Nepal Earthquake: United Arab Emirates' MoI Sends Search, Rescue Team

Nepal Earthquake: United Arab Emirates' MoI Sends Search, Rescue Team

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Blank NEWS Online can report that following a high magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior’s search and rescue team has departed for Nepal to help with the international relief operation after…

Buhari Is Nigeria's President-Elect  *Jonathan Assures Smooth Handover

Buhari Is Nigeria's President-Elect *Jonathan Assures Smooth Handover

“Muhammadu Buhari, of the APC, having satisfied the requirement for the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected.” These were the words of Prof. Attahiru Jega, ChIrman of the Independent National Electoral…

Human Capital Development: Uduaghan Doles Out N500M to 100 1st Class Delta Graduates

Human Capital Development: Uduaghan Doles Out N500M to 100 1st Class Delta Graduates

Delta State government has ssued N500 million to deserving 100 fisrt class graduate students of Delta sate origin in the year 2013 First Class Graduate Scholarship Scheme. Uduaghan on Monday, March 23, 2015 presented the N500 million cheques to the 100 first…

Breaking News: Jega Bows To Pressure, Shift 2015 Polls To March 28, April 11

Breaking News: Jega Bows To Pressure, Shift 2015 Polls To March 28, April 11

True to bookmakers’ predictions and recent pressure on the Chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body, Prof. Atahiru Jega to urgently postpone the 2015 polls, owing to non availability of the Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC), the Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) has postponed the 2015 general elections…

Breaking News: APC 'Big Fish' Tilije Decamps To PDP In Delta

Breaking News: APC 'Big Fish' Tilije Decamps To PDP In Delta

Ahead of the February 28 governorship polls in Delta State, a political ‘Big fish’ and a gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Sir Okenmor Fidelis Tilije has formally decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While receiving Sir Tilije into the PDP, in…

$16bn Delta Gas City Project: "Groundbreaking Before May 29" -President Jonathan

$16bn Delta Gas City Project: "Groundbreaking Before May 29" -President Jonathan

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…

INEC Decentralizes Collection Of PVCs In Delta

INEC Decentralizes Collection Of PVCs In Delta

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…

Army Dumps Its "General" *Denies Being In Custody Of Buhari’s Original Certificates

Army Dumps Its "General" *Denies Being In Custody Of Buhari’s Original Certificates

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…

Weigh-In Allowance: Uduaghan Approves Payment For Delta Media Workers

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…

Illegal Port Charges: Court Orders Shipping Companies To Refund Over N1trn

Illegal Port Charges: Court Orders Shipping Companies To Refund Over N1trn

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…

Breaking News: Okowa Is Delta PDP Governorship Flag-bearer *Gets Uduaghan's Accolade

Breaking News: Okowa Is Delta PDP Governorship Flag-bearer *Gets Uduaghan's Accolade

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…

Update: Why EFCC Arraigned Igbini, Delta Direct Labour Agency Boss For Corruption

Update: Why EFCC Arraigned Igbini, Delta Direct Labour Agency Boss For Corruption

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…

Deltans Endorse Obuh For Governance *As Obuh Pledges Loyalty, Sustained Development

Deltans Endorse Obuh For Governance *As Obuh Pledges Loyalty, Sustained Development

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…

Breaking News>>> 2015: PDP Hands Over Party Structures to Govs

Breaking News>>> 2015: PDP Hands Over Party Structures to Govs

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…

2015 Presidency: Jonathan Picks PDP Re-election Form With Donations

2015 Presidency: Jonathan Picks PDP Re-election Form With Donations

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…

Death @ The Polls: Family of late Amioku’s Driver Cry out for Justice

Death @ The Polls: Family of late Amioku’s Driver Cry out for Justice

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…

Delta To Access N220Bn CBN Fund, Export Fish *As Uduaghan Gives Micro Credit Law

Delta To Access N220Bn CBN Fund, Export Fish *As Uduaghan Gives Micro Credit Law

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…

Delta Governorship: Obuh Pick PDP Nomination Form To Contest  *Nigerians, Deltans Happy

Delta Governorship: Obuh Pick PDP Nomination Form To Contest *Nigerians, Deltans Happy

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…

Delta Assembly Confers "Vote of Confidence" on Gov. Uduaghan *Lawmakers Flay Rumour Of Impeachment

Delta Assembly Confers "Vote of Confidence" on Gov. Uduaghan *Lawmakers Flay Rumour Of Impeachment

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…

Obuh's Supporters Hold Victory Prayers Ahead of Delta Guber Polls *Agazuma Urges Steadfastness

Obuh's Supporters Hold Victory Prayers Ahead of Delta Guber Polls *Agazuma Urges Steadfastness

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…

Ebola Technical Sub-C'ttee Certifies 3 Quarantined Persons Free of EVD In Delta

Ebola Technical Sub-C'ttee Certifies 3 Quarantined Persons Free of EVD In Delta

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…

Independence Day: Uduaghan Pardons Prisoners Waiting Hang-mans Noose

Independence Day: Uduaghan Pardons Prisoners Waiting Hang-mans Noose

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…

NDDC Advisory Council Moves To Tackle Commision's Challenges  *Seeks Avenue To Check Defaulting Oil Majors

NDDC Advisory Council Moves To Tackle Commision's Challenges *Seeks Avenue To Check Defaulting Oil Majors

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…

Delta Grants Judiciary Financial Autonomy  *As Uduaghan Signs Two Bills Into Law

Delta Grants Judiciary Financial Autonomy *As Uduaghan Signs Two Bills Into Law

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…

National Security: 10,000 Dismissed Nigerian Trained Soldiers Beg For Recall

National Security: 10,000 Dismissed Nigerian Trained Soldiers Beg For Recall

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…

Revealed: CBN Enables Boko Haram Funding -Says Australian Negotiator

Revealed: CBN Enables Boko Haram Funding -Says Australian Negotiator

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…

Terrorism: Nigeria, Cameroon Bomb Boko Haram "Territories"

Terrorism: Nigeria, Cameroon Bomb Boko Haram "Territories"

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…

Revealed: B'Haram Behead Christians, Seize Catholic Churches In Nigeria's North East

Revealed: B'Haram Behead Christians, Seize Catholic Churches In Nigeria's North East

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 2015 Guber: Uduaghan Cautions Against Blackmail *As Obuh Gets Nod From Deltans To Contest

Delta 2015 Guber: Uduaghan Cautions Against Blackmail *As Obuh Gets Nod From Deltans To Contest

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…

Breaking News: Nigerian Doctors To Resume Work Monday

Breaking News: Nigerian Doctors To Resume Work Monday

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…

Sawyers' Ebola: Nigeria Loses Senior Female Physician to Virus

Sawyers' Ebola: Nigeria Loses Senior Female Physician to Virus

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…