-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: ONE of the newly proposed universities in Delta State has been named after the former Premier of defunct Midwestern region, Chief Dennis Osadebay. This is coming on the heels of the passage of three Bills…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: Part of troubled Maiduguri was thrown into panic as a strange rocket fell, killing four persons and causing injuries to several others. A large explosion which shook part of the town and caused many to…
-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 Mike SOGBOLO: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi as the new Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). This follows the retirement from service of Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu….
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A petition has been sent to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) by a family of a 40 year-old Abudu Adedayo Temitope, over the killing of their son by a yet-to-be identified assailant in Johannesburg,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A suspect, who abducted and raped a 15 year old bean cake seller to the point of death has been arrested by the police. A statement on Friday by the Yobe Police Command said the…
-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) –Editor Amidst growing challenges in recent times, the wife of the Delta State Governor, Dame Edith Okowa has harped on the need for everyone to live with eternity in view. She made the call during the sixth edition…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Editor A Judge of the High Court of Delta State, Hon. Justice Anthony Ezonfade Okorodas, PhD, has made a mind-blowing revelation about his extranged wife’s infidelity, which led to his fathering three children that were allegedly not his….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: Residents of Damaturu, the Yobe State capital woke up on Sunday to see many of the structures in the town defaced with the poster of present governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello for President 2023….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE current itinerant herders crisis in the South West of Nigeria has further exposed the legendary fault lines, both real and imaginary, in our body polity. The ethnicisation and weaponization of any and every known…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (Head- North East Bureau): Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has welcomed the appointment of new service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari, promising to continue to support them in the ongoing fight against insurgency. The…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Mike SOGBOLO: Anyone traveling to United States have to produce a proof of testing negative to COVID-19 from henceforth. The new rule affects both citizens and immigrants wishing to travel into the country, according to a release…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): After a long call for the replacement of Nigeria’s service chiefs which many Nigerians say have overstayed their usefulness, following heightened national insecurity, President Muhammadu Buhari has at last, heeded to voice of wisdom by appointing new service…
-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) –From Mike SOGBOLO: American based Cable News Network, Inc.(CNN) objected to a Witness Summons by the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution of Victims of SARS Related Abuses for its Team of Reporters to appear before it…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Government Intervention On The Issue of Insecurity Conversion Of Ozoro Polytechnic To A Federal Polytechnic Inclusion Of Isoko Youths In The Non-Violent Phase Of The Amnesty Programme Call For The Sack Of NDDC Sole Administrator… Threatens To Shutdown…
–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): Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has confirmed the resumption date for second term for all public and private primary and secondary schools in the state. According to a statement by the State Commissioner for Basic…
-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) -Mike SOGBOLO (N’-East Bureau): The federal government has approved the posting of new Ambassador-Designates to Nigerian Missions abroad. The posting of a total of 95 ambassadors was given a nod in the latest approval. The approval was communicated…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau): A soldier has been sentenced by the Nigerian Army to death for shooting his superior officer to the death. The soldier, Private Azunna Mmadu-Abuchi, was arraigned before the 7 Division General Court Martial…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC” or “the Corporation”), the leading infrastructure solutions provider in Africa, today announces it has successfully secured a US$250 million tier-2 capital loan from U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Formed in December 2019, DFC…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny A. DAVID: Anambra State Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, Indigenous Artworks, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Christian Madubuko has resigned his appointment.The former Commissioner Madubuko in his letter of resignation, alleged endemic corruption in the system, asking the…
-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,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East: Seven hunters were blown apart by landmine about 30 kilometers away from troubled Maiduguri. The landmine, which scattered the vehicles of local hunters on the hunt for suspected Boko Haram who had hustled cows from…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively report that the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has ordered a new partial lockdown of all public activities across the state, as a result of the second wave…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Chief of Bureau: Sweden has donated N460 million towards fighting acute malnutrition in the North East, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. A statement by UNICEF on Tuesday said Sweden is partnering with…
–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) –From Mike SOGBOLO/Chief Of Bureau (NORTH-EAST): Suspected Boko Haram members have looted and destroyed four communities in troubled Borno State. Three persons, two local hunters and a civilian were killed during the attack on the four communities: Tashan…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Bureau: Twenty two thousand, five hundred and fifty six ghost workers have been unearthed in Borno State. This was the finding after two simultaneous verification exercises ordered by Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum. The…
-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) – From Mike SOGBOLO: Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has said the military has dimmed the hope of their ability to defeat Boko Haram as they have continued to show they cannot secure 20 kilometers away from…
Seeks Accountants’ Forum Cooperation With Gov. Okowa On “Stronger Delta” –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: As Nigeria is gradually becoming entangled in the web of ensuing global recession occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Forensic Accounting expert, Bashorun Askia Ogieh,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The euphoria that greeted the return of the abducted students of the Government science secondary school, Kankara, Katsina state, was palpable. It was a thorough relief from the usual double speak and empty yarns that…
–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) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Forum of Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta (FENND) has, at the weekend held its inaugural meeting that culminated to lecture on ‘water resources’ to streamline the purpose of the forum, have orientation of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Bureau: Nigerian monarchs have asked the military why can’t you occupy Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad region still housing Boko Haram insurgents. Speaking on Monday, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of…
