Akwa Ibom State Government has solicited partnership with Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Nigeria PLC to make the State a tourism hub in the South-South Region of the Country. Governor Umo Eno stated this while exchanging views with Olusina Adegoke, Chief Sales and Distribution Officer of the Company, who led the Management of MTN Nigeria to visit him in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State Capital. Governor Eno lauded the Company’s initiative of hosting the MTN Championship Sports tournament scheduled to hold between 29th April and 3rd May, 2025 in the State, reiterating his administration’s resolve to transform Akwa Ibom to a tourism…
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, hosted members of the suspended Rivers State House of Assembly. In a video shared Tuesday on X, the Minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, said his principal played host to the lawmakers in the United Kingdom at a dinner during their stay for a Legislative Capacity Building Course. Olayinka said the minister departed Nigeria Sunday night to host the meeting. “Yesterday, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, hosted Rivers State House of Assembly members who are in the United Kingdom for Legislative Capacity Building,…
Justice S.M Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, Kano has convicted and sentenced a Make-up Artist, Abdullahi Musa Huseini (a.k.a Amuscap) to six months imprisonment for Naira abuse. He was jailed after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on abuse and mutilation of the Naira. The charge reads: “That you, Abdullahi Musa Huseini, on the 6th day of December, 2024, at Ali Jita Event Centre, Kano, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the sum N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) in 1000 notes denomination issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by…
A Professor of International Environmental and Public International Law, Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, has advised President Bola Tinubu to reverse the state of emergency imposed in Rivers State. The professor of international environmental law warned that the emergency rule in the south-south state is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy and international reputation. It would be recalled that on March 18, President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers, citing the protracted political crisis and the vandalisation of oil facilities. The President suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, his deputy, and all House of Assembly members for six months.…
The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has said it is better to have an impactful one-year service where corps members are properly equipped with the capacity to create jobs and impact their lives rather than extend the service to two years. He stated this while speaking with journalists on Monday in Abuja after the 2025 Annual Management Conference of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The Minister of Education, Olatunji Alausa, had on Friday called for the extension of the mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme from one to two years when the Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle…
Eighteen years after it failed to win the hosting right for the 2014 Commonwealth Games at a bid process held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nigeria has once again expressed interest in hosting the competition. Yesterday, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) revealed that the country has met the deadline to express interest in hosting the 2030 edition of the competition in Abuja. Nigeria’s bid in 2007, tagged African bid, was led by former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, supported by then Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, former Sports Minister, Abdulrahman Gimba, Dr Amos Adamu and the late Nobel Peace Prize Winner,…
The leadership of a foremost governance and accountability group, Association of Ebonyi Indigenes, Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora (AEISCID) has sent strong cautions to the Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial district, Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi over his vituperative utterances and attacks on eminent personalities in the sex scandal allegations involving the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Senator representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In a statement released Tuesday in Abuja, the group’s President, (Worldwide), Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu described the Senator’S utterances, conducts and actions as “totally un-parliamentary, unwholesome and unbecoming of a legislator by every known standard.” Oluchukwu who warned…
-reiterates zero tolerance on excuses Governor Umo Eno says the Akwa Ibom State Executive Council retreat currently taking place in Lagos, is meant to further distill the culture of deliverables and deepen respect for boundaries as his administration works to relentlessly drive its vision of economic growth and wellbeing, peace and prosperity for the people of the State. Declaring open the retreat at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, Governor Eno said the retreat is expected to have participants, fully reinvigorated, equipped, refreshed and challenged for the tasks ahead. “We have assembled a great team of speakers drawn from diverse…
The Presidency has debunked widespread reports claiming that President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu. The reports, which went viral early Monday, alleged that Yakubu had been removed from office and replaced with a certain Professor Bashiru Olamilekan in what was described as a “sweeping change” in the electoral body’s leadership. Reacting to the claims, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Digital and New Media, O’tega Ogra, described the news as false and urged the public to disregard it. “Disregard any fake news making the rounds about the replacement…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has revealed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi are in talks to join the SDP ahead of the 2027 elections, with the aim of retiring President Bola Tinubu. Adebayo made this known while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, where he disclosed that key allies of both men are already negotiating with the party. According to him, their potential defection would strengthen the SDP and help unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). “People are joining my party (SDP) and…