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Lionel Messi won The Best FIFA men’s player prize for 2022 on Monday on the back of his World Cup triumph with Argentina and Spain’s Alexia Putellas retained the women’s award at a ceremony in Paris. Messi beat his Paris Saint-Germain teammate, and World Cup final rival, Kylian Mbappe to the men’s gong with Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema the other contender to claim the prize. It is the second time that Messi has won the honour inaugurated by FIFA in 2016 after football’s world governing body split from Ballon d’Or organisers France Football. The award, which is voted for…

For a long time, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has struggled to maintain two Senate tickets in Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State after the Saturday’s Presidential/National Assembly election. Senator Godswill Akpabio of All Progressives Congress (APC) grabbed Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial ticket, a position being maintained by a PDP member. Akpabio is a one-time Senate Minority Leader, former Akwa Ibom Governor and the immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Ekong Sampson and Aniekan Bassey Etim are the PDP Senators-elect from the state to join the Red Chambers. From Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District, Dr. Ekong Sampson, a former Commissioner and…

The member representing Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Unyime Idem, has retained his seat in the Green Chambers. After a keenly contested election, Idem of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 22,218 votes to beat his closest rival, Obong Freedom Ibritam of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who got 10,586 votes during last Saturday’s Presidential/National Assembly election. Idem is an Information Communication Technology (ICT) dealer, while Ibritam is a retired police chief. Also read:  Idem emerges Best Representative for 2022 in Nigeria Reacting to the result on Facebook post, Nestor Udoh, a medical doctor and retired Permanent…

Two persons were shot dead in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State during last Saturday’s Presidential/National Assembly elections. Etim Ekpo is the home local government area of Emmanuel Enoidem, the PDP candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. Speaking on the security situation in the area, Prof. Felicia Ebuh,  the INEC returning officer, said two persons were shot dead while two others sustained injuries. The injured were hospitalised. Ebuh stated that there were gunshots as early as 8 a. m. in the area which scared away the INEC staffers, adding that elections did not hold in…

Obong Godswill Akpabio of the Akwa Ibom North West and Dr. Ahmad Lawan of Yobe East Senatorial Districts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged winners in the Saturday’s National Assembly election. Akpabio was the Senate Minority Leader while Lawan is the current Senate President. Both won nominations to represent their Senatorial districts through Supreme Court verdict as Akpabio triumphed over Udom Ekpoudom, a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police. Also read:  Lawan and Akpabio make APC senatorial list Jubilation rocked the declaration of Akpabio’s second coming by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom. Professor Anthony Udoh, who…

Moffat Ekoriko Every time I met Senator Godswill Akpabio in the last four years, I always gazed into his eyes in case I could read what goes on in his mind. Here is a man who became the governor of Akwa Ibom State and in eight years redefined the concept of governance in Nigeria. He turned what was a backwater of development into an emerging economic space. He did not stop there, he changed the psyche of his people, turning them into proud men and women. Under him, you could greet a fellow Akwa Ibom man at the airport in…

Senator Godswill Akpabio is said to be leading in the election to represent Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District in the 10th National Assembly. Akpabio who contested under All Progressives Congress (APC) is reportedly leading in most of the 10 local government areas of the senatorial district. The former Akwa Ibom governor who was challenged by Mr. Emmanuel Enoidem of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Ekon of Young Progressives Party (YPP) lost to Obong Christopher Ekpenyong of PDP during the 2019 election. Though the Vice Chairman of APC Campaign Council walked a tight rope during his primary…

Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses Ekpo, has lost his polling unit in the Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections to All Progressives Congress (APC). Ekpo who is a member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) became a deputy governor since 2015 under Governor Udom Emmanuel. An indigene of Abak town, he lost woefully Abak Urban 3 polling unit to APC submarine spearheaded by Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom State Governor. Our correspondent reports that counting of ballot papers has begun and the final result will be announced by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Details loading…  

The Advisory Boards for the Nigeria Prize for Science, Literature and Literary Criticism, have invited entries for the 2023 edition of the prizes, flagging off this year’s competitions. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr. Andy Odeh, the General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development at Nigeria LNG Ltd. (NLNG), on Friday. The Nigeria Prizes for Science and Literature sponsored by the NLNG, now in the 19th year, has a cash prize of $100,000 each, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. The statement added that the Prize for Literary Criticism would be $10,000. It said that the…

Like bad a dream, Ukrainians wore long but unsmiling faces on the day, greeted with sighs and bad memories across the globe in commemorating Russian conflagration of their homeland. This typified as Ukraine rolled out ceremonies to mark the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country on Friday, February 24, 2022. The mood in Ukrainian capital Kyiv was somber and defiant. Ukrainians wore long faces as they marked one year since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion that reduced the once pacesetting country to ruins and a ghost town. A year on, thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in…