June 29, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State Government has rolled out six entrepreneurship schemes with an assurance from the State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, that 6,000 direct jobs would be created in the next six months as a result. The…
Blank NEWS Online can disclose that President Muhammadu Buhari has plans to totally remove fuel subsidy and use the proceeds for the provision of free and compulsory primary and secondary education across the country. The federal government will set up committee to work…
DELTA State Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa has assured multinational Oil corporations in the state of peaceful and contusive working environment. He also assured that the state government will partner with the oil companies to generate employment for the people. Senator Okowa…
A MULTI-million dollar Delta State micro, small and medium entrepreneurship centre has been commissioned by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. Uduaghan who commissioned the center at Issele-Uku, Aniocha North local government area of Delta State on Monday, May 25, 2015 in the presence of…
Blank NEWS Online reports that General Motors is celebrating 500 million vehicles built globally over the past 106 years – the most by any automaker to date. GM is the first vehicle manufacturer to achieve this milestone and remains focused on being…
Delta state government has expressed determination to further upgrade the Asaba International Airport to meet standards, saying that the recent down grade in the status of the Airport by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has not affected the operation of scheduled…
The Delta State Government has banned all forms of street trading along Market Road Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area. A statement signed by the State Director of Information, Mr. Paul Osahor, directed traders who have been allocated market stalls by the…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 21, 2015 – Promontory CEO explains what tough regulatory expectations mean for the region and the world. Regulatory regimes are becoming tougher around the world, raising the question: who is responsible for the trend and how…
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, April 3, 2015/ — The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea has announced the Ratification of Production Sharing Contract for Block EG-06 by the government of Equatorial Guinea. The contract was signed on January 16, 2015…
Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has said that the International Community cannot be exonerated from the criminality of crude oil theft in Nigeria. Speaking Tuesday,:March 24, 2015 at the commissioning of thirty gunboats procured by the Defence…
A body of 13 global experts to be known as the President’s Advisory Panel (PAP) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has on Thursday, March 19, 2015 been formerly inaugurated. President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ali chaired the…
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to complete the 16 billion dollars gas city project before the end of his second tenure in office. According to the President, the gas city project was very important to Nigeria as it will generate a lot…
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…
CHAIRMAN, Delta State Council of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Comrade Ifeanyi Obi has urged the Federal Government to reduce the price of petroleum products to reflect the fall in oil price in the international market. According to Comrade Obi,…
It was a solemn ceremony yesterday in Asaba, as Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan led prominent Deltans to lay wreaths at the foot of the statute of the unknown Soldier as part of activities to conclude the 2015 Armed Forces Remembrance…
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…
Delta state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented proposals for the Delta State 2015 budget to the state House of Assembly for consideration and appropriation. The 2015 budget proposal stood at N327,682,982,917 for the services of Delta State in the 2015 fiscal…
THE Chairman of Delta State Council of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Chief Ifeanyi Obi has said the consistency in transport fare ahead of Christmas celebration was because of the stability in the price of petroleum products. Comrade Obi assured…
MEMBERS of Petroleum Dealers Association of Nigeria (PEDAN) has called on the National Assembly to expedite action on the PIB bill in the interest of Nigerians and the Nigerian economy. The Chairman of ASABA chapter of PEDAN, Comrade Jerry Ojie made the…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has affirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan has done a lot in the implementation of his transformational agenda for Nigeria. He insisted that the President was working quietly to develop the country, despite the contrary perception of…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has produced the first digital N100 paper note, which will be officially issued into circulation on December 19. The new N100, Commemorative Centenary banknote which also has features for the visually impaired was official unveiling by…
Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s strides in opening new frontiers of development in the state got more recognition as Businessday newspapers and SERA in its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over the weekend conferred awards on him in Lagos. For revamping the…
THE Executive Director, FENOG Nigeria Limited (FNL), Mr. Matthew Tonlagha has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to urgently go ahead and award its multi-billion Dollars Trans Niger Pipeline Looplines Project (TNPL). He said FENOG…
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has commended the administration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan on the giant developmental strides it has achieved in Delta State. Dr. Jonathan bared his mind on the visible achievements of the administration of Governor Uduaghan while commissioning the Utor Bridge…
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…
The persistence of crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region where over 400,000 barrels per day are stolen may threaten world peace and democracy if concerted action is not taken to curb it, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, governor of Delta State,…
In continuation of its strategy of international expansion and growth, QNB, “One of the World’s Strongest Banks” has announced the acquisition of an additional holding of 11.0%1 (2,047,877,260 ordinary shares) in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (Ecobank), making QNB Group’s total stake in Ecobank…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan declared at the weekend that the people of the Niger Delta would remain undaunted in their quest for increased derivation from the Federation Account. Governor Uduaghan observed that the people of the region despite the stalemate…
The Chairman of the Delta State Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has described the 43rd conference of International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) held at Sofia, Bulgaria as a good opportunity to deliberate on issues affecting the transport…
An interactive dialogue with the private sector in Delta State on running businesses in Nigeria holds in Asaba on Monday, August 25, 2014. A statement issued by Mr. Pius Mordi, Special Assistant to Delta Commissioner for Information, Barr. Chike Ogeah and made…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja presented N500 million cheque to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and N260 million to his Akwa Ibom State counterpart, Godswill Akpabio. The fund is the states’ share of the disbursement of the Central Bank…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has harped on the need for effective collaboration of host communities with government to ensure maximum benefits of projects sited in their areas. Speaking during an inspection of the 500 hectares cassava mechanised farming project at…
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has urged the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke to halt the planned cancellation of the Trans Niger Pipeline Loopline Projects (TNPL) by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The oil monitoring group,…
Akwa Ibom Concerned Professionals based outside the State have been enjoined to take a critical look at the banking industry so that they can assist in establishing state- owned financial institution. Akwa Ibom Concerned Professionals based outside the State have been enjoined…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has been urged to increase the number of shuttle buses between Asaba and Okpanam. Chairman, Asaba Shuttle, Comrade Rotimi Akinwale made the call yesterday while speaking with the Press when he paid a birthday visit to…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has stated that the Micro Credit programme of his administration was designed to make Deltans economically buoyant and employers of labour. According to him, the money given to beneficiaries of the scheme was take-off capital which…
Delta State has been assured of support by stakeholders including United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) in its strive for investment components of its Delta Beyond Oil policy which seeks to…
Delta state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has said that the clamour for an upward review of the 13 percent revenue derivation fund and the attendant disagreements at the ongoing National Conference has not forestalled the gains of people of the oil and…
Fifteen students sponsored by the Delta State Government for a training in Footwear Design and Technology yesterday graduated from the prestigious Moda Pelle Academy, Milano, Italy after two weeks of intensive training. The state had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with…
In its determination to further boost bee keeping, fishery and oil palm production in Nigeria’s oil and gas wealthy Delta State, the Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan led government has reached an agreement with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to provide technical…
