-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —By Ogbeide Osas KENNEDY: Chief Obafemi Awolowo the only Nigerian referred to as the late SAGE. Have you ever wondered the dictionary meaning of a sage ‘’wise, knowledgeable, learned; shrewd, skillful”. No other Nigerian till date has been…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is widely known for one conspicuously obvious reason. And that is far from his accidental appointment as the Nation’s Aviation minister or his biological ties with the famous Fani Power of the…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: When the ecclesiastical come calling, every other duty or obligation of mine takes the back seat. This is the very reason yours sincerely couldn’t catch up with the trends of events in the national and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Against the backdrop of both the objective and subjective conditions that have helped to shape Nigeria’s Political History over time and her citizens’ perception of one another; it is also pertinent to seek to know…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Ibrahim Dahiru DANFULANI: Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai the helmsman of the Nigerian Army (NA) is an enigmatic personality and a natural leader in all human calculations. In view of the outstanding achievements in the areas…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: With the offensive stench coming out of the Niger Delta Development Commission, one wonders what has become of Patriotism, accountability and the love for one another in Nigeria. The Agency, which was designed to…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The bond of brotherhood in Africa is very tight and unique that distant cousins can even compete for attention with your own children and siblings. That is why it is very common when an African…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Olise IFEAJIKA: He came in the midst of storms even though the electoral victory was phenomenal. The challenges on ground were so many; the heat generated could melt a warship. The State’s debt profile was so intimidating…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Boniface ONYEDI: Just like yesterday, the rave and captivating moments of the second half of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration began with a resounding symphonies on May 29, 2019 after securing the mandate of Deltans once again. It…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In Edo state today, hearts are truly beating in irregular and uncoordinated rhythms. The political gladiators are having a field day, firing salvos from all angles all aimed at undoing the perceived enemy as the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A CBS series based on Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer novels and helmed by David E. Kelley, of The Practice and Ally McBeal fame, was to begin production – as in, fully-invested cast and crew ready to proceed – on Monday, March 16 of this…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Oyolo KIGHO: QUOTATION: “If there are any who desire to be strangers in their own country, foreigners in their own Cities and always children in knowledge; let them Please themselves, I write not for such humours”. …
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It was the renown Canadian scholar, Naomi Klein who first drew the world’s attention to the concept of Disaster Capitalism in her book,THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, where she scholarly observed and narrated the underbelly of evil…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was a quintessential Unionist; a nationally acclaimed Charismatic leader and a tactical mobilizer of people, especially in a cause he truly believes in. He’s populism was hinged on a general perception…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The riots and mayhem that ensued after the Supreme Court verdict that disqualified the join ticketed mandate of the governor- elect of Bayelsa state, David Lyon threw to the fore the staccato of emotion, avowed…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA (Editor): The good intentions in the human resource policy of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in Delta State, have started yielding good fruits, as the wealth creation strategies are being carefully replicated in the oil and…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Omoshola DEJI: In Athens, 510 BC, Cleisthenes instituted democracy to foster greater: accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and the law. Today, the tenet is being flouted with impunity, especially in developing nations, where most…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The public protest, demonstration and outcry of some prominent Christian Religious group yesterday, brought to the front burner, once again, the demoralizing state of insecurity in the nation and the resultant insensitivity of government to…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO: “Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh is a grassroots politician, a true Isoko son who is using his position as the Managing Director of DESOPADEC to complement what Governor Okowa is doing in the area of providing…
-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) -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: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 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) – 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: Austen Akhagbeme: There’s no denying the fact that a larger part of Nigeria’s many knotty problems is the elites’ hegemonic tussle and fragmentation. The fight for relevance and inclusion is usually fierce and thrives on subterfuge and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By : Austen AKHAGBEME: Unlike a child learning how to walk, Gov Makinde’s steps were firm, steady and promising from the very beginning. His audacious disposition drew the irk of those who thought he was not real, especially…
– Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGEME: Citizen Omoyele Sowore was never my delight; not with the too many controversies and litigations sorrounding him, especially in his most fiery days, during the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. To me, he was the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Senator Sabi Abdullahi of the APC and the Present Deputy Chief whip of the upper chambers, may not be a household name. But his controversial bill, THE PROHIBITION OF HATE SPEECH BILL, has become a…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the recent wonders of the world is the recent ignoble return of the controversial and underperforming governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Adoza Bello. To the ruling party, it’s a fait accompli ; but…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By FIDELIS EGUGBO : The world has become a global village through the aid of technology, to the extent that as an event breaks, it is known by anyone who cares. Based on United Nations (UN) data, Nigeria,…
The tragedy of our time is the continuous repetition of history by the so called book makers. Ordinarily one won’t even veer into sordid matters as less time and attention should be thrown at inconsequential issues but history and posterity will not…
-By Michael EKOKORUWE: Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells. Typical garden snails are usually safe to handle and eventually eaten by many, but forbidden by majority depending on the reasons which majorly stern from traditional…
By Charles Aniagwu “Greatness lies not in ruling a people, it lies in being the cause of happiness in their lives.” ― Abhijit Naskar As Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa celebrates his Diamond jubilee, today (July 8, 2019), all attention is…
By Wole Soyinka: This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be more accurately described as…
From Mike Ebhosa SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION ACT (SSMPA) OF JANUARY 2014: On January 7, 2014, Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan, signed the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill (SSMPA) into law. The notional purpose of the SSMPA is to prohibit marriage between persons…
It’s a known fact that in politics, especially when it comes to our nation, Nigeria, within small organisations, there is always acrimony and distrust among the people and a member, which often leads to what, had derailed our political, economic and social…
By Gifty Omashola Rarely has any political office holder been so bedeviled by his own ‘constituency as Mr. Patrick Ukah has been. From outright sabotage by some of his staff, to calls for his removal by his ‘constituents’ on grounds of ineptitude…
Cardinal George Pell, Vatican Treasurer, Convicted Of Child Sexual Assault Pell is the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church to be convicted of such crimes. Cardinal George Pell, once one of the highest-ranking members of the Vatican, was convicted of multiple counts…
Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential Election Results At A Glance as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Defilement is having sexual intercourse with a person (this includes both boys and girls) under the age of 18 years. It doesn’t matter whether the person has given consent or not. The major determinant in defilement is AGE.
