ANAMBRA: THE SOLUTION CALLED SOLUDO

ANAMBRA: THE SOLUTION CALLED SOLUDO

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: PROFESSOR Chukwuma Charles Soludo is undoubtedly, a renowned personality. He is from a large tribe of public intellectuals known for their lucidity in juxtaposing hypotheses and theories against the naked reality of the Nigerian situation….

PDP, STABILITY AND THE NEW VIBES OF OPPOSITION

PDP, STABILITY AND THE NEW VIBES OF OPPOSITION

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE signals emanating from the recent concluded national convention of The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, shows a brighter light not only for opposition politics in Nigeria, but also for qualitative intra-party politics and stability. Amidst…

Time For Nigeria To Join Hands With China In Upholding True Multilateralism

Time For Nigeria To Join Hands With China In Upholding True Multilateralism

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): ON October 25,2021, H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China delivered a Speech At the Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Restoration Of the Lawful Seat of the People’s Republic of China In the…

DOPF Annual Lecture: Emmanuel Uduaghan’s Antidotes On Niger Delta Challenge

DOPF Annual Lecture: Emmanuel Uduaghan’s Antidotes On Niger Delta Challenge

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Jerome-Mario UTOMI: IN a piece entitled; Banters in Lagos, Poverty and Disease in the Niger Delta, posted about four years ago, precisely in February 2018.  Aside from spreading out the needs, interests, aspirations and even their problems were…

STEPreneur Akpotor Advises Unemployed Delta Youths To Acquire Skills For Self-Employment

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: SOPHIA AKPOTOR OBRUCHE is our STEPreneur for the week. She hails from Ethiope East Local Government Area. She was unemployed for two years after graduation from Delta State University where she studied Management Studies. Fortunately,…

I Have Achieved A Lot, Made Lots of Progress, Says YAGEPreneur Omokiri

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: MICHAEL EJOVWOKE OMOKIRI hails from Ughelli North Local Government Area and is the CEO of Myke Reen Agro Enterprise located in Ughelli. He has a BSC.ED from the Delta State University. He enrolled in the…

Gov. Okowa Made Me Self-Employed, Job Creator -Says STEPreneur Enddy

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)  –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: ENDDY SUNNY-UDJOR is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Delta State University, Abraka and the CEO of NIOC Studios (A Subsidiary of Enddyvisuals Ltd) with 10 employees on her payroll.  She hails from Okpe…

DEATH AT SOWORE’S DOORSTEP

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE spate of killings and the orgy of evil pervading the land, especially at the twilight of this regime, has become a painful riddle waiting to be unravelled. Families have been wantonly decimated by daredevil…

INDONESIA: HOME OF HOSPITALITY

INDONESIA: HOME OF HOSPITALITY

–Blank News Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: AS a diplomatic reporter, most of my work is among the diplomatic community. Having covered the foreign Missions in Nigeria for over 10 year now, I can say authoritatively that Indonesians are full of hospitality….

Think Outside The Box Within Our Environment For Needs You Can Provide, Survive On, YAGEPreneur Okafor Tells Delta Youths

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: JOHN OKAFOR is the CEO of G.Husb Enterprise located at Ugbolu. He hails from Ika North East Local Government Area. He holds a BSC, MSC and is about to complete his PhD in Economics from the…

MUCH ADO ABOUT THE COVEN IN KANO

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: JUST like the three witches in William Shakespeare’s classic play, Macbeth, Nigeria politicians from all geopolitical zones, came in thunder, lightning and in the rain; invited and uninvited, fair or foul, just to meet with…

AFGHANISTAN: THE RETURN OF THE TALIBAN

AFGHANISTAN: THE RETURN OF THE TALIBAN

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT was just the right time for the embattled Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani to disappear; with his tail tucked between his legs, he did without looking back. The cover the American government gave him and…

Discipline, Commitment, Key To Success, YAGEPreneur Ogbiye Advises Fellow Beneficiaries

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)  –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: OGBIYE AYORUNME SIMON is the CEO of Omorovie Fish Farm located at YAGEP Fish Farm Cluster at Egbokodo-Itsekiri in Warri South Local Government Area. He got enrolled in the Delta State Government’s Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme…

ABBA KYARI: A FLY IN THE OINTMENT?

ABBA KYARI: A FLY IN THE OINTMENT?

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: TAFA Balogun was a heavily built, haughty and hawkish cop who once traverse the length and breadth of our policing world. He was a former Inspector General of Police, who fell from office shamefully, with…

How GEEP Made Me Gainfully Employed, Says GEEPreneur Oge

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: UCHUNU DOMINICA OGE: Many beneficiaries of the Delta State Government’s Job Creation Scheme have continued to share amazing testimonies of how the scheme took them out of the streets and made them meaningfully engaged to…

BETWEEN PATRIOTIC PLATITUDE, EMOTION AND JUSTICE

BETWEEN PATRIOTIC PLATITUDE, EMOTION AND JUSTICE

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: AMIDST the many compounded issues surrounding the ongoing trials of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Adeyemo, alias Igboho, nationalistic ethos and fabricated echoes are almost always sounding like a broken record in our collective…

YAGEP Beneficiary Ascribes Business Success To Efforts Put Into Training

YAGEP Beneficiary Ascribes Business Success To Efforts Put Into Training

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: HELEN MORRISTER: The testimony of Helen Morrister is another success story of the Delta State Government’s Youth Agricultural and Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP). She is the Managing Director of Odhi Technical and Energy Services Fish Farm…

OF ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY AND ELITE INSENSITIVITY IN RECENT TIME

OF ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY AND ELITE INSENSITIVITY IN RECENT TIME

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the major challenges of the Nigerian state, especially in a supposedly majoritarian rule such as ours, is the gross insensitivity of our elites to the real issue plaguing the nation. The mismanagement of…

FOUR YEARS AFTER, STEP BENEFICIARY SHARES AMAZING SUCCESS STORY -Says Gov. Okowa’s Job Creation Programme Real, Well Thought Out

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: ATANO, OCHUKO KELVIN has a BSC in Accounting and a PGD in Business Management from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. He hails from Ughelli North Local Government Area. He got enrolled in the Delta State Government’s…

Neither My Parents Nor I Would Have Afforded Starter Pack, Says STEPreneur Esienakerien

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-Uteh: ESIENAKERIEN MERCY OMA: This episode of our weekly testimony features Mercy Oma Esienakerien, one of the beneficiaries of the Delta State Government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) enrolled in the 2017/2018 Cycle. She was trained in Catering and…

GEEP Changed, Made Me Successful Oil Palm Consultant, Says GEEPreneur Aniuchi

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Gertrude ONYEKACHUKWU-UTEH: ANIUCHI IFEANYI ERNEST is one of the GEEP beneficiaries with IMC Oil Palm Plantations, Nsukwa. He hails from Ndokwa East Local Government Area and is an Agricultural Economics graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka….

MAZI NNAMDI KANU: THE CARROT AFTER THE STICK

MAZI NNAMDI KANU: THE CARROT AFTER THE STICK

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: AMIDST the settling smoke of crossfire and the simmering waters of hate, vexation, rant, threat, abuse and wanton provocation in the Southeast between the government and IPOB agitators, the recent arrest and repatriation of Mazi…

NIGERIA: A NATION LOOKING FOR HER PAST (1)

NIGERIA: A NATION LOOKING FOR HER PAST (1)

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT is often said that when one is consistently nostalgic and desirous of the past, it is indicative of the fact that nothing is exciting about the present. Yet, this is where we found ourselves…

THE SOUTHEAST: A PEOPLE AND THEIR LEADERS

THE SOUTHEAST: A PEOPLE AND THEIR LEADERS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: ONE of the most sensitive issues of discourse in Nigeria today is the security challenges in the South East. It is sensitive not because of the geographical location but the people, the enterprising and resilient…

JUNE 12: TODAY’S REALITY AND THE MISTAKE OF YESTERDAY

JUNE 12: TODAY’S REALITY AND THE MISTAKE OF YESTERDAY

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE nation Nigeria, did not begin from June 12 1993; but her elongated dilemma and potpourri of woes can be partly traceable to that hysteric and historic date. That was the day ethno-religious politics was…

Aniocha/Oshimili Council Chairmen Hail Elumelu For Effective Representation

Aniocha/Oshimili Council Chairmen Hail Elumelu For Effective Representation

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): AS the 9th Assembly of the House of Representatives marks its second legislative year, Chairmen of Councils in Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in Delta State, have paid glowing compliments to the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon….

Reps Minority Caucus Condemns Suspension of Twitter

Reps Minority Caucus Condemns Suspension of Twitter

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned, in its entirety, the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government describing it as a clear violation of freedom of speech and other democratic rights and…

OF GULAK’S GORY TALE AND THE UNKNOWN GUNMEN

OF GULAK’S GORY TALE AND THE UNKNOWN GUNMEN

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE escalating security situation in South Eastern Nigeria is getting to a fearsome crescendo. And from the way things are going, the mystery of the “unknown gunmen” need to be quickly unravelled and permanently addressed….

THE MANY FIGHTS OF GOVERNOR EL’ RUFAI

THE MANY FIGHTS OF GOVERNOR EL’ RUFAI

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT has become very obvious that Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the diminutive governor of Kaduna state, do not know how to choose his fights. When he’s not up ‘in arms’ against his Southern Kaduna people, or…

PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMEN: MOUTHPIECE OF DISHONOUR?

PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMEN: MOUTHPIECE OF DISHONOUR?

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: IT is becoming increasingly nauseating, listening to our Presidential Spokesmen of late. From the vocal cords of Mallam Garba Shehu to the erstwhile intelligent but polluted mind of Deacon Femi Adesina, truth and reality has…

PRESIDENT IDRISS DÈBY: THE UGLY FOOTPATH OF AN AFRICAN LEADER

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: JUST as everything in life that has a beginning must come to an end, President Idriss Deby of Chad has met his Waterloo at the very frontline where he courageously went to visit his fighting…

ISA ALI PATAMI: BETWEEN SIN, PENITENCE AND FORGIVENESS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: FOR a growing economy such as ours, the ministry of communication and Digital Economy is a sensitive place for anyone to cast aspersion upon. But the youthful minister, Ali Patami, has helped to draw the…

ELITE PRETENCE, 2023 ELECTIONS AND THE REST OF US

ELITE PRETENCE, 2023 ELECTIONS AND THE REST OF US

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE shenanigans of the vicious Nigerian elites has for time immemorial, brought our Nation into a serious disrepute, knowingly or unknowingly. They have gradually put fire to the inflammable tail of our socio- cultural pluralism…

IDUMUJE UGBOKO: RICH BUT IN SEARCH OF PEACE

IDUMUJE UGBOKO: RICH BUT IN SEARCH OF PEACE

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Osita BIOSE: TWO indices that can easily draw attention to any rustic environment are its human and natural resources. Humans who are gifted to turn around things, turning the impossible to adorable features in their localities are…

PREDATORS, VICTIMS AND ECHOES OF DISINTEGRATION

PREDATORS, VICTIMS AND ECHOES OF DISINTEGRATION

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: ONE of the palpably visible source of anger that readily culminates into feelings of separatism and other existential cry in our Nation today is insecurity. This is more so, given the level of workable strategies…

NIGERIA: THE FURY OF SEPARATISTS’ AGITATIONS

NIGERIA: THE FURY OF SEPARATISTS’ AGITATIONS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE rise of discontent and dissatisfaction as a result of crass carelessness, clumsiness and cluelessness on the part of our leaders to finding a solution to our Security challenges is taking a deeper step towards…

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: A WAR OF NARRATIVES (1)

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: A WAR OF NARRATIVES (1)

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most disturbing part of the blighting security challenges we are facing in Nigeria today, is the many tributaries of scary narratives associated with it. While the war of narratives is raging, the…