Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Akwa Ibom State, the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Obong Akanimo Udofia has pledged to accelerate the infrastructural and human capital development of the State with a view to making the State a destination of choice for investors and tourists if voted into office. Obong […]
An independent research think-tank based in Lagos, with a special interest in democratic governance and human rights known as Citizens’ Participation For Good Governance (CPGG), has tipped the ACCORD Governorship Candidate in Akwa Ibom State; Engr. (Dr.) Emem Coffie FNICE, COREN, FIMC, FICEN, FIMS, to win the March 11 election. This is the second […]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, is currently briefing the Federal Executive Council chaired by the President, Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this shortly after Buhari arrived at the Council Chamber before the meeting commenced proper. […]
The federal government has assured Nigerian workers that it would set in motion the process that would lead to the approval a new minimum wage to be implemented on or before May 2024. The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who was the special guest of honour at the 13th quadrennial delegates conference of the […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has discharged and acquitted of fraud allegations Mr. Jide Omokore, the Businessman who donated fiive cars to Senator Bassey Albert. Omokore is the Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, while Albert, populary called OBA is the Governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in Akwa […]
The Supreme Court, Wednesday, restrained the Federal Government from enforcing the February 10 deadline for the use of N200, N500 and N1000 old Naira notes. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-member panel, halted the full implementation of the demonetisation policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The ruling followed […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The cancellation came following the discovery by the nation’s tertiary institutions admission body that the candidates engaged in various forms of irregularities while carrying out the registration exercise in various Computer Based […]
By lmo BEN, Uyo. In Akwa Ibom State today, poverty and it’s accompanying suffering is rising to a state of human crisis. Hunger has reached a level of an epidemic and can be noted on faces and reduced body weight of citizens. The State is presently on the second highest index of NBS poverty […]
Nollywood star and Lagos gubernatorial deputy candidate of the PDP, Funke Akindele, has lost her mother. The actress’s older sister, Olubunmi Akindele, broke the news on Tuesday evening on her official Instagram page. The statement read, “It is with heavy hearts, but in total submission to God Almighty that the ADEBANJO and AKINDELE families […]
All is now set for the burial ceremony of late Deaconess Hannah Bassey Ekong, mother of the Vice Chairman, Uyo Local Government Council, Hon. (Pst.) Sylvia Ekong, FCAI. According to an official statement signed by the eldest son of the deceased, Mr. Enobong Ekong, Deaconess Ekong, “a retired Senior School Principal, devoted Christian, virtuous […]