ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Edet Okpo Senator Ekong Sampson is truly making a difference in the lives of his constituents, promoting healthcare, quality infrastructure, human empowerment and capacity building. His huge investment in education especially in the provision of scholarship and grants to students is no small feat, and it is clear that he is passionate about…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little and forgets even less. To survive is one thing. To matter is another. To matter for nearly two decades at the highest levels of public life…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh mnipr On this ninth day of December, in the year 2025, as the nation stirs to its familiar rhythm, a man stands quietly at the crossroads of personal milestone and public memory. Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, GCON, marks his 63rd year on earth—another turn on the wheel of time…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Jackson Udom On 5 December 2025, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan again resorted to social media to claim incorrectly and misleadingly that His Excellency, the President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, had only just filed a multi-billion-naira defamation suit against her over her unfounded allegations of sexual misconduct. These allegations, as the public…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares2025 oil bid round: new vista for energy transformation, investor confidence By Akpandem James Nigeria appears set for another decisive round of oil field development, coming just a year after a successful bid cycle that delivered new oil wells and expanded the nation’s crude oil production capacity. Signalling a shift toward structured and predictable…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ofonime Honesty For years, the story of small businesses has been one of resilient hustle hampered by a familiar adversary: access to capital. A struggling tailor with a waiting list of clients cannot afford an industrial machine. A rural farmer watches his business struggle due to his inability to expand and invest in…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe threat by the US Government to invade Nigeria to take out terrorists if the persecution of Christians in Nigeria does not stop, has generated a lot of dust in Nigeria. Suddenly the security chiefs announced the arrest of 20 Boko Haram terrorists. The military chiefs in a jittery mode summoned a meeting with…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ofonime Honesty The Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, became a cauldron of fun recently as over 30,000 people converged for the commencement of the 5ive Alive Music Concert of the foremost Afro Pop phenom, David Adedeji Adeleke, aka Davido. David, less than 48 hours after an official meeting with…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Sufuyan Ojeifo History, in its long and patient arc, is a master storyteller. Its finest tales often begin with conflict rather than applause, with accusation rather than acclaim. Before the garlands and the gratitude, there is the crucible, the fire through which greatness is tested and purified. The recent wave of false accusations…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesWomen of Annang land, one of the dominant ethnic group in Akwa Ibom State, have threatened to ostracize Mrs. Patience Ibanga Akpabio over what they described as her campaign of calumny against her brother-in-law, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, President of the Nigerian Tenth Senate. The threat, issued under the auspices of Annang Women Advocacy…
