Eid El Fitr: Bashorun Askia Calls For Deep Sober Reflections, Prayers

Eid El Fitr: Bashorun Askia Calls For Deep Sober Reflections, Prayers

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): MANAGING Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA has called for deep sober reflections and prayers as Muslims mark the end of Ramadan fasting. Bashorun Askia in an…

Isoko/Urhobo Monarchs, I.D.U, Restore Final Peace On Igbide/Emede Land Dispute

Isoko/Urhobo Monarchs, I.D.U, Restore Final Peace On Igbide/Emede Land Dispute

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE six months land dispute/crisis between Igbide and Emede communities in Isoko South local government area of Delta State that claimed many lives and property worth millions of naira destroyed, have been finally resolved…

Southern House of Reps Members’ Back Southern Governors Resolution

Southern House of Reps Members’ Back Southern Governors Resolution

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): SOUTHERN members of the House of Representatives have endorsed the resolution of Southern Governors demanding restructuring, true federalism, state police and ban on open grazing in the South. The members in a statement signed by the Minority Leader…

Southern Govs Ban Open Grazing, Call For National Confab, True Federalism

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Governors of Southern States of the country on Tuesday, announced their resolution to ban open grazing and movement of cattle by foot across the region as part of measures to check incursion of armed herders and banditry….

NPA Looting: Reps Minority Caucus Asks EFCC To Investigate Bala Usman

NPA Looting: Reps Minority Caucus Asks EFCC To Investigate Bala Usman

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has raised alarm on the alleged looting of over N165 billion operating surplus as well as other diverted funds running into billions of naira, by top officials of the Nigerian…

Vocation: NGC Gifts Starter Packs To Abia, Akwa Ibom, Rivers Women

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum  Corporation (NNPC), has handed over starter packs to forty women drawn from  twenty host communities in Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States, trained in five…

Bashorun Askia Foundation Donates Isoko Language Books, Teaching Materials To Schools

Bashorun Askia Foundation Donates Isoko Language Books, Teaching Materials To Schools

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE Bashorun Askia Foundation (BAF), in a bid to inculcate the culture of speaking the Isoko language into the younger generation and save it from sudden extinction, has donated Isoko language text books to all…

Nearly 50% of Pandemic Costs Will Fall on Advanced Economies, World Govt Summit Report Finds

Nearly 50% of Pandemic Costs Will Fall on Advanced Economies, World Govt Summit Report Finds

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): • World economy facing US$3.8 trillion economic hit, with half absorbed by wealthiest countries• New report ‘21 Priorities for Governments in 2021’ Identifies Five Areas in Post-pandemic Recovery A seminal report launched by the World Government Summit Organization…

Delta To Sustain Upscaled Empowerment Schemes, Approves More Youth Investment Circles

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA State government has further reaffirmed it’s determination to sustain the various ongoing, upscaled empowerment and wealth creation programmes, especially amongst youths in communities across the oil rich State. This is just as the state…

Workers’ Day: Reps Minority Caucus Congratulates Nigerian Workers

Workers’ Day: Reps Minority Caucus Congratulates Nigerian Workers

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has congratulated Nigerian workers as they join their compatriots in other parts of the world to celebrate this year’s Workers’ Day The lawmakers, in a statement by the Minority Leader…

What Buhari Is Yet To Do: Borno Dep Gov To Act As Zulum Embarks On Vacation

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO with additional report: BORNO State Deputy Governor, Usman Kadafur is to serve as the Acting Governor of the State until May 19, 2021 with the House of Assembly approving the letter by the Governor, Prof….

Bashorun Askia Becomes 2020 Public Sector Manager @ Independent Awards

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: THE Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon) Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has been conferred with PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGER OF THE YEAR 2020 at the Independent Annual Awards,…

Drug Trafficker Excretes N360million Worth Cocaine At Lagos Airport

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A drug trafficker, Chigbogu Obiora, aged 47-years, has excreted 97 wraps of cocaine after his arrest and being placed under observation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed…

FG Charges Varsities On Best Practices For Impact, As Panel Visits FUPRE

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): NIGERIAN universities have been charged to always comply with global best practices in terms of corporate governance, operations, benchmark, quality assurance and judicious application of resources for impact. The chairman of the Federal Government Visitation panel to the…

SO SAD! How Drug Dealers Use Statue Of Mary *NDLEA Intercepts Drugs Concealed In Statue Of Mary, Auto Spare Parts

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: VIRGIN Mary statues are sentinels of grace placed to guard the heart; they are safe sanctuaries, symbols of the authentic devotion, and reciprocal love. Mary’s role in Christian history represents faithfulness, devotion, humility, purity. But…

DESOPADEC MD Receives Award From E. K. Clark Solidarity Movement For Okowa

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Etene PROSPER: THE Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Odio Bashorun Askia Ogeh, FCNA, CrFA has received award from E. K. Clark Solidarity Movement for Okowa led by the…

Ramadan: IDPs Receive N100,000 Cash, Food From Borno Lawmaker

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: INTERNALLY displaced persons in Jere local government area of Borno State were given N100,000 each and food for Ramadan by the member representing the constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ahmed Satomi Amount spent on…

NUJ President Isiguzo Gets Confidence Vote, As Union Dares FG On State Of Nation

NUJ President Isiguzo Gets Confidence Vote, As Union Dares FG On State Of Nation

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Frowns @ Non Payment Of Journalists By Media Owners Wants Covid-19 Bail-Out Fund For Media Practitioners Urges FG To Rejig Security Apparatus Tasks FG To Tackle Electricity Supply Problems Condemns Soaring Unemployment Expresses Worry With…

Okowa Best In Projects Delivery -Says Gov. Ishaku @ Asaba, Okpanam Roads Commission

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: TARABA State Governor, Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku, has described his Delta State counterpart, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as one of the best governors in Nigeria, for providing meaningful, people oriented, quality development projects across the…

The World Has Asked Wrong Questions Since WW II -Indian Prime Minister

The World Has Asked Wrong Questions Since WW II -Indian Prime Minister

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Mike SOGBOLO: INDIAN Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has said the World has been asking the wrong questions since the end of the Second World War in 1945. The Prime Minister, in his address on Tuesday, at the…

FG Worried About Unemployment Rate In  Nigeria  -Aregbesola

FG Worried About Unemployment Rate In Nigeria -Aregbesola

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said the federal government is worried over the rising unemployment rate in the country. Speaking at the 2nd Shakeholders’ Meeting on Expatriate Quota Administration organized by the Citizenship…

Sustain Existing Peace, Uzor Urges People Of Okpokunou In Burutu

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE/ Warri: THE people of Okpokunou community of Burutu local government area of Delta State, have been urged to sustain the existing peace in the area as the crisis between Okpokunou community and the Pere of…

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…

Women Voters (NILOWV) Commend Gov Okowa For 17 Female Delta LG Vice Chairmen

Women Voters (NILOWV) Commend Gov Okowa For 17 Female Delta LG Vice Chairmen

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE Delta State Chapter of the League of Women Voters of Nigeria (NILOWV), has commended Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, for providing a veritable platform that has successfully made 17 women…

Drug Trafficker Excretes 1.750kg Cocaine After Arrest At Lagos Airport

Drug Trafficker Excretes 1.750kg Cocaine After Arrest At Lagos Airport

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO:: A Madrid-bound suspected drug trafficker, Okonkwo Chimezie Henry arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja has excreted a total of 113 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.750 kilogrammes, with a street value of N423…

BISHOP EDEWOR TO BE LAID TO REST APRIL 17

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE remains of the late pioneer Bishop of Oleh Dicocese, Anglican Communion , Rt. Rev Jonathan Edewor will be laid to rest on Saturday, April 17, 2021, after a funeral service at St.Paul Cathedral Oleh,…

Sam Obi: We Were Bolt and Nut, Says Bashorun Askia Ogieh

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Albert OGRAKA: MANAGING Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described former Acting Governor, Late Rt. Hon. Prince Sam Obi as a statesman and a bastion of…

Aruakpor Lays Foundation Of Emore Old Students’ Multi-Purpose Hall Donated By Eta Enahoro

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: THE Bishop of Anglican Communion, Oleh Diocese, Rt. Rev. John U. Aruakpor, at the weekend laid the foundation of 500 sitting capacity multi – purpose hall of the old boys Association of Emore Grammar School…

Easter: DESOPADEC Boss Preaches Faith Renewal, Urges Deltans To Uphold Devt Virtues

Easter: DESOPADEC Boss Preaches Faith Renewal, Urges Deltans To Uphold Devt Virtues

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Says DESOPADEC Will Sustain Youth Venture In Mandate Areas Encourages Covid-19 Vaccination THE Managing Director/CEO of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has emphasized that the season…

NAF Faults Boko Haram Video, Says Crashed Alpha Jet Not Shot Down By Terrorists -See Press Release

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLO, (Edited By Albert OGRAKA): THE Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has reacted to claims allegedly made by the Book Haram terrorists, which videos are being circulated on Social Media, and other news media reports, that he…

Meet Suppliers Of Tramadol, Rophynol, Cocaine, Heroin To Boko Haram Terrorists *See Pictures

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: A 35-year Chadian male, alleged to be supplier of illicit drugs to Boko Haram and bandits, has been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA with assorted hard drugs. The suspect, Adama…

Schimchi Football Academy To Feature In Ghana, Cote D’voire Competitions

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: SCHIMCHI Football Academy will be featuring in football competitions in Ghana and Cote D’voire, its Chairman, Olugbenga Adetona has disclosed. The Academy, who at the weekend a-four team tournament organised by FOJEIS at Gbagada Mini…

NDLEA Intercepts N2Bn Illicit Drugs @ Lagos Airport *As Officials Undergo Integrity Test

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO: OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted illicit drugs worth over N2billion at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos. The Agency also arrested three suspected traffickers. This is just as…

Ekpemupolo @50: Gbaramatu Youths Set To Celebrate Niger Delta Peace General

Ekpemupolo @50: Gbaramatu Youths Set To Celebrate Niger Delta Peace General

✓✓Organizer Sets Over One Million Naira For Traditional Dancing Competition Winners -Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): As the Peace General, Icon of Niger Delta and Freedom Fighter, High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo AKA Tompolo, the Ibe Ebidouwei of Ijaw Nation, marks his Golden…

UZOR TASKS OLODIAMA, KPAKIAMA PEOPLE OF DELTA ON PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE

-Blank. NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: CHIEF Edwin Uzor, Special Adviser to Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, on Peace Building and Conflict Resolution, has urged the people of Olodiama community, Ughelli South local government area and Kpakiama community,…

Maris Lecture: Elekeokwuri, Financial Expert As Lawmaker Unveiled

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA):: HON. Anthony Elekeokwuri, is the member representing Ika North-East Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly. On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, he will be among those to discuss the topic, “Effective Tax Administration For The Delivery Of…

MARIS LECTURE: Unveiling The Spiritual Father Of The Day, Konyeke

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): FEW hours to the 2021 edition of Maris Annual Public Service Lecture, the Maris Trust Council has revealed the reason behind the choice of the Holy Week as the date for the annual Lecture. Speaking when he unveiled…

“OKOWA‘S SMART AGENDA HAS YIELDED POSITIVE RESULTS IN DELTA” –UZOR

-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE/Kwale: THE Special Adviser to Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, Chief Edwin Uzor says, the SMART Agenda of Okowa administration has created peaceful environment for sustainable development and inclusive government of the state….

Six Weeks Oil Spill: Gbaramatu People Cry Out Over Chevron’s Inept

–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): We Have Been Left To Die By Chevron We Want Physical Presence Of Chevron MD To Ensure Honesty, Transparency The Spill Is Brazen, Unacceptable Risk THE people of oil – rich Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government…