An Opel saloon car was stolen at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, Sapele Road, Benin City on Sunday morning, February 23, 2014. The owner of the car, Wilfred Igunbor, a veteran journalist and worked with Daily Times is a parishioner of…
Delta State Government has broken another medical feat as the State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara has been equipped with sophisticated equipment to take care of infants during the first month after birth. A neonatal unit, according to medical experts, is intensive…
As the journey to the oil and gas rich Delta state governorship hots up, bookmakers’ predictions have pointed out that the candidature and emergence of the Chairman, Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, Dr. Ngozi Olejeme as governor in the 2015 general election…
President Goodluck Jonathan has today, Wednesday sacked four of his serving Ministers. Jonathan announced their sack at today’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. The Ministers that were relieved of their appointments include, Elder Godsday Orubebe (Niger Delta Affairs); Ms. Stella Oduah (Aviation);…
Wednesday [12-02-14] In a bid for the people of Southern Nigeria to take a common position on the forthcoming National conference, the 4th General Conference of the Southern Nigeria People’s Assembly (SNPA) has held in Asaba, the Delta state capita, with a…
As the Rivers state polity remains heated up, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Prince Tonye Princewill has alleged a threat to his life by Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s spokesperson and Commissioner of Information, Ibim Semenetari. While condemning in strong terms the vitriolic…
The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) has reacted to claims by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State that there is no other party in the state, except the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a swift reaction to the “one party state” issue, Chairman…
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ndokwa West local government area has secured a court order restraining the state party chairman and the party in the state from removing the party executive in the area from office, pending the determination of the…
True to expectation, Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has concluded plans to join forces with the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Blank NEWS Online can reveal. The move by Atiku, who is touted to be…
As a result of incessant road carnage and in a bid to fast-track the haphazard construction of the 149 kilometres Asaba/Ughelli road, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has ordered the state Ministry of Works to terminate section C of the project…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has warned all his political appointees to desist from granting political interviews. The warning came on the heels of recent political fisticuffs between the Chairman of the Delta State Chapter of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party…
Blank NEWS Online reports that Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has in Dublin, Ireland, stoutly defended the law forbidding gay marriage in Nigeria, likening it to pedophilia, a psychiatric disorder, in which an adult has sexual interest…
Following the alleged forced resignation of former National Chairman of the Poples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the Party has appointed the former Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, as its new party chairman. Mu’azu is to replace the former…
Blank NEWS Online can report that the intra-communal crisis in Ugborodo, host Community to the on-going $16 billion (N2.56 trillion) Africa’s largest gas project has received some concerns and measure of positive outlook, as the Secretary to Delta State Government (SSG), Comrade…
Owing to unending security challenges that have bedevilled the country in the last few years, especially the Northern part of Nigeria, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has on Thursday approved the long awaited changes in the nation’s military high command. The erstwhile Chief…
True to Blank NEWS Online earlier report on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, tittled “Breaking News: PDP National Chairman, Tukur Bows To Superior Pressure”, the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has finally resigned. Although Tukur’s pride…
Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has resigned. A PDP chieftain dislosed that President Goodluck Jonathan will inform the meeting of the National Caucus of the party tonight in Abuja about the new development. The fate…
True to the expectation of Deltans, Nigerians and the International Community, the Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara has recorded what is still considered a rare feat in the medical field in Nigeria with the successful kidney transplant. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan,…
Sporadic shooting in oil rich Ugborodo Community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have allegedly left more than three persons dead and others reported missing amidst various degrees of injuries sustained during a daylight raid by officers of the…
After series of protracted disputes and failed negotiations between Nigeria‘s Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Univerities (ASUU), the ASUU strike has finally been called off as of December 17, 2013. The five months-old strike, which commenced in July, was…
The Delta state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO, Lucky Uyabeme, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) is dead. Uyabeme died in a ghastly motor accident, in the early hours of Monday, December 15, 2013, along the Abi-Ogume Road in the Ndokwa axis…
The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who was arrested on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 in Cotonou, Benin Republic has been released. Although the reason for his detention by the Beninoise gendarmes is yet undisclosed, dependable…
The much expected but surprise and hasty merger of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (new PDP) with Nigeria’s newly registered main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may have caused sharp disagreements among the seven founding governors of…
President Goodluck Jonathan will return to Nigeria today, Sunday, November 24, 2013, after attending the International Investors Council Meeting at the Hilton Park Lane in London, a Presidency source has revealed. Although he missed the opening session of the meeting due to…
THE former Chairman of Ndokwa East local government area of Delta State, Hon. Chike Ugwummadu has been suspended from participating in any activities of Abala Development Union (ADU). Members of ADU in a press statement signed by Chief Abel Nwanze, President-General; Hon….
After commencing commercial flight operations on July 13, 2011, Asaba Airport has handled 6,331 flights and 192,651 passengers at the end of October 2013. A statement issued by Mr. Pius Mordi, Special Assistant to the Delta state Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah…
Cold-blooded and dare-devil robbers, on Monday, November 11, 2013 afternoon in the Coal City, Enugu, have shot two persons dead while injuring two others with bullet shots in the leg. The dead were an MTN driver whole distributes or sells MTN recharge…
The factional Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, led by Abubakar Kawu Baraje has decried the incessant harassment of its members by security operatives acting on the orders of the Presidency, just as it woos undeciding and intending governors to join its political “Résistance…
Former Acting Director-General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Mr Joyce Nkemakolam has revealed that the N240 million approved budget for operational vehicles was deliberately inflated to N643 million by the Ministry of Aviation. This revelation came on the heels of series…
Blank NEWS Online can reveal that the oil exploration activities of Midwestern Oil and Gas Company has been cut short by aggrieved youths in Utagba-Ogbe, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State. The youths of the community were reported to have…
Delta State government has revealed plans to airlift pilgrims from the Asaba International Airport, located in the state capital, to the holy lands overseas. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State said his administration would collaborate with the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC)…
In a bid to transform Delta state beyond complete dependence on oil, the state government has initiated five key areas to sustain it in the future. This is just as the state government has allocated and granted Certificates of Occupancy for 6,000…
The on-going rift between the management and staff of the Delta state owned construction outfit, Direct Labour Agency (DLA) seems to be nearing an end, following the intervention of various leadership of Labour in the state, in a bid to halt the…
The once peaceful scenario of Asaba, the Delta state capital, may soon turn into a hot-bed of crisis if urgent security measures are not put in place to curb an alleged impending invasion by thugs on the orders of embattled Director General…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Godwill Obielum has donated relief materials worth millions of naira to be distributed among indigenes of the seven Itsekiri communities in Delta state, who were recently displaced as a result of an attack on their…
THE Asagba of Asaba, Obi (Prof.) Joseph Chike Edozien, CFR, JP, has assured that Anioma State would be created, saying that the long awaited state creation from the present Delta State will wipe out the word, “marginalisation” from the area. The Royal…
Following the recent theft of three thunder arrestors belonging to the near-moribund state owned Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS), Asaba, by yet to be identified persons within the Delta state civil service, the state government has constituted a board of inquiry to identify…
The continued influx of ghost workers in the Delta state government owned Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) has recently posed concerns to the state government, as earlier plans to control the unending trend failed to yield desirable results, leading to worrisome wage…
Ahead of Nigeria‘s Democracy Day anniversary on May 29, Delta state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has harped on the need for greater unity, devoid of hatred and destructive rumours among Deltans. Speaking about the rumour of his death, he said he had…
Governors of South-South and South East states have condemned in strong terms the various acts of terrorism and their sponsors in parts of the country. The Governors who gave this condemnation today [12-05-13] in a communiqué after a closed door meeting in…
