Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State government has described as mischievous an online publication last week that the state governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, invited operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest and prosecute some officers…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The attention of the Delta State Government has been drawn to a publication on several news media to the effect that Delta State Government House was attacked by armed men on Thursday leaving one driver dead. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State government has debunked the allegations making the rounds in a section of the media that it received an excess of N18.62 billion from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) for the month of July,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has cleared the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Emmanuel Kachikwu of alleged extravagant lifestyle. The group also insisted that the Minister never spent #182 Million…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “This is laughable and is gradually becoming a character of the APC in Edo State to believe that it can scare opponents through smear campaign. Governor Okowa declared publicly that he would support the PDP candidate both…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Government has released an in-depth analysis of how the bail out funds from the federal government for the settlement of arrears of workers’ salaries and emoluments were effectively used. Although it expressed dismay over claims…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Our attention has been drawn to a mischievous publication by Sahara Reporters to the effect that the Honourable Commissioner for Information in Delta State, Mr. Patrick Ukah, threatened to resign his appointment because of what it claimed…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Hon. Power Anuku, the Director-General of Ochor Chris Ochor Political Group has reacted to the publication by the online portal, on the person and office of Hon. Ochor Chris Ochor, the Executive Director, Social Services Development, on…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – On Saturday March 28 and Saturday April 25, 2015, the people of Delta Central Senatorial District gave me their mandate to represent them in the Senate. Despite the antics and desperation of the opposition parties in the…
Nigeria, November 05, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – We find it indeed funny and childishly theatrical that Universal Reporters 247 has began to toe the unpopular pathway of speculative journalism that Sahara Reporters is well known for. It is indeed a show…
Nigeria, September 02, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – For some time, there have been overt attempts to rewrite the history of governance in Delta State, especially the eighth-year tenure of His Excellency, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON, immediate past Governor of the…
Nigeria, July 26, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has frowned at myriad of claims alleging the dissolution of the Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission (DESOPADEC), saying the claims were false. Addressing a press…
Delta state government has frowned at the claims by an online portal, Saharareporters, alleging that the collation of results for the presidential election in Delta state has been concluded. A statement signed by the Delta state Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah Esq…
The attention of the Delta State Government has been drawn to false reports in a section of the online media alleging that a N50 billion bond is about being drawn with just about two months to the terminal date of the administration….
Recently, former Aba North elected Chairman, Ikwechegh Alex, granted an interview titled ‘Orji has put Abia in national political grid!’. From all indications, Alex was merely trying to launder his image if he has any. There is this Igbo analogy that goes…
As the Delta state government and security agencies intensify efforts to curtail the raging crisis in Ndokwa West council area of the state, Ugiliamai Community has brazed up in the heat of the crisis to clarify some grey issues. A statement made…
Dear Chief Assam, We are in receipt of your letter dated July 22, 2014 on the above subject matter. We observed with utter dismay its inciting contents and the consequent wide publication of the letter in the press and in the Internet…
The Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Chief Godswill has flayed media reports in the press and online insinuating that he said he will kill Governorship aspirants. Reacting to the reports which he described as another smear campaign by traducers, through his Chief…
In this season of politicking as the nation gears up for the 2015 general elections politicians would characteristically employ every imaginable method to achieve their goals. There would be kite flying, innuendoes, intrigues, blackmails, false allegations and even blatant lies. To this…
The attention of the Abia State government has been drawn to the malicious and misleading publication on Thursday July 17, 2014 edition of the SUN Newspapers which alleged that ” there is a disaffection among Abia citizens as well as within the…
The 11 July 2014 online publication by Sahara Reporters with the caption “Nigerian Army Generals Pocketed $43m Meant For Peacekeepers”, which it attributed to an anonymous petition it had received calls for some clarifications. It is quite unfortunate that in total disregard…
In a bid to curtail the excesses of political detractors who are head-bent on destroying the reputation of Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, ahead of the 2015 Delta governorship elections, a N20 Billion libel suit (A/151/2014) has been filed against one Mr. John…
The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), Federal Medical Center (FMC), Asaba chapter has threatened to drag the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria and Nigeria Medical Association (MDCAN/NMA), to court over the irrational decision to embark on the on-going strike action…
The Abia State government has described the report written by one Willy Eya of The Sun newspaper linking the Abia First Family to the purported governorship ambition of the former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ihejirika (retd.), as deceitful and malicious. A…
Dreams of greatness are usually inviting but getting there is not a picnic. So, most desperadoes embark on all forms of shenanigans including dancing naked in the marketplace, just to illusively satisfy the daydreaming. Reagan Ufomba is of that stock. His obsession…
A man who calls himself Uche Igwe had set out on a “regrettably long” journey from Port Harcourt to Aba and found himself trapped in traffic jam. According to him, the journey which would have lasted for less than an hour took…
The respite and indignation that greeted the recent report of President Goodluck Jonathan’s grant of amnesty to the unrepentant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has taken a new dimension as the President and Commander In Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces denies ever…
Right Of Reply>> My attention has been drawn to a recent report from a social media Sahara reporters that I led a killer squad and attempted to murder one Mr. Sunny Okonye for destroying the billboard belonging to a serving Senator, Dr….
Right Of Reply> Uche Igwe, whoever he may be wrote in the Punch of Wednesday May 21, 2014, on his viewpoint column. It was sheer blackmail from first line to the last one. He pretended to know Abia. Reading in between the…
As a result of the recent controversy and bickering which trailed the naming of a road in Asaba, Delta state capital, after the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the state government has put the records straight in a bid to halt further…
Abia State government has accused Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha of being insensitive to the plight of his citizens especially Imo workers disengaged from Abia State civil service. Reacting to a statement credited to Governor Okorocha on May Day in which he…
Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, has dared Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekua to be prepared to meet him on the battle field. Addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Asari dismissed the threat by the leader of…
The controversial and widely condemned “memo of genocide” written by Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has been derided by Nigerian governors who also cautioned the “dissident” Nyako to mind his utterances on national security issue. The governors took a swipe at Nyako…
Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Labaran Maku,, has described Adamawa state governor, Murtala Nyako’s comment and accusation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of carrying out genocide in the north eastern Nigeria as “irresponsible and unfortunate”. The governor had in a memo sent to…
Delta state Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah Esq, has described as a threat of people’s freedom to free speech and association, the recent contemptuous statements attributed to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, where the state governor was alleged to have claimed that the “People’s…
The Delta state Ministry of Higher Education has reacted to alleged statements published by an online portal, following the recent demonstration by some students of University of Lagos, which accused the state Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Hope Eghagha of fraudulent actions…
The Delta state government has denied in strong terms the billowing allegation issued by a militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), that Ebikeme, son of Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark had colluded with the Delta State…
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has knocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) for raining insults on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the party was behaving like a rejected child. In a press statement signed by its President, Nelly Emma;…
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has taken a swipe at the accusers of the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke over alleged spending of public funds on the hiring of a private jet for her personal use and…
THE GRUESOME MURDER OF BARRISTERS DAFIOGHO EGWUONO AND SAMUEL EKWAGHANJU IN A LONELY OIL COMPANY SERVICE ROAD AT OZORO Delta State Police Command deeply regrets the gruesome murder of Barristers Dafiogho Egwuono and Samuel Ekwaghanju on Thursday 27th March, 2014, at about…
