ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja Kogi State capital has set aside an earlier ruling that restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving the recall process initiated by constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The Federal High Court in a landmark judgement delivered in Lokoja on Friday…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares NGOs, CSOs collaborate to uplift vulnerable citizens •Embark on training stakeholders By Ernest Udoh-Robert Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) including Lawyers Alert and Media Health and Rights Initiative of Nigeria (MHR) have called for a more responsive, equitable, and sustainable health system that would ensure that the most vulnerable in society are…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Emmanuel Ntekim The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Baba Azare, has causioned the Hotel Owners Association and the management of hospitality businesses in the state against harbouring criminal elements, vowing to raid and shut down any establishment found harbouring criminals. The CP in a press statement issued by the commands Public Relations…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA prominent activist, Fejiro Oliver, on Thursday, January 9, called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate alleged fraud totaling N700 billion during the administration of former Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. Oliver, who claimed to have evidence of the alleged fraud, vowed to submit a petition to the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesRivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has taken a bold step in appointing former Niger Delta militant leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, as a traditional ruler in the state. Dokubo-Asari was presented with a certificate of recognition and a staff of office as the Amanyanabo of Torusarama Piri in Degema local government area. Presenting the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has elected Comrade Alhassan Yahaya as its new President. Yahaya was elected at the 8th Triennial Delegates’ Conference held from November 26 to 28 in Owerri, Imo State. Comrade Yahaya, who previously served as the National Deputy President thrice, will now lead the NUJ for the next three…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Trump: Trials and triumphs of a political maverick – By Soney Antai Even the best of futurists could not forsee it coming. If anyone foresaw anything at all, what actually happened was different from what they saw, in mold and magnitude. One self-styled prophet had voiced what he passed off as a futurama,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Engaging our emergency medics There are certain issues that a columnist may not proficiently comment on. Among them are issues in such specialties like medicine, aeronautic engineering, high tech, among others, except they are learned in those fields. If not, a columist should…
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 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…
