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…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday called on the International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria to adopt the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) model of Chevron Nigeria Limited as part of measures to ensure peace in the oil bearing communities…
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…
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has expressed outrage at the brutal killing of Mr Toyin Obadina, who until his death was the Assistant Editor of Newswatch newspaper. The governor, in a statement by Felix Ofou, his Press Secretary, described the death…
GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has on Monday January 23, 2014 sworn-in a new head for the State’s Civil Service (HOS), Mr. Paul Evuarherhe, with a charge on Civil Servants and Public Office holders to be dedicated to their duties and…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has described the decision of 11 Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to defect to APC as a wise one, declaring that “as true progressives, they have finally come back home and are…
The activities of the Delta State Flood Relief Committee will be concluded in March this year, after it began issuing cheques to owners of commercial farms. The committee, set up in October 2012 to superintend the utilization of the N500 million grant…
The wife of the Delta state governor, Deaconess Roli Uduaghan has instructed women to remain in the consciousness of God through spiritual transformation of the society. Speaking today, Sunday, February 02, 2014, during the 7th Edition of the Delta Mothers’ Day Of…
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…
Hi-tech security operatives of the Delta State Police Command, on Friday, January 30, 2013, swooped on a gang of car-jackers syndicate who ferry stolen vehicles into a workshop hideout in Asaba, the Delta state capital. The vehicles are allegedly solen from their…
The Presidency and the Nigerian Police High Command have come under attack over the brutal disruption of Tuesday’s rally in the federal capital, Abuja, organised by the Anti-Corruption Network to protest against the endless impunity being perpetrated in Rivers State by the…
The Management of Warri Wolves FC led by Davidson Owumi has slammed a N100,000 fine on star striker, Musa Najare for breaching camp rules. Najare was said to have deliberately elbowed an opponent in the match between Warri Wolves and Enyimba, which…
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…
Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has defied his detractors by braving the odds to attend yesterday’s rally organised by the Save Rivers Movement (SRM) in Ogoni land, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. “Against…
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…
The Rivers State Chapter of the People Democratic Movement (PDM) Party Chairmen Forum have debunked recent claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state that “APC has swallowed the PDM”. While decrying the recent publication by Chief Eze .C. Eze,…
Chairman of Isoko Grassroots Movement (IGM) Hon Sunday Elueni has asked Barrister Peter Nwaoboshi, the Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to address issues raised by the Secretary to the State Government, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay. He also challenged other…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, says it is saddened by the repeat violence at the rally organised on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 by the Save Rivers Movement (SRM). The party in a statement made available to Blank NEWS Online…
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…
The governor of Nigeria’s oil and gas wealthy Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has on Saturday, January 18, 2014 received an International Outstanding Leadership Award from Metro Éireann, Ireland’s leading and only multi-cultural newspaper. Uduaghan who led a team of managers…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has inaugurated a task force on Ground Rent Collection with a charge to deltans to pay their taxes promptly so as to sustain the improved economic growth in the state. Governor Uduaghan who stated this on…
As the controversy over who owns Soku oil wells deepens between the Rivers State Government and the Bayelsa State Government, Former Minister of Petroleum Resources and rights activist, Professor Tam David-West have warned President Goodluck Jonathan who is from Bayelsa, to leave…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has joined Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka in pleading with President Goodluck Jonathan to send controversial Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Mbu Joseph Mbu, to Borno or Yobe state to help end the…
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…
The 25 Transition Committee Chairmen of the Delta State Local Government Councils, has today (Thursday, January 16, 2014), described as false, a media report published by Sahara reporters and tagged: “Council Chairmen accuse Uduaghan of treading with SURE-P funds through unknown accounts.”…
The Chairman, Delta State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Williams Akporeha has appealed to members of Congress in the state to shun acts capable of causing disunity and rancour among labour leaders in Delta State. Comrade Akporeha made this…
Despite claims that Nigeria’s embattled National chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur had handed President Goodluck Jonathan his resignation letter, there was a twist in the ensuing episode on Wednesday, when Tukur insisted that he is still chairman…
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…
With the successful kidney transplant accomplished at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara, on Tuesday, January 13, 2014, the stage is now set for the state to become Nigeria’s medical tourism destination. The kidney transplant, the first of its kind…
The governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, will on Friday, January 17, 2014 participate in a Mini Investment Summit for Delta State during which he will meet with Irish investors seeking to take advantage of the investment potentials in the…
An American based businessman, Chief Steve Ike Osogbue, remanded at the Federal Prisons, Kwale, on the order of a Chief Magistrate, Mrs. A.N. Okonkwo Okanume, sitting at Ashaka Magisterial Division was on Monday, January 13, 2014 granted bail at Kwale High Court….
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,…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has advocated an improved trade relations among African countries for speedy economic growth in the region. Dr. Uduaghan who made the call Sunday when the Executive members of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association paid him a courtesy visit…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter says it has noted the barefaced lies spewed out by the State Police Commissioner, CP Joseph Mbu, in his desperation to minimize the public outrage that has rightly trailed the death of five innocent…
Chairman of the Organisation and Mobilisation Committee for the Peoples Democratic Party in South West, Chief Buruji Kashamu, on Saturday, replied the strong worded letter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo which described him as a convict on extradition request. Kashamu in a…
THE Grand President of Benin Grand Commandery of Knight of Saint John International (KSJI), Brig. Gen. Joseph Ojobu has urged members of the Order to be prepared at all times to defend the church and to make heaven. Brig. Gen. Ojobu made…
Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, Civilian President and erstwhile Board Of Trustees (BOT) Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has re-emerged with another controversial missive, where he took a swipe at the party’s leadership and President Goodluck…
