–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The remains of Prof. Abednego Ekoko, former Delta State Commissioner for Education and one time Sole Administrator of the Delta State University, Abraka, will be laid to rest on Saturday, 12th February, 2022 at his…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) has described the late South African Nobel Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu as a titanic figure of non-violent struggle, human rights and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed shock over the sudden passage of an illustrious Isoko son, Arc. Joseph Ajirioghene Ogeh. A message titled…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed profound shock of the death of Hon. Ikechukwu Akozor, Commissioner representing Ndokwa nation on the Board of…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: CHIEF (DR.) CJ OGBODU, father of the publisher and Managing Editor of BIGPENNGR, an online media, is dead. Chief Ogbodu died on Sunday, August 15, 2021, after a protracted illness at 84 years. His first…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Albert OGRAKA: THE Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed sadness and shock over the sudden death of Hon. Kenneth Ogba, Member representing Isoko South Constituency I…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE sociocultural organization of Isoko ethnic nationality, Isoko Development Union (I.D.U.) at the weekend, paid commiseration visit to the family of the clan Otota of Olomoro Kingdom, High Chief Stephen O. Akpotu, who passed on…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: JUST as everything in life that has a beginning must come to an end, President Idriss Deby of Chad has met his Waterloo at the very frontline where he courageously went to visit his fighting…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has commiserated with the family of Rt. Revd. Jonathan Francis Edewor, just as both political and prominent leaders of Isoko nation eulogized his demise at Oleh,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE remains of the late pioneer Bishop of Oleh Dicocese, Anglican Communion , Rt. Rev Jonathan Edewor will be laid to rest on Saturday, April 17, 2021, after a funeral service at St.Paul Cathedral Oleh,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described former Acting Governor, Late Rt. Hon. Prince Sam Obi as a statesman and a bastion of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The remains of the Odiologbo of Irri kingdom, HRM Joshua F.D. Aghagba, was finally lied to rest at the weekend amidst eulogies from the Delta State government, political and prominent leaders of Isoko nation, held…
-Blank NEWS Online –By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described Emeritus Bishop of Oleh Diocese of the Anglican Church, Late Right Reverend Jonathan Edewor, as the Gold standard…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Aniocha North Local Government leaders rose on Friday, February 12, 2021 from a stakeholders meeting expressing a total sense of commitment and unity to work together for the landslide victory of the party in the March 6,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Editor Members of the Board and Management of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), has paid a condolence visit to the State Governor, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, on the death of his father. The Managing…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Sylvester ILOBA: Death has been described as a notable end faced by the righteous people of God in fulfillment of God’s word in the bible which says that if we live, we live for the Lord, or…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has expressed deep sadness over the death ofthe Majority Leader in the Delta State House of Assembly, representing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Edited By Albert OGRAKA: DELTANS at home and in the Diaspora were on Thursday, January 28, 2021 woken up to sad news about the demise of two great personalities. First, was the breaking news of the passing of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Albert OGRAKA: THE Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has commiserated with the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, over the passing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of the social cultural organization of Isoko Nation, Isoko Development Union (IDU), Dr. Chris Akpotu has described the sudden demise of Hon. Tim Owhefere as ‘shocking and horrendous emotional attack on Isoko…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Chike C. OGEAH: I met Egba sometimes in 1989 while I was working with the Law Firm of Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe & Belgore. He was with CentrePoint Merchant Bank…we had gone to their office for an All…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Courtesy Phoenix Biography of Ladi KwaliDr. Hadiza Ladi Kwali was one of Nigeria’s foremost and most prolific potters, as well as the woman at the back of twenty naira note. Ladi Kwali was born in the small village…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): …. As Okowa, Otuaro, Elumelu, Oborevwori, Nwaodua, Chijuka, Odoe, Okwuofu, Kachikwu, Others Bid Sir Marcel Mekowuhe Nwaobi Farewell In an emotion laden voice, the member representing Aniocha North Constituency in Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Engr. Emeka…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Notre Dame College Ozoro Old Boys Association (NODACOBA) has described the death of a former Electoral Commissioner in the defunct Bendel State and its pioneer President, Olorogun Atuyota Ejughemre, as a great loss to the country particularly…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By AZUA ALONU: When we told our English teacher, we were going to put on stage J.P Clark’s Play. Ozidi, he said: You will murder the play. Our dramatic society in our estimation very virile, we were…
–Blank NEWS Online ( NIGERIA) – Front Albert Ograka: Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has described the death of the Emir of Zazzau (Zaria), Alhaji Shehu Idris, as a personal loss…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Dr. Askia Ogieh; the Majority Leader Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Tim Owhefere; the Director General…
*As Ministers Of Women Affairs, Information, NASS Members Pay Condolence visit To CAS -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): The remains of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF’s) first female combat helicopter pilot, who…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Archbishop of Bethesda Gospel Mission, Irri, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, Archbishop Christian Aggrey O. Apena, has eulogized Hon. Mrs. Catherine Ilolo, former commissioner, local governmentl service commission, Delta State over…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, today led Executive Directors and Management, on a first-call condolence visit to the family of Hon. Joyce Overah,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The early hours annual, ritual rainfall of June 1 may have unknowingly announced his passage to greater glory. It heralded a sad news. Majekodunmi Fasheke, known by his stage name Majek Fashek or the rainmaker…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh has described Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark as a towering pillar and source of strength to many he…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has extoled the leadership qualities , patriotism and relentless commitment of elder statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark even as he clocks the age 93 years. Minority…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Pastor Joseph Obaro IKUPA: Born 54 years ago to Urhobo parents from Ughievwen kingdom in Ughelli South LGA of present day Delta State, Rev. Ejiroghene Francis Waive is a man among men. From a humble beginning he…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Odio Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has felicitated with workers across the globe, as they mark Labour Day on…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed sadness and pain over the death of Rear Admiral Good Omo-Owho Akpolo (rtd.). Rear Admiral Good Akpolo (rtd.) who was one time…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has condoled the Akpolo family, over the death of former Command Intelligence Officer, Eastern Naval Command,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has expressed sorrow over the death of legal luminary, former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, describing his death as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Patrick OCHEI: The veteran journalist and Chairman, Board of Delta Broadcasting Service, DBS Asaba, Comrade Felix Ofou has been showered with encomiums by friends and staff of DBS to celebrate his birthday. The man, Ofou, born on…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): All is now set for the official reopening of Pilgrim Baptist Hospital Issele-uku for full medical services. The reopening follows the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Hospital established by a renowned Baptist Minister and founder of the Pilgrim Baptist…
