Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – As former Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Engr. Victor Onyekachi Ochei marks his 47th birthday anniversary with pomp and pageantry on Thursday, February 25, 2015, the state legislature on the other hand initiated a probe…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Government has disengaged the heads of the six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the disengagement during a meeting he held with…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Enalo James– Christopher Erhodyne Anirah, flagbearer of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the House Representatives (Sapele, Okpe, Uwvie Federal Constituency) who was alleged to have died ahead of the 2015 general elections in Delta State, has…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– The Delta state government has adduced reasons for the delay in payment of January 2016 workers salaries in the state to an alleged attempt to defraud the state government of about N7billion. The disclosure was…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– Governor of oil and gas wealthy Delta state, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has assented to the 2016 Appropriation bill of N268 billion for the fiscal year. The 2016 appropriation bill showed an increase of N2.5 billion…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Okpala-Uku of Umusadege, Utagba-Uno, Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, Ogbu-Ewu Egbononwu Ojugbeli has raised alarm over threat to peace in his domain and postponed the annual general meeting of the community. According to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri has sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winner of the April 11 Abia state governorship election and the April 25 supplementary election respectively. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Benin Division of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, Edo state has nullified the election and Tribunal victory of Chief Ighoyota Amori of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will substitute its candidate as a result of the death of Abubakar Audu last Sunday, after leading in…
Nigeria, November 23, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Prince Abubakar Audu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded governorship election in Kogi State, has died. Audu, a former governor of the state, who was ahead in the…
Nigeria, November 18, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday screened and confirmed Barrister Peter Ovo Agbaja as secretary to Uvwie Local Government. The House also rejected the nominee for the Auditor General of Delta State….
List of Nigerian Ministers & Portfolios Nigeria, November 11, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – 1. Abubakar Malami – Justice 2. Geoffrey Onyeama – Foreign Affairs 3. Khadija Abubakar Abba Ibrahim – State Minister of Foreign Affairs 4. Muhammad Dan Ali –…
Nigeria, November 11, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Having successfuly squandered a whooping N750 million on a jamboree training session which lasted for six weeks in Atlanta, Georgia., the Delta State House of Assembly at its resumed sitting on Tuesday, suspended the…
Nigeria, November 10, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Ahead of the formal expiration of his tenure in February next year, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has been relieved of his job and granted permission…
Nigeria, November 07, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Chairman of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, Justice Musa Danladi Abubakar has declared Hajiya Aisha Jumai Alhassan of the All Progressive Congress (APC) winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election…
Nigeria, October 27, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – JUBILIATIONS across Delta State and beyond greeted the affirmation of the election of Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as duly elected Governor of Delta State by the election petition tribunal sitting in Asaba with Governor…
THE Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Asaba, has dismissed the petition filed by Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru. Justice Nasir Gunmi, who heads the three-man Tribunal during the ruling today, dismissed the petition for lack of merit, amid tight security…
Nigeria, October 24, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Saturday, October 24, 2015 nullified the election of Governor Nyesom Wike, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the April 11, 2015 governorship…
Nigeria, October 19, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The reported arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra, Biafra Television and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu by the Department of State Services (DSS) in Lagos, on Saturday, October…
Nigeria, October 14, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Blank NEWS Online can disclose that the Onitsha International Electronics Market, Anambra State has been razed down by fire without casualty reports. Some security men reportedly sustained injures during the inferno which started at…
Nigeria, October 11, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The first Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is dead. He was said to have died at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State. Alamieyeseigha was arrested at London Heathrow Airport…
Nigeria, October 07, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Senate President Bukola Saraki on Tuesday revealed the names on the ministerial list sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari. The much anticipated sitting commenced almost 11 a.m after which Saraki listed the…
Nigeria, September 30, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The One Day Symposium/Seminar tagged “Policies of Prosperity in Support of the S.M.A.R.T Agenda” has held at Government House Annex, Warri with the Delta state government pledging to ensure the sustainability of the communication…
Nigeria, September 11, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Scammers and fraudsters have allegedly beseiged oil wealthy Delta state, fleecing unsuspecting people, especially job seekers off their hard earned monies through undercover agents pretending to act on the behalf of the state ministries,…
Nigeria, September 07, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta state Police Command has apprehended 156 persons suspected to be members of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) in ASABA, Delta state capital. A statement issued by the Delta state Police Public…
Nigeria, September 01, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – In a dramatic twist, the Labour Party (LP) and its Governorship candidate in the April 11 governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru has cried out in court that his star witness has…
Nigeria, August 16, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Following a recent federal government’s warning about the impending flood that will be witnessed across Nigeria, especially in coastal line states due to the gradual release of excess water from the Lagdo Dam in…
Nigeria, July 13, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Governor of Nigeria’s oil wealthy Delta state, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has formally dissolved the Board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC). The dissolution of the Commission’s Board by the governor…
Nigeria, July 13, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Blank NEWS Online can report that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of new military chiefs, shortly after he relieved the former Service Chiefs, including the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki…
Nigeria, July 10, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Rivers state Governor Nyesom Wike, on Thursday night swore in twenty two caretaker committee Chairmen to replace the elected council executives dissolved by a a Federal High court ruling delivered by Justice Lambo Akanbi,…
