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A stalwart of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ukanafun local government area of Akwa Ibom State together with his teeming supporters has defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Uduak Essien also known as Eboribo was APC caucus member and chairman, elders’ forum, a one-time vice chairman and chairman of Ukanafun local government area announced his defection to PDP Thursday in a private radio station in Uyo. Speaking to the speaker of People’s Parliament on Planet 101.1 FM Radio, Uyo, Essien said his defection was borne out of the fact that APC lacks internal democracy and was unable to carry everbody…

Undeterred by the visit of Governor Udom Emmanuel to Etim Ekpo local government area on Wednesday for peace meeting, some unknown gunmen have killed the youth leader of Ikot Edet in the area, Straightnews was told. Udeme Daniel Akpan, whose house was set ablaze by unknown arsonists two weeks ago, was killed Thursday morning in Ibio Nung Achat where he had holed himself after the mayhem in his village. A source hinted Straightnews that the gunmen trailed and killed Akpan in the house of his relation where he was sleeping, stating that after the killing, the gang men shot sporadically…

A pastor in an unnamed church has asked an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve his 18-year-old marriage with his wife over her abusive behaviour. The petitioner, Mr Paul Dawodu, Wednesday sought the dissolution of the marriage on grounds that his wife, Adijat was quarrelsome and usually cursed people. Dawodu, 48, a resident of Ogalami St., Ikorodu also told the court that the respondent fought a lot and did not take corrections. “My wife finds joy in abusing and cursing fellow human beings; she can abuse even a ghost and she fights me regularly. I have tried coping…

Exactly a week after a female banker allegedly committed suicide by drinking an insecticide known as Sniper in Ughelli, Delta State, another girl allegedly drank same substance leading to her death. The girl simply identified as Loveth aged 18 and a resident of Imowhe street,Ughelli in Delta State had gone to check her JAMB score on Tuesday at a result checking centre where it was discovered that she performed below her expectation in the examination. Sources at the center stated that the girl who scored 160, after checking her result, had cried out saying, “my father would kill me.” Another source who…

Akwa Ibom government has given criminal elements operating in Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun local government areas a 21-day ultimatum to renounce violence and embrace amnesty. The suspected criminals have held the two local government areas under captivity for months, killing, kidnapping, maiming and raping innocent persons and visitors in the areas. Governor Udom Emmanuel, who was accompanied by Mr. Sheik Waziri, the State Director of Department of State Security, DSS, and Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, the Commissioner of Police, announced the amnesty Wednesday during a town hall at Etim Ekpo local government secretariat, Utu Etim Ekpo. Emmanuel remarked, “Immediately after Easter, we…

The implementation of Meter Asset Provider Regulation 2018 developed by the Federal Government will fetch the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, more than N200 billion investments in the next three years. Dafe Akpeneye, the Commissioner, Legal, Licensing and Compliance, at the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, while presenting the regulation at just-concluded 25th Power Sector meeting in Uyo, said the regulation would create jobs in compliance with the compulsory 30  per cent local content in the engagement of manpower. Akpeneye, who said the issues of availability of metering and estimated billings were a recurring issue wherever it went, said the commission…

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court Wednesday restrained the National Assembly from taking any further action on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, which President Muhammadu Buhari declined to assent to, pending the determination of a suit filed before it by Accord Party. The court, in a ruling delivered by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, ordered all the parties to maintain status quo antebellum, “at least between now and the next adjourned date”. Justice Mohammed invoked section 6(6) of the 1999 constitution, as amended, which he said empowered the court to protect the Res (subject matter) of the substantive suit pending…

Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who’s been staring disbelievingly at Donald Trump since the first day of his bungled presidency, finally called it quits today after months of internal wrangling with his boss. With multiple news organizations reporting on Thursday that Mr. Trump was preparing to dump the former Exxon Mobil CEO after he had fallen out of favor with the mercurial president, the man leading the State Department preempted the public shaming orchestrated by the White House by making a hasty exit from the troubled Trump administration. But if Mr. Tillerson appeared to be an ineffective and impotent Secretary…

The non-academic staff unions in Nigerian universities Wednesday called off their three-month-old strike. The suspension of the strike, which began on December 4, was announced by Samson Ugwuoke, the chairman of the Joint Action Committee of the unions. “Based on extensive consultations with our various organs, we hereby announce the suspension of the strike action embarked upon by JAC with effect from today, March 14,” Uguwoke said at a press conference in Abuja. It would be recalled that the unions had embarked on an indefinite strike on Dec. 4, 2017 over failure of the Federal Government to fully implement 2009…

Federal Government is targeting to mobilise at least $25 billion or its equivalent in Naira in private investments, Senator Udo Udoma, the Minister of Budget and National Planning has said. Speaking at the launch of the Focus Labs for the nation’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday, Udoma further stated about 240 projects have so far been screened for the labs. Udoma noted “My answer is that we have no choice. We actually need multiplies of $25 billion or its equivalent in Naira, of new investments to create enough jobs to address the…