FEMI FANI-KAYODE: THE TEMPER OF A VITRIOLIC CRITIC

FEMI FANI-KAYODE: THE TEMPER OF A VITRIOLIC CRITIC

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is widely known for one conspicuously obvious reason. And that is far from his accidental appointment as the Nation’s Aviation minister or his biological ties with the famous Fani Power of the…

GOV NASIR EL- RUFAI’S DISINVITATION AND OTHER STORIES

GOV NASIR EL- RUFAI’S DISINVITATION AND OTHER STORIES

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: When the ecclesiastical come calling, every other duty or obligation of mine takes the back seat. This is the very reason yours sincerely couldn’t catch up with the trends of events in the national and…

OUR POLITICS AND THE SEARCH FOR A TRUE NIGERIAN (1)

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: Against the backdrop of both the objective and subjective conditions that have helped to shape Nigeria’s Political History over time and her citizens’ perception of one another; it is also pertinent to seek to know…

Lt Gen Buratai’s Major Achievements In War Against Insurgency In Nigeria

Lt Gen Buratai’s Major Achievements In War Against Insurgency In Nigeria

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Ibrahim Dahiru DANFULANI: Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai the helmsman of the Nigerian Army (NA) is an enigmatic personality and a natural leader in all human calculations. In view of the outstanding achievements in the areas…

OUR NIGER DELTA AND THE STORY OF MAGGOTS

OUR NIGER DELTA AND THE STORY OF MAGGOTS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: With the offensive stench coming out of the Niger Delta Development Commission, one wonders what has become of Patriotism, accountability and the love for one another in Nigeria. The Agency, which was designed to…

MAY 29: OKOWA SUSTAINING PROGRESSIVE MOMENTUM

MAY 29: OKOWA SUSTAINING PROGRESSIVE MOMENTUM

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Boniface ONYEDI: Just like yesterday, the rave and captivating moments of the second half of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration began with a resounding symphonies on May 29, 2019 after securing the mandate of Deltans once again. It…

Novelist Michael Connelly on his new book, ‘Bosch’ and the Florida connection

Novelist Michael Connelly on his new book, ‘Bosch’ and the Florida connection

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A CBS series based on Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer novels and helmed by David E. Kelley, of The Practice and Ally McBeal fame, was to begin production – as in, fully-invested cast and crew ready to proceed – on Monday, March 16 of this…

HISTORY: ORIGIN OF OZORO –By Oyolo Kigho

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Oyolo KIGHO: QUOTATION: “If there are any who desire to be strangers in their own country, foreigners in their own Cities and always children in knowledge; let them Please themselves, I write not for such humours”.  …

THE PANDEMIC, THE PALLIATIVE AND THE DISASTER CAPITALISTS

THE PANDEMIC, THE PALLIATIVE AND THE DISASTER CAPITALISTS

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: It was the renown Canadian scholar, Naomi Klein who first drew the world’s attention to the concept of Disaster Capitalism in her book,THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, where she scholarly observed and narrated the underbelly of evil…

ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was a quintessential Unionist; a nationally acclaimed Charismatic leader and a tactical mobilizer of people, especially in a cause he truly believes in. He’s populism was hinged on a general perception…

True Story Of Bashorun Askia’s Penchant For Entrepreneurship Among Youths, Womenfolk

True Story Of Bashorun Askia’s Penchant For Entrepreneurship Among Youths, Womenfolk

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA (Editor): The good intentions in the human resource policy of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in Delta State, have started yielding good fruits, as the wealth creation strategies are being carefully replicated in the oil and…

US Senate Impeachment Trial of Trump and Nigeria’s Legislative Conduct: An Assessment

US Senate Impeachment Trial of Trump and Nigeria’s Legislative Conduct: An Assessment

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Omoshola DEJI: In Athens, 510 BC, Cleisthenes instituted democracy to foster greater: accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and the law. Today, the tenet is being flouted with impunity, especially in developing nations, where most…

OF INSECURITY, POLITICS AND RELIGION: THE BUHARIAN DILEMMA

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The public protest, demonstration and outcry of some prominent Christian Religious group yesterday, brought to the front burner, once again, the demoralizing state of insecurity in the nation and the resultant insensitivity of government to…

Random Thoughts As Okowa Inaugurates DESOPADEC Projects

Random Thoughts As Okowa Inaugurates DESOPADEC Projects

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Fidelis EGUGBO: “Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh is a grassroots politician, a true Isoko son who is using his position as the Managing Director of DESOPADEC to complement what Governor Okowa is doing in the area of providing…

The Politics Of Amotekun Creation And Attempted Outlaw

The Politics Of Amotekun Creation And Attempted Outlaw

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Omoshola DEJI: Security is the principal obligation of government, because it is the most important need of man. Life is universally considered sacred, but only the lives of the ruling oligarchy is sacred in Nigeria. Being alive…

AMOTEKUN AND THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM

AMOTEKUN AND THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the many things that makes Nigeria an amazingly impossible knot in the eye of some people, and public policy a nightmare, is the multiplicity of contrasting opinion and the plurality of emotion displayed…

SOWORE: A “HAMPER” AT CHRISTMAS

SOWORE: A “HAMPER” AT CHRISTMAS

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen Akhagbeme: Like a bolt out of the blues, the news coming in from the office of the minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, was swift, thunderous and appears unbelievable:but…

DANJUMA’S GAFFE AND ELITE FRAGMENTATION IN RECENT TIMES

DANJUMA’S GAFFE AND ELITE FRAGMENTATION IN RECENT TIMES

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By: Austen Akhagbeme: There’s no denying the fact that a larger part of Nigeria’s many knotty problems is the elites’ hegemonic tussle and fragmentation. The fight for relevance and inclusion is usually fierce and thrives on subterfuge and…

SOWORE’S SOARING SORROWS AND THE REST OF US

SOWORE’S SOARING SORROWS AND THE REST OF US

– Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGEME: Citizen Omoyele Sowore was never my delight; not with the too many controversies and litigations sorrounding him, especially in his most fiery days, during the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. To me, he was the…

Kwale Industrial Park: When Okowa Wooed Chinese Investors

Kwale Industrial Park: When Okowa Wooed Chinese Investors

Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By FIDELIS EGUGBO : The world has become a global village through the aid of technology, to the extent that as an event breaks, it is known by anyone who cares. Based on United Nations (UN) data, Nigeria,…

FEATURES: WHY SOME COMMUNITIES IN ISOKO LAND FORBIDS SNAIL

FEATURES: WHY SOME COMMUNITIES IN ISOKO LAND FORBIDS SNAIL

-By Michael EKOKORUWE: Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells. Typical garden snails are usually safe to handle and eventually eaten by many, but forbidden by majority depending on the reasons which majorly stern from traditional…

THE IMPACT OF NIGERIA SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION ACT

From Mike Ebhosa SAME SEX MARRIAGE PROHIBITION ACT (SSMPA) OF JANUARY 2014: On January 7, 2014, Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan, signed the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill (SSMPA) into law. The notional purpose of the SSMPA is to prohibit marriage between persons…

DOPF FRONTLINE Interaction with Delta Information Commissioner, Patrick Ukah: Putting the Record Straight

DOPF FRONTLINE Interaction with Delta Information Commissioner, Patrick Ukah: Putting the Record Straight

It’s a known fact that in politics, especially when it comes to our nation, Nigeria, within small organisations, there is always acrimony and distrust among the people and a member, which often leads to what, had derailed our political, economic and social…

HCI Patrick Ukah: The Untold Story…

HCI Patrick Ukah: The Untold Story…

By Gifty Omashola Rarely has any political office holder been so bedeviled by his own ‘constituency as Mr. Patrick Ukah has been. From outright sabotage by some of his staff, to calls for his removal by his ‘constituents’ on grounds of ineptitude…

Top Vatican Official Convicted Of Child Sex Abuse

Top Vatican Official Convicted Of Child Sex Abuse

Cardinal George Pell, Vatican Treasurer, Convicted Of Child Sexual Assault Pell is the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church to be convicted of such crimes. Cardinal George Pell, once one of the highest-ranking members of the Vatican, was convicted of multiple counts…

SHAME! Police Confirm Arrest Of Delta Chief Who Defiled, Impregnate 13 Year Old Student  **Human Rights Activists Call For Justice

SHAME! Police Confirm Arrest Of Delta Chief Who Defiled, Impregnate 13 Year Old Student **Human Rights Activists Call For Justice

Defilement is having sexual intercourse with a person (this includes both boys and girls) under the age of 18 years. It doesn’t matter whether the person has given consent or not. The major determinant in defilement is AGE.

Buhari, Okowa, Sultan Call For Unity  … As Olu Of Warri Marks 3rd Year On Throne

Buhari, Okowa, Sultan Call For Unity … As Olu Of Warri Marks 3rd Year On Throne

PRESIDENT Mohammadu Buhari, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III on Wednesday (12/12/18), affirmed that peace is very vital for a progressive nation to be achieved.They spoke at the 3rd coronation anniversary celebration…