ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares By Ernest Udoh-Robert The press briefing by the Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno on Saturday, 29th May 2026 removed scales of doubts of the governor being on the wrong track. The usual cocooned belief that governors live in opulence and have it easy in life is an aberration of the…
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 SharesThere are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes complicity and diplomacy must rise above routine formalities to assert moral clarity. The motion on xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa and Ghana, moved by Senator Aniekan Bassey of Akwa Ibom Northeast Senatorial District stands as one of such defining interventions….
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Yusuf Abubakar In the dynamic political landscape of Adamawa State, the need for credible, capable, and people-oriented leadership has never been more important. For the people of Mubi North, Mubi South, and Maiha Federal Constituency, the choice of a representative must go beyond political calculations—it must reflect competence, compassion, and the ability to…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ismaeel Uthman Few political relationships in the Fourth Republic have shifted as dramatically as that between former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and President Bola Tinubu. From pointed public criticism and ideological distance to strategic alliance and eventual rupture, ISMAEEL UTHMAN writes on the trajectory of their engagement before, during and after the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it” – Edward the Bono By Substance Udo-Nature With the International Court of Justice’s ruling, Cross River State was left drowning in the Bermuda Triangle. Approximately two decades today, a Phoenix appears to have risen from the debris of history, to reopen closed files….
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Sandra C. Duru International Women’s Day is in one day. Usually, I celebrate many women who have excelled in their careers or added remarkable value to their lives and communities. However, this year I have chosen to celebrate one woman in particular. A woman who stood firmly behind her husband when he was…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ofonime Honesty I wish to fuse few tales into this column. The tales have Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State as the main character. No embellishments, no dilly-dallying, let’s get straight to the business of the day. Picture this: April 2024. Governor Eno is standing before former President Goodluck Jonathan during the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ofonime Honesty It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. That is the wisdom our ancestors taught us. That is the counsel David Nweze Umahi should have heeded. But he did not. He could not. He vomited bile with all the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ken Harries Esq There’s a trend in Nigeria where accusations are louder than the coin box, and everyone scrambles to the high ground of moral outrage. Yet, here comes Senator Godswill Akpabio, the President of the 10th Senate, going against the trend like a devoted monk who has decided that the usual script…
