His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, has addressed his fellow Nigerians to honour the 54th anniversary of Nigerian independence as a sovereign nation. Blank NEWS Online presents the speech. Fellow Nigerians: 1. Today marks the 54th anniversary of our country’s independence…
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, Monday in Sokoto stressed the need for Nigerians to work towards ensuring political stability of the country. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111, Governor Uduaghan said that the…
The Advisory Council of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) consisting of the nine Niger Delta state governors has met with a resolve to urgently address some of the challenges facing the Commission. The governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, who briefed…
Once upon a time, a shepherd raised false alarm of wolf attacking his sheep but when people ran to him for rescue, he dismissed them, that it was a hoax. On another faithful day the same alarmist raised thunderous alarm, which awakened…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan declared at the weekend that the people of the Niger Delta would remain undaunted in their quest for increased derivation from the Federation Account. Governor Uduaghan observed that the people of the region despite the stalemate…
President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed for cooperation from Nigerians in the fight against insurgency and acts of terrorism in the country. President Jonathan in a goodwill message to the Second Plenary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in Effurun, Delta State,…
Nigerian Military authorities in Abuja have vowed to defend the nation’s territorial intergrity and people at all cost, just as the Boko Haram terrorist group have allegedly taken over five towns in Borno and Adamawa states. The Defence headquarters twitter handle which…
Delta state government has frowned at myriad of claims by certain traditional medicine practitioners and spiritual healers in the state who say they can cure persons infected with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The state government, in a statement signed by the…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has assured that all non-indigenes disengaged from the Abia civil service will be recalled. He gave the assurance in Umuahia when he met with the Association of All States Resident in Umuahia who paid him a…
In the spate of the national security challenges, an appeal has gone to the Presidency and Nigerian Security Council to urgently recall the over 10,000 Nigerian trained Soldiers recruited into the Nigerian Army since 1979 till date who were allegedly dismissed by…
Nigeria’s Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of a new railway line between Lagos and Calabar. President Goodluck Jonathan who made the pronouncement on Tuesday, during the groundbreaking of the second cement line being constructed by the…
Australian negotiator Dr Stephen Davis continues making shocking claims now alleging that Boko Haram pass a large amount of their finances through the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN). This comes days after the expert, who had spent 4 months in Nigeria’s North-East…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has thrown its weight behind the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with a consensus plot to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected in 2015. Speaking at a rally held at the Ekwueme Square in Awka…
Rising to the wake up call by concerned Nigerians on the seemingly slurpy handling of terrorism situation in the North Eastern part of the country by the Federal Government and the International Community, the Nigerian military on Thursday, August 28, carried out…
The Catholic Church has been compelled to close down most of its churches in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states because of acts of terrorism, just as Christians and Christian institutions have become the major targets in the Boko Haram sect’s mayhem. “Christian…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has described anger as the greatest challenge facing Nigeria as a nation. Speaking on the topic, ” Nigeria’s Biggest Problem: Corruption or Impunity?” Governor Uduaghan stated that while corruption and impunity were part of the problems…
THE Onotu-Uku of Umusadege, Utagba-Uno, in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Adoh Ugbomeh has decried the aof the community by successive governments in the country. Chief Ugbomeh, while addressing members of Asaba Branch of Umusadege Family Union on…
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has suspended its over two-month old strike. The nationwide industrial action lasted 64-days. The NMA National President, Kayode Obembe, who disclosed this on Sunday, August 24, 2014, after an Emergency Delegates Meeting (EDM), said the association’s delegates…
Irked by the sloppy attitude of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in conducting a fresh registration exercise in Ika South local government of Delta state, the people have lambasted the Commission for possible plot of disenfranchisement. INEC had earlier declared that…
Nigeria has lost a senior doctor to the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced Tuesday evening. The doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a senior female consultant physician at First Consultant Hospital, Lagos, participated in the management of…
Ahead of Nigeria’s 2015 general elections and zeal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct hitch free polls across the country, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has urged Deltans to take the ongoing collection of voters’ card seriously. Speaking…
ELECTED and appointed office holders from Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in Delta State have been challenged to facilitate the tarring of Asaba/Okpanam/Issele-Azagba road through the Catholic Church, through the Amachai Community, Okpanam in Oshimili North local government area of the state. Chairman, Amachai…
World Health Organization says untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, considering the scale of the outbreak and more than 1,000 recorded deaths in West Africa. The WHO made the statement after its medical experts met…
The peaceful community of Ewulu in Aniocha south Local Government area of Delta State has sent a “SAVE OUR SOULS” to the Government of Delta state and the law enforcement agencies over the incessant Armed Robbery cases and other social vices confronting…
Despite its attempt to take proactive steps at tackling any outbreak of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Delta State Government says there is no reported case of an outbreak yet. The state government has however set up Special Isolation Wards within…
INVESTIGATING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ALLEGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE BY NIGERIAN MILITARY Gentlemen of the Press, Welcome to this press briefing which was compelled by the urgent need to clarify some developments arising from our counter-terrorism operations in the country. The Nigerian…
As the Delta state government and security agencies intensify efforts to curtail the raging crisis in Ndokwa West council area of the state, Ugiliamai Community has brazed up in the heat of the crisis to clarify some grey issues. A statement made…
Nigeria’s Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu has disclosed that a doctor in Lagos, among those who treated Late Liberian Ebola victim, Patrick Sawyer, had contracted the deadly Ebola virus. Although the name of the infected doctors was not revealed, the Health Minister said…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has frowned at the action of the new management of the Delta Steel Company (DSC), Ovwian-Aladja for arbitrarily sacking the heads of the DSC Hospital and the DSC Technical High School. Governor Uduaghan who described the…
Delta State Government has called on its residents to adopt precautionary measures to prevent the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) currently ravaging some West African countries from infiltrating the State. In a statement released by the State Ministry of Health and made available…
The Nigerian military has initiated an enquiry into the recent shooting incident between its soldiers on routine patrol and members of the Shiite Islamic sect last Friday in Zaria, Kaduna State. According to a statement from the Defence Headquarters, Ministry of Defence,…
The dreaded Ebola disease scare has led to the closure of an unnamed hospital and its workers and patients quarantined, Anambra state Commissioner of Health, Dr Josephat Akabuike has announced. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a viral haemorrhagic fever and one of…
Henceforth, any person who abducts a child in Akwa Ibom will face death sentence like a kidnapper under the state Child’s Rights and anti-Terrorism Act. Already, 25 persons arrested for alleged child abduction by security agents in the state are to face…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has said that Nigerians must collectively denounce terrorism and terrorists as it was antithetical to the people’s way of life or any known religion. The Governor who stated this in a goodwill message to Muslims in…
The Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Chief Godswill has flayed media reports in the press and online insinuating that he said he will kill Governorship aspirants. Reacting to the reports which he described as another smear campaign by traducers, through his Chief…
Wife of the Akwa Ibom State governor Ekaette Unoma Akpabio has said that most of Nigeria’s social problems are traceable to the loss of moral values at the family level. The governor’s wife was speaking to executive members of the Nigerian Army…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has condemned the recent bomb blasts in Kaduna which claimed the lives of over 100 people. He also thanked God for saving the lives of the former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and a prominent…
One hundred days of the abduction of students of Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by the Boko Haram sect was marked by the Delta State Government with a solemn assembly where prayers were offered for their safe release. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan…
Nigerians have been advised to persevere in prayer for the safety of the Chibok girls and for divine guidance for President Goodluck Jonathan and the armed forces as they work to secure their release. The call was made by the wife of…
On the heels of the successful impeachment of the Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Hamman-Yero Nyako (retd) on 15th July, 2014 by the Adamawa State House of Assembly, the people of Rivers State have vowed to defend and protect the mandate…
