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The National Vice Chairman APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Godswill Akpabio has charged the APC members and supporters in Akwa Ibom to campaign for the success of the party in the forthcoming elections. While hosting APC chieftains, candidates and leadership of the party from all the wards, local governments and the state at his Ukana Ikot Ntuen country home in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on New Year day, Akpabio enjoined them to canvass votes for Presidential, National Assembly, Governorship and State Assembly candidates. A press release by Jackson Udom, Chief Press Secretary to  Senator Godswill Akpabio,…

Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war’s deadliest strikes, drawing demands from nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump. Russia’s defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which destroyed a temporary barracks in a former vocational college in Makiivka, twin city of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk. It said the accommodation had been hit by four rockets fired from U.S.-made HIMARS launchers, claiming two rockets had been shot down. Kyiv said the Russian death toll was in the…

Israel Umoh Former Nigerian military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida says he has respect for ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over the endorsement of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate for the 2023 polls. Babangida popularly known as IBB was a military President from 1985–1993 while Obasanjo ruled from 1976 to 1979 as Head of State and from 1999 to 2007 as democratically elected President. In his Twitter handle on January 2, Babangida wrote ‘‘Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo will forever be a true elder statesman and a boss in the military. No serving General in the Nigerian Army today joined the military earlier…

Fr Thomas Ebong In other developing stories, two icons in their fields of expertise have also transitioned to the great beyond during this period. They are Pele of Brazil and Barbara Walters of NBC News, USA.  PELE, THE KING OF SOCCER  The King of Soccer- Edson Arantes do Nascimento- the Professional soccer player of *All* times, universally known as Pele,” has passed at the age of 82. He lives behind, an aged mother of 100 years and loving children. He is honored with three days of mourning to at his death, not only as national sports’ hero for Brazil but as…

The Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, said despite his conviction, he has no grudge against anybody. Akpan, in his New Year message on Sunday, thanked God and the people of the state for standing by him through his recent travails, saying he holds “no grudge against anybody on that sad and despicable act.” The Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East in the National Assembly was released last Thursday from Ikot Ekpene Correctional Centre after spending 28 days in the facility, but was released by Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on health…

Akwa Ibom Governor’s wife, Martha Udom Emmanuel, has expressed hope that the New Year baby in the state would herald glad tidings for the family and the state in general. Mrs Emmanuel stated this Sunday when she paid an unscheduled visit to General Hospital, Ikot Okoro in Oruk Anam Local Government Area to welcome the New Year baby with cash and gift items. The baby boy who was delivered at 00:04hrs by Mrs Goodnews Sunday from Oruk Anam Local Government Area weighed 3.2 kg at birth. Also read: Governor’s Wife Showers Love On Akwa Ibom 2021 Baby The founder of…

Ahead of February’s polls, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, has launched what looks like a counter offensive  against the Nyesom Wike-led G-5  governors in the party. Ayu, according to The Nation, has shredded the lists of polls agents compiled by the governors and forwarded to the party’s national secretariat in Abuja for onward submission to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Only party agents accredited by INEC are allowed at polling stations and collation centres. Also read: Nobody will sack me as National PDP Chairman – Ayu boasts Ayu’s fear is that the party cannot entrust its destiny…

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate for the 2023 presidency. Obasanjo, in his characteristic manner in recent times, dropped a new year letter for Nigerians in Abeokuta on Sunday as part of New Year celebration swho is capable of running the country’s affairs considering his character, vitality, discipline, antecedent, knowledge and understanding of how government is run. He stylishly mocked Ahmed Bola Tinubu that it wasn’t his turn to be Nigeria president as being vigorously pursued by him and his political party – the All Progressives Congress (APC), but rather it’s…

A former aide to ex-Governor Godswill Akpabio has alleged that  Unoma, Mr Akpabio’s wife, was prevented from getting inside the Government House Uyo to see Governor Udom Emmanuel in October 2020. The palatial Government House, Uyo where Governor Emmanuel’s office and official residence (Governor’s Lodge) situates, was remodelled and rebuilt by Akpabio administration. Mr Akpabio is Mr Emmanuel’s predecessor. The aide, Ata Ikiddeh, who is a lawyer, said in an article he posted on Facebook on Monday that the former First Lady of the state was at the Government House to deliver a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari to Mr Emmanuel. The letter, according to…

The General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries (MFM), Prof. Daniel Olukoya, has urged people over the world to pray against violent revolutions and overthrows of governments. Olukoya who gave the warning during the church Cross Over service held at International Headquarters, Lagos, declared that 2023 is a year of divine judgment against wicked and corrupt leaders, Straightnews reports. Also read: Daniel Olukoya, MFM G/O, Releases 2019 Prophecies Olukoya, who in his 2023 prophecies tagged Year of Death and Resurrection, urged Nigerians to be prayerful and vigilant following the prophetic outlook for the year. See the 30 prophecies for…