Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta state government says it has keyed into the National Social Safety-Net Programme (NAPPS) of the Federal Government designed to tackle poverty and unemployment in the country. The claim was made at the instance of the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –BY KOLA EKE-OGIUGO The Delta State Government confirmed yesterday its resort to the staggered mode of payment of public officers in the light of the persisting challenging economy. The state’s economy has been on the downward slide in…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki has called for the full implementation of the the N6.06 ensuring budget for the good of the electorate and to ensure national growth. This is just as the Federal Government has assured…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Firebrand former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari for adopting a ‘Command and Control Economic System’ that failed the nation when he was Nigeria’s Military Head of State in 1984. Speaking…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – In a bid to further boost power generation in the oil and gas producing Delta state, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] with Alpha Energy and Electric Inc., an American company, for the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Government has launched its FAST TRACK 90 scheme to fast track the issuance of Certificate-Of-Occupancy [C-of-O] to property owners. Governor Okowa at the event assured that the innovative policy would enhance the ease of doing…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Government has challenged residents and people of Okpanam, Oshimili North local government area of the state, to key into the entrepreneurial programmes and other economic projects of the state in order to improve on their…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – DESPITE the downturn in the economy, the Delta State government has disbursed a total of N101 million naira loans to 1000 persons in 101 cooperative groups under the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] Micro, Small and Medium…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Most state governments in Nigeria run an opaque budget system opening rooms for deep seated corruption and non delivery of good governance , a report of several weeks of study has revealed. The report by the Civil…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– The Principal Secretary to Delta state governor, Senator Dr.Ifeanyi Okowa , Mr .Hilary Ibegbulem says prompt and regular payment of workers salary ,against all odds had established the governor as a prudent and disciplined leader…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has called for strategic alliance between host communities in oil producing areas, the international Oil companies (IOCs) and security agencies in securing oil and gas investments in the state. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has presented a budget proposal of two hundred and sixty five billion, six hundred and sixty eight million, one hundred and fifty six thousand, one hundred and seventy four naira…
Nigeria, November 03, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – African heads of state, government ministers and top officials from the United Nations, African Union and private sector groups have gathered in Senegal to chart a plan for boosting the uptake of intellectual property…
Nigeria, October 11, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – AS Nigeria grapples with the effects of dwindling oil price, the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has challenged members of the National Assembly to proffer solution to the situation. Governor Okowa…
Nigeria, September 30, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that his administration would provide the enabling environment for investments to thrive in the state so as to reinvigorate the economy. Speaking when the South…
Nigeria, September 10, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State House of Assembly has approved the request of the State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa to apply for the sum of N20.9 Billion bailout loan from the Federal Government through the Central…
Nigeria, September 07, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has urged multi national companies exploring oil in the state to employ people in their host communities to foster sustainable cooperation and conducive environment. Okowa’s statement is coming…
Nigeria, August 28, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Considering the critical nature of the new composition of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission [DESOPADEC] as well as the unsavoury postulations of some Deltans on the newly amended law establishing the Commission,…
Nigeria, August 22, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – By Nwaorgu Faustinus The news about the directive or rather order by the senate on the 11th of this month to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend the fixed charge of N702.00,…
Nigeria, August 22, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – By Daramola Babalola The Nigerian tax system has faced several challenges in recent times. Under current Nigerian law, taxation is enforced by the 3 tiers of government, i.e. federal, state, and local governments, with…
Nigeria, August 21, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has advocated the establishment of mini refineries to decrease the level of pipeline vandalism in the country. According to Governor Okowa, establishing mini refineries in different areas…
Nigeria, July 22, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Governor of oil rich Delta state, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has urged the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to re-establish their office in the state due to the numerous benefits derivable from such. He…
Nigeria, July 13, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a three-pronged, long term financial relief package to stave off the embarrassing economic situation the last administration, especially state governments, plunged the country into. To this end, the bailout…
June 29, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State Government has rolled out six entrepreneurship schemes with an assurance from the State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, that 6,000 direct jobs would be created in the next six months as a result. The…
Blank NEWS Online can disclose that President Muhammadu Buhari has plans to totally remove fuel subsidy and use the proceeds for the provision of free and compulsory primary and secondary education across the country. The federal government will set up committee to work…
DELTA State Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa has assured multinational Oil corporations in the state of peaceful and contusive working environment. He also assured that the state government will partner with the oil companies to generate employment for the people. Senator Okowa…
A MULTI-million dollar Delta State micro, small and medium entrepreneurship centre has been commissioned by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. Uduaghan who commissioned the center at Issele-Uku, Aniocha North local government area of Delta State on Monday, May 25, 2015 in the presence of…
Blank NEWS Online reports that General Motors is celebrating 500 million vehicles built globally over the past 106 years – the most by any automaker to date. GM is the first vehicle manufacturer to achieve this milestone and remains focused on being…
Delta state government has expressed determination to further upgrade the Asaba International Airport to meet standards, saying that the recent down grade in the status of the Airport by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has not affected the operation of scheduled…
The Delta State Government has banned all forms of street trading along Market Road Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area. A statement signed by the State Director of Information, Mr. Paul Osahor, directed traders who have been allocated market stalls by the…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 21, 2015 – Promontory CEO explains what tough regulatory expectations mean for the region and the world. Regulatory regimes are becoming tougher around the world, raising the question: who is responsible for the trend and how…
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, April 3, 2015/ — The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea has announced the Ratification of Production Sharing Contract for Block EG-06 by the government of Equatorial Guinea. The contract was signed on January 16, 2015…
Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has said that the International Community cannot be exonerated from the criminality of crude oil theft in Nigeria. Speaking Tuesday,:March 24, 2015 at the commissioning of thirty gunboats procured by the Defence…
A body of 13 global experts to be known as the President’s Advisory Panel (PAP) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has on Thursday, March 19, 2015 been formerly inaugurated. President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ali chaired the…
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to complete the 16 billion dollars gas city project before the end of his second tenure in office. According to the President, the gas city project was very important to Nigeria as it will generate a lot…
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…
CHAIRMAN, Delta State Council of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Comrade Ifeanyi Obi has urged the Federal Government to reduce the price of petroleum products to reflect the fall in oil price in the international market. According to Comrade Obi,…
It was a solemn ceremony yesterday in Asaba, as Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan led prominent Deltans to lay wreaths at the foot of the statute of the unknown Soldier as part of activities to conclude the 2015 Armed Forces Remembrance…
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…
Delta state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented proposals for the Delta State 2015 budget to the state House of Assembly for consideration and appropriation. The 2015 budget proposal stood at N327,682,982,917 for the services of Delta State in the 2015 fiscal…
