ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Is Kenya visiting Nigeria? Henry Kissinger it was, who once said, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” While it’s not too clear what the renowned diplomat and scholar meant, the meaning seems to be that just as aphrodisiac offers a temporary inorganic surge of emotions, power makes its wielder believe…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe president general of the pan-Igbo social cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, is dead. The Frontier online newspaper quotes his son, Jude, as making this information known in a statement. Publisher of Champion, the late business mogul was a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and a popular face within…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ernest Udoh-Robert This July makes it exactly one year since Gov Umo Eno toured Ibom Power Company, assuring his compatriots of improved power generation and distribution from the state-owned power facility located in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area. He said that he was not among those who merely acted on reports from the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesUS President Joe Biden, Sunday 21st July 2024, finally announced his exit from the November 2024 American presidential race, ending weeks of calls from donors, supporters, and party chieftains that he should drop his reelection ambition. Biden, who is serving his first term as president, had sought re-nomination to serve a second term through…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•Says it’s becoming Tinubu’s puppet It seems like the ripples evoked by the removal of the Borno South senator, Ali Ndume, as Senate Chief Whip, are not about to go away anytime soon. Besides Ndume himself doubling down on his condemnation of the Tinubu administration’s response to the economic situation in the country, former…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Senator Ali Ndume has shrugged off his removal as Senate Chief Whip and Vice chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations. Addressing the press today in his Maiduguri country home, about 48 hours after he was stripped of his position as Senate Chief Whip, the senator said that he was still of the view that…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNigeria’s national minimum wage now ₦70,000 •Tinubu promises review every three years The Federal Government and organised labour have today, 18 July, 2024, settled for ₦70,000 national minimum wage, WatchmanPost can confirm. Information to this effect was confirmed by the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, after a meeting…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesMore troubles seem to be awaiting Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) as the Senate has decided to further investigate his interview with Arise News television, where he is alleged to have called senators kleptomaniacs. This was brought to the floor of the Upper Chamber as a point of order by Senator Fasuyi Fasuyi,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThis year’s local government council election in Akwa Ibom State will now hold on 5th October 2024, and not 26th October as announced earlier. The Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC), the body charged with the responsibility of conducting the election, announced this in Uyo, the State capital, through its chairman, Elder Aniedi…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesAge limit for university entry 18. No, 16! In just hours, age limit for admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions moved down from 18 to 16 years. Protests from stakeholders had greeted announcement by Education Minister, Prof. Tahir Mamman, that henceforth the minimum age one must attain to be admitted into Nigerian tertiary institutions was…
