Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –Albert OGRAKA: Leaders of nearly 40 opposition political parties in Delta state are presently spoiling for a showdown with the Senior Special Assistant to Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on Inter-Party Relations, Mr. Moses Abe, who had…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has planned a major showdown with the Delta state government over its concluded plot to concession the state owned Delta Transport…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: A Delta State High Court sitting at Kwale presided over by Honourable Justice O. Jaloggo-Williams has sentenced eight accused persons responsible for the kidnap of the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly Honourable Monday Igbuya…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Executive Director (Finance and Administration) at the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Samuel Ogieh, (JP, KSJI, CNA), has expressed optimism that more human capital and infrastructure projects would…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The people of Okpanam community in Oshimili North local government area of Delta state have cried out over an alleged plot by the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led administration, through the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Urban Development…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has given the Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Mr Dafe Sejebor a clean bill of health over what it described as unfounded allegations….
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – THE Delta State School of Health Technology (DESCOHTECH) , Ofuoma, ranks among the best colleges of Health Technology in the country, but the Provost of the institution, Mrs. Dr. (Mrs) Agnes Olojoba has plunged the revered school…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Prospective traders seeking space in the 920-store capacity Aba Mega Hall, Abia State, may lose their investment in the edifice as the contractors who executed the jobs, estimated at more than N2 Billion, have threatened court action…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Residents of Sambang Dagi in Jaba Local Government of Kaduna State witnessed another earth tremor in the early hours of Monday, September 12, 2016, barely 24-hours after the first tremor was reported at Nok village about 20km…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally bowed to pressure from key stakeholders’ call for urgent shift of the governorship polls in Edo state, as it announced late Thursday that the date of the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s Debt Management Office has disclosed that the Federal Government is planning to borrow N120bn ($387m) in local-currency denominated bonds at an auction on September 14. The DMO said on Tuesday it would raise N40bn each from…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Two major security agencies have asked that the Edo State governorship election set for Saturday, September 10, 2016 be postponed. The Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Service gave this advice to the Independent National Electoral…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has finally responded to the published letter from US Congressman, Tom Marino, to the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, which called for security sanctions against the country, and alleging that the former…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “The House has passed the bill and I have to assent it, it becomes a law from today that if you do anything to the contrary you will be punished by the law. Any herdsman caught with…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his Sokoto State counterpart, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal have said dialogue rather than violent agitations would bring about speedy development of the country. The two governors made the submission on…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – A former Chief Judge of Delta state, OFR (Rtd), Honourable Justice James Omo-Agege, OFR (Rtd), is dead. A statement made available to Blank NEWS Online and signed by his son, Obaisi of Urhoboland, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege disclosed…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Military action seems imminent in the troubled oil and gas wealthy but impoverished Niger Delta region, as the Military hierarchy embarks on enlightenment campaigns ahead of intensive Army invasion against strong militants’ bombardment of oil and gas…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively report that the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has extended the tenure of the caretaker committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi by another twelve months. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “We have been told that we will be paid but that is coming only to deceive us to vote again for this government.” –Edo pensioners Retired civil servants in Edo state have vowed to boycott the September…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –Albert OGRAKA– The Delta state government has vowed to declare all Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) that are not electronically generated into its “FastTrack Delta” data base invalid within 90 days. The ultimatum was issued on Friday,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Local newspaper publishers in Bayelsa State, under the auspices of Bayelsa Federated Newspapers Publishers Association (BFNPA), have given the state government and security agencies in the state a 48-hour ultimatum to produce Chief Jones Abiri, publisher of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Embattled Nigeria’s Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has denied reports alleging that he had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as he insisted he was still loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC), having contributed to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – To facilitate development in the Niger Delta region, South-South and South East lawmakers have urged the Federal Government to review the ownership structure of oil wells in the country. “The people of the Niger Delta region should…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as provided for under Section 1(2) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Act of 1997, as amended. Mr. Buhari also…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Tension seems to have gripped Nigerians, expecially the Military top brass, following the revelation by a dominant Niger Delta Militant group, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), that the Nigerian military is currently scheming to cause crises…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointment of Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as the new Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP). Mr. Idris, an Assistant Inspector General of Police, is expected to succeed Mr. Solomon Arase who…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Minister of Power, Work and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has disclosed that President Mohammad Buhari has pledged to continue and prioritize the completion of the 2nd Niger Bridge. The Hon. Minister made the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari may have been diagnosed with cancer, sources at the Royal Hospital London, where he reportedly underwent medical check-up reveal. A source said: “President Buhari went for check-up hours after he arrived in London….
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta state born former Nigeria’s Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi, is dead. Keshi, who hails from Illah in Oshimili North local government area of Delta state, was said to have suddenly died of cardiac…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Claims that the alliance between the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his predecessor in office, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan had ceased, may have been put to rest, as the duo, to the admiration of…
“We see that the greatest challenge lies with Nigeria. The arrears that Nigeria is owning is 694,000 dollars because there was no payment made between 2015 and 2016. Because of the debt burden it carries, ECOWAS is now losing its credibility” –President…
Corruption charges, a deepening economic crisis and insurgency by opponents led to the downfall of Rousseff. Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – BRASILIA Brazil‘s Senate voted on Thursday to put leftist President Dilma Rousseff on trial in a historic decision brought on by…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has formally removed subsidy from sale of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol with immediate effect, an action which now allows marketers to bring in cargoes and sell, subject…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – A new militancy group – the Niger Delta Avengers, which came on the scene with a bang in February, blowing up strategic pipelines in Delta State, and are currently rocking Nigeria’s oil economy, has released a list…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Qaddafi was not killed for humanitarian purposes but for the oil and for money. His ideas of an African gold-backed currency were his major undoing. The recent Hillary Clinton email leaks have opened a can of worms…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta state government has raised alarm over the continued presence of fraudsters at the Bureau of Local Government Pensions, (Governor’s Office) Asaba. The public outcry is coming on the heels of myriad of complaints by members of…
“The cardboard box was completely blank and contained a small piece of rock, instead of the gold watch that he bought in an online auction and paid for with a credit card.”. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates–(Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– …
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Operatives of Nigeria’s anti-drug agency the NDLEA have dismantled a drug trafficking organization’s laboratory in Asaba, Delta state capital and arrested eight persons, including four Nigerians and Mexicans with 1. 5 kilograms of methamphetamine with street value of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The first executive governor of Delta State and former distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olorogun Felix Ovuodoroye Ibru, is dead. Olorogun Ibru, died at the age of 80, after a brief illness. The former…
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…
