cried out for justice over the circumstances…
Nigeria’s oil and gas wealthy Delta state is now set to access the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N220 billion naira micro, small and medium enterprises funds for the benefit of the people of the state. The state is also partnering with…
Frontline, popular and most acceptable governorship aspirant in Delta State, Sir Tony Obuh, has strengthened his zeal to contest in the 2015 governorship election by collecting the expression of interest and nomination forms at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Secretariat, Wadata House…
Blank NEWS Online can disclose that the cordial relationship among the legislature, executive and judiciary as well as maintenance of separation of powers in Delta state has remained exemplary. This stride was further put to test on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, when…
The Mayor of Infant Jesus area in Asaba, the Delta state capital, Sir Ben Agazuma has urged all members of the “Tony Obuh (The Chosen One) 2015 Governorship Support Group” to remain steadfast in their determination to rally round Sir Anthony Chuks…
The Technical sub-committee of the Delta State Inter-Ministerial Ebola Preparedness and Response Committee said it has successfully carried out three suspected contact tracing of persons coming from Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) prone areas in West Africa. The functioning Permanent Secretary in the…
AS Nigerians celebrate 54 years of independence, the Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has granted total pardon to three prisoners sentenced to death and commuted the death sentence of nine others to various terms of imprisonment. Speaking on Wednesday, October…
The Advisory Council of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) consisting of the nine Niger Delta state governors has met with a resolve to urgently address some of the challenges facing the Commission. The governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, who briefed…
