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The All Progressives Congress, APC, is prepared based on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements to win the general elections slated for February 16 and March 2, this year in the country. The former Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who spoke with journalists after the APC’s meeting Thursday in Abuja, said “I will say that APC is very poised not just to undertake very smooth and scintillating and enjoyable campaign but also very poised to win the next election.” Akpabio who is the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, noted, “As you are aware, so far so…

Senator Dino Melaye has been allegedly whisked away from the Police Clinic in Garki, Abuja, by masked persons suspected to be policemen. According to Punch, Melaye was whisked away from the hospital this afternoon at about 2:15pm in a commando style. Recall that the police had laid seige around Dino’s home in Abuja after the senator failed to honor their invitation. Dino was rushed to the hospital last Friday January 4th after he surrendered to the police. A statement from the police said Dino failed to respond to repeated invitation for questioning on allegations that himself and his thugs fired…

As the electioneering campaign hots up by candidates to capture the soul of Hiltop Mansion, Uyo, an Akwa Ibom governorship candidate has heaped curses on government treasury looters in the state. Speaking on Planet 101.1 FM, Uyo on Friday, Ezekiel Aniekan Nyaetok, the state governorship candidate under the platform of Young Democratic Party, YDP, declared “It shall not be well with people who divert public funds to their private use while the masses are living in poverty.” Nyaetok, an architect, was careful in not directing the curses to any public office holder so that, according to him, most people may…

A non-political organisation in Akwa Ibom State has expressed sadness over malfeasances by public officers bordering on impunity and outright rascality in the state. This is as the group has called Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Public Accounts Committee to engage the services of external auditors to verify all public incomes and expenditures with a view to determining the leakages and malfeasances perpetrated by various military administrators, governors and public office holders. Since the creation of Akwa Ibom State on September 30, 1987, 11 administrations comprising six military administrators, one police commissioner, four civilian governors have presided over the…

Like a hare cooling off its thirst at a waterbrook, leaders of Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District after searching said they have found the state All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate if he wins the March 2 general election as a man capable of restoring the district to the legendary home of their past transformational leaders. Coming under the aegis of Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District Strategic Leadership Forum based in Eket, they declared “WE COVENANT with Obong Nsima Ekere that while we shall canvass for votes and vote for him and elect him as governor come March 2, 2019,…

Two Nigerians have emerged as as the richest Africans for 2019, according to American magazine- Forbes. While Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group is leading, Dr. Mike Adenuga, the Chairman of Globacom, is second. Dangote managed to remain the richest man in Africa for the eighth consecutive time, seeing his wealth dropped from $12.2 billion in January 2018 to $10 billion in 2019. Adenuga, with interests in oil exploration and real estate, moved up to be Africa’s second richest man. The shift was informed by the astronomical increase in his fortunes from $5.3 billion to $9.2 billion. Another Nigerian,…

Lady Gaga has vowed to remove a duet she recorded with R&B singer R.Kelly from streaming services and never collaborate with him again. Her comments, in a lengthy Instagram post late on Wednesday, followed a new television documentary in which multiple women accuse Kelly of sexual misconduct, sometimes with minors. Kelly, 52, the Chicago singer and record producer best known for hit song “I Believe I Can Fly,” has repeatedly denied accusations in recent years of abuse, including those made in the new documentary. The Grammy-winning singer was tried and acquitted on child pornography charges in Chicago in 2008. His…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, said Federal Government will go into negotiations for salary review for all the workers already earning above the new minimum wage. This is as Buhari appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of the newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of new National Minimum Wage. Speaking at the inauguration of the technical committee at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, the President said after passage of the new minimum wage into law, government will negotiate with workers for salary review for all the workers already earning above the new minimum wage. He said it was important to…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Wednesday, bemoaned the rising trend of fake news, mostly on the social media in the country, predicting that the trend might become dangerous with advancement in technology. Speaking at a conference organised by the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, tagged ”Nigeria 2019: Countering fake news” in Abuja, Osinbajo warned that if the trend of fake news is not curtailed with utmost urgency, it would drastically reduce the integrity of public information and damage the most critical means of communication. He said: “Aside from the damage done to the integrity of public information, the capacity of fake news…

Hundreds of passengers plying Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway were on Wednesday stranded as the Nigerian Army temporarily closed the only safe highway following a siege laid on the road by Boko Haram insurgents. The military made frantic efforts to clear the road of the insurgents who laid siege to it.to ease traffic on the route connecting Maiduguri in Borno State and Damaturu, Yobe State. The action of the military followed a series of attacks by Boko Haram on civilians travelling the highway in the last 48 hours. There are six major highways that take travellers in and out of Maiduguri but with…