-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) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT has become very obvious that Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the diminutive governor of Kaduna state, do not know how to choose his fights. When he’s not up ‘in arms’ against his Southern Kaduna people, or…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): • World economy facing US$3.8 trillion economic hit, with half absorbed by wealthiest countries• New report ‘21 Priorities for Governments in 2021’ Identifies Five Areas in Post-pandemic Recovery A seminal report launched by the World Government Summit Organization…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT is becoming increasingly nauseating, listening to our Presidential Spokesmen of late. From the vocal cords of Mallam Garba Shehu to the erstwhile intelligent but polluted mind of Deacon Femi Adesina, truth and reality has…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: MYSTERIOUS thunderstorm has allegedly killed three persons in Delta state. According to anonymous sources, a young man known as Victory Emuobor was allegedly knocked out while playing football with other boys at Evoja primary school…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: JUST as everything in life that has a beginning must come to an end, President Idriss Deby of Chad has met his Waterloo at the very frontline where he courageously went to visit his fighting…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: FOR a growing economy such as ours, the ministry of communication and Digital Economy is a sensitive place for anyone to cast aspersion upon. But the youthful minister, Ali Patami, has helped to draw the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Frowns @ Non Payment Of Journalists By Media Owners Wants Covid-19 Bail-Out Fund For Media Practitioners Urges FG To Rejig Security Apparatus Tasks FG To Tackle Electricity Supply Problems Condemns Soaring Unemployment Expresses Worry With…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Mike SOGBOLO: INDIAN Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has said the World has been asking the wrong questions since the end of the Second World War in 1945. The Prime Minister, in his address on Tuesday, at the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE shenanigans of the vicious Nigerian elites has for time immemorial, brought our Nation into a serious disrepute, knowingly or unknowingly. They have gradually put fire to the inflammable tail of our socio- cultural pluralism…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: ONE of the palpably visible source of anger that readily culminates into feelings of separatism and other existential cry in our Nation today is insecurity. This is more so, given the level of workable strategies…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE rise of discontent and dissatisfaction as a result of crass carelessness, clumsiness and cluelessness on the part of our leaders to finding a solution to our Security challenges is taking a deeper step towards…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most disturbing part of the blighting security challenges we are facing in Nigeria today, is the many tributaries of scary narratives associated with it. While the war of narratives is raging, the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Apart from the inherent contradictions bedevilling the Nigerian state from inception, which of course, was brought about by ethno- religious constructs and the fact of History, the immediate cause of the present agitations and conflagration…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is daily becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to understand the personality called Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, the Kaduna based, controversial Islamic Cleric and self appointed negotiator. On one front, he’s a religious teacher;…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Austen AKHAGBEME: UNUSUAL times have a way of breeding and bringing up unusual solutions from unusual sources by unusual people. The above aptly describes the scenario that prompt up the strange visitation of the Kaduna based Islamic…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID/ South-East Bureau: Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi says Nigeria doesn’t need more than N150 billion to procure COVID-19 vaccines. Commenting on the issue when he featured on Television programme on Tuesday, Mr. Obi…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The man, Sunday Igboho before now, may not be popular outside his ancestral territory. But he’s such a daring rebel, loved by his people especially the youth of Ibarapa, in Oyo state of Nigeria. The…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Edited by Albert OGRAKA: * Dein Of Agbor Donates 1Mn To Support Victims * Blood Donors Wanted, As Govt Hospital Lacks Facilities Blank NEWS Online can reveal that unverified number of casualties and properties may have been lost…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Like the mosquito that perches on the scrotum, the menace of the criminal elements within the Fulani herdsmen parading in our bushes and forest must be handled with utmost care, albeit decisively. The recent call…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Austen AKHAGBEME: The recent electoral, nay, generational clash between President Museveni of Uganda and Bobi Wine, the youth prodigy and opposition leader in the just concluded presidential elections, is another pointer to the continued domination of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Yabo Chris EPHRAIM: It is said that the reward for hard work is more work. With consistency, resilience, diligence and dedication to duty, the Nigerian Army has blocked the routes of terrorists supplies, closing in and restricting…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Johnson EBIGIDE: The Corona Virus Pandemic that took the entire globe with a storm is yet another inexplicable mystery about human existence on earth. It came without warnings and with a plethora of projections as to its…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: That year is gone. The year of the locust and the canker worm. That was the year full of political upheavals, social uprisings, inhuman vendetta, killings, kidnapping, you name it! As bad as it was,…
Pledges DESOPADEC Partnership, Cooperation With Leadership Of Isoko Development Union –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: The Udu of Isoko Nation, Odio Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has congratulated the newly elected executive of Isoko Development Union (IDU) and hailed…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The Bishop of the catholic Diocese Sokoto, Rev Mathew Hassan Kukah is not one that needs an introduction. His fiery mien, speaks of a unique Clergyman, with a heart for service and a concern for…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The dying ember of 2020 is a reminder of fiction taking the shape of reality. It was simply imagination mingling with memory invoking the imagery of doomsday scenario, which according to biblical scholars shall mark…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael OLUGBODE: As a journalist of over two decades working experience, I have learnt not to stand on the side of any politician, I do not take side especially when they are at dagger drawn against each…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most disturbing issues on the national question that most Nigerian political elites shy away from discussing, is the Igbo Presidency. The need and the quest for the Igbo Presidency has become like…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is simply unthinkable, at the degenerate level of our already comatose and completely confused internal security system in Nigeria, in recent times. That the anarchists can strike without remorse, at a time the chief…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): As Nigerians prepare to watch their President live, appear before a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday to address the security crisis across the federation, President Muhammadu Buhari may have cancelled the plan to appear before…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: Nigeria is such a unique country. Its uniqueness springs from the bizarre nature of leadership recruitment. It is a situation of people who ordinarily should not get close to the corridors of power are the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing phenomenon in Nigeria today is the continued display of bravado and reckless impunity by the ravaging Boko Haram sect and their equally deadly Bandit variant, in their nefarious operations…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Unlike Bathsheba, the lead character in Thomas Hardy’s epic novel titled: “Far from the madding Crowd” who later got married to his heartthrob, Gabriel Oak, the late Balarabe Musa could not realise his dream for…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In any procedural Democracy, the right to free speech, freedom of association and the demand for citizenship inclusion in governance, is the vent from which civil liberties breathes. Therefore, public protests becomes an active and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The eternal beauty (perhaps plague) of democracy is the rights of the electorate to periodically choose theirs leaders and live with such choice. In 2016, the Americans made the choice of Donald John Trump as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Okanga AGILA: Love or hate Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, but what catches that attention of everyone around him is his sagacious endowments and infectious aura are his admirably constant leadership qualities. It has secured and led…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Philip AGBESE: Anyone taken aback by the turn of events around the #EndSARS protests and the Lekki Toll Gate conundrum in Lagos State must have been negligent of the events that led to the 2019 election that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO : A leader always exudes confidence when he is sure that his followers are comfortable and happy. So, it was heartwarming, indeed, a welcome relief, to see Delta Caucus in the House of Representatives, led by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing situations today in Nigeria, especially at the wake of the recent hashtag protests, is the menace of Hoodlums everywhere. Their coordinated activities and the near similar methods of operation points…
