Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: The people of Ugborodo Community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have said that they are satisfied with the current location of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkeko and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: The Niger Delta Indigenous Mment For Radical Change (NDIMRC), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF), Abubakar Malami now over a purported memo emanating from him on the location of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: Prominent Niger Delta Activist and leader in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West local government area of Delta state, High Chief Micheal Johnny has condemned the purported memo emanating from the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, .Abubakar Malami…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently give approval to the $ 13.5Bn Zabazaba Deepwater Project, imploring the President to give the Zabazaba Deepwater Project to Nigerians…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Government has vehemently denied its alleged double standard role in the factional dispute which caused the postponement of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Warri Depot Unit election. Addressing a…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: Concrete facts have emerged on the achievements of the Delta State Government that made it possible for the state to be placed on the 2nd position behind Lagos State among the 36 states of the federation and…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta State Government and the Nigeria Police Force have reacted swiftly to rumours making the round that some persons or groups are going to schools to forcefully inject children to death. Blank NEWS Online…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and some of its affiliate unions in Delta state, on Friday, October 6, 2017 organized a walk rally and picketing of some companies in Asaba, the state capital to mark…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: We are very much aware that as the 2019 Polls draw near, the likes of Cairo Ojougboh who obviously are intimidated by the modest achievement of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa even in the midst of national…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, has condemned the attitude of some Nigerians who are fanning the embers of ethnicity, nepotism and hate speeches and called on those involved to change their attitude positively in…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta state government, on Tuesday, August 08, 2017 reacted to a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court order freezing the state’s Paris-London Club Refund bank accounts as a result of a dispute surrounding the money…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said that the sum of 12.319 billion naira would be recovered from public servants who fraudulently falsified their records of service. The governor also directed that the…
“The military is not all about war but also a key player in community development.” –Lt. Col. M. Maaji Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Lucky ATU: KOKO: Respite came to the people of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state on…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Following the Federal Government’s release of a state-by-state breakdown of the first tranche of Paris Club refunds paid to date, amounting to over N516.38 billion, facts have however emerged that Delta state ranked among five…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: In what could be termed “good riddance” in the legislature, the Delta State House of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Monday Ovwigho Igbuya has been impeached. His unpredicted impeachement was carefully hatched by the legislators in the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: As the global community marked the World Press Freedom Day with the theme, Critical Minds for Critical Times, Media Role in Advancing Peace, Just and Inclusive Society on Wednesday, May 03, 2017, Blank NEWS Online…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –BY Johnson EBIGIDE: The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of contemporary English Language defines corruption simply as ‘’ dishonest or illegal behaviour, especially of people in authority’’ . That is, corruption is using ones official power dishonestly and illegally…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Dr Ebi Franklin Waboke: The Niger Delta referred to and meant by the ijaw struggle is strictly and unchangeably the area occupied by the ijaws, the aboriginal tribe of the delta basin of River Niger partitioned into…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: After the first known case of toxic waste dump in Koko about thirty years ago, which alarmed Nigerians and the international community, recent reports have claimed that another likely liquid substance, suspected to be toxic,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: “… if the state government decides to seat and allow blackmailers to have a field day, then the result might not be good for the state….I am a man of peace….I have met the the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Blank NEWS Online can authoritatively disclose that Staff of the Delta State House of Assembly under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have, on Monday, sealed the Assembly complex in protest and…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The National Judicial Council (NJC), has suspended seven senior judges arrested in October by the State Security Service for alleged corruption. The NJC had initially refused to suspend the judges despite public pressure, saying the allegations against…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has approved the release of funds for the immediate payment of backlog of salaries owed teachers in both primary and secondary schools in the state. Governor Okowa, who was represented by…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria as a nation is still where it is today because the private sector has refused to take part in the emergence of leaders at all levels. Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, stated…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally bowed to pressure from key stakeholders’ call for urgent shift of the governorship polls in Edo state, as it announced late Thursday that the date of the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), is poised to go ahead with the Edo governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, September 10, 2016 despite calls and agitations by major stakeholders for its suspension. The electoral…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “It is very painful in a situation where the armed robber is now the one sympathising with the victim.” –Lai Mohammed. Nigeria’s boisterous Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has taken a rude swipe at…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Attempts by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) to put the party on a steady platform has again met a brick wall, as the Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff faction has rejected the party’s BOT…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Federal Government has deducted a total sum of N32 billion from allocations of states from the Federation Account in the month of April 2016 for different loans they incurred. The loans included the bailout funds granted…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Military action seems imminent in the troubled oil and gas wealthy but impoverished Niger Delta region, as the Military hierarchy embarks on enlightenment campaigns ahead of intensive Army invasion against strong militants’ bombardment of oil and gas…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – “We have been told that we will be paid but that is coming only to deceive us to vote again for this government.” –Edo pensioners Retired civil servants in Edo state have vowed to boycott the September…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Delta state Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Union of Tipper and Quarry Employers of Nigeria (UTQEN), Comrade Chukwudumebi Eluaka has urged members of the Union to remain law abiding in the discharge…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The nightmare being witnessed by motorists and commuters on the Benin/Onitsha expressway as a result of the failed portion of the road shortly before the Asaba end of the Niger bridge may continue as attempts by the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Local newspaper publishers in Bayelsa State, under the auspices of Bayelsa Federated Newspapers Publishers Association (BFNPA), have given the state government and security agencies in the state a 48-hour ultimatum to produce Chief Jones Abiri, publisher of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Embattled Nigeria’s Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has denied reports alleging that he had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as he insisted he was still loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC), having contributed to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to reopen investigation into the unresolved murder of former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige ‘Cicero’, and ex-Deputy National Chairman,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – To facilitate development in the Niger Delta region, South-South and South East lawmakers have urged the Federal Government to review the ownership structure of oil wells in the country. “The people of the Niger Delta region should…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta state government says it has keyed into the National Social Safety-Net Programme (NAPPS) of the Federal Government designed to tackle poverty and unemployment in the country. The claim was made at the instance of the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as provided for under Section 1(2) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Act of 1997, as amended. Mr. Buhari also…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Tension seems to have gripped Nigerians, expecially the Military top brass, following the revelation by a dominant Niger Delta Militant group, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), that the Nigerian military is currently scheming to cause crises…
