God’s presence in Govt House greatest legacy to Oborevwori – Okowa

God’s presence in Govt House greatest legacy to Oborevwori – Okowa

Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday, said that one of the greatest legacies he would bequeath to his successor was the presence of God at the Government House. Okowa stated this in Asaba at the launch of a music album…

St. Paul Catholic Church (Okoloba Parish) agog as the Akpobokaemis’ host LITURGICAL MUSIC SEMINAR for choristers in parishes of Bomadi Diocese

St. Paul Catholic Church (Okoloba Parish) agog as the Akpobokaemis’ host LITURGICAL MUSIC SEMINAR for choristers in parishes of Bomadi Diocese

Worshippers of St. Paul Catholic Church (Okoloba Parish) in Bomadi Diocese, Delta State agog as the Akpobokaemis’ hosted three Days LITURGICAL MUSIC SEMINARS for choristers in the various parishes of Bomadi Diocese.  The Seminar, which is the first of its kind in…

Zulum, Shettima, Shehu lead Muslims to Eid in Maiduguri

Zulum, Shettima, Shehu lead Muslims to Eid in Maiduguri

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, alongside the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, and the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Umar Garbai Elkanemi, led thousands of Muslim faithfuls in Borno State to observe Eid prayers in Maiduguri. The two raka’at prayers were led by the…

Delta Governor-Elect, Oborevwori Preaches Peaceful Co-existence, Hope At Eid El-Fitr

Delta Governor-Elect, Oborevwori Preaches Peaceful Co-existence, Hope At Eid El-Fitr

Delta State’s Governor-Elect and Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has felicitated with Muslims across the country as they celebrate this year’s Eid El-Fitr, urging them to rededicate themselves to the teachings of Prophet Mohammad. In a…

Archbishop Okeke Urged Inmates To Have Absolute Faith In God

Archbishop Okeke Urged Inmates To Have Absolute Faith In God

-BY SUNNY A. DAVID: The Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province Most Reverend Valerian Okeke charged Inmates of Correctional Center Onitsha to have absolute Faith in God. The Archbishop gave the charge while delivering a homily at Correctional Center, Onitsha during an Easter Sunday service…

Zulum at Easter: Ask for Prayers to Outperform His First Term

Zulum at Easter: Ask for Prayers to Outperform His First Term

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has felicitated with Christians in Borno State and the rest of Nigeria on the ongoing Easter festival. Zulum, in his message released by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, urged citizens in Borno State to pray for…

<strong>Pope Creates Aguleri Diocese, Appoints Bishop From Mrs. Obiano’s Hometown</strong>

Pope Creates Aguleri Diocese, Appoints Bishop From Mrs. Obiano’s Hometown

BY SUNNY A. DAVID  Pope Francis has announced the establishment of the Catholic Diocese of Aguleri and appointed Bishop Denis Isizoh the Diocese’s first Bishop The erection of the new Catholic Diocese in Nigeria and the appointment of the pioneer Bishop of…

Anambra: Unknown Gunmen Kidnap Bizman Who Came Home From Zaria To Celebrate Christmas At Umuchu

Anambra: Unknown Gunmen Kidnap Bizman Who Came Home From Zaria To Celebrate Christmas At Umuchu

-From Sunny A. David: There has been serious tension in Umuchu town in Aguata Local Government area of Anambra State for the past two days following the kidnapping of the Managing Director of People’s Bookshop, Ogbuehi Pius Egwuekwe, by unknown gunmen in…

Christmas: Bashorun Askia urges Nigerians To Embrace Love, Shun Worries 

Christmas: Bashorun Askia urges Nigerians To Embrace Love, Shun Worries 

-By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh (JP), has encouraged Nigerians to embrace love, forgive one another, eschew anger, bitterness, hate, strife and conflict in all situations. The Udu…

<strong>Another Anambra Community Invokes Deities To Fight Gunmen, Crimes</strong>

Another Anambra Community Invokes Deities To Fight Gunmen, Crimes

-From SUNNY A.  DAVID: To stem the tide of crimes and criminalities in their area, Oba Community in Idemili South Local Government Area in Anambra State has invoked their deities. The spiritual action was sequel to series of crimes committed  within Oba…

FG Declares Dec. 26th, 27th, Jan. 2nd Public Holidays

FG Declares Dec. 26th, 27th, Jan. 2nd Public Holidays

The Federal Government has declared Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th December 2022 and Monday, 2nd January 2023 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola while making the declaration on behalf…

Isoko Praise Night 2022 Edition Holds Wednesday, Dec 21st

Isoko Praise Night 2022 Edition Holds Wednesday, Dec 21st

-By Michael J. Ekokoruwe: The annual Isoko Nation praise and worship program, tagged “Isoko Praise Night” has been scheduled to hold on Wednesday December 21st 2022. The statement signed by the chairman, Evang. Emmanuel Ofano and Bishop Ben Eghaire, the administrator of…

Gov. Buni enjoins Clerics to pray for Nigeria, leaders

Gov. Buni enjoins Clerics to pray for Nigeria, leaders

The Yobe state Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni CON, has urged clerics in the country to continue praying for the prosperity of Nigeria and its leadership. He made the call today when the National Leader of Jama’atul Izzalatu Bid’a wa ikhamatu Sunnah…

<strong>Soludo, Obi Meet, Hug, Days After Media War</strong>

Soludo, Obi Meet, Hug, Days After Media War

-From SUNNY A.  DAVID: Ten days after the Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, wrote report against the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, hugged with the later at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Awka during the Thanksgiving mass organised in the…

Pilgrim Baptist Centenary Celebration Ends With Call For Sustenance of Rev. Dr. S.W. Martin’s Mission Works 

Pilgrim Baptist Centenary Celebration Ends With Call For Sustenance of Rev. Dr. S.W. Martin’s Mission Works 

The centenary celebration of the Pilgrim Baptist Mission, has ended with a call for the sustenance of the uncommon legacies of the founder of the Mission, Rev. Dr. S.W. Martin. Grand finale of the week-long event was held on Saturday August 27,…

Yobe to Unravel Killers of Islamic Cleric

Yobe to Unravel Killers of Islamic Cleric

Yobe State Government has promised to unravel those behind the killing of an Islamic cleric, Shiek Goni Aisami. Aishami was gruesome killed last Friday near Gashua, one of the major towns in Yobe State. He was alleged to have been killed by…

Pilgrim Baptist Mission/Association Set For Centenary Celebration

Pilgrim Baptist Mission/Association Set For Centenary Celebration

Pilgrim Baptist Mission/Association of the Anioma Delta Baptist Conference, with its headquarters in Issele-Uku, in Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, is set for the Centenary Celebration of the Mission, founded in 1922, by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Nwadiei Martin….

Pastor’ arrested with three drums of *Mkpuru Mmiri*

Pastor’ arrested with three drums of *Mkpuru Mmiri*

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has arrested a pastor, Anietie Effiong with three drums of crystal methamphetamine, locally called Mkpuru Mmiri, believed to have been imported from India. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics…

Nigeria can’t progress without restructuring – Atiku 

Nigeria can’t progress without restructuring – Atiku 

Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, said Nigeria would continue to grapple with its current challenges unless it was restructured.  Atiku stated this at the 64th Annual Bible Study Conference of the National Council of Anglican…

<em>THE MUSLIM- MUSLIM TICKET: BETWEEN POLITICAL MISCALCULATION AND POLITICAL EXIGENCY</em>

THE MUSLIM- MUSLIM TICKET: BETWEEN POLITICAL MISCALCULATION AND POLITICAL EXIGENCY

-By Austen Akhagbeme: The media space is once again agog with arguments and counter-arguments about the recent religious choice of a running mate of the Presidential candidate of the ruling party, APC. The argument is aggressively tilting toward the side of those…

Eid-al-Adha: Bashorun Askia Felicitates Muslims *Urges Prayers For New Era of Justice, Fairness, Development

Eid-al-Adha: Bashorun Askia Felicitates Muslims *Urges Prayers For New Era of Justice, Fairness, Development

–By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has congratulated Muslims in the country and Delta state as they celebrate Eid-al-Adha. He urged the Muslim community to continually pray to God for divine…

PDP House of Reps Primaries: Reps Minority Leader, Elumelu Wins, Dedicates Victory To God

PDP House of Reps Primaries: Reps Minority Leader, Elumelu Wins, Dedicates Victory To God

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Godwin Elumelu has overwhelmingly won the PDP House of Representatives Primary Election for Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, Delta State. Rt. Hon. Elumelu on Sunday May 22 was declared the winner of the…

Deborah: Nigerians in Diaspora Describe Killing, Subsequent Protest Destructive to FDI Drive

Deborah: Nigerians in Diaspora Describe Killing, Subsequent Protest Destructive to FDI Drive

Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation-Worldwide (NIDOWW) has decried the murder of Miss Debrorah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto over alleged blasphemy and subsequent protest that has led to destruction of property. Coordinating Chairman of NIDOWW, a conglomerate of…

DEATH AND THE SHAME FROM SOKOTO

DEATH AND THE SHAME FROM SOKOTO

The gruesome and barbaric murder of Deborah Emmanuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto on Thursday by her fellow students speak volumes of the backwardness, zealotry and religious intolerance bedevilling our nation, especially in Northern Nigeria. Deborah’s offence…

Police Arraign Pastor Who Collects Money From Church Members With Promise To Take Them To Heaven

Police Arraign Pastor Who Collects Money From Church Members With Promise To Take Them To Heaven

Following an alleged controversial religious activity in Ekiti State; Ekiti State Police Command clears the air, calls for calm. A press statement issued to Blank News Online by Ekiti state police spokesman, ASP Abutu Sunday reads: The Ekiti State Police Command wishes…

Bashorun Askia Calls For Sober Reflections, Prayers, As Muslims End Fasting

Bashorun Askia Calls For Sober Reflections, Prayers, As Muslims End Fasting

Leading House of Representatives aspirant for the Isoko Federal Constituency, Bashorun Askia Ogieh has called for deep sober reflections and prayers as Muslims mark the end of Ramadan fasting. Bashorun Askia in an Eid-el-Fitri message on Monday, in Uzere enjoined all Muslims…

Easter: Reps Minority Caucus Urges National Rebirth, Economic Renewal

Easter: Reps Minority Caucus Urges National Rebirth, Economic Renewal

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has felicitated Nigerians on Easter, describing it as the celebration of the triumphant resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and the hope of a brighter future for Nigeria as a nation…

Ramadan: Zulum gifts food-bags, cloth, N5.7m to 285 Govt House cleaners 

Ramadan: Zulum gifts food-bags, cloth, N5.7m to 285 Govt House cleaners 

Borno Governor,  Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday, distributed food items, cloth and combined cash of five million, seven hundred thousand to 285 cleaners, messengers and others at  the lowest rank, working at the Government House in Maiduguri.  Each of them received…

THE SERMON AND SALVO OF SHEIKH KHALID

THE SERMON AND SALVO OF SHEIKH KHALID

There’s no denying the fact that hypocrisy, political myopia and deception are walking on all four in Nigeria today. The recent sack of Imam Sheikh Nuru Khalid by the management of the Friday mosque at the Legislative Quarters, Apo-Abuja laid credence to…

2015 Hajj Stampede: FG commends Saudi Arabia over Compensation

2015 Hajj Stampede: FG commends Saudi Arabia over Compensation

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commended Saudi Authority over compensation of Nigerians who died in the 2015 during the annual pilgrimage to Holy sites in the Islamic country. Five Nigerians lost their lives and two sustained various degree of injuries, however…

NDLEA Nabs Church General Overseer With “Indian Hemp” Cannabis For “Personal Use” At Nairobi Crusade

NDLEA Nabs Church General Overseer With “Indian Hemp” Cannabis For “Personal Use” At Nairobi Crusade

The General Overseer of Christ Living Hope Church, Rev. Ugochukwu Ekwem has been arrested with 54 sticks of drugs wrapped around his body by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos while…

LEAH SHARIBU: THE DEATH OF INNOCENCE

LEAH SHARIBU: THE DEATH OF INNOCENCE

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It was Dele Giwa, the assassinated journalist and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Newswatch magazine that wrote an article with a near similar title on what he thought to be strange in our clime, during his…

Anioma Delta Baptist Conference Annual Session Begins Thurs, Feb 17

Anioma Delta Baptist Conference Annual Session Begins Thurs, Feb 17

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: The Anioma Delta Baptist Conference of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, has concluded arrangements for its 8th Annual Conference in Session. The Annual Session with the theme: Kingdom People For Kingdom Project will commence on Thursday,…

Anambra: Soludo Will Surpass My Achievements, Obiano Pledges

Anambra: Soludo Will Surpass My Achievements, Obiano Pledges

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID In Awka: The outgoing Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has urged the people of the State to give total support to the incoming administration of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo. He stated this…

Dame Okowa Laments Youths’ Moral Decadence   *Urges Mothers To Tow God’s Divine Rules

Dame Okowa Laments Youths’ Moral Decadence *Urges Mothers To Tow God’s Divine Rules

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Albert OGRAKA: Wife of Delta State Governor and founder, O5 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, has lamented the orgy of moral decadence among Nigerian youths, saying that much is expected from the foundational upbringing of children by mothers….

How Senior Student Slit Throat Of Junior For Refusing Errand *Govt Sets Up C’ttee To Investigate

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Our CORRESPONDENT: Borno State government has set up a committee to investigate the incident of the slitting of the throat of Jubril Sadi Mato, a student of Elkanemi College of Islamic Theology, Maiduguri. Jubril, who is presently…