COMMUNITY NEWS: OLOMORO EXCO MEMBERS HOLD CONFERENCE OF STEWARDSHIP

COMMUNITY NEWS: OLOMORO EXCO MEMBERS HOLD CONFERENCE OF STEWARDSHIP

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): -From Michael EKOKORUWE: The executive members of Olomoro community over the weekend held the community conference and rendered stewardship of successful administration to the people of the area. The conference was held at Olomoro civic center, Isoko South…

O5 Initiative Commemorates World Charity Day **Rescue 23 Patients With N5.9M At FMC

O5 Initiative Commemorates World Charity Day **Rescue 23 Patients With N5.9M At FMC

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The O5 Initiative pet project of the wife of the Delta state governor, Dame Edith Okowa, has commemorated the World Charity Day with patients at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta state by paying the hospital bills of…

GROUP COMMENDS PRESIDENT BUHARI ON APPOINTMENT OF ODUBU, OKUMAGBA, OTHERS INTO NDDC BOARD

GROUP COMMENDS PRESIDENT BUHARI ON APPOINTMENT OF ODUBU, OKUMAGBA, OTHERS INTO NDDC BOARD

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A pan Niger Delta group, the Esan Solidarity Movement of Niger Delta, ESMOND, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the well meaning decision to constitute a substantive Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission. NDDC, with his approval…

AMORI IN AMERICA: COMMENDS URHOBOS IN DIASPORA **SAYS URHOBO NATION MUST UNITE MORE THAN EVER FOR 2023

AMORI IN AMERICA: COMMENDS URHOBOS IN DIASPORA **SAYS URHOBO NATION MUST UNITE MORE THAN EVER FOR 2023

-Blank NEWS Online (Philadelphia, USA): Chief Ighoyota Amori, Chairman, Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency has called on Urhobo People all over the World to unite more than ever to ensure that an Urhobo Son or daughter emerges as Governor in 2023….

Delta Govt Approves N1.5bn 2019 UBE Counterpart Funds **Plots 2020 Work-Plan for Job Creation

Delta Govt Approves N1.5bn 2019 UBE Counterpart Funds **Plots 2020 Work-Plan for Job Creation

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): In a bid to sustain the payment of its counterpart fund to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Delta Executive Council has approved the release of N1.5 billion for funding of primary education in the state for 2019….

Dredging Biz Feud: River Niger Sand Dealers Absolve Police Of Complicity

Dredging Biz Feud: River Niger Sand Dealers Absolve Police Of Complicity

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): River Niger Sand Dealers in Asaba, Delta State, have absolved the police of alleged complicity and favouritism in the subsisting feud between the group and their opponents of Sand Dealers Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society led by David Ossai (aka…

FG Okays Facilities At Asaba Int’l Airport   **Lauds Transparency In Concessioning Process

FG Okays Facilities At Asaba Int’l Airport **Lauds Transparency In Concessioning Process

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Federal Government has commended Delta State Government for the quality of facilities at the Asaba International Airport, saying the facilities are of international standards. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika stated this on Sunday in Asaba shortly…

EDUCATION: Delta State Govt Launches Back to School Programme

EDUCATION: Delta State Govt Launches Back to School Programme

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education is to partner with corporate bodies, individuals and the political class to fully actualise it’s “Back to School Programme”, which is an offshoot of Support-a-School Programme, starting from this…

Delta Youth Group Hail Buhari’s Approval of NDDC Board

Delta Youth Group Hail Buhari’s Approval of NDDC Board

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Isoko National Youth Council (INYC), a body of Isoko youths has has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the appointmentt of the new Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. National President of INYC, Comrade Utomudo Fidelis Obokparo, in…

ELUMELU DECLARES NASS MEMBERS “ONE FAMILY” **As Nwokocha Calls Him Special Breed With Great Interpersonal Relationship

ELUMELU DECLARES NASS MEMBERS “ONE FAMILY” **As Nwokocha Calls Him Special Breed With Great Interpersonal Relationship

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Asaba international airport on Friday was besieged with a mammoth crowd of men, women and youths who came from the Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency, Delta state, to receive Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, minority leader of the Federal House of…

Gov Okowa Says Regular Personnel Upgrade Responsible For Better Service Delivery  **As Ministry of Works Trains Civil Engineers, Plans Sending Some To Las Vegas Confab

Gov Okowa Says Regular Personnel Upgrade Responsible For Better Service Delivery **As Ministry of Works Trains Civil Engineers, Plans Sending Some To Las Vegas Confab

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Delta State Government has reiterated the imperativeness of regular update and upgrading of those charged with the responsibility of driving the implementation machineries to ensure that processes and derivables are in tune with international best practices. The State…

President Buhari Approves NDDC Board **Odubu (Chairman), Okumagba (MD), Erue (Delta Rep)

President Buhari Approves NDDC Board **Odubu (Chairman), Okumagba (MD), Erue (Delta Rep)

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – President Muhammadu Buhari, has, subject to Senateconfirmation, approved the composition of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The confirmation was contained in a Press statement, issued by Olusegun A. Adekunle, Esq, (KJW) Permanent Secretary…

DELTA AT 28: ASKIA GREETS DELTANS ***Reassures Of Better Days Ahead

DELTA AT 28: ASKIA GREETS DELTANS ***Reassures Of Better Days Ahead

“We Have Achieved Purposeful Governance, Delivery Of Democracy Dividends” -Bashorun Askia MD/CEO DESOPADEC -By Prosper Edo/Albert OGRAKA: WARRI – As Deltans, all over the world celebrate the 28th anniversary of the creation of Delta state today, August 27, 2019, tthe Managing Director/…

Borno Govt Count Losses **As Boko Haram Razes 73 Houses, 28 Shops In Konduga

Borno Govt Count Losses **As Boko Haram Razes 73 Houses, 28 Shops In Konduga

–From Mike Sogbola: The Boko Haram insurgents have set ablaze 73 houses and 28 shops in Thursday’s attack on three Borno villages, the state government revealed on Saturday. The governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Umara, had complained to President Muhammadu Buhari…

NIGERIA: Know About Buhari’s 43 Ministers Inaugurated On Wednesday, August 21, 2019

NIGERIA: Know About Buhari’s 43 Ministers Inaugurated On Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Babatunde Fashola Fashola born June 28, 1963 in Lagos State is a lawyer and a politician. He won the governorship election of Lagos State in 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the defunct All Progressives Congress (APC)….

SECURITY: Gov. Okowa Challenges FG On Herdsmen/Farmers Clashes

SECURITY: Gov. Okowa Challenges FG On Herdsmen/Farmers Clashes

Delta state Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has decried the frequent loss of lives from herdsmen attack on defenseless farmers and other Nigerians, insisting that the Federal Government must curb the menace through stringent measures. He therefore urged the Federal Government to…

Foreign Partnership: GEP Courts Delta Task Force On Human Trafficking

Foreign Partnership: GEP Courts Delta Task Force On Human Trafficking

The State Task Force on Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration set up by the Delta State Governor Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa is already being courted by foreign partners as the Grand Explorer Production GEP studio of Russia and Dublin seeks for its…

Elumelu Felicitates With IBB @ 78

Elumelu Felicitates With IBB @ 78

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Godwin Elumelu, has felicitated with former Nigeria Military President and head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida GCFR, on the occasion of his 78th birthday anniversary. In a congratulatory message signed personally…

“We Are Committed To Driving The Vision Of Gov. Okowa Through Legal Instrumentality Of DESOPADEC”  -Says Bashorun Askia MD/CEO

“We Are Committed To Driving The Vision Of Gov. Okowa Through Legal Instrumentality Of DESOPADEC” -Says Bashorun Askia MD/CEO

-By Albert OGRAKA/ Prosper EDO: The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has assured that the present management is committed to driving the vision of His Excellency, Dr….

Police Pay N3M Ransom To Kidnappers In Delta To Release Abducted DPO  **CP Denies Payment

Police Pay N3M Ransom To Kidnappers In Delta To Release Abducted DPO **CP Denies Payment

-From Crime Desk: A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Delta State who was allegedly kidnapped at the weekend along the Benin-Asaba-Onitsha expressway has regained freedom after an alleged payment of N3 Million ransom. But the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adeyinka Adeleke…

Sallah: Reps Minority Caucus Want Nigerians To Imbibe Spirit Of Love  **Urges FG To Release Sowore

Sallah: Reps Minority Caucus Want Nigerians To Imbibe Spirit Of Love **Urges FG To Release Sowore

The outspoken Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives, headed by Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has called on Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of love, forgiveness, and sacrifice in order to move the nation forward. The caucus made the call in an Eid-el-Kabir…

Sallah: Borno Gov Calls For Prayers For Those In Trenches  **As Yobe Gov Asks Prayers For Improved Security

Sallah: Borno Gov Calls For Prayers For Those In Trenches **As Yobe Gov Asks Prayers For Improved Security

-From Mike Sogbola: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara has called for prayers for those in the trenches fighting Boko Haram. This is just as his Yobe state counterpart, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni called for prayers for improved security, unity, peace and socio-economic development…

“We Can’t Win War Against Insecurity With Killing Of Policemen” – Reps Minority Caucus

“We Can’t Win War Against Insecurity With Killing Of Policemen” – Reps Minority Caucus

***Seeks Judicial Panel Of Inquiry The minority caucus of the House of Representatives, has condemned in strong terms, the killing of three police officers allegedly by military personnel in Taraba State and the purported escape of a kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala…

Breaking: Sowore Slammed Six-Month Suspension By His Party AAC

Breaking: Sowore Slammed Six-Month Suspension By His Party AAC

African Action Congress (AAC) has slammed its 2019 Presidential candidate and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore suspension for six months. The suspension took place during a Special Congress of the party held in Owerri, Imo state on Friday, August 09, 2019. A…

Gov. Okowa Advocates FG, States Collaboration In Development  … Commissions Market In Bayelsa

Gov. Okowa Advocates FG, States Collaboration In Development … Commissions Market In Bayelsa

DELTA Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has called for greater collaboration between the Federal and State governments to attract positive development to the people at the grassroots. Speaking on Thursday (08/08/19) when he commissioned The Goldcoast Memorial Market built in memory of…

IBB Meets Reps Minority Caucus, Calls For Robust Opposition

IBB Meets Reps Minority Caucus, Calls For Robust Opposition

Former Military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has spoken on the need for credible and robust opposition in a constitutional democratic country like Nigeria, noting that the robust engagement of the ruling party by the minority in the National Assembly…

Delta Yellow Garri Brands In Int’l Market **As Foods Export Initiative Hits Grocery Shops In UK

Delta Yellow Garri Brands In Int’l Market **As Foods Export Initiative Hits Grocery Shops In UK

Export quality yellow garri, the pilot product of the Delta State Government’s Foods Export Initiative has hit grocery shops in the United Kingdom. This is another significant milestone achievement in Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s determination to develop the agricultural value chain and to…

FEATURES: WHY SOME COMMUNITIES IN ISOKO LAND FORBIDS SNAIL

FEATURES: WHY SOME COMMUNITIES IN ISOKO LAND FORBIDS SNAIL

-By Michael EKOKORUWE: Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells. Typical garden snails are usually safe to handle and eventually eaten by many, but forbidden by majority depending on the reasons which majorly stern from traditional…

Bashorun Askia MD/CEO DESOPADEC Felicitates With Ibori @ 61

Bashorun Askia MD/CEO DESOPADEC Felicitates With Ibori @ 61

-By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon) Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has a on behalf of the Commission felicitated with the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori. “On…

Gov. Okowa Inaugurates Board of DESOPADEC   **As MD/CEO Bashorun Askia Pledges Rebranding Of Commission

Gov. Okowa Inaugurates Board of DESOPADEC **As MD/CEO Bashorun Askia Pledges Rebranding Of Commission

-By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has said accountability is as an indispensable tool of management and hallmark of his administration and charged all political appointees to embrace it. The governor stated this on Wednesday in Asaba at…

DOPF felicitates with Ukah, Ekwugum on their re-appointment

DOPF felicitates with Ukah, Ekwugum on their re-appointment

The Delta Online Publishers’ Forum (DOPF) has congratulated Ogbuehi Patrick Ukah on his appointment as a member of the Delta State Executive Council and subsequent deployment to the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education as commissioner. The body aso felicitated with the…

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Lauds World Bank for $300M to Fight Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Lauds World Bank for $300M to Fight Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today praised leaders at the World Bank for quickly committing $300 million in aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for its efforts to contain and eliminate an outbreak of Ebola in that country that has claimed…

Bashorun Askia DESOPADEC Appointment As MD/CEO Brings Excitement To Oil Producing Host Communities In Delta

Bashorun Askia DESOPADEC Appointment As MD/CEO Brings Excitement To Oil Producing Host Communities In Delta

-By Albert OGRAKA: Deltans from oil producing communities, comprising Urhobo, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko and Ndokwa ethnic nationalities, have expressed satisfaction over the appointment of the new Board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) by Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa….

Boko Haram Insurgents Kill 60 Persons At Graveside In Borno

Boko Haram Insurgents Kill 60 Persons At Graveside In Borno

-From Mike Sogbola: Over 60 persons were killed at a graveside in Borno State, Chairman of Nganzai local government, Muhammad Bulama, told journalists on Sunday. Bulama, lamented that the insurgents who were pushed back two weeks ago returned on a reprisal mission…