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After eight-month suspension, the Spiritual Director, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, returned to Anambra State to to cheery worshippers and admirers. Following his suspension by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga, Mbaka had proceeded to the monastery. The diocese also shut down the Adoration Ministry over eight months ago and on June 3, 2022, Bishop Onaga banned Mbaka from commenting on political issues. Related news Adoration Ministry Enugu on fire over replacement of Fr. Mbaka More troubles for Fr. Mbaka as Catholic Bans faithful from Adoration Ministry Fr. Mbaka Begs Peter Obi for forgiveness Shortly after the…

Israel Umoh Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, the governorship candidate of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Akwa Ibom State, has pledged to abolish the multi-campus system in the Akwa Ibom State University. Akwa Ibom State University was established by ex-Governor Godswill Akpabio on September 2010 as a conventional, multi-campus institution with main campus at Ikot Akpaden in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area and Obio Akpa satellite campus in Oruk Anam Local Government Area. Presenting his manifesto to Akwa Ibom State Council of Elders at E-Library complex in Uyo, Akwa Ibom on Wednesday, Akpanudoedehe said he would restore the conceptual status…

Israel Umoh Against the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria, nine governorship candidates of the various political parties in Akwa Ibom, Wednesday, signed Peace Accord before the State Council of Elders, pledging to ensure credible election devoid of violence in the state. This is as eight others political parties including the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, his counterpart in Young Progressives Party, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan  and others were absent at the signing of peace pact. The Peace Accord which was held at the Ibom E-library complex Uyo, Akwa Ibom State was part of the interactive session…

Prince Harry said he wants to return to his father and brother. During an ITV interview due to be broadcast on Sunday, January 8, two days before the publication of his memoir “Spare,” the Duke of Sussex said he wants to reconcile with his family but they have shown no willingness to reconcile. The ITV interview is one of two interviews to be broadcast on the same day. Also read: Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show breaks record In the other interview, with a US broadcaster, Harry accuses the palace of failing to protect his family in the same way as other…

A 25-year-old man from Edebom 1 village in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom after allegedly killing his 65-year-old father at their residence later dragged the body to road. One Joseph Friday, who allegedly murdered Friday Wilson Usanga claimed that the deceased appeared to him in a dream and hypnotized him before depositing a spell in his body. The suspect who was paraded by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command on Tuesday, January 3, confessed to the crime. Related news Court remands another suspect in attempted murder of Uwak Police nab Man for alleged murder of woman, dumping body…

A former Commissioner for Information in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, on Tuesday, labelled Dr Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson to the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign council, as a quack spokesperson to a failed presidential candidate. Bwala in a press release made available to journalists described Afegbua as a mercenary employed by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for his nuisance value. However, responding to the development, Afegbua accused Bwala of telling lies in order to sell the candidacy of Atiku which is already dead on arrival. The full statement reads “I have just read the…

Two Senegalese lawmakers, Monday, bagged six months each for assaulting a pregnant colleague during an acrimonious parliamentary session that degenerated into a full-blown brawl. Along with getting the jail sentence, the men, Amadou Niang and Massata Samb of the opposition PUR party, were also ordered to pay a total of 5 million CFA francs ($8,200) in compensation for assaulting a female lawmaker Amy Ndiaye Gniby of the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition. Also read: ECOWAS To Intervene In Herdsmen/Farmer’s Clashes Within Region During the Senegalese National Assembly’s debate on the budget of the Ministry of Justice on December 1, Massata…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari okayed the 2023 Appropriation Act, totalling N21.83 trillion on Tuesday, January 3. Speaking at the signing of the eighth and final annual budget of this administration, Buhari said the aggregate expenditures of N21.83 trillion, is an increase of N1.32 trillion over the initial Executive Proposal for a total expenditure of N20.51 trillion. The President explained that the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Act would enable the administration to respond to the havoc caused by the recent nationwide floods in the infrastructure and agriculture sectors. Also read: FG Budgets N13trn For 2021 Financial Year He also said the Minister…

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…