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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been ordered to publish the names and particulars of the former Minister, Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. This is as the Federal High Court 8 (Vacation Court) in Abuja on Thursday declared the Senator Akpabio as the authentic candidate of the APC for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District. The court averred that INEC lacked the power to disqualify Akpabio, having emerged from a validly held primary of his party. Read also INEC denies recognizing Lawan and Akpabio as senatorial…

Drama ensued as the plaintiff, Mr. Akan Okon raised an alarm over purported attempt by counsels to Pastor Umo Eno to swap his certificate, which they tendered in Court on Tuesday, September 13. Okon, the May 25 state Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant, is challenging the emergence of Mr. Eno as the Akwa Ibom Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the face of alleged forgery of certificates. During continuation of hearing in the case against Mr. Umo Eno at the court on Wednesday, September 14, the plaintiff, Mr. Okon raised an alarm that the photocopy of Eno’s certificate presented to…

The Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Umo Eno, who is standing trial for alleged certificate forgery, on Tuesday, September 13, tendered what he claims to be the original of his WAEC certificates.  This follows a demand by Federal High Court, Uyo to produce his certificate. Umo Eno’s 1981 and 1983 WAEC certificates have been subjects of litigation in an alleged forgery case filed against him by Mr. Akan Okon at the court. Read also Alleged forgery case: Umo Eno Parades 17, Akan Okon, six lawyers Akan Okon’s suit against Umo Eno suffers as Court adjourns…

A forensic documents examiner, Chief Reginald Udunze Monday admitted he never saw the original copy of the 1981 and 1983 WAEC certificates of Pastor Umo Eno, the state PDP governorship candidate in the 2023 election. He was testifying at the Federal High Court in Uyo during the ongoing trial of alleged forgery of WAEC certificates against Eno by Okon. Chief Udunze, a retired Senior Police Officer and handwriting analysis expert, was giving evidence as a witness in the suit filed by a PDP governorship aspirant, Mr. Akan Okon challenging the 1981 and 1983 WAEC certificates of Pastor Eno. Read also…

As the legal battle between Pastor Umo Eno and Akan Okon resumed at the Federal High Court, Uyo on Monday, September 12, the court that began sitting at 9.35 a.m. saw a team of six lawyers for the plaintiff and 17 for the defendant. Okon, the Akwa Ibom Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant has sued Eno, the State PDP Governorship candidate who is the defendant over his alleged forgery of certificates. In a suit no. FHC/UY/CS/110/2022 and dated June 7, 2022, the plaintiff joined PDP, Eno and Independent National Electoral Commission as defendants. He alleged that Eno presented to the…

Three housemates who were ‘evicted from the Big Brother Naija season 7 during its sixth live eviction show on Sunday evening landed in Level 3 house.  Doyin, Eloswag, and Chomzy became the 12th, 13th, and 14th housemates to be evicted, but in a surprising twist, Big Brother kept them in a new house, known as the Level 3 house. The show host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, who made the announcement during the Sunday live show, added that the evicted housemates will be guests in the level 3 house till September 18, at least. According to Ebuka, the evicted housemates are unaware of…

Nigeria Table Tennis star, Aruna Quadri has won the men’s singles title at the ITTF African Championship in Algeria. Aruna, who is the highest ranked tennis player in Africa, came back from 0-2 down to win top-seed Egyptian Omar Assar 4-3. Aruna last won the tournament in 2018, with his last two ending in defeats in the hands of Assar. Aruna, after his round of 16 victory, had declared his intention to win the competition, adding he would go all out to represent his country well. He said, “I haven’t won the African Championship since my last one in 2018,…

More than 2,000 medical doctors left Nigeria for Europe, Saudi Arabia and Canada as at June this year, the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), said on Tuesday.  The president of the association, Dr Noel Dokun, said this in Abuja during the National Executive Council meeting of the association. He said the doctors left for countries where their services were better appreciated, especially Britain. Read also Nigerian Universities Are Victims Of Intellectual Brain Drain- University’s Founder Brain Drain: European Countries Seeking Dramatic Shifts In Migration Patterns, IOM Warns 5,000 Nigerian Medical Doctors, Personnel Work In South…

King Charles III was publicly proclaimed Britain’s new monarch on Saturday, in a modern version of an Anglo-Saxon ceremony steeped in political symbolism that was televised for the first time. The event at St. James’s Palace in London was followed by gun salutes, fanfares, declarations across the United Kingdom and was is followed by a call for silence. The meeting of the Accession Council was attended by Charles, his son and heir William, whose new title is the Prince of Wales, and wife Camilla, Queen Consort, as well as a host of senior political and religious figures. Read also King Charles 111 Ascends British Throne,…

Abductors of Mr. Monday Ekoriko have established contact with the family, and demanded payment of N50 million ransom, or risk being killed if the demand is not met within the stipulated time. Ekoriko is the Principal-General of Madonna Community Secondary School (MCSS), in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. According to the family, Ekoriko was seized by unknown gunmen at his country home, Udianga Enem Village in Etim Ekpo LGA, last Saturday night, while planning to attend Sunday service at United Evangelical Church (UEC). Read also Gunmen Kidnap Akwa Ibom School Principal, Escape With SUV A’Ibom Police…