-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…
–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….
-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…
–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….
-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…
-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…
-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…
-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…
-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…
–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…
–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…
-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…
-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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Apart from the inherent contradictions bedevilling the Nigerian state from inception, which of course, was brought about by ethno- religious constructs and the fact of History, the immediate cause of the present agitations and conflagration…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is daily becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to understand the personality called Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, the Kaduna based, controversial Islamic Cleric and self appointed negotiator. On one front, he’s a religious teacher;…
-Blank NEWS Online –By Albert OGRAKA: The Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon) Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has through his pet project, Bashorun Askia Foundation (BAF) distributed food items and money to the elderly…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Austen AKHAGBEME: UNUSUAL times have a way of breeding and bringing up unusual solutions from unusual sources by unusual people. The above aptly describes the scenario that prompt up the strange visitation of the Kaduna based Islamic…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: THE current itinerant herders crisis in the South West of Nigeria has further exposed the legendary fault lines, both real and imaginary, in our body polity. The ethnicisation and weaponization of any and every known…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The man, Sunday Igboho before now, may not be popular outside his ancestral territory. But he’s such a daring rebel, loved by his people especially the youth of Ibarapa, in Oyo state of Nigeria. The…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Like the mosquito that perches on the scrotum, the menace of the criminal elements within the Fulani herdsmen parading in our bushes and forest must be handled with utmost care, albeit decisively. The recent call…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Austen AKHAGBEME: The recent electoral, nay, generational clash between President Museveni of Uganda and Bobi Wine, the youth prodigy and opposition leader in the just concluded presidential elections, is another pointer to the continued domination of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Chike C. OGEAH: I met Egba sometimes in 1989 while I was working with the Law Firm of Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe & Belgore. He was with CentrePoint Merchant Bank…we had gone to their office for an All…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The former chairman of Isoko South local government area, Sir Itiako Ikpokpo, has commended Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, Isoko South elders and leaders, members of Association of Local Government of Nigeria…
–Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: January 6, 2021 shattered the myth of the United States of America as a model of democracy and brought shame, disgrace and odium to Washington. It was a day when thugs goaded by a sitting…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Johnson EBIGIDE: The Corona Virus Pandemic that took the entire globe with a storm is yet another inexplicable mystery about human existence on earth. It came without warnings and with a plethora of projections as to its…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: That year is gone. The year of the locust and the canker worm. That was the year full of political upheavals, social uprisings, inhuman vendetta, killings, kidnapping, you name it! As bad as it was,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/Chief Of Bureau (NORTH-EAST): Suspected Boko Haram members have looted and destroyed four communities in troubled Borno State. Three persons, two local hunters and a civilian were killed during the attack on the four communities: Tashan…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The dying ember of 2020 is a reminder of fiction taking the shape of reality. It was simply imagination mingling with memory invoking the imagery of doomsday scenario, which according to biblical scholars shall mark…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael OLUGBODE: As a journalist of over two decades working experience, I have learnt not to stand on the side of any politician, I do not take side especially when they are at dagger drawn against each…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It is simply unthinkable, at the degenerate level of our already comatose and completely confused internal security system in Nigeria, in recent times. That the anarchists can strike without remorse, at a time the chief…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Unlike Bathsheba, the lead character in Thomas Hardy’s epic novel titled: “Far from the madding Crowd” who later got married to his heartthrob, Gabriel Oak, the late Balarabe Musa could not realise his dream for…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In any procedural Democracy, the right to free speech, freedom of association and the demand for citizenship inclusion in governance, is the vent from which civil liberties breathes. Therefore, public protests becomes an active and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The eternal beauty (perhaps plague) of democracy is the rights of the electorate to periodically choose theirs leaders and live with such choice. In 2016, the Americans made the choice of Donald John Trump as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Okanga AGILA: Love or hate Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, but what catches that attention of everyone around him is his sagacious endowments and infectious aura are his admirably constant leadership qualities. It has secured and led…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Members of the Borno State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists on Tuesday raised the alarm over continued attempts by one of the media aides to Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum to undermine the working…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO : A leader always exudes confidence when he is sure that his followers are comfortable and happy. So, it was heartwarming, indeed, a welcome relief, to see Delta Caucus in the House of Representatives, led by…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In Nigeria today, times are tough, tempers are high, feathers are being ruffled, no thanks to the raging hashtag protest by the rampaging but hitherto ” lazy” Nigeria youth. It has become a test of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Very recently, there’s been so much noise, purportedly coming from the noise less one: our amiable Jolly good fellow, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, that is. The grapevine is replete with the news of the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Azua ALONU: And whilst we are still lamenting the doldrums of pain and poverty of our country, light intruded and instinctively we shouted up-nepa, my friend, a top attorney in the city of Asaba, whom I was…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —By Ogbeide Osas KENNEDY: Chief Obafemi Awolowo the only Nigerian referred to as the late SAGE. Have you ever wondered the dictionary meaning of a sage ‘’wise, knowledgeable, learned; shrewd, skillful”. No other Nigerian till date has been…
