Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has assured Nigerians, especially Deltans, that the ground breaking for the the $16 billion Delta Gas City project and the Export Free Zone (EPZ) was feasible. President Jonathan, who explained that it will not be possible…
Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has expressed worry over the non collection of more than seven hundred thousand (700, 000) permanent voters cards (PVC) in the state. Addressing a mammoth crowd of Deltans who turned out for PDP campaign rally at…
As Nigeria gears up for the general elections that begin on February 14, 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the decentralization of the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from local government to ward levels. In effect, registered voters…
Speaker of Delta state House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Onwusanya has had his first ugly experience with the staff of the legislature, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), Delta state chapter, as they embark on an indefinite strike…
Former Nigeria Head of State and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), may face hitches ahead of contesting in the forthcoming Presidential election, going by the discrepancies surrounding the whereabouts of original copies of his academic…
The governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has approved the payment of weigh-in allowance for staff of parastatals in the Ministry of Information, including the Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) and The Pointer newspaper. The approval effectively meets the key demand…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared that the Shipping Line Agency Charges (SLAC) levied and collected from Nigerian shippers by shipping companies since 2006 is illegal. The Court therefore ruled that the shipping companies should account and pay to…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has made a breathtaking revelation by letting the cat out of the bag on how he personally averted several plots by yet to be named aspirants and their supporters to disrupt the last Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary by…
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has on Monday, December 08, 2014 emerged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)governorship candidate for Delta state after defeating 24 other aspirants in the primary election in which 1,121 delegates voted. The returning officer, Hon Karim…
Nigeria’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed that the Director General of the Delta State Direct Labour Agency (DLA), Emmanuel Odafe Igbini, is being investigated by the Commission in a case of abuse of office and money…
Prominent Delta state governorship aspirant, Sir Anthony Chuks Obuh has formally declared his interest to contest in the 2015 gubernatorial election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Obuh, who made his intention known while addressing Deltans who turned out…
The Mega rally for the public declaration of frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant, Sir Tony Chuks Obuh will hold today, Friday, November 07, 2014. A statement made available to Blank NEWS Online by the Director-General of Obuh Project 2015, Chief…
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have secured the approval of the Presidency to enable them control the political structures in their respective states ahead of the 2015 general elections. The trend will allow the outgoing governors…
Former Zambian Vice-President, Guy Scott has been appointed the country’s interim president following the death of the incumbent Michael Sata. Scott becomes Africa’s first white president since the end of the South African apartheid regime in 1994 Guy Scott has been appointed…
Donations from individuals, groups, party men and communities, amounting to about N98 million have been made available to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to pick up the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination form today, (October 30, 2014) as the ruling party’s candidate in…
Family members of late Mr. Ifeayi Obi, the Senior Driver of Delta State Commissioner on the board of the NDDC, Chief Tom Amioku, who was shot during last Saturday’s local polls in Delta State, have cried out for justice over the circumstances…
Nigeria’s oil and gas wealthy Delta state is now set to access the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N220 billion naira micro, small and medium enterprises funds for the benefit of the people of the state. The state is also partnering with…
Frontline, popular and most acceptable governorship aspirant in Delta State, Sir Tony Obuh, has strengthened his zeal to contest in the 2015 governorship election by collecting the expression of interest and nomination forms at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Secretariat, Wadata House…
Blank NEWS Online can disclose that the cordial relationship among the legislature, executive and judiciary as well as maintenance of separation of powers in Delta state has remained exemplary. This stride was further put to test on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, when…
The Mayor of Infant Jesus area in Asaba, the Delta state capital, Sir Ben Agazuma has urged all members of the “Tony Obuh (The Chosen One) 2015 Governorship Support Group” to remain steadfast in their determination to rally round Sir Anthony Chuks…
The Technical sub-committee of the Delta State Inter-Ministerial Ebola Preparedness and Response Committee said it has successfully carried out three suspected contact tracing of persons coming from Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) prone areas in West Africa. The functioning Permanent Secretary in the…
AS Nigerians celebrate 54 years of independence, the Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has granted total pardon to three prisoners sentenced to death and commuted the death sentence of nine others to various terms of imprisonment. Speaking on Wednesday, October…
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…
The Judiciary in Delta State has been granted financial autonomy by the State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, thereby ensuring the complete independence of the third arm of government. Governor Uduaghan whose administration had ensured the Judiciary in the state run its capital…
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…
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…
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 broke his silence on his successor with a charge on all aspirants for the gubernatorial election in the state to embark on issues-based campaigns rather than blackmail. He charged aspirants to sell their purposeful programmes and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has urged the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke to halt the planned cancellation of the Trans Niger Pipeline Loopline Projects (TNPL) by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The oil monitoring group,…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of AIG Suleiman Abba as the new Inspector-General of Police to replace the outgoing IGP Mohammed Abubakar upon his statutory retirement after 35 years in service. Abba’s appointment is with effect from Friday, August…
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…
Blank NEWS Online can report that the embattled President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been impeached, through eight votes to five of the 13-man Executive Committee. Maigari’s impeachment came shortly after members of the NFF reconvened to review Nigeria’s participation…
Embattled Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has been impeached following approval of the report of the seven-man panel that investigated him and his deputy, Bala Ngilari. The impeachment became successful after an endorsement of the panel report that indicted the governor…
The Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) of the Delta State Biometric Payroll System has uncovered 17 staff from the Women Development Committee (WDC) and Youth Development Committee scheme (YDC) who were collecting salaries from both agencies. A statement signed by the Delta…
Reprieve came the way of the 148 Local Government Chairmen and councilors sacked in 2006 by the government of Abia State, then led by Orji Uzor Kalu, as the Supreme Court last Friday in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel, faulted…
