The Senior Special Assistant to Akwa Ibom State Governor on Brand Management and Marketing, Mr Raphael Edem has assured that the ARISE Agenda of the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno will open up the state for tech opportunities. Mr Edem, who was the keynote speaker at the Akwa Ibom Tech Week with the theme “Africa’s new tech destination”, said Tuesday that ICT is a critical part of the governor’s economic policy as the state is committed to exploring the enormous opportunities in digital technology. “Few months ago His Excellency hosted a dialogue where he opened his blueprint to inputs and…
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…Joe Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. The Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, made it known to journalists via WhatSapp message. The NLC is leading a statewide protest and strike in Owerri over what it described as lack of respect for workers, unpaid salaries and…
The appellate court held that the tribunal was wrong for setting aside its order foreclosing Senator Suswam from calling further witnesses in his petition. The Court of Appeal Abuja has set aside the ruling of the Benue State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal which allowed Senator Gabriel Suswam to call 11 additional witnesses in his petition against Senator Emmanuel Udende, after he had been foreclosed from calling further witnesses. The appellate court held that the tribunal was wrong for setting aside its order foreclosing Senator Suswam from calling further witnesses in his petition. Consequently, the three-member panel of the Court…
The Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, addressed a press conference in Abuja on Monday over the Supreme Court’s verdict to dismiss his appeal for lacking in merit and affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu. Below is the full text of his speech: Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while. By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but…
I finally caught up with Senator Ekong Sampson last Monday in Abuja. Scheduling a meeting with him is an arduous task given his busy agenda. He represents Akwa Ibom South in the 10th Senate, is the Vice Chairman of Basic & Secondary Education Committee; Vice Chairman of FCT Committee and a member of about 14 other committees, including NDDC and Appropriation. Although he is a fresh man in the Senate, Sampson is not new to the grounds of the National Assembly. Between 1999 and 2003, he served as a legislative aide to Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, who was then Chairman…
Some Nigerians who applied for international passports have accused personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Abuja passport office, of massive extortion. The passport applicants said in spite of recent directive of the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to the immigration authorities to sanitise the system, nothing much has changed. The applicants who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), lamented that they were made to pay various sums of money by NIS officials before getting the travel document. They also alleged that the electronic passport application system has been compromised, forcing those who followed…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed a criminal charge against the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Professor Cyril Ndifon. This followed the Commission’s conclusion of investigation into the professor’s alleged gross misconducts against some of his students. Some female law students at the faculty had in August staged a protest and accused Ndifon of sexual harassment. Subsequently, the university management suspended Ndifon and constituted a panel to investigate the allegations against the embattled law professor. The ICPC, alongside the Department of State Services (DSS) on October 4, 2023 arrested…
By Terry Ikumi and Gloria Ume-Uzeoke President Bola Tinubu had written the National Assembly seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget. The 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill expeditiously scaled second reading on Tuesday in the House of Representatives and the Senate as lawmakers said it is for the benefit of the country President Bola Tinubu had written the National Assembly seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more. The President also sent the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) & Fiscal Strategy Paper to…
As Justice Zubairu awarded a cost of N1 million in favour of Sylva The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has reversed the nullification of the candidacy of Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Binta Zubairu, who delivered the lead judgement held that Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, was wrong in ordering the sack of Sylva as a candidate of the APC in the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State. According to the court, the trial court was erred in having assumed jurisdiction in the matter on grounds that the plaintiff at the Federal…
The court dismissed the appeal filed by Abubakar Ohere for lacking in merit. The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has affirmed Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the duly elected candidate for Kogi Central Senatorial Election earlier in February. The court dismissed the appeal filed by Abubakar Ohere for lacking in merit. Earlier in September, the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja had nullified the victory of Ohere of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial Election. The court further declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the actual winner of the February senatorial…