Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Prosper Edo: As the Governing Board and Management of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), marked 2 years in office on 28th August, 2017, the Executive Director, Finance & Administration (EDFA) Bashorun Askia Ogieh…
“You are a favorite of the press.” –PMB Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: If you are wondering how Governor Ifeanyi Okowa became the “favorite” of the fourth estate of the realm, ask Mr. President. Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of oil…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State government has hailed the balanced reportage of the programmes and policies on the five pronged SMART agenda of Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa in the past two years, saying that the present…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Doris Yeri Warri Aboh: FOLLOWING the Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa’s SMART agenda, encapsulating strategic wealth creation project and provision of jobs for all Deltans, meaningful peace building platforms aimed at political and social harmony…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Dr Ebi Franklin Waboke: The Niger Delta referred to and meant by the ijaw struggle is strictly and unchangeably the area occupied by the ijaws, the aboriginal tribe of the delta basin of River Niger partitioned into…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Sunday Ikuesan: Rhetorically we say the world is a global village. Everyone thinks he can take advantage of this and find home away from home in any part of the world, especially Africans in Africa. The advantage…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –BY JOHNSON EBIGIDE: The Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), like many other trade unions in the country, has suffered(and still suffering) the debilitating impact of leadership tussle and unbecoming conducts of some of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Support for the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun mounted on Tuesday as prominent leaders of the party lauded his leadership qualities, describing him as “a man of honour, integrity and dignity”….
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Greetings to my leaders, brothers and sisters of Ndokwa Nation. I must say this without fear of any big name, but only with the fear of God! the creator of Heaven and Earth and for those of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Julius Oweh– For the past three weeks or so, I have wrestled with the idea of writing this article. Theissue is not the absence of the muse`s inspirations or materials to write on but I was caught…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– “Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.” –James 4:3.. The duo of Rt. Hon. Monday Owhigho Igbuya and Olorogun Williams Makinde makes a good story,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Julius Oweh– The birth of Delta State was mired in political intrigues and controversy as the political and military elites disdained the wisdom that found expression in the centrality of Abuja as the capital of Nigeria and…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – By Reuben Abati “Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?” “Bush meat?” “The lion in the zoo that became bush meat in Jos” “What’s my own inside? I don’t know any zoo worker in…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Written by Ajalakpo Oweh; Legislators in any political setting or locale are meant to represent the electorate and the welfare and interests of their constituents should be paramount. But that is not so with the members of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – By Reuben Abati A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be of use to them and provide necessary knowledge and guidance suitable for…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – By Reuben Abati One of the finest persons I have been privileged to know is Odia Ofeimun: the man has a clean heart, he is completely incapable of malice, and in the face of all odds, he has…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – By Reuben Abati “You look sleepy” “My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel.” “For which of the women in your life, because I hear these days, to please a woman in…
Nigeria, September 17, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – by Fejiro Oliver “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift…
Nigeria, October 16, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Written by Ajalakpo Oweh (Courtesy: National Review Magazine) www.nationalreview.ng The electorates in Nigeria’s South-Southern state of Delta are becoming apprehensive that the promises of prosperity that moved them to cast their votes for Governor…
Nigeria, October 06, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – By Alex O. Atawa-Akpodiete* Last week, the most populous nation Africa celebrated its 55th independence from the British colonial masters. While there were many reasons to celebrate (such as unity), arguably there are also…
June 25, (Blank NEWS Online) – A few days ago, when information started trickling in that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, may be considering bombing a supposed ex-militant and kidnappers’ hideout…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged the nation’s leaders to embark on a value reorientation in the country so as to unlock the vast potentials of the country. Besides, he urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to learn from its…
On that fateful Night,Uncle Femi rushed to my Dad’s Peugeot 504 to get the car battery, connected to the TV set, it came alive, NEPA had earlier seized power, and, once again we continued with the Nigeria vs Italy at the group…
No sooner than Gen Muhammadu Buhari emerged President-elect of Nigeria was he also selected as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. The magazine recognizes that people’s expectations of Buhari are high in keeping with “… the historic…
Folks, let us make no mistake about this, there MUST be continuity in Lagos State. And here are my reasons for saying so. The state has witnessed tremendous growth in many areas in the last sixteen years, people who LIVE in Lagos…
It seems the next proper thing to do in Nigeria, once you have made money, is to go grab power by all means as is the story of Diamond Bank’s former MD, Alex Otti. The Alex Otti I know is the same…
On the eve of New Year, December 31, 2014, Renowned Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka of Catholic Adoration Centre in Enugu, Enugu State, stunned all Catholic faithful and Nigerians with his attack on the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Mbaka, who…
The outcome of the national convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where the convention voted to ratify the adoption of Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate ahead of 2015 elections and the official announcement of former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari,…
How do you manage the affairs of a chief executive who is the target of vicious criticism, serial litigations challenging his election and is adjudged more on ethnic considerations? No Mass Communications class has such recipe. For Chike C. Ogeah, managing the…
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, the United States responded just days later with a military sealift, the success of which is unparalleled. In just 45 days the United States moved to Saudi Arabia the equivalent of a city…
It is a political truism that the sudden entry of Sir Tony Chuks Obuh, a retired permanent secretary in the Delta State Civil Service is causing political panic among other aspirants and their supporters because of the momentum that he has gathered…
The piece published by Reagan Ufomba in one of the national dailies on Tuesday May 27, 2014 is at best ludicrous. It is very obvious that Ufomba has not discovered himself. He would not, because he had not spared the time to…
Without sounding immodest Abia State has become reference point for good governance since the advent of the present democratic dispensation in Nigeria. For the people of Abia State there is every reason to feel good for getting the benefits of the…
That every part of Nigeria can blossom and achieve a full employment economy is a vision that has been clear to me for a long time. The path to it has been, for me, the idea of zones of development which first…
A Memo to the Northern Governors Forum by His Excellency, V/Admiral Murtala H. Nyako (rtd.), CFR, GCON, rcds, Executive Governor Adamawa State On On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in ‘Northern Nigeria’. The adverse security situation in Northern Nigeria in particular and Nigeria in general…
COMMITTEE OF SENIOR JOURNALISTS IN DELTA: STATE OF THE UNION We have watched and read with a growing sense of anger and disquiet, the needless vituperations, shenanigans and provocative incitements by certain so called journalists, whose claims to the profession are both…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer from Nigeria. She has been called “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”. Chimamanda Adichie recently spoke out…
Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State may have vowed to resist attempts to cede the party structure to the former state governor, Senator Bukola Saraki whom they described as a new entrant into the party. They have however,…
Oil and gas wealthy Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has enunciated on the policy objective of the Delta Beyond Oil initiative, saying that nationally acclaimed policy was borne out of the need to save the state from over dependence on its…
Having heard so much about London -‘ebe oku na-enwu n’elu (where light shines from the top), I set out for this trip with so much excitement. This excitement which I can only compare with the one I felt when I first heard…
