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A mother of two has emerged Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State overall best graduating student with Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.97 out of the 62 first class in the 2018 graduates. She is Edafe Bawa-Dogo, a Business Education student who said that her achievement of the academic feat was made possible by God. Bawa who spoke with Weekend Woman of The Vanguard traced her success to her husband, two daughters and classmates, describing the role of her mother who is a retired teacher as massive. According to her, the encouragement from her mother while on campus brought out…

The publisher of Straightnews fame has been appointed a patron of Coalition of Online Publishers Association (COOPA), Akwa Ibom State. He is Israel Umoh, a one-time Chairman of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council as well as Associate member of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). The Chancellor of COOPA, Mr. Ifreke Nseowo-Connoisseur announced this Wednesday during media interaction between Mr. Emmanuel Sam, Special Assistant to the Governor on Local Media and members of the body in Uyo. Nseowo who marked his birthday anniversary same day said the COOPA has waved all the registration formalities to admit…

By Akanimo Sampson A vast majority of Nigerians seeking asylum in Norway are being rejected. In 2018 for instance, those who know better say the rejection rate was 94%. Though few were granted asylum, many still plausibly qualify as vulnerable. Norway is a country that in the last 15 years has experienced an upsurge in asylum applications from people from Nigeria. Within this period, Nigerians have been the largest national group of possible victims of human trafficking in this European country. The authorities have been making efforts to offer assisted return to Nigerian migrants without residence permits in Norway, and…

By Akanimo Sampson With the fuel subsidy regime allegedly opening Nigeria’s public finance to huge corruption and illegal exportation of petroleum products to neighboring countries, there are intense diplomatic pressure from all fronts for President Muhammadu Buhari to discontinue with the regime. This, for those who know better, implies a new hike in the pump price of petroleum protects in the country. It is already being estimated that the country may have spent some N10 trillion in the provision of pump price subsidy on imported petroleum products from 2006 to 2018. A research report by BudgIT, a public finance focused…

By Akanimo Sampson While the humanitarian situation in the capital Tripoli worsens for all civilians, some 3,300 migrants who remain detained in similar centres are considered at-risk. An airstrike on Tajoura detention centre in Libya late Tuesday night killed at least 44 migrants and injured more than 130 others including some registered with IOM’s Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) programme, several of whom were scheduled to return home in the coming days. The United Nations Network on Migration condemns the attack on the refugee and migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital, Tripoli that has killed at least 44 people and…

Senator Bassey Albert Akpan representing Akwa Ibom North East is alleged to have taken possession of vehicles worth N204 million at the instance of an ally of ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke, one Olajide Omokore, whose companies executed contracts for Akwa Ibom State Government. Akpan, who previously served as Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Finance and Chairman of State Inter-Ministerial Direct Labour Co-ordinating Committee, is alleged to have received the vehicles from 2010 to 2015. The vehicles believed to be proceeds of crime are: Infinity QX 56 BP, valued at N45 million; Toyota Land Cruiser V8 BP, valued…

By Akanimo Sampson The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, is beginning to portray himself as a leader who adores absolute power. What is currently manifesting from his political chemistry are symptoms of fascism, or perhaps, an indication that he is inching towards being branded as a fascist leader. For the Cambridge Dictionary, facism is a political system based on a very powerful leader, state control, and being extremely proud of country and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed. Trust is the speaker would wish the Green Chamber of the bicameral Legislature to be the…

By Akanimo Sampson With the Hurricane Corruption still hitting the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari hard, Femi Falana, a renowned human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has again started to press for a probe of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Military President Ibrahim Babangida for allegedly ripping-off Nigeria of $ 28.2 billion. Falana who is also a constitutional lawyer is asking for an immediate and comprehensive probe of the disappearance of the $12.2 billion under the military regime of Babangida, popularly known as IBB, and of the $16 billion allegedly…

The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly, Thursday, confirmed the 19 Commissioner and two Special Adviser-nominees sent to it by Governor Udom Emmanuel. Speaker Aniekan Bassey said at the plenary in Uyo, that the nominees had earlier been screened by the House Committee on Judiciary, Justice, Human Rights and Public Petitions. “Accordingly, the list of commissioners and advisers sent by Gov Udom Emmanuel is hereby confirmed. “The Clerk to the House, Mrs. Mandu Umoren, is directed to forward the confirmation list to the governor,” Bassey said. The speaker advised the confirmed commissioners to add value to the lives of the Akwa…

Despite the suspension of Ruga settlement by the Federal Government, Northern Governors Forum has given an inkling that it is mooting a complete package to implement the project which will benefit all in the long run. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Wednesday suspended the implementation of the project following the public outcry and anger that greeted the initiative. The Chairman of forum and Plateau state Governor, Simon Lalong, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday has said, “We are working on a complete package that comes with multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional benefits that would serve the interest of all both…