ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPolitics, in many places, is often reduced to numbers, calculations and cold negotiations. But every once in a while, a politician emerges whose connection with the people transcends strategy and enters the realm of emotion, affection and enduring loyalty. In Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio has continued to prove himself as one…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA civil society organisation, Open Forum, has called on the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, to urgently issue an Executive Order barring traditional rulers in the state from participating in partisan politics. Open Forum warns that the growing politicisation of the traditional institution is eroding its integrity and threatening peace…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Hon Eseme Eyiboh Let us begin with a confession. There is something unsettling about a politician who no longer appears to struggle. In the turbulent theatre of Nigerian politics, where noise is often mistaken for relevance, where primaries resemble wrestling contests and delegate management demands the instincts of a hostage negotiator, a man…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Oro Stakeholders Forum for the Actualisation of University of Maritime Studies, Oron (UMSO) has condemned what it described as endless delays in the implementation and operationalisation of the University, warning that the situation is undermining Nigeria’s blue economy aspirations and weakening public confidence in governance. Speaking during a press conference held in Abuja…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesConstituents and party faithful turned out en masse on Monday, May 18, for the affirmation of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the candidate for the Senate seat in Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. Akpabio who was returned unopposed as the sole candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, took part in the primary election…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh The controversy surrounding the recent amendment to the Senate Standing Rules has generated more heat than light. Unfortunately, much of the public conversation has been framed around personalities rather than principles, and emotions rather than institutional logic. Yet the real issue before the Senate is neither about Senator Godswill…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThere are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes complicity and diplomacy must rise above routine formalities to assert moral clarity. The motion on xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa and Ghana, moved by Senator Aniekan Bassey of Akwa Ibom Northeast Senatorial District stands as one of such defining interventions….
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has called for justice and strengthened national accountability following the alleged extra-judicial killing of 28-year-old Mene Ogidi. Addressing lawmakers before the commencement of plenary on Tuesday, Akpabio described the incident as “a matter that strikes at the moral fabric of our nation,” and said it demanded urgent attention from…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Senate has resolved to constitute a joint ad hoc committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to address the rising cases of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. The committee, to be led by the Chairman of the National Assembly, will undertake a fact-finding and diplomatic visit to South Africa…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio at the weekend pleaded with the people of the South East, the Ndigbo, to continue to maintain peace in the country and guide the youth appropriately to shun Armed struggle against the Nigerian government. Akpabio made the appeal while at the funeral of the former Administrative Secretary…
