ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesAs part of the activities to celebrate the golden anniversary of the University of Calabar, the wife of the President of the Senate, Mrs Ekaette Unoma Godswill Akpabio was on Saturday, March 22, 2025, conferred with an honorary doctorate degree in Education Management. The ceremony held at the main campus of the institution in…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBurkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traore has made a bold statement by rejecting loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In a show of confidence in his country’s abilities, Traore declared, “Africa doesn’t need the World Bank, IMF, Europe, or America”. By turning down external financial aid, Burkina Faso is asserting…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Coalition for Democracy and Development has called on the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and the suspended Governor, Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara to put aside their differences and sign a new peace pact within the next 90 days. The CDD condemned both Wike and Fubara urging them to prioritise the welfare of the people…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja Kogi State capital has set aside an earlier ruling that restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving the recall process initiated by constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The Federal High Court in a landmark judgement delivered in Lokoja on Friday…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA foundation member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State, Chief Edet Isong, has joined millions of Akwa Ibom People and Nigerians both at home and the diaspora in appreciating Gov Umo Eno for flagging off the massive infrastructure development works at the Oron Beach in Oron local government area. The…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Akwa Ibom State High Court, Abak Judicial Division has committed a Police Officer, Mrs. Juliet Attah to three months imprisonment for disobeying a Court order to produce a tricycle she seized from a tricyclist, Mr. Elijah Alphonsus Akpan, since 2024. The Court presided over by Justice Eno Isangedighi gave the order in a…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•As 30 receive starter packs By Ernest Udoh-Robert A Non-governmental Organization, NGO, Community Partners for Development (CPD) is empowering fifty young women from Mbo and Ibeno local government areas, through vocational training. The project which was sponsored by Global Greengrant and implemented by CPD began in October 2024, focused on selected 25 young women…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe House of Representatives on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to support President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. This comes after Tinubu suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months due to the escalating political crisis in the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Federal High Court in Abuja has vacated its earlier order stopping the suspension of Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, by the Senate. Justice Obiora Egwuatu overturned the ruling on Wednesday after considering arguments from both parties in the suit. Akpoti-Uduaghan had approached the court in an ex-parte motion seeking to stop the Senate…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident Bola Tinubu has sworn in Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired vice admiral, as the sole administrator of Rivers state. The ceremony took place on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. This event comes a day after Tinubu suspended Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, Ngozi Odu, his deputy, and all state lawmakers for six…
