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A one-time General Manager of Akwa Ibom State Newspaper Corporation, Udo Silas has described the industrialization policy of the government as a ruse. Industrialisation policy forms part of its major thrusts of the state government. On September 23, 2017, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo inaugurated Syringe Manufacturing Company and Metering Company in Onna local government area. But speaking on Planet 101.1 FM Radio, Uyo under Team Nigeria, a programme sponsored by Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Silas himself an indigene of Onna dismissed the industrialisation usually written in mass media and social media as “mere…

A top media professional in Akwa Ibom State has disparaged that there is government but no governace in the state, submitting that “All is not well in the state in the scheme of things.” Speaking on Planet 101.1 FM Radio, Uyo under Team Nigeria, a programme sponsored by Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Udo Silas, the immediate past General Manager of Akwa Ibom State Newspaper Corporation, stated “In fact, there is government but no governance in Akwa Ibom State.” Silas, who is a media professional and a stalwart of All Progrssives Party (APC), explained…

The Senate has confirmed the revelation by Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central that each Nigerian Senator collects N13.5 million running cost monthly. Straightnews had reported last week that the Senator dropped this bombshell during an interview with The News magazine. Aliyu Abdullahi, the Senate spokesperson, said said the revelation recently made by Sani that each member of the red chamber receives N13.5 million monthly is “nothing new.” Abdullahi said the details revealed to the public by Senator are already contained in budget for the National Assembly. He said the details are “contained in various line items and expenditure…

Luis Enrique, former Barcelona coach, has agreed to replace Conte at Chelsea. The 47-year-old stepped down from Barca last summer and vowed to take a year off from football before returning to the game next term. Enrique, who led Barcelona to their 5th Champions League title in 2015, has been tipped to replace troubled Antonio Conte at the Stamford Bridge this summer. El Confidencial reports that Enrique has settled terms with Chelsea to succeed Antonio Conte at the end of this season. They also suggested that Chelsea’s board has run out of patience with Conte after his constant sniping this…

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, reportedly Sunday, March 11 fired members of the state executive council and the 21 administrators of the local government areas and in a paranoid manner reversed the decision few minutes later. Straightnews reported Sunday that Bello announced the decision at an on-going meeting he held with all political appointees at the Government House, Lokoja, the state capital. The report quoted a source as saying the governor directed all the 15 commissioners and 21 local government administrators to submit the keys to their official vehicles to the Secretary to State Government (SSG). Of recent, the governor…

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s ex-president said research had proven that the Boko Haram insurgency started as a means of fighting hunger and joblessness, saying that the federal government can use the same problems to crush the menace. Obasanjo made the observation in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, where he presided over a meeting of the Zero Hunger Forum, a social development goal programme of both the Nigerian government and international development partners. The meeting was attended by the host governor, Kashim Shettima, and officials from the federal ministry of agriculture, as well as others from Borno, Benue, Sokoto, Ogun and…

In its resolve to guarantee liquidity in the market, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected $355.43 million into the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) on Friday, March 9. The figure was to meet requests in the agricultural, airlines, petroleum products and raw materials and machinery sectors. Mr. Isaac Okorafor, the Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, who confirmed the figures, reiterated that the CBN interventions in the market were aimed at sustaining liquidity in the market as well as boosting production and trade. Okorafor said with increasing accretion to the country’s reserve, the Bank is in a much…

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command and critical stakeholders from Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun local government areas rose from a security meeting Saturday to call for the establishment of joint patrol/crack teams with proper funding for effective operation. The meeting was convened to find lasting solutions to the worsening months-old cult war resulting in wanton killings, rapes, kidnappings and robbery incidents in the two local government areas. At the meeting held in Uyo, the state capital at the police headquarters in Ikot Akpan Abia, the stakeholders also called for the establishment and proper funding of neighbourhood watch in all the communities as…

A Nigerian bank has offered 51 first class graduates of Gombe University an automatic employment. Mr. Herbert Wigwe, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Nigeria PLC, who received an Honorary Doctor of Administration award, said the bank was ready to engage the graduates if they accepted the offer. Wigwe, who with three other Nigerians received the honorary doctor’s degrees from the university at its 6th,7th, 8th and 9th combined convocation on Saturday in Gombe, congratulated the graduates on the feat they achieved in their academic pursuits. According to News Agency of Nigeria, Wigwe also commended the University Administration…

The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has sent all members of the state executive council and all 21 local government administrators packing. The announcement was made by the governor at an on-going meeting he is holding with all political appointees at the Government House Lokoja, the state capital. The governor has “directed all the 15 commissioners and 21 local government administrators to submit the keys to their official vehicles to the Secretary to State Government (SSG), as he dissolves State Executive Council,” a source in Government House hinted. The source, who declined to be named because he is not permitted…