–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: In the present equation and the many calculations towards the 2023 Presidential election, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seems to be a forgotten numerator or denominator. His name is hardly mentioned in serious political discourse and…
–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 Austen AKHAGBEME: With a concocted feeling of joyful rhetoric in the midst of a collective discontent, the old drums are rolled out, once again, in celebration of Nigeria’s independence anniversary. It has become our favourite ethos, to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Ogbeide Osas KENNEDY: We lost Awo, yet we proclaimed he was the president that Nigeria never had.Achebe wrote in his book, There was a country, a book meant to tarnish the image of Pa Awo, but unfortunately, the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: This is surely not the best of times for the Governor of Ekiti State and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Yet, he seems to be riding in the storm, purportedly…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Editor): Police on Saturday confirmed the attack on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum. In the convoy the governor was however absent as he chose to travel by air to Baga…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Michael EKOKORUWE: The President General of Isoko Development Union, High Chief Iduh Amadhe, has called on Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State, for urgent intervention to rescue people and vehicles stranded as ravaging flood cut’s…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: Not everybody saw it coming, neither do I, too. Not with the vociferous echoes of assurances coming from the APC national leadership and the misunderstood demagoguery of her local chieftains. It was a rude shock…
PRESS RELEASE OFISOKO ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (IANA)ON THE DEMANDS OF THE ISOKO NATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA The Isoko Association of North America (IANA) is the umbrella organisation of people of Isoko descent living in North America, committed to…
-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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Following the review of the interim leadership constituted for the Delta Online Publishers’ Forum (DOPF) in 2017, an elected leadership to steer the affairs of the body has been elected. The new Executive Committee (Exco) inaugurated on Thursday,…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: In my earlier treatise, ( far before the NBA and El-Rufai’s “search” for the true Nigerian), I had made attempts to dispassionately look at the possibility of one thinking Nigeria first before Tribe and its…
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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) From Mike SOGBOLA -North-East Bureau Chief: Borno State Commissioner of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Adamu Lawan on Monday claimed the state remains the least indebted state in the country. He said this was despite the fact…
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…
–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…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- By Editor The news of Asaba Airport’s re-opening has been confirmed and contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the Delta State Government, Chiedu Ebie and made available to Blank NEWS Online on Thursday, August 13…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA, North-East Bureau Chief:: A communique is expected later in the day as Governors of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, making the North East Region, are meeting in Maiduguri the Borno State…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has said it is ready to move on with the resumption of Senior Secondary schools in the state, in strict adherence to the Federal Government guidelines…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Former Managing Director of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Dr. Tony Elumelu has given the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition, Senator Ayo Akinyelure seven days, to retract a statement credited to…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Bureau Chief): Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the war on insurgency should have been over had it not been for sabotage. The war on Boko Haram has been since 2009…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA -North East Editor: The gale of corruption recently uncovered in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as well as few other federal agencies may unleash “new marque of militancy, economic downturn, trust deficits in governments…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has distanced himself from the list of contractors handling projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC as contained in a letter by the…
–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…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Mike SOGBOLA: The Maiduguri Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 2, 2020, secured the conviction of one Lawan Zanna Ajimi before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of Borno State High Court. He was…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA/North-East: Chief of State (CoS) to Borno State Governor (Prof. Babagana Zulum), Dr Babagana Wakil is dead. A statement by the spokesman to the Governor, Mallam Isa Gusau announced his death on Wednesday. Though the cause…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): Gift A Child Initiative, a non governmental organization, NGO in Benin City, Edo State in collaboration with four other NGO’s, weekend called on the Federal and State Governments to step up appropriate laws to end rape and all…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Austen AKHAGBEME: When Afenifere, the yoruba cultural and political organisation signed the fatal accord with former President Obasanjo in his bid for a second term, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu saw ahead of them all. Which is…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Our Correspondent: Borno State Government said about N132 million is expended monthly on members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), hunters and vigilantes from the local government fund to secure the state from Boko Haram. The state said…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: That Edo State has gradually become a Political ” War zone “, full of intrigues, subterfuge, Confusion and desperation is a known fact. No thanks to the desperate combatants from both divide, championed by their…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Julius OWEH: The bond of brotherhood in Africa is very tight and unique that distant cousins can even compete for attention with your own children and siblings. That is why it is very common when an African…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: United Nations has condemned Saturday’s attacked by terrorists group on parts of Borno State. A statement by the Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, said the action of the group is vehemently condemned, It…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on leaders at all levels as well as the Nigerian citizenry to cherish, respect and uphold the tenets of democracy, not only as a system of government but…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA (Editor, Nort-East Bureau): United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has commenced the distribution of radio sets to all internally displaced and other vulnerable children in Borno State. This, according to the UN agency, would ensure that…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA ((North East Bureau Editor): Boko Haram visited fury on a Borno village for allegedly sharing information about them to the military. In the reign of terror, the insurgents killed over 70 people at a…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, FCNA, CrFA, has applauded His Excellency, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa for initiating the process for the setting…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Editor Delta state commissioner for information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has appealed to the people of Delta state to follow the health protocols prescribed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the government as part of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA, NORTH EAST BUREAU EDITOR: Towards rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has put measures in place to fast track the building of 10,000 housing units in…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) , Lt . Gen. Tukur Buratai has said that Nigerian troops withstood the rigour of Lent and Ramadan to inflict major defeats of Boko Haram, killing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): By Albert OGRAKA: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, has described this year’s Eid el Fitr celebrations as sobering with great lessons learnt following stringent restrictions…
