Akwa Ibom @ 39 Prof. Eyo Ita: Unforgettable, yet forgotten?
We cannot afford to forget men like Prof. Eyo Ita — not in Nigeria, and certainly not in Akwa Ibom.
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10TH Senate takes on Nigeria’s toughest security question: State Police
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ken Harries, Esq. It often begins as an ordinary day. A commercial bus pulls out before dawn, its passengers expecting nothing more than traffic delays and bad roads. Traders carry the week’s earnings. Students return to school. A nursing mother cradles her child. A retired civil servant travels to visit his family. Elsewhere,…
The Nigerian people must decide 2027, not a handful of corrupt elites
In 2027, Nigeria must send an unmistakable message to every political desperado: the era where a handful of elites determined the destiny of 230 million citizens is at an end. The future belongs to the people, not to godfathers or vested interests.
Akpabio: I didn”t promise APC tickets to senators
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesPresident of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed reports suggesting that he promised to secure senatorial tickets for members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who lost in the party’s primary elections. In a statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, Akpabio described the reports…
Governance and politics: The options *
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…
Akpabio: A return ticket secured in carnival
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…
Senator Bassey’s historic motion on xenophobic attacks against Nigerians
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….
Amb. Farida Musa Jauro: Best APC consensus option for Mubi North, Mubi South, and Maiha Federal Constituency
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…
El-Rufai’s fall from Tinubu’s inner circle
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…
Gov Bassey Otu and the sleeping skeletons of Bakassi’s lost battles
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….