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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has lost his local government to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday Okpebholo, in the September 21, 2024 governorship election in the state. Obaseki, who hails from the Oredo Local Government Area, solidly supported the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo, in Saturday’s poll. According to results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, the APC secured 30,780 votes, the PDP got 24,938 and the Labour Party’s Olumide Akpata clinched 5,389 votes. On Saturday, September 21, 2024, the people of Edo State in South-South Nigeria voted to…

By Aniefiok Christopher  Journalists in Akwa Ibom have concluded a one-day stakeholders summit with resolutions and recommendations to enhance a stronger relationship between the media community, government, public and private organizations in the state. Among other dignitaries at the stakeholders summit held at the NUJ Press Centre, Information Drive, Uyo were the State Commissioner for Information, Comrade Ini Ememobong, the Honourary Media Consultant to Governor Umo Eno, Hon. Aniekan Umanah and the State Chairman of the NUJ, Comrade Amos Etuk. The Chairman of the occasion, Comrade Israel Umoh in his opening remarks, said participants at the event were selected as…

By Agency Report Daniel Dubois dashed Anthony Joshua’s hope to  retain his IBF world heavyweight title in a fifth-round in an all-British spectacular at Wembley on Saturday. The 27-year-old dominated the opening stages of the bout against the two-time former unified heavyweight champion and Joshua had no answer to his relentless power. After being floored repeatedly, Joshua said, “I live for moments like this.” Related news How Anthony Joshua Lost N1.4b After Oleksandr Usyk’s Defeat Again, Anthony Joshua loses heavyweight belts Anthony Joshua Retains World Heavyweight Title After Thrashing Kubrat Pulev Joshua could barely stand by the end of the…

Public servants in Akwa Ibom State may soon enjoy the N70,000 new National Minimum Wage as soon as Federal Government releases modalities, Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno has assured. Eno stated this on Saturday during a MediaChat with reporters, editors and publishers at Banquet Hall in Uyo as part of the events to mark the Akwa Ibom 37th creation anniversary. President Bola Tinubu signed the minimum wage bill into law, ending months of deliberations between government authorities, and Organised Labour. Tinubu signed it at the State House in Abuja on Monday,  July 29, 2024 days after the National Assembly National had…

Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno said he would soon dissolve the State Executive Council and boards of parastatals and agencies to rejig them. Eno  announced this on Saturday during a MediaChat at Banquet Hall in Uyo with reporters, editors and publishers as part of the events to mark the Akwa Ibom 37th creation anniversary. Before his election as governor, Mr Eno was commissioner of Lands and Water Resources in the administration of his predecessor, Udom Emmanuel. Mr Eno inherited 100 per cent of the cabinet members as well as boards and agencies and parastatals of the former administration, but appointed…

A member representing Ikot Ekpene/Essien Udim/Obot Akara Federal Constituency, Hon. Patrick Umoh, has sponsored the highest quality of bills on Constitutional amendment in the first legislative year of the 10th assembly of the House of Representatives, according to FACTSHEET. In its May 2024 publication, the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, a Non-Governmental Organisation working on legislative strengthening, elections and Civil Society Organisations engagement, in collaboration with the House of Representatives, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, (formerly Department for International Development, DFID), listed Hon. Umoh as ranking highest in Bills on Constitutional amendment. Some of the…

By Abasifreke Effiong General Notes: I will use public relations officers and media relations or media mangers interchangeably throughout this short presentation to refer to the same set of persons – Corporate Affairs Managers, Press Secretaries, Publicity Secretaries, Information Officers, Spokespersons, Media Advisers, Media Aides, and the latest additions, Media team and Media unit. This is my 18th year in practice as a journalist, so I’d speak objectively from my observations and experiences about the relationship between media managers and journalists in Akwa Ibom State. The Reality The relationship between media managers and journalists in Akwa Ibom state has evolved…

The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly (AKHA) has resolved controversies that arose during the Second Amendment of the Traditional Rulers Council law last year.  The Office of the President-General to last four would be ceremonial and be rotated among the three ethnic groups in the state.  Consequently, the House has given an accelerated hearing for a law to further amend the Traditional Rulers Law Cap 155 Law of Akwa Ibom State 2022 (as amended). The Speaker, Elder Udeme Otong, who presided over plenary directed the Clerk to read the Executive bill at plenary on Friday, September 20, 2024. Related…

By Israel Umoh Today, I don’t only see you as stakeholders selected from a gamut of more than 800 journalists, but also as brethren. As brethren, red blood flows in us, our flesh is Mammalian, we breathe the same oxygen and we feel pain as humans.  Brethren, we played the Biblical Gideon’s card in selecting you to join in the clamour of rebuilding the near-broken walls of media industry in the state. Gideon divided his army into two groups—those who lap the water like a dog and those who kneel down to drink.” Three hundred men scooped up water in…

As the Edo State governorship election holds on Saturday, September 21, 2024, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has deployed its operatives to all local government areas in Edo State to tackle voters’ inducement. A statement on Friday by the Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale said the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede, stated that the EFCC was committed to ensuring electoral integrity. He vowed to insulate voters from financial inducement in exercising their franchise. The statement read, “Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have deployed operatives to all local government areas in Edo State to tackle voters’ inducement…