ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNeed for urgent reforms in the power sector On 16th March 2023, the late President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 1999 amended constitution into law to allow states generate, distribute and transmit electricity. By virtue of that presidential assent, Nigerian states can now generate, transmit, and distribute electricity in areas not covered by the national…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesEditorial When will Tinubu Appoint Principal Officers, Constitute Governing Council for UMSO? The University of Maritime Studies, Oron (UMSO), Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, has been on the horizon for years, with the federal government consistently reaffirming its commitment to establishing the institution. Despite the progress made so far, the university’s take-off has been hindered…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council, Saturday, 2nd August, 2025, concluded its polls that saw a record of four journalists running for the office of the chairman of the union. It was the first time two females –who did not sail through, though – contested for that office. It was…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe rumour of President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged cloning and replacement by a body double was a persistent conspiracy theory in Nigeria. Even at death, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was buried three weeks ago, was alleged to have died a second death. The claim had suggested that Buhari died and was replaced by an imposter…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares EDITORIAL Nigeria must not become a-one-party State? The current gale of defections by politicians from the opposition parties in the country to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is concerning to lovers of political pluralism, and by extension, democracy. In fact, some observers see this as smacking of a drift from multi-party system that…
