ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has dismissed calls for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to hand over power to Vice President Kashim Shettima, saying there is no leadership vacuum despite the President’s continued working vacation abroad. Speaking on Tuesday, in Akwa Ibom State, while commisioning road projects executed by Governor Umo Eno, Akpabio addressed…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has stated that the creation of Akwa Ibom State 39 years ago by the President Ibrahim Babangida administration was a fulfilment of the aspiration of the founding fathers of the state. Akpabio’s assertion was contained in his goodwill message to the government and people the state on the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesAs Nigeria prepares for the conduct of general elections to usher in fresh sets of political office holders across the country, President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has visited the Prayer Ground of St. Padre PIO, at St Giovanni Rotondo in Italy, to offer prayers to God for a peaceful 2027 elections and an…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, GCON has felicitated the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON on the occasion of her 66th birthday today, September 21, 2026. Akpabio in a statement which he personally signed, described the First Lady as “a remarkable woman,” saying: “Your Excellency, your life reflects faith, service, sacrifice…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, GCON, has expressed profound sadness over the death of veteran journalist and publisher of The Eagle Online, Dotun Oladipo. In a statement endorsed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, Akpabio described Oladipo’s passing as a painful loss to the Nigerian…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesHow does a university established by an Act of the National Assembly, assented to by the president, enrolled, gazetted, transmitted to the relevant ministries, subjected to NUC takeoff processes and eventually recognised for admission processing by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), remain without full institutional operationalisation years after its legal creation? JOSEPH ATAINYANG uses this investigative report to beam a torchlight on…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Chief Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, was honoured with a special thanksgiving and prayers during the 17th Diocesan Women Conference of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, held on Sunday, August 24, 2026. The conference took place at St. Mark’s Church, Ayakoro/Onuegbum Archdeaconry, in…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, GCON, has congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, CFR, mni, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In a congratulatory message through his Special Adviser on Media and…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, says the performance of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration will be enough to earn the support of Nigerians ahead of the 2027 general elections. Akpabio made the assertion while receiving members of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions, TETFund and NELFund, led by its chairman, Senator Dandutse Mohammed,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON, has felicitated the Muslim Ummah in Nigeria and across the world on the occasion of Eid el Maulud, the celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). In a congratulatory message through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, Senator Akpabio described…
