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Less than a week after leaders and stakeholders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, agreed to hold the party’s national convention in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, investigations have shown how the controversy over the choice of venue was finally resolved. Following a week of uncertainty over a venue which saw to a sharp disagreement between the National Working Committee, NWC, and the Board of Trustees, BoT, on the one hand and Governor Nyesom Wike and some presidential aspirants on the other, the party resolved the issue at its 82nd emergency National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting last week. A party…

Despite pockets of violence during the direct primary, an All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate has emerged in Akwa Ibom State to contest the 2019 general elections. Nsima Udo Ekere, who is the managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, polled 160,458 votes to emerge the overall winner. Of a total of 167,904 votes, Ekere won in 30 local government areas in the state except Uyo defeating Bassey Dan-Abia with 4,189 votes, James Akpanudoedehe, 2,015 while Dr. Edet Efretuei polled 1,234 votes. Announcing the results at APC Secretariat, 149 Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo on Monday, the chairman…

The just-concluded All Progressives Congress governorship primaries in Akwa Ibom State on Sunday turned bloody as three persons were said to have been killed during the exercise. Straightnews learnt that in Ifiayong Usuk, Uruan local government area, gunmen suspected to be working for one of the governorship aspirants, while trying to hijack materials for the governorship primary, killed an APC faithful, one Ukeme Efanga. Efanga, a father of three was said to have been shot at close range as he was trying to resist the hijack of election materials. An APC chieftain in Uruan and Uyo senatorial hopeful, Mr. KufreAbasi…

The 10 void votes garnered by Governor Udom Emmanuel did not stop him from emerging the consensus Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for Akwa Ibom governorship race in the forthcoming general elections. Emmanuel who was the sole aspirant scored 3,807 in the Sunday primary made a field day as an overall winner. Ayo Fayose, who was Chairman of PDP governorship primary election in Akwa Ibom State, announced that the accredited voters were 3,830, valid votes – 3,807 while void votes stood at 10. Fayose who is also the outgoing Ekiti State governor commended the voters for conducting themselves in an…

An Akwa Ibom astute politician in the Nigeria’s 21st Akwa Ibom State has returned as a Commissioner to the same office eight months after he was relieved of the post. He is Udo Ekpenyong who was removed as a Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs by Governor Udom Emmanuel on January 5, 2018 in a curious manner. During the period, Linus Nkan, the Commissioner for Finance was overseeing the duties of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. Ekpenyong who was re-appointed as a Commissioner by Governor Emmanuel on September 20, screened by Akwa Ibom House of Assembly…

NATIONAL BROADCAST BY H.E MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE 58TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, 1ST OCTOBER, 2018 Fellow Nigerians, Today is a day of celebration and solemn reflection. It is the anniversary of the day Nigerians realised one of the most cherished of human desires – the desire for freedom. We, therefore, give thanks to and remember our founding fathers who laboured so hard and sacrificed so much to build and bequeath to us this wonderful nation. It is our duty to consolidate this great legacy. On this first October date and on the eve of…

Grand Cereals Ltd, producers of Vital feeds based in Jos, Plateau State, is set to provide insurance policy to fish farmers in the country with not less than 1000 fish in their ponds to cover incidental losses. General Manager, Sales and Marketing of the organization, Mr Kola Adelabu, who gave the hint at a one day seminar for fish farmers at Utte Cluster Fish farming, near Benin City, Edo State, said that the company will insure farmers that uses its products and pay the premium on their behalf with the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC. He said, “We have an…

Flood has continued to ravage more communities in Nigerian Bayelsa and Delta states, displacing thousands, washing away large farmlands and forcing closure of schools. In Bayelsa, the flood, which has gotten to window and lintel levels in some communities, has severed access to some. At Biseni settlements in Yenagoa local government area, the community could no longer be accessed by road as a substantial part of the state capital, Yenagoa, especially Tombia, Akempai, Agudama-Ekpetiama and others is flooded. Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, who toured some affected areas, raised alarm that more 70 per cent of communities in the…

The Nigerian Army has been thrown into a state of confusion, following the discovery of the missing car of retired Major General Idris Alkali in a mining pond in Du area of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday without his body. Major General Alkali retired from service on August 7, 2018. Consequently, Saturday’s recovery of the retired General’s car without trace of his whereabouts has thrown the search team set up by Nigerian Army Headquarters to get him either dead or alive into more confusion. The black Toyota Corolla car driven by Alkali on the day…

It was a bloody weekend in Benue State, following the gruesome murder of 14 persons by unknown gunmen in two separate attacks on communities in Ukum and Okpokwu local government areas of the state.    This came as Boko Haram reportedly killed one of its prominent commanders, Ali Gaga, for  planning to surrender to the military with 300 o0f its captives. Vanguard gathered from an eyewitness who claimed he narrowly escaped being killed by the attackers that the armed invaders stormed Agena market and Agbaaye, Boirkyo council ward of Ukum local government killing eight and injuring three others. …