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Against accusation in some quarters that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has started sale of forms, Colonel Austin Akobundu, retd, PDP National Organizing Secretary has dismissed the claim that the party has issued guidelines for the conduct of its Presidential primaries and settled for N12 million as cost of its Expression of Interest and Presidential Nomination Form as baseless. In a statement signed by Akobundu, the party said it was not done yet with the guidelines, let alone settling for the the cost of nomination forms. “We wish to state categorically that the party is still in the process…

More than 2,000 residents of Gudunbali in Guzamalla local government area of Borno State who ran away from their homes, in the wake of Bok Haram terrorists, have returned to their ancestral homes six years after. The development followed the successful clearance of the terrorists in the area by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, battling the insurgents in the state. Texas Chukwu, Army spokesperson, a Brigadier General, in a statement, who stated this Sunday, also said the feat coincided with the flag off of Operation Last Hold, Army special Operation intended to finally flush out the remnants of the…

The rupture of a major Nigerian Gas Company, NGC, pipeline has caused power generation drop by 1,087 megawatts and scuttled the delivery of gas to six power plants. Confirming the development, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, stated that the incident which occurred on the June 15, 2018, as well as technical issues at the Shell gas wells on the 16th of June have compelled the company to embark on load shedding. TCN stated that the load-shedding was adopted in order to maintain stability of the national grid, thus avoiding total power system collapse, as there has been…

                                                 Street Interview “If my wife was not on duty on Thursday, June 14, 2018, certainly she would have been home, as a football fan, watching the opening ceremony of the World Cup, and, probably she would have been affected by the thunder that struck my house. If my househelp was not in the kitchen behind the main building, cooking with firewood- if she was cooking with gas in the main building kitchen, she would probably have died too of shock or the shrapnels from the blast that shook the sitting room.” Stunned Okon Nnaetuk sends this sad story to…

A major upset occurred in the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Russia Sunday as Germany, the reigning World Cup champions bowed to the fireworks of Mexico by 0-1. “I don’t know if it’s the biggest win in (Mexico’s) history but doubtless it is one of the biggest for sure,” Lozano said. Toni Kroos crashed a shot against the crossbar for Germany but they were never able to get back in the match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow as they slid to their first defeat in their opening game of a World Cup since 1982. The loss leaves the Germans…

A 38-year-old widow from Ukana Nsasak in Essien Udim local government area of Akwa Ibom State, Friday, shed tears of joy as Family Life Enhancement Initiative (FLEI) delivered a befitting bungalow to her to replace a thatched house said to be shared with a big black snake (cobra). The widow, Madam Ekaette Friday Udo-Essiet with her five children lived in a thatched house said to be inhabited by the poisonous snake in one of their rooms. The FLEI, a non-governmental organization founded by Unoma Akpabio had seen the deplorable condition of the widow, and therefore mobilised some builders to pull…

As the conferment of posthumous award on M. K. O. Abiola continues to generate ripple across the country, Akwa Ibom Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko said from the point of law, President Muhammadu Buhari was not justified in doing so. This is even as a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Alfa Belgore, a one-time chairman of the National Honours Award Committee, had averred that the award of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) cannot be bestowed posthumously, except on soldiers or other servicemen for bravery. Nwoko, who is a graduate of University of Calabar,…

To ensure hitch-free election, the United States of America, USA, says it is interested to monitor the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State. This came as a response to a call from Oba Oluwole Ademolaju, the Chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers in the state and Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, urging the US to prevent vote-buying during the governorship poll in the state. Mr. John Bray, the US Consul General in Nigeria, stated this at a meeting with the Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers held at the palace of Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe. Bray said there…

Luck ran out of a gang of kidnappers as eagle-eyed soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion under the 14 Brigade of Nigerian Army with headquarters in Ohafia, Abia State rescued a  kidnapped victim trapped inside the boot of their car. Also, the soldiers arrested three members of the gang operating in Aba, the commercial nerve of the state and its environs, and recovered cache of ammunitions and guns which they allegedly use for their operation. It was gathered that the incident happened on the busy Waterside Bridge along the Aba-Ikot Ekpene Expressway, and it passers-by by surprise as no one…

In an effort to woo supporters for their candidates in the 2019 general elections, the youths of the former Abak Five Division in Akwa Ibom State under All Progressives Party, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday held different rallies, same day simultaneously in Abak urban, a move that further engendered political feud and rivarly among them. Straightnews gathered that while the PDP youths gathered at Abak Sports Stadium for praise and prayer summit, the APC youths were at Government Technical College, Abak opposite the council’s secretariat for the reception of Nsima Ekere, Managing Director of Niger Delta Development…