-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Albert OGRAKA: The UDU of Isoko Nation and Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has expressed shock over the recent gruesome murder of nine sons and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has constituted an 11-man panel to probe allegations of violation of human rights by the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police unit was scrapped by the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The Nigerian Army is set to commence its annual military exercise ragged Crocodile Smile, nationwide. According to a press release by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, the exercise…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Odiologbo of Oleh kingdom and chairman Isoko Nation traditional ruler’s council, HRM Anthony William O. Ovrawah, Omogha 1, has called on the people of Oleh kingdom to remain calm and embrace peace as he…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In Nigeria today, times are tough, tempers are high, feathers are being ruffled, no thanks to the raging hashtag protest by the rampaging but hitherto ” lazy” Nigeria youth. It has become a test of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By AZUA ALONU: When we told our English teacher, we were going to put on stage J.P Clark’s Play. Ozidi, he said: You will murder the play. Our dramatic society in our estimation very virile, we were…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Isoko Nation has kicked against the alleged sale of a bar of Zamfara gold to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for N5 billion by the Zamfara state government and supported the Deputy Senate President…
***As CAS Commissions Residential Accommodation For Airforce Personnel In Calabar -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to deploy additional Super Puma Helicopter to Calabar to secure the southern axis of the Nigerian airspace and complement…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): Food items have been shared to 38,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) households in Borno State for the month of October. This is part of the monthly distribution directed by the Director General…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah has cautioned private school owners in the state against the resumption of academic activities for nursery/pre-primary (KG 1-3) pupils. He warned that anyone who goes contrary to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) after a mass protest by Nigeria. The Commission…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: I love Eyitayo Jegede, the PDP Governorship candidate for the just concluded Ondo gubernatorial elections. He came, he saw but couldn’t conquer. Though the Senior Advocate won convincingly in Isidore, Akure North and South local…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Determined to make youths to become entrepreneurs and employers of labour, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), is in the process of setting up an Academy where youths will be trained to become experts at various…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Very recently, there’s been so much noise, purportedly coming from the noise less one: our amiable Jolly good fellow, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, that is. The grapevine is replete with the news of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: The sound of the call for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation has become like that of a broken record. It comes in a bewildering staccato; it comes intermittently from both the usual and the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau): The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) In order to tackle the menace of Boko Haram insurgents has approached Cameroonian military structures for support. A press release signed on Saturday by the Chief of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: In the present equation and the many calculations towards the 2023 Presidential election, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seems to be a forgotten numerator or denominator. His name is hardly mentioned in serious political discourse and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Azua ALONU: And whilst we are still lamenting the doldrums of pain and poverty of our country, light intruded and instinctively we shouted up-nepa, my friend, a top attorney in the city of Asaba, whom I was…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: With a concocted feeling of joyful rhetoric in the midst of a collective discontent, the old drums are rolled out, once again, in celebration of Nigeria’s independence anniversary. It has become our favourite ethos, to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) The Secretary to Delta State Government (SSG), Chiedu Ebie Esq., has urged newly recruited 1,000 teachers and 75 Education Officers to strive towards qualitative service delivery and discharge their duties to the benefits of the state especially children…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Theophilus UZI / Ozoro: As the presidential elections race into the Ozoro Progress Union (OPU) executive gathers momentum, Chief Daniel Miller Akpoili has pledged an all-round development in the areas of security, peace, unity, development and growth…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Ogbeide Osas KENNEDY: We lost Awo, yet we proclaimed he was the president that Nigeria never had.Achebe wrote in his book, There was a country, a book meant to tarnish the image of Pa Awo, but unfortunately, the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Chairman of Isoko South local government area, Sir Itiako Ikpokpo, Hon. Juan Governor, chairman Ndokwa East, Hon Perez Omoun, chairman Patani local local government area, represented by the vice chairman, Hon. Perekeme D.J. Obi…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: This is surely not the best of times for the Governor of Ekiti State and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Yet, he seems to be riding in the storm, purportedly…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North East Bureau): The convoy of Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum was again attacked on Sunday morning around Baga. The latest attack, which recorded no death, happened when the convoy was on their way…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Olamilekan Agbeleshe, also known as Laycon has been declared winner of the 2020 Big Brother Naija Reality show (Season 5), with Dorathy as the first runner-up to beat 19 other housemates. He becomes the 4th male housemate to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Editor): Police on Saturday confirmed the attack on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum. In the convoy the governor was however absent as he chose to travel by air to Baga…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Twenty-six beneficiaries of the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP), on Friday, September 25, 2020 received their starter packs in Asaba, having successfully completed their training and passed the second Post Training…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Isoko Development Union, High Chief Iduh Amadhe, has called on Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State, for urgent intervention to rescue people and vehicles stranded as ravaging flood cut’s…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has attributed the reelection of Mr. Godwin Obaseki…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Isoko Development Union, High Chief Iduh Amadhe at the weekend commiserated with the family of High Chief Patrick Wilson Omonose as he was laid to rest at Olomoro, Isoko South local…
–Blank NEWS Online ( NIGERIA) – Front Albert Ograka: Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has described the death of the Emir of Zazzau (Zaria), Alhaji Shehu Idris, as a personal loss…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Not everybody saw it coming, neither do I, too. Not with the vociferous echoes of assurances coming from the APC national leadership and the misunderstood demagoguery of her local chieftains. It was a rude shock…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Obaseki, winner of the governorship election in Edo State. INEC’s Returning Officer, Prof. Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, who announced the total result of the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The special adviser to the governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor, has urged the people of Aboh, Ndokwa East, Kwale, Ndokwa West and Obiaruku,…
PRESS RELEASE OFISOKO ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (IANA)ON THE DEMANDS OF THE ISOKO NATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA The Isoko Association of North America (IANA) is the umbrella organisation of people of Isoko descent living in North America, committed to…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Primary schools in Delta State are to resume academic activities as primary six pupils have been asked to resume school on Wednesday, September 16, 2020.In the same vein, all primary school teachers in the state have been ordered…
-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): Following the review of the interim leadership constituted for the Delta Online Publishers’ Forum (DOPF) in 2017, an elected leadership to steer the affairs of the body has been elected. The new Executive Committee (Exco) inaugurated on Thursday,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: To the average political pundit and the avowed political watcher, Sen Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his politics needs no introduction. This owes partly to his near cult figure among his followers and his many political…
