-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: SOME members of the Governing Board of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) are warning that the activities of the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume are beginning to impede the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NO fewer than 110 drug dealers were arrested in a raid on hideouts in nine states across the country in the past one week. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the National Drug…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Onoriode ETATSEMI: DELTA State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Isaiah Bozimo Esq, has appealed to the members of the state House of Assembly Committee On Rules, Business, Legal And Judicial Matters for a cordial working relationship with…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –:From Editor’s DESK: The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr.FolashadeYemi-Esan, in a move to deepen on-going reforms and the streamlining of operations at the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), has instructed the Governing Board and Management to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: CHAIRMAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) has said that legalization of cannabis sativa as propounded by few Nigerians cannot be allowed under the prevailing security situation…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID: FORMER Anambra State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Vice Presidential Candidate in 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has reacted to a media report that he breached Nigerian laws by engaging in secret businesses…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE United Kingdom has changed travelling rules for Nigerians as fully vaccinated travellers from the country would now be allowed into the European country. A statement on Thursday from the British High Commission office in…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: MICHAEL EJOVWOKE OMOKIRI hails from Ughelli North Local Government Area and is the CEO of Myke Reen Agro Enterprise located in Ughelli. He has a BSC.ED from the Delta State University. He enrolled in the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: ActionAid has called on governments across the globe to step up their efforts to stamp out tax avoidance, advising Nigerian government particularly to put in place measures that will ensure that proceed of corruption are…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: ISOKO-NORTH Council Chairman, Deacon Christian Othuke Iteire, has expressed the desire of his administration to collaborate with security agencies in order to ensure peace and security in the Local Government Area. Iteire made the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: EIGHT governors within the Lake Chad Basin have met in Yaoundé, Cameroon to discuss regional security cooperation and path to improve stability. The region as a result of the recession of Lake Chad and subsequent…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Managing Director,/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has advised the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, to put its house together ahead of the 2023 governorship…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: AMIDST mounting security and existential challenges confronting the county as she marks the 61st Anniversary of her Independence, Nigerians have been enjoined to keep hope alive as the people will prevail over the current travails….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: Host Communities of Nigeria Oil and Gas trained pipeline surveilance security outfit has been urged to be vigilant, dodged combatant, indomitable and to report any ilegal pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta. Prince (Dr.)…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: ENDDY SUNNY-UDJOR is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Delta State University, Abraka and the CEO of NIOC Studios (A Subsidiary of Enddyvisuals Ltd) with 10 employees on her payroll. She hails from Okpe…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: FRANCE’S President, Emmanuel Macron has fecilitated with Nigerians on the 61st Independence Anniversary of their country. Macron, in a letter to his Nigerian counterpart, President Muhammadu Buhari said: “On the occasion of the National Day…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: PRESIDENT General of the social – cultural Apex organization of Isoko Nation, Isoko Development Union (IDU), Professor Chris Akpotu, has commended the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for his commitment to…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sports Editor’s DESK: Delta State Government has reiterated its commitment towards ensuring grassroots sports development, especially football activities in the state. The State Commissioner for Primary Education, Mr. Chika Ossai stated this in Asaba during a press…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: The Delta State Government has assured federal agencies in the state that it will continue to support them towards effective service delivery in the state subject to the availability of funds. The Secretary to the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK THE Delta State Government has charged youths in the state to participate fully in the electoral process so that they can contribute their own quota in the governance of the state. Delta State Governor, Senator…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Delta State Government has introduced Apiculture into its Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) in addition to Fish, Crop, Piggery and Poultry Productions in the 2020/2021 Cycle. The Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer in…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has assured that remedial works on the collapsed bridge along Uzere/Asaba-Ase Road will be completed shortly. Bashorun Askia, who personally…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THERE is no denying the fact that Prof Pat Utomi is an interesting fellow; so is his friend and the former INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega. Prof Utomi is not new to the murky waters…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: LAGOS State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, signed the bill to prohibit open cattle grazing and trespass of cattle on land in the state into laws. “By the powers vested in me as the Governor…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK MINORITY Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has said that returning the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to power in 2023, remains the best hope for Nigerians to enjoy a life of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have destroyed over 14 hectares of cannabis cultivated farms in Edo State. This is part of continued nationwide ‘offensive action’ against drug traffickers in the past…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: OMOEFE UCHE GODSWILL hails from Emu-Obedeti in Ndokwa West Local Government Area. She attended the University of Port Harcourt where she obtained a BSc. in Agricultural Economics 2012. She was unemployed till she got enrolled…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK THE Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to mobilising the full energies and capacities of the youth in the country towards minimising the risks to national security posed by rising youth unemployment and underemployment, in…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: SPEAKER, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has said there is needto pave the path for a more equal, safer and more inclusive Nigeria where women can optimally and effectively contribute their own quota to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday said the world should be worried about happenings in the sub Saharan region, especially the Lake Chad axis. Addressing a press conference in Abuja after…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed satisfaction with the pace of construction work on the Phase One of the Four Kilometers Emevor Bypass road under…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NIGERIA’S Ambassador to Italy, Amb Mfawa Omini Abam, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, as well as the Nigerian Community in Italy, have demanded full investigation into the killing of a…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK DELTA Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has been called upon to make himself available for the president of Nigeria come 2023. The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu made the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: A new document charting the way forward for developing economies to achieve the UN’s 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs) has been released in Cairo. The Cairo Communiqué was released on September 9, 2021 at the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, re-arraigned one Dookenger Takon before Justice Umaru Fadawu’s Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a four -count amended charge bordering on cheating, forgery, issuance of dud cheque…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The Controller General of Federal Fire Service. Dr. Liman Ibrahim has condemned the attack on firefighters and destruction of fire trucks by hoodlums, saying that the action is unacceptable and those responsible will definitely not…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The outgoing Minister of Environment, Dr. Muhammad Mahmood Abubakar has officially handed over the affairs of the Ministry to the Minister of State for Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor. Speaking at the handing over ceremony, Abubakar,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: North East Development Commission (NEDC) on Friday decried the destruction by Boko Haram on the North East region, lamenting that 500,000 structures from the existing 4 million in the region were destroyed. Speaking at the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has expressed the confidence and willingness of Nigerians to follow the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to Victory in 2023. Elumelu in his remarks…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: JENNIFER CHINASIAOKWU OKOCHA (2016/2017 STEP CYCLE). Our STEPreneur for the week is Jennifer Chinasiaokwu Okocha, trained in Audio-Visual Services. She hails from Aniocha South. She is the CEO of JennyChi Studios, Asaba. Jennifer attended Delta State Polytechnic,…
