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Three Big Brother Titans housemates were evicted from the television reality show on Sunday. The trio, Blue Aiva, Nana and Miracle Op, were evicted during the live show. They had the least votes among eight, housemates nominated for eviction this week. On Monday, Kanaga Jnr, Nana, Thabang, Miracle Op, Tsatsii, Khosi, Yvonne, Blue Aiva were nominated for eviction. Nine housemates remain in the house to battle for the $100000 grand prize.

The Akwa Ibom New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe has lost to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Uyo Local Government Area. While PDP won in governorship race after polling 25,149 votes, NNPP lost after scoring 3229 votes in Uyo. In addition, the NNPP deputy governorship candidate, Mr. Godwin Afangideh lost in Essien Udim Local Government Area to PDP. PDP won after garnering 13,754 votes, while  NNPP lost after polling paltry 916 votes in the governorship race in Essien Udim. Both NNPP candidates were said to have lost their polling units to Pastor Umo Bassey Eno,…

The results of the 2023 governorship election conducted in Akwa Ibom on Saturday, March 18 have been announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state. The returning officers of the governorship election collated, announced  and formally handed over the results of 18 political parties from the 31 local government areas of the state to the state INEC Commissioner. The results announced are as follows: Uyo Local Government Area (11 Registration Areas) APC -8,267 PDP 25,149 LP 1447 NNPP 3229 YPP 13,810 Returning Officer: Dr. Itemobong Ekaidem Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area (10 Registration Areas) APC -398 PDP…

Pastor Umo Bassey Eno,  the Akwa Ibom Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, has been declared the governor-elect of the 2023 election. Mr Eno was declared the winner on Sunday in Uyo, the state capital, by Emmanuel Adigio, a professor and Returning Officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr Eno won in 29 of the 31 local government areas in the state with a total of 354,348 votes to defeat his top challenger, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), who won in two local governments areas – Ibiono Ibom and Ikono by scoring 136,262 votes.…

Following assent of the constitutional amendment bill by President Muhammadu Buhari into law, Nigerian states are allowed to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid. This is one of the 19 bills Buhari assented into law on Friday, 16 of which altered some provisions of the 1999 Constitution – Fifth Alteration Bills 2023. Recall that on March 1, 2022,  the National Assembly  passed the bill to allow states generate, transmit and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid. Also read:  Nigerians Bemoan Over FG’s New Electricity Tariff Hike The “Bill for an Act…

Results of the concluded Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections are being collated awaiting final announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom State. Amidst apathy and poor turnout by voters, the exercise was peaceful and orderly in most parts, but violent and tumultuous in some areas of  the state. Straightnews publisher who led the news crew from Uyo, Abak, Oruk Anam, Ukanafun and other local government areas in the state saw remarkable changes by INEC in the early but timely arrival of officials and election materials at different polling units. The team observed a drastic…

The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” It also issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, on similar…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom State has delisted 100 ad hoc staffers in the state for their alleged involvement in the election malpractices. The Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Cyril Omorogbe, said the affected ad hoc staffers were found culpable of electoral malpractices during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. The Presidential/National Assembly elections were conducted on February 25, though some political parties complain that the commission failed to transmit the results through Irev to INEC’s server. Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria in Uyo on Thursday, Omoregbe said “We blacklisted them;…

Suspected abductors who whisked away Young Progressives Party Deputy Governorship candidate  in Cross River State, Prince Agbor and two others into hideout are demanding N50 million ransom for their freedom. Agbor was kidnapped alongside an Assistant Superintendent of Nigeria Immigration Service,  Godwin Imojara and one Egbung Sandra, in a Toyota Corolla vehicle on Thursday afternoon, March 16, 2023, while he was travelling on the Ikom-Calabar highway to Ogoja where he was posted for Saturday’s governorship election. Between October 2022 and now, more than 60 motorists and travellers on the axis, were reportedly abducted, including former minister Usani Usani, who escaped…

Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, has directed the State Ministry of Education to investigate complaint of a parent whose child was sent out of school for using the poster of one of the contestants in the last election to wrap his books. A Junior Secondary School, JSS, student of Odomola Secondary School, Miss Marvellous Barinaadaa, and her parents got more than they expected, Wednesday, when the girl was sent home by the school principal for allegedly wrapping her books with the poster of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, who…