ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesStakeholders at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Law and Development Summit have called for the repositioning of the Commission as the central coordinating institution for development efforts in the Niger Delta, stressing that a more empowered NDDC is crucial to achieving sustainable development in the region. Leading the call was former Minister of…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday led the upper chamber of the National Assembly in mourning the victims of the recent school abduction in Oyo State, describing the incident as a national tragedy and a direct assault on Nigeria’s future. Speaking at the resumption of Senate plenary following the Sallah recess…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA media aide attached to the Office of the Political Adviser to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State has been dismissed following comments he made on social media concerning President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Mr. Osborne Ubong Okon, who served as Media Aide to the Political Adviser, was relieved of his appointment on June 2,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Dr. Adebowale Adedokun, has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for implementing procurement policy reforms and digitising its procurement processes to enhance transparency, efficiency, and accountability. Speaking at the NDDC Procurement Policy Reform and Digitisation Stakeholders Sensitisation and Training Summit in Port Harcourt, Adedokun…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe long-running leadership question in Iquita Village, Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, has taken a decisive turn following separate interventions by the Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Akon Eyakenyi, and the Oron Traditional Rulers’ Council (TRC), both of which have reportedly endorsed the Mbai family as the rightful lineage to…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesIn the market of thunder where rumours wear agbada, And politics drinks palm wine from a cracked calabash, A quarrel rose like Harmattan dust Between two drummers of the old APC caravan. One beat his chest with the fury of River Niger: “I fought the wars! I crossed the bridges! I carried the general…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe President of the Senate, His Excellency, Senator Godswill Akpabio,GCON has extended warm congratulations to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, on the occasion of his 3rd year anniversary in office. Senator Akpabio, in a statement personally signed by him commended the President for three years of bold reforms, strategic leadership, and unwavering commitment to…
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…
