-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East: Seven hunters were blown apart by landmine about 30 kilometers away from troubled Maiduguri. The landmine, which scattered the vehicles of local hunters on the hunt for suspected Boko Haram who had hustled cows from…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively report that the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has ordered a new partial lockdown of all public activities across the state, as a result of the second wave…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Chief of Bureau: Sweden has donated N460 million towards fighting acute malnutrition in the North East, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. A statement by UNICEF on Tuesday said Sweden is partnering with…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The Bishop of the catholic Diocese Sokoto, Rev Mathew Hassan Kukah is not one that needs an introduction. His fiery mien, speaks of a unique Clergyman, with a heart for service and a concern for…
-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) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Bureau: Twenty two thousand, five hundred and fifty six ghost workers have been unearthed in Borno State. This was the finding after two simultaneous verification exercises ordered by Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum. The…
-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) – From Mike SOGBOLO: Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has said the military has dimmed the hope of their ability to defeat Boko Haram as they have continued to show they cannot secure 20 kilometers away from…
Seeks Accountants’ Forum Cooperation With Gov. Okowa On “Stronger Delta” –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: As Nigeria is gradually becoming entangled in the web of ensuing global recession occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Forensic Accounting expert, Bashorun Askia Ogieh,…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The euphoria that greeted the return of the abducted students of the Government science secondary school, Kankara, Katsina state, was palpable. It was a thorough relief from the usual double speak and empty yarns that…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most disturbing issues on the national question that most Nigerian political elites shy away from discussing, is the Igbo Presidency. The need and the quest for the Igbo Presidency has become like…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: The Forum of Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta (FENND) has, at the weekend held its inaugural meeting that culminated to lecture on ‘water resources’ to streamline the purpose of the forum, have orientation of the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO/North-East Bureau: Nigerian monarchs have asked the military why can’t you occupy Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad region still housing Boko Haram insurgents. Speaking on Monday, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of…
-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): As Nigerians prepare to watch their President live, appear before a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday to address the security crisis across the federation, President Muhammadu Buhari may have cancelled the plan to appear before…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Comptroller General of Nigerian Correctional Service, Ahmad Jafaru, has lauded the efforts of the wife of Delta State Governor and founder of 05 Initiative, Dame Edith Okowa, for continually assisting the inmates and staff…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: Nigeria is such a unique country. Its uniqueness springs from the bizarre nature of leadership recruitment. It is a situation of people who ordinarily should not get close to the corridors of power are the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Special Report By Mike SOGBOLO: United States has removed all visa reciprocity fees for Nigerians seeking visas into the country. The Donald Trump government in August had announced visa reciprocity fees against some countries seen to be charging…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sent truckloads of relief material for the families and people of Zabarmari, whose loved ones were slain on a rice field by Boko Haram. The President’s gesture came 48 hours after he had…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North- East Bureau): Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has been ordered by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to immediately commence criminal charges against Eunisell Chemicals Limited, Chika Ikenga and Suraj Yakubu for…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO North-Eest Bureau: The Nigerian Governors’ Forum Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said that the nation’s security challenges are beyond the Nigerian military, insisting that they are surely overwhelmed and cannot…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing phenomenon in Nigeria today is the continued display of bravado and reckless impunity by the ravaging Boko Haram sect and their equally deadly Bandit variant, in their nefarious operations…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) —By Albert OGRAKA: Wife of the Delta State Governor, Dame Edith Okowa and founder of 05 Initiative has encouraged the Coalition of Non Governmental Organizations, to initiate a comprehensive database for the collection of cases of sexual abuses,…
-Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Oleh kingdom women in their hundreds, on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 protested over the delay for justice on the gruesome killing of 12 indigenes hired for farm work at Ada farmland on 16th of October…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau): Suspected members of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram have shot down a Nigerien helicopter in Bama, Borno State. Security source who spoke anonymously to our correspondent, said five yet to be identified passengers…
-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): From Albert OGRAKA: Internationally acclaimed Forensic Expert, Bashorun Askia Ogieh (FCNA, CrFA), has thrown light into some grey areas that may be an inhibition to Nigeria’s economic growth process. He however proffered solutions to tackling some myriad issues and how…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Philip AGBESE: Anyone taken aback by the turn of events around the #EndSARS protests and the Lekki Toll Gate conundrum in Lagos State must have been negligent of the events that led to the 2019 election that…
-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) – Seven members of the Civilian Joint Task Force and local hunters were killed on Sunday in a remote village of Chibok local government area in Northeast Nigeria. According to a resident of Chibok local government area, who…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the most embarrassing situations today in Nigeria, especially at the wake of the recent hashtag protests, is the menace of Hoodlums everywhere. Their coordinated activities and the near similar methods of operation points…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, today, Tuesday, October 27, 2020 presented the Appropriation Bill of N378.48 billion for 2021 to the state House of Assembly for consideration. The budget presentation earlier scheduled for Thursday,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: As the eerie smoke seems to be settling down and the rivers of tears simmers, distrust, accusations and counter accusations seems to be the order of the day in Nigeria. Those who murdered sleep are…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North East Bureau): ActionAid Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately act as a father by addressing the nation and stop the ongoing ENDSARS protesting from degenerating into full scale anarchy. The organisation,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The National Human Rights Commission has constituted an 11-man panel to probe allegations of violation of human rights by the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The police unit was scrapped by the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLO (North-East Bureau Chief): The Nigerian Army is set to commence its annual military exercise ragged Crocodile Smile, nationwide. According to a press release by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, the exercise…
–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) –From Michael EKOKORUWE: Isoko Nation has kicked against the alleged sale of a bar of Zamfara gold to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for N5 billion by the Zamfara state government and supported the Deputy Senate President…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: The sound of the call for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation has become like that of a broken record. It comes in a bewildering staccato; it comes intermittently from both the usual and the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau): The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) In order to tackle the menace of Boko Haram insurgents has approached Cameroonian military structures for support. A press release signed on Saturday by the Chief of…
