February 2019

By Ekemini Simon   Akwa Ibom Government will today, Friday, April 30, 2020 honour indigenous workers who have made indelible impact from the private and public sectors of the state economy.   The honour tagged Ibom Productivity Order of Merit Awards will hold at the banquet hall of Government House, Uyo at 6pm.   The […]

The Presidency has expressed disappointment over recent remarks made by the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, against it. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu made the Presidency’s position known in a statement he issued on Thursday night. Governor Ortom, had alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari was working for the […]

Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, says the current security challenge facing the country is politically motivated. Akpabio said this on Thursday in Abuja at the APC National Secretariat when he spoke with newsmen. “I think most of the problems are politically motivated. “So, we must use our binoculars to be able to look and […]

Goodluck Okorie in an interview session with NUTAF Director Victor Nwokocha over the upcoming NUTAF Festival set to take place in Gregoru University Uturu (GUU). NUTAF Festival Hall GUU 1 Q. Good morning sir, may we know you   My name is Victor Nwokocha, I am the National Festival Director of NUTAF.   Q: Sir, […]

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has linked the fall of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya to the unsavoury security situation in Nigeria. Addressing the National Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, James Akpanudoedehe, yesterday at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, the minister admitted that there were those […]

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says the regime of the President. Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) may be giving false impression that the Joe Biden administration will send United States troops to defend Nigerians. The lawyer said rather than give the false impression, the Federal Government of Nigeria should embark on mass recruitment of military and police personnel, […]

Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, has condemned the violent attacks in many states of Nigeria. In a statement on Thursday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader said he was “angered and troubled”. He decried the terror and cruelty being visited upon the people of Borno, Yobe, Benue, Niger, Imo and other parts of the nation. Tinubu […]

Three nabbed for setting suspected thief ablaze Father defiles nine-year-old daughter The Lagos State Police Command, on Thursday, paraded a painter, Moses Olaitan, and his accomplice, Segun Omoshola, for allegedly impersonating the Elegushi of Ikate land, Oba Saheed Elegushi, and using his image to defraud a woman they met on Facebook of N51m. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem […]