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A senior aide to President Muhammadu Buhari has described Senator Godswill Akpabio who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to All Progressives Congress, APC, as an asset not liability, telling Nigerians not to listen to allegations from some quarters against him. Sen. Ita Enang, Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, made the remark during a chat with newsmen in Calabar, Cross River State, shortly after His Eminence Rev. Nzie Nsi Eke, Prelate and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria PCN, declared open the 23rd General Assembly to mark the…

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of indiscriminate and illegal award of oil blocks as Nigeria’s President. Soyinka spoke in his Interventions VIII series, entitled: ‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?’ meaning “Gani’s Unfinished Business,” launched recently in Lagos. He said Obasanjo knew him so well that he does not make accusations lightly and that he despises snide insinuations. The former President could not be reached last night for his comments, as efforts made to contact him on the telephone failed. But Soyinka said, “I now challenge you (Obasanjo) to search your soul, very deeply, and swear…

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has again lashed out at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, accusing the country’s main opposition party of engaging in “senseless noise making” instead of offering constructive criticisms to the government. “Although the opposition in a democracy is supposed to offer constructive criticisms and proffer alternative solutions to government policies and programmes, the opposition rhetoric of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is nothing but senseless noise-making, in its failed attempt to distract the President Muhammadu Buhari administration,” the APC said. A statement by Yekini Nabena, the acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Sunday in…

Former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Engr. Chris Ekpenyong, strongly condemned any attempt by the Federal Government under the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to use anti-democratic forces to take over the governance of Akwa Ibom State during the 2019 general elections. Ekpenyong, one of the founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke in the wake of defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio who is representing Akwa Ibom North West in the National Assembly to APC. “It would be unfair and unjust for the central government to want to use anti-democratic forces to take over Akwa Ibom State…

The immune system is an interactive network of organs, cells and proteins that protect the body from viruses and bacteria or any foreign substances. The immune system works to neutralize and remove pathogens like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi that enter the body, recognize and neutralize harmful substances from the environment, and fight against the body’s own cells that have changes due to an illness. The cells of the immune system originate in the bone marrow, then migrate to guard the peripheral tissues, circulating in the blood and in the specialized system of vessels called the lymphatic system. When our immune…

The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and other leaders of the banned group were, Sunday, sentenced to life in prison on charges of incitement to murder and violence during protests five years ago, judicial sources said. The sentence is the latest among several trials and re-trials against Mohamed Badie and other senior leaders of the party that ruled Egypt before the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi following mass protests. The sources told Reuters that Giza Criminal Court sentenced several top leaders including Badie, group spokesman Essam al-Erian, and senior member Mohamed El-Beltagy to life terms. State news agency MENA…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says it only has the power to place an account on Post No Debit (PND) order which can last for only 72 hours while the court has power to give orders to freeze any account. The commission, therefore, debunked reports that it froze Benue State government accounts, saying it has no power to carry out such action. Some operatives of the anti-graft agency who spoke to LEADERSHIP Weekend last night dispelled rumours of freezing accounts fabricated by some state governments for cheap propaganda. According to the EFCC operatives who did not want their…

A Board of Trustees (BOT) member of All Progressives Party, APC and a prominent indigene of Akwa Ibom State, Atuekong Don Etiebet, appears ready for war over the declaration of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the leader of the party in the state. Akpabio who defected from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP to APC on Wednesday at Ikot Ekpene Stadium was declared state leader of the party by Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, national leader of the party and Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the party. Reacting to the declaration, Etiebet, a one-time BOT member of PDP, re-affirmed ‘’Of course, as the…

The defection fever caused by Senator Godswill Akpabio representing Akwa Ibom North West in the National Assembly from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP to All Progressives Congress, APC, has thrown the state government and the party into tumult and panic. Consequently, the defection drama has invariably put food on the tables and changed the wardrobes of some PDP leading lights and heavyweights in Akwa Ibom State, Straightnews has gathered. Investigations carried out by Straightnews show that before now, some state government functionaries generally complained of paucity funds. In less than one week, the song has changed from ‘’There is no…

In the noon of defection by Senator Godswill Akpabio to All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom State government, Wednesday, blew hot that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has frozen the government’s account to inadvertently win sympathy of the populace. Assam Assam, a one-time state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in an interview published by Nairaland blamed Senator Akpabio that he petitioned EFCC to freeze the state government account. Akpabio who defected from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, now ruling the state to APC and who had ruled Akwa Ibom from 2007-2015 ignored the accusation by the Eket-born Assam whom…