The All Progressives Congress (APC), has on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 dragged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before an Abuja Federal High Court over alleged electoral fraud in the bye-election for the Delta Central Senatorial…
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the six rebel lawmakers in the state not to go ahead with their alleged plot to hold an illegal sitting at the State Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the six “rebel” members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, acting at the behest of Education Minister, Nyesom Wike, want to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach Governor Chibuike Amaechi….
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Willie Obiano, has won the Anambra governorship election after polling a total of 180,178 votes to beat his other 22 contenders from different political parties. Obiano’s closest rival, Comrade Tony Nwoye of…
The much expected but surprise and hasty merger of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (new PDP) with Nigeria’s newly registered main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may have caused sharp disagreements among the seven founding governors of…
Leaders from the Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State have pledged to engage their counterparts from other zones towards making the emergence of the governor of the state in 2015 from the zone a negotiated exercise as they identified agriculture and…
As the controversy surrounding the political and legal position of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) continues to heat up the Nigerian political system, the embattled party scribe has opened up on his recent “purported” suspension by…
The New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) says it received with joy the news of the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the suit instituted by Sir Celestine Omehia, seeking the ouster of Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. According to the faction,…
The New PDP has described the suspension of Baraje, Sam Jaja, Oyinlola and Kazaure by Tukur’s led NWC as barbaric, unacceptable, undemocratic and abuse of PDP constitution. Just as President Goodluck Jonathan is speculated to be planning a meeting with the seven…
The factional PDP led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje has hailed the Court of Appeal’s reversion of what it described as “unjust sacking” of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying that the judgement is a…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged politicians in Delta State to guard against heating up the polity by their actions and utterances. Speaking against the backdrop of last Friday’s explosion at Obomkpa in Aniocha South local government area of the…
The Alhaji Baraje Kawu led PDP says the increasing closeness between leaders of the New Peoples Democratic Party (New PDP) and those of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised questions in the minds of many Nigerians and fuelled speculations on the…
The Alhaji Kawu Baraje led PDP also known as the ‘nPDP’ has denied the alleged resignation of Governor Babangida Aliyu which was published in a national daily newspaper recently. The splinter PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze on inquiry by NF-Reports,…
The factional Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, led by Abubakar Kawu Baraje has decried the incessant harassment of its members by security operatives acting on the orders of the Presidency, just as it woos undeciding and intending governors to join its political “Résistance…
The Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is alarmed by the report in the Vanguard newspaper of 18th October, 2013 entitled “Alleged plot to kidnap Amaechi uncovered”. The breakaway PDP in a statement made available…
Despite efforts by political gladiators within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to calm the nerves of aggrieved participants in the last October 12 Delta Central Senatorial District Bye-Election, the last appears seems not to have been heard of the National Assembly…
A COMMUNIQUE BY THE CHAIRMEN OF POLITICAL PARTIES ON THE DELTA CENTRAL SENATORIAL BYE-ELECTION OF 12TH OCTOBER 2013 Following the conclusion of the Delta Central Senatorial Bye-Elections of the 12th October 2013, we the Chairmen of all registered Political parties in the…
Against the backdrop of criticism and allegations of flaws in the conduct of the October 12 Delta Central Senatorial District bye-election and the subsequent declaration of Emmanuel Aguariavwodo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission…
Blank NEWS Online can disclose that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate, Emmanuel Agwariavwodo, has gained early lead in the Delta Central Senatorial bye-election held Saturday and confirming his possible declaration as winner at the poll. Feelers from some tallied results of…
Ahead of the Delta Central senatorial bye-election scheduled for Saturday (October 12) Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has warned trouble makers to stay clear of the State and allow the election to be held in a peaceful atmosphere. The Governor handed down the warning…
The New Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has commended the Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, for his steadfastness and exemplary leadership. The splinter PDP, in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka…
Ahead of the 2015 gubernatorial election, key political players in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, have called on Deltans to support Chief Godwill Obielum to emerge as Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s successor. Blank NEWS Online reveals that the political gladiators…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has described the judgment of the suit challenging Prince Oyinlola’s status as the PDP’s National Secretary as a “miscarriage of Justice”. The factional PDP in a statement signed by…
Chairman of the New Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has unequivocally condemned the rape of the country’s economy by the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration. Baraje led-New PDP stated this in a news release signed and issued in Abuja on…
Since inception of democracy in 1999, Ndokwa Nation has suffered poor representation through leadership. This was contained in a statement issued to Blank NEWS Online by Hon. Comrade Ifeanyi Nwador Anyim, National Conscience Party (NCP) House of Representatives canditate, Ndokwa/Ukwuani Federal Constituency…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled Saturday, October 5, 2013 for the conduct of the Delta Central Senatorial District by-election. Recall that the by-election is necessitated as a result of the sudden demise of Senator Pius Ewherido of the Democratic…
As Deltans clamour for a successful successor to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan ahead of the 2015 gubernatorial poll, prominent politicians in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State has called on Chief Godwill Obielum to contest for the governorship position of the…
This piece is the exclusive opinion and views of the writer. No doubt, the instructive biblical story of Joseph’s coat of many colours is known to many people both Christian believers and non-believers. But how many truly know the import of the…
Ahead of the 2015 governorship election in Delta state and the need for a generally accepted candidate with people oriented initiatives, notable politicians in Ika North-East Local Government Area of the state have described Chief Godwill Obielum as a leader who is…
Can the newly registered All Peoples Congress, APC, truly upstage the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta State? While many will hasten to say no, others might be slow in answering if they consider a recent remark in the media by Chief…
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton a Philosopher and the first Baron Acton of Aldenham must have had Rivers State in mind when he stated that, “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount…
AHEAD of the 2015 gubernatorial elections in Delta State, Chief Godwill Obielum has been urged to contest for the position of governor as he has the intelligence, charisma and boldness to lead Deltans after Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s meritorious governance of the oil-rich…
DELTANS have been urged to support the aspirations of Ndokwa people of the Delta North extraction to produce the next Governor of the State. This is due to the fact that a Governor from Ndokwa ethnic extraction will be detribalized and work…
This Feature titled “Ogboru: The Journey So Far“, made available to Blank NEWS Online, is the opinion and position of the Delta State Stakeholders. On June 21 2013, the Supreme Court is expected to give its judgement on the prolonged legal battle…
The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has urged the people of the South-South Region to give maximum support to the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Governor Uduaghan who canvassed for the support during a State Luncheon to mark the 2013 Democracy Day…
PREAMBLE: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill…
A youth leader, politician and entertainment dude, Hon. Nwador Ifeanyi Anyim has lauded the efforts and development initiatives of Hon. (Evng.) Ossai Nicholas Ossai, member representing Ndokwa/Ukwuani Federal Constituency at the National Assembly. This statement was made by Hon. Nwador Ifeanyi Anyim,…
The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) has fixed its National Convention for May 25, 2013. A statement signed by the party’s Director of Media and Publicity, Abubakar Ateeku Yusuf, on behalf of the National Chairman, Major Gen.Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd), has revealed. The…
I have done several articles on Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and his administration in Rivers State, published by some of the leading social media outfits and National Newspapers, where I highlighted his revolution on Education, Health, Security, prudent management of State…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Rivers and Ekiti states counterparts, Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Dr. Kayode Fayemi respectively, have unearthed some veritable qualities of good leadership and governance among Nigerian youths. Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, who spoke through his…
