–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: “So we are here with you and ready to go any length with you because what you have started in Asaba must be sustained to check degradation of the environment.” –Founder of Fight Against Desert…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: As the battle for a place among the athletes at the Olympic trials continues today, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has assured Nigerians of a better outing at the Olympic Games holding…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A serving officer of one of the law enforcement agencies, Popoola Abayomi has been arrested in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital for selling assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Federal Government has inaugurated the Board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) after the successful conduct of the elections to fill executive position of the association saddled with the control of the nation’s…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IN a seismic bid to oust the twelve year reign of the former Isreali Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a coalition of Parties of strange bedfellows was necessary and required. With a collective desire to change…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): AMBASSADOR of United Arab Emirate to Nigeria, Fahad Al-Taffaq has called on Nigerian government to continue to empower more women and protect the girl child. Speaking at the UAE Women Empowerment Webinar in Friday, Al-Taffaq said: “Women and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE nation Nigeria, did not begin from June 12 1993; but her elongated dilemma and potpourri of woes can be partly traceable to that hysteric and historic date. That was the day ethno-religious politics was…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): AS the 9th Assembly of the House of Representatives marks its second legislative year, Chairmen of Councils in Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in Delta State, have paid glowing compliments to the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -Mike SOGBOLO: THE Federal Government has declared Monday, 14th June, 2021 as public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Joint Minority Caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has met over the ban on Twitter by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government and restated its condemnation of the embargo as draconian and unacceptable….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: ASABA/Nigeria: Following increasing security threats to lives, property and attack on state facilities in Delta State, the Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF), has called on the State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, to urgently activate the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Albert OGRAKA: THE Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has announced the next step for the N_power Batch C Stream One applicants. In a release, signed by Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the Special Assistant on…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -From Mike SOGBOLO: SEVEN years after over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram from it’s hostel, Government Secondary School, Chibok wears a new look with the commissioning major facilities by theMinister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen on…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Blank NEWS Online can report that there was huge fire outbreak which engulfed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Offices at the Federal Secretariat complex along Okpanam Road in Asaba, Delta State capital. The NYSC office is located…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE sociocultural organization of Isoko ethnic nationality, Isoko Development Union (I.D.U.) at the weekend, paid commiseration visit to the family of the clan Otota of Olomoro Kingdom, High Chief Stephen O. Akpotu, who passed on…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): DELTA Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has charged political appointees in the state to shun complacency and redouble their efforts to help his administration to deliver on its promises to Deltans. Okowa made the call while inaugurating the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLO: DRUGS suspected heading to Boko Haram/Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) enclaves in Borno State have been intercepted by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos. In the same…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLO: UNITED States has condemned the banning of Twitter in Nigeria, stating that it is a violation of Nigerians’ fundamental rights. The United States, in a statement by it’s Embassy in Nigeria on Saturday said: “Nigeria’s…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned, in its entirety, the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government describing it as a clear violation of freedom of speech and other democratic rights and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, (NSCDC) has promoted 19 senior officers that have stagnated on positions for over ten years. Commandant-General, (CG), of the corps, Dr. Ahmed Audi, during the decoration of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: FAMILIES of 61 district heads killed by Boko Haram since the outbreak of insurgency in the Northeast in 2009 have received humanitarian intervention from both Victims Support Fund (VSF) and Borno State Government. The VSF…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has decried ongoing call for the dismemberment of the country, even as it rolled out planned to fortify the unity of Nigeria. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, admission into full-time undergraduate programmes for the 2020/2021 academic session is in progress and closes its admission of eligible candidates in two weeks…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has warned both local and state government levels not to depend on the federal government for fire fighting in their domains. Speaking at the commissioning of 20 newly procured…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: COMPTROLLER-GENERAL, (CG), of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has ordered the closure of Abia State Passport Office as a result of attack on the facility by suspected members of the Indigenous People of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have foiled attempts to export skunk and methamphetamine through Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to European countries of Turkey and Belgium. A statement by the spokesman…
Re: Distressing State Of DESOPADEC Under The PDP-Led Government When Facts Are Turned On Their Head By The Delta APC In a bid to set the record straight on the steady and unhindered trajectory of interventions by the Delta State Oil Producing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: CHINA has explained her role in the blockade of Taiwan from attending recently held World Health Assembly. A statement from the spokesman of Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, Zhang Hang said China could have unilaterally blocked…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: NIGERIAN government has been asked to increase the tax on tobacco to meet the Article 14 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) which pegged it at 75 percent. Addressing a press conference to mark the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: MALI has been suspended from the West African regional bloc, Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) until the current military dictators vacant office and return the country to civil rule. The decision was announced…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: HIS Royal Majesty, Ogurimerime Ukori I, Ovie of Agbon Kingdom, has lauded the Sterling qualities of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE House of Representatives Committee on Constitutional Review will hold its South South zonal public hearing in Asaba, Delta State. According to statement signed by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mchael J. EKOKORUWE: THE student of Bellarks Polytechnic Kwale, Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, have been urged to acquire the necessary Skills that promote self reliance, towards addressing Nigeria’s unemployment problem. The Rector of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE escalating security situation in South Eastern Nigeria is getting to a fearsome crescendo. And from the way things are going, the mystery of the “unknown gunmen” need to be quickly unravelled and permanently addressed….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has commended the steadfastness of the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, in bringing about rapid and sustainable overall developments across the State. In a congratulatory…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: GOVERNOR Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state, has suggested that to fulfill the stipulated Constitutional review of the revenue sharing formula, members of the RMAFC should be appointed by their respective states to remain detached from…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, led administration in the Country has failed on all fronts in the last six years. In a Statement signed by the Minority Leader…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Organizing Committee of the 2021 Delta State Praise and Thanksgiving Day in commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa administration has announced that some roads leading to the Stephen Keshi International Stadium, venue of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): NIGERIA’S President Mohamadu Buhari has on Thursday, May 27, 2021 appointed Major-General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff to replace Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an air crash I. Kaduna on Friday, 21st of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council has congratulated children as they celebrate the 2021 Children’s Day. A statement signed by the NUJ Chairman,Delta State Council. Comrade Michael Ikeogwu and his Secretary, Comrade Patrick Ochei reads: “We…
