OPINION: ISOKO SENATORIAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE POSITION OF ISOKO TRADITIONAL RULERS COUNCIL

OPINION: ISOKO SENATORIAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE POSITION OF ISOKO TRADITIONAL RULERS COUNCIL

“… Says 5/5 Crusade Is Epileptic – Prof. Akpotu.” -By Jubilant Igelige, JP The President General of Isoko Development Union (IDU), Prof. Chris Akpotu has disclosed that Isoko ethnic nationality cannot afford to miss the Delta South Senatorial seat in the forthcoming…

E.K. Clark: How Not To Be An Elder Statesman

E.K. Clark: How Not To Be An Elder Statesman

-By Fred Edoreh: As a matter of culture we respect elders, but when they sometimes misapply the honour to manipulate society to achieve self interest it becomes somewhat unbecoming. I have read the open letter of our revered Chief E.K. Clark to…

Elumelu Was Not Chased Away By Adonte Community …Too loved to be Chased Away by Any Community in Aniocha/Oshimili

Elumelu Was Not Chased Away By Adonte Community …Too loved to be Chased Away by Any Community in Aniocha/Oshimili

The attention of the Ndudi Elumelu Campaign Organization has been drawn to a misleading video and publication purporting that the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and our Principal, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu was chased out of Adonte, a community in…

Okowa’s excellent performance in Delta justified his nomination as Vice-Presidential Candidate  

Okowa’s excellent performance in Delta justified his nomination as Vice-Presidential Candidate  

We have read with keen interest the open letter to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa by elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark.  First we accord him his due respect as an elder statesman and a respected father in our state, but we state categorically that…

Delta Govt Denies seeking fresh N100bn loan

Delta Govt Denies seeking fresh N100bn loan

-ByAlbert OGRAKA: Delta State Government has cleared the air on myriad of claims that it was seeking new loans from banks ahead of the 2023 general elections. It alleged that the misinformation is being peddled by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC)…

UK Group Condemn Delta “stomach infrastructure” politicians who recently left PDP

UK Group Condemn Delta “stomach infrastructure” politicians who recently left PDP

The Delta Advocate 4 Sheriff, United Kingdom(UK) has condemned and described as laughable recent defections from the PDP by persons who have benefited immensely from the party in the last 20years. The group’s president, Chief Dr. Ogheneovoh Amurun and secretary Engr. Ufuoma…

ASUU strike did  not affect Delta universities – Okowa 

ASUU strike did  not affect Delta universities – Okowa 

Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta, Sen. Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday, said the eight-month strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) did not apply to the four universities owned by the state.  He said…

Oko Youths Did Not Chase Elumelu, PDP Campaign Train Away, Rather They Were Welcome, Appreciated 

Oko Youths Did Not Chase Elumelu, PDP Campaign Train Away, Rather They Were Welcome, Appreciated 

The attention of the Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu Campaign Organization has been drawn to a misleading report published online on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 and credited to the Punch Newspaper, purporting that Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, the Minority Leader of the House…

RE: Crisis Hits Labour Party; Obi And Utomi Fight Dirty Over Campaign Money

RE: Crisis Hits Labour Party; Obi And Utomi Fight Dirty Over Campaign Money

THE EPISTLE OF PERSONAL BITTERNESS AND IGNORANCE BY AGENTS OF THE GROSSLY INCOMPETENT APC LED ADMINISTRATION The attention of Labour party was drawn to the coordinated attacked launched by agents, miscreants and misfits political characters loyal to the would soon defunct APC…

CSO backs award of crude oil surveillance contract to Tompolo

CSO backs award of crude oil surveillance contract to Tompolo

*** As DYC Boss Lauds FG’s Engagement Of Tompolo In Pipelines Surveillance A Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Groups has thrown its support behind the Federal Government over the crude oil surveillance contract awarded to Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) through the NNPC. The…

DESOPADEC Disowns “Fake” Bursary Portal 

DESOPADEC Disowns “Fake” Bursary Portal 

The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has declared that a fake, criminal scholarship portal is currently trending online. A statement signed by Chinenye Ezonfade, Head, Media & Public Affairs Department, urged members of the public, especially students from DESOPADEC…

John Akugbe’s naiveté on politics of ‘Deep Experience’

John Akugbe’s naiveté on politics of ‘Deep Experience’

The narrative by one Mr. John Akugbe, dated 2nd of August 2022 with the headline: “Okowa’s Misunderstanding and Misinterpretation of ‘Deep Experience’,” was one talk that exposed the shallow perception of the writer on politics and political talks. If he knew better,…

Gov Soludo’s Community Allegedly Invaded By Gunmen, One Policeman Killed

Gov Soludo’s Community Allegedly Invaded By Gunmen, One Policeman Killed

Gunmen on Friday invaded Isuofia Community, Aguata Local Government Area, where Anambra State Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo hails from. Our correspondent gathered one Policeman was killed in the process, and that the incident happened at a junction leading to the Governor’s House….

DELTA APC CRYING WOLF WHERE NONE EXIST – PDP

DELTA APC CRYING WOLF WHERE NONE EXIST – PDP

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Delta State Chapter has dismissed the latest Press Release by the State All Progressives Congress, APC, titled “DELTA APC REJECTS ASTRONOMICAL HIKE IN SCHOOL FEES IN DELTA STATE BY PDP-LED OKOWA ADMINISTRATION”, describing…

Update On Ukpokiti Terminal Fire Incident

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) From Editor’s DESK : The Management of Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL) in RECIEVERSHIP, have provided an update on the explosion and subsequent fire that engulfed the FPSO Trinity Spirit located at the Ukpokiti Terminal, in…

DELTA 2023: OKOWA HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT POWER COMES FROM GOD, NOT MAN

DELTA 2023: OKOWA HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT POWER COMES FROM GOD, NOT MAN

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA):(REJOINDER) Reading through the piece “As Okowa plays God in deciding who becomes next governor”, By Ekene Ozuagbu, one often wonders whether some people who write stuff and post in the public space are either ignorant Christians who do…

Obiano Shuns Soludo’s Transition C’ttee Inauguration, Journalists Barred From Event

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID/AWKA: Some correspondents of National Media Organisations in Anambra State were on Thursday barred from covering the inauguration of Prof. Charles Soludo transition committee. The event which was held at Golden Tulip Hotel, Agulu in…

2023: IBORI, OKOWA NOT ‘FIGHTING DIRTY’ OVER ANYBODY

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE attention of the Movement for Stronger Delta, MSD, has been drawn to a recent publication by a pan-Delta online platform, titled: “DELTA 2023: Okowa, Ibori Fight Dirty Over Successor”, and posted on several social media groups and…

Panic In South-East: Disregard Rumour Of 4 Days Sit-At-Home Protest, Says IPOB

Panic In South-East: Disregard Rumour Of 4 Days Sit-At-Home Protest, Says IPOB

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID: The Indigenous People of Biafra has allayed fears that there will be four days sit-at-home protest in the South-East to mark Nnamdi Kanu appearances to court next week. In a statement by the Media…

No Police Officers Abducted By Boko Haram, Says Borno CP

No Police Officers Abducted By Boko Haram, Says Borno CP

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)-From North East CORRESPONDENT: The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdul Umar has said no mobile police officers was abducted by Boko Haram during an attack on Police Mobile Training College, Gwoza. The police chief, who admitted that there…

Twitter Ban Lift: Reps Minority Caucus Says FG Has No Right To Regulate Freedom Of Opinion

Twitter Ban Lift: Reps Minority Caucus Says FG Has No Right To Regulate Freedom Of Opinion

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned in strong terms the declaration by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of Nigeria of having lifted the ban on the use of…

Akpodoro: Ex-‘Warlord’ Or Vicious Busybody Ethnic Jingoist, Mischief-Maker

Akpodoro: Ex-‘Warlord’ Or Vicious Busybody Ethnic Jingoist, Mischief-Maker

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): It has become necessary for the Movement for Stronger Delta (MSD) to intervene again by calling attention to another devious, stage-managed, vicious outing also directed at the person of His Excellency, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta…

RIGHT OF REPLY: Okowa Is Not Interested In Fighting Anybody -By Festus Bomo Patani

RIGHT OF REPLY: Okowa Is Not Interested In Fighting Anybody -By Festus Bomo Patani

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Editor’s DESK: The recent write up by one Dr. Ejikeme Alphonsus Chukwuemika(@chukwuemika@gmail.com), titled: “THE OKOWA XMAS GATHERING AT OWA ALERO – Demigod On Stilt Against A King David”, is not only laughable but very childish and…

REJOINDER: MSD Decries Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe’s Spasms of Garrulous Belligerence

REJOINDER: MSD Decries Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe’s Spasms of Garrulous Belligerence

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Editor’s DESK: The Movement for Stronger Delta (MSD) has expressed disgust and declared as unacceptable the tendency by the Executive Assistant to Delta State Governor on Communications, Mr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, to periodically blackmail and paint…

NDLEA Officer Didn’t Assault Any Passenger At Lagos Airport -Babafemi

NDLEA Officer Didn’t Assault Any Passenger At Lagos Airport -Babafemi

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that its preliminary findings showed that none of its officers assaulted an Air Peace Airline passenger, Ms. Abiri Oluwabusayo Khloe, at the departure gate of the…

Indigenous Contractors Say Impostors Plotting Unrest In DESOPADEC Mandate Areas *Fingers Opposition Party Chieftain

Indigenous Contractors Say Impostors Plotting Unrest In DESOPADEC Mandate Areas *Fingers Opposition Party Chieftain

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE DESOPADEC Indigenous Contractors Forum, has disclaimed an alleged planned protest by its members against the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) on Monday, 30th November 2021. According to the Forum, the planned…

‘No N4.5 Billion Padded Into NDLEA 2022 Budget’ -NDLEA Spokesman

‘No N4.5 Billion Padded Into NDLEA 2022 Budget’ -NDLEA Spokesman

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has dismissed insinuations from some reports that N4.5 billion was padded into its proposed 2022 budget. The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi said on Wednesday that the agency was inundated…

Reports On Assassination Of INEC Chairman In Anambra False — CP

Reports On Assassination Of INEC Chairman In Anambra False — CP

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Sunny DAVIDS: THE Anambra State Police Command says reports on alleged assassination of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra State is false and misleading. The Police Commissioner in the State, CP Echeng…

Pandora Papers: I Broke No Law, Says Peter Obi

Pandora Papers: I Broke No Law, Says Peter Obi

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)  –From Sunny A. DAVID: FORMER Anambra State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Vice Presidential Candidate in 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has reacted to a media report that he breached Nigerian laws by engaging in secret businesses…

Liman Describes Hoodlums’ Attack Of Firefighters Unacceptable

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: The Controller General of Federal Fire Service. Dr. Liman Ibrahim has condemned the attack on firefighters and destruction of fire trucks by hoodlums, saying that the action is unacceptable and those responsible will definitely not…

Minority Caucus Flaws FG On Harassment Of Channels TV, The Media

Minority Caucus Flaws FG On Harassment Of Channels TV, The Media

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has flayed the Federal Government over an unwarranted harassment of Channels Television and its staff; a development that smacks of another toxic push against press freedom and…

Nigerian Army Does Not Enlist Former Boko Haram/Islamic State Terrorists -Says Director Army Public Relations

Nigerian Army Does Not Enlist Former Boko Haram/Islamic State Terrorists -Says Director Army Public Relations

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: OUR attention has been drawn to an online video making rounds in the social media by one Young Elder and produced by Anthony Jay. In the video, the so called Young Elder attempted to draw…

Borno Emirate Council Clarifies Shehu’s Position On Reabsorption Of Boko Haram Into Society

Borno Emirate Council Clarifies Shehu’s Position On Reabsorption Of Boko Haram Into Society

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Borno Emirate Council has clarified the position of it’s Shehu, Alhaji Garbai El-Kanemi on the reabsorption of repentant Boko Haram into the society. The people of the emirate have lost several thousands of souls…

Zulum, Shettima Distance Selves From Embattled Kyari (See Video Proof)

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum and his predecessor, Senator Kashim Shettima have distanced themselves from embattled “Supercop” Abba Kyari, insisting that they have not met with him recently. A posting on the Facebook of…

Access Bank Risks Litigation Over Assault, Unlawful Detention, False Accusation Of Staff *As Attorneys Issue 7 Days Ultimatum

Access Bank Risks Litigation Over Assault, Unlawful Detention, False Accusation Of Staff *As Attorneys Issue 7 Days Ultimatum

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE Management of Access Bank Plc have been issued a seven-day ultimatum to urgently cause an independent investigation and redress the wrongdoings to one of its staff, with a written apology or risk legal action….

Employment Scam: NSCDC Warn Applicants Against Fake Recruitment List in Circulation

Employment Scam: NSCDC Warn Applicants Against Fake Recruitment List in Circulation

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Controller General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Audi has set up a committee of enquiry to investigate the individuals or group of persons behind the fake 2019/2021 replacement and recruitment…

Sheikh Gumi Lied: Nigerian Army Not Colluding With Bandits -Brig. Gen. Nwachukwu

Sheikh Gumi Lied: Nigerian Army Not Colluding With Bandits -Brig. Gen. Nwachukwu

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: THE Nigerian Army has just been alerted to a submission by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi when he featured on ARISE TV Morning Show on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 alleging that the Nigerian Military is colluding…

NASS Joint Minority Caucus Asks Nigerians To Continue Using Twitter

NASS Joint Minority Caucus Asks Nigerians To Continue Using Twitter

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Joint Minority Caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has met over the ban on Twitter by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government and restated its condemnation of the embargo as draconian and unacceptable….