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ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesCommissioner of Information, Hon. Aniekan Umanah has advised National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in the Ministry of Information to create a lasting positive impact at their Place of Primary Assignment (PPA). The commissioner gave the counsel during a meeting with the corps members on Monday, July 14, 2025. While emphasizing the importance…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Labour Partys Deputy National Chairman, Ayo Olorunfemi, has revealed that the partys next National Executive Council (NEC) meeting will be critical in determining the fate of key figures such as its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, amid allegations of anti-party activities. This disclosure follows recent tensions stirred…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesWhile suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has recently filed an appeal against a Federal High Court judgment, sparking a controversy, a legal analyst, Dayo Fadugba, is urging the Senate not to be distracted from its constitutional responsibilities. According to Fadugba, the court’s July 4, 2025, judgment did not grant any of the reliefs sought by…

ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares●Agency seizes 804-kg illicit drugs, secures 38 convictions The Akwa Ibom State Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA),  Obot Bassey,  has expressed worry over what she adjudges as uncomfortably rising cases of abuse of unlawful substances and hard drugs in Akwa Ibom. The anti-drug top brass said this   during the 2025…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has criticized former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the national mourning period for late President Muhammadu Buhari. Keyamo accused Atiku of insensitivity, saying the timing of his resignation was an attempt to draw attention away from the…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCFR, has described late former President Muhammadu Buhari, as a man forged in the furnace of battle and tempered in the trials of governance. In his tribute to the former president at the Special Session of the Expanded Special Federal Executive Council Meeting in honour of the…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Offot Ukwa Clan 2027 Mandate Group has asserted its right to represent Uyo state constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, citing the zoning and rotation formula that has guided the constituency’s representation for years. According to the group’s Central Coordinator, Hon Asuquo Ekpenyong, “2027 is the turn of Offot Ukwa…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has expressed profound sadness over the passing of immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR describing him as “a statesman and leader of great integrity”. Buhari died on Sunday at a London Clinic at the age of 82. The Senate President in a statement personally signed by…

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, GCON, has urged the entire structure of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State to remain united and support President Bola Tinubu and Governor Umo Eno in building a united and prosperous nation. Akpabio made the call while addressing a stakeholders’ meeting of the APC…

ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•Says it’s triumph of democracy, peoples will President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has congratulated the governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo on his confirmation as the duly elected candidate in the September 2024 gubernatorial elections in Edo State. Akpabio, in a congratulatory message personally signed by him described the Supreme…