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Month: April 2025

Court orders EFCC to release Aisha Achimugu on bail conditions
Security

Court orders EFCC to release Aisha Achimugu on bail conditions

April 30, 2025

Comfort Isaac Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to facilitate the release of a business woman,…

Electoral fraud: Appeal Court confirms Prof Ogban’s conviction
Politics

Electoral fraud: Appeal Court confirms Prof Ogban’s conviction

April 30, 2025

The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar has affirmed the conviction of Professor Peter Ogban, a university lecturer jailed in 2021 for falsifying election results in favour of Senator Godswill…

Atiku preparing to leave PDP, says Okowa
Politics

Atiku preparing to leave PDP, says Okowa

April 30, 2025

Isaac Samuel Former Delta State Governor and 2023 vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has disclosed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is set to…

MAN Decries Re-introducing 4% Free-on-Board Levy, Warns Against De-industrialisation
Business and Economy

MAN Decries Re-introducing 4% Free-on-Board Levy, Warns Against De-industrialisation

April 30, 2025

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has decried the reported plans by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to re-introduce the 4.0 per cent Free-on-Board Levy (FOB). It said that such…

FCCPC: Electricity Industry Facing Metering, Billing Inaccuracies Challenges
Energy

FCCPC: Electricity Industry Facing Metering, Billing Inaccuracies Challenges

April 30, 2025

IBEDC: Customers have brought digitalization into energy theft The Executive Vice Chairman of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), Mr. Tunji Bello, has identified insufficient metering, billing inaccuracies…

Serial investment fraudster bags 63 years jail term
Security

Serial investment fraudster bags 63 years jail term

April 30, 2025

Comfort Isaac One Olaniyan Gbenga Amos has been sentenced to sixty-three (63) years jail term for multiple investment fraud by Justice Olusola Adetujoye of the Oyo State High Court sitting…

Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Town Square briefing: 293 Beneficiaries cart home Cash grants, Vehicles, Equipments
Akwa Ibom Today

Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Town Square briefing: 293 Beneficiaries cart home Cash grants, Vehicles, Equipments

April 30, 2025

293 indigenes of Ukanafun and Oruk Anam Local Government Areas smiled home on Tuesday with sundry support schemes ranging from cash grants to equipment for business support and vehicles. The…

CBEX Wealth Chasers, NDIC And The Fate Of Depositors
Opinion

CBEX Wealth Chasers, NDIC And The Fate Of Depositors

April 29, 2025April 30, 2025

by Reuben Abati I was abroad when the CBEX scandal broke: somehow, I tend to be out of town when Nigerians get into very serious trouble but it has been…

The struggle to build Ibom Deep Sea Port
Opinion

The struggle to build Ibom Deep Sea Port

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

By ETIM ETIM Some twenty leaders of different political leanings and ethnic backgrounds in Akwa Ibom State have sent a passionate appeal to President Bola Tinubu reminding him of an…

EFCC arrests wanted society lady
Security

EFCC arrests wanted society lady

April 29, 2025

Detectives from the EFCC on Tuesday arrested businesswoman Aisha Achimugu at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Achimugu was arrested around 5am shortly after her return from London. Achimugu had…

Panic As Hackers Steal ₦‎9.3 Billion Customer Funds From Union Bank
Banking & Finance

Panic As Hackers Steal ₦‎9.3 Billion Customer Funds From Union Bank

April 29, 2025

Union Bank of Nigeria Plc is scrambling to recover a staggering N9.3 billion stolen from customers’ accounts in a sophisticated fraud linked to a major system breach. The incident, which…

Okonjo-Iweala, Aig-Imoukhuede, Others Shower Tributes on Paschal Gabriel Dozie
From the States

Okonjo-Iweala, Aig-Imoukhuede, Others Shower Tributes on Paschal Gabriel Dozie

April 29, 2025

Nigerian corporate leaders showered tributes on the founder of the defunct Diamond Bank, Dr. Paschal Gabriel Dozie (PGD) as they remembered his lifetime as one dedicated to service to humanity…

National Assembly pledges to support review of outdated laws
Akwa Ibom TodaySecurity

National Assembly pledges to support review of outdated laws

April 29, 2025

Patrick Ekpoh The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has pledged that the National Assembly will give the necessary legislative backing for the review of outdated laws to promote police reforms and…

EFCC begins investigation of ,500; 305,150 Riyals Intercepted at Kano Airport
Security

EFCC begins investigation of $86,500; 305,150 Riyals Intercepted at Kano Airport

April 28, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said it has begun the investigation of $86,500 (Eighty-Six Thousand Five Hundred United States Dollars), 305,150( Three Hundred and five, One…

Uphold principles of transparency, equity in your duties- VP Shettima urges RMAFC members
Banking & Finance

Uphold principles of transparency, equity in your duties- VP Shettima urges RMAFC members

April 28, 2025

Comfort Isaac Vice President Kashim Shettima has asked staff members of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to uphold the principles of transparency, equity and service excellence in…

Presidency: Democracy strong and alive in Nigeria
Presidency

Presidency: Democracy strong and alive in Nigeria

April 28, 2025

PRESS RELEASE Presidency: Democracy strong and alive in Nigeria We have read the alarming claims of disgruntled opposition figures,  some partisan human rights crusaders and emergency defenders of democracy over…

0 million Tribunal ruling: WhatsApp warns of service disruption in Nigeria
Science & Technology

$220 million Tribunal ruling: WhatsApp warns of service disruption in Nigeria

April 27, 2025

Isaac Samuel Following the decision of Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal affirming the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s (FCCPC) authority to sanction the WhatsApp LLC and its parent company,…

Lafarge Africa Celebrates Remarkable 2024 Financial Performance
Business and Economy

Lafarge Africa Celebrates Remarkable 2024 Financial Performance

April 27, 2025

Lafarge Africa Plc, a manufacturer of a range of cement brands, held its 66th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Lagos on Friday. The AGM, attended by shareholders, board members, and…

Lagos: NDLEA Recovers N1.042billion Illicit Drug Consignments in Hotel
Security

Lagos: NDLEA Recovers N1.042billion Illicit Drug Consignments in Hotel

April 27, 2025

The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced that it recovered 417.3 kg of illicit drugs estimated to be worth N1,042,500,000 in an 80-room new hotel in Victoria Island,…

Prominent Akwa Ibom citizens Appeal to President Tinubu for Intervention on Key State Projects
Akwa Ibom Today

Prominent Akwa Ibom citizens Appeal to President Tinubu for Intervention on Key State Projects

April 27, 2025

The Akwa Ibom Unity Forum (AUF), a bipartisan coalition of prominent sons and daughters of Akwa Ibom State, has issued a heartfelt appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, urging federal…

Access Holdings shareholders meet May 15 to consider a ‘’resilient performance’’
Banking & Finance

Access Holdings shareholders meet May 15 to consider a ‘’resilient performance’’

April 27, 2025

By ETIM ETIM Shareholders of Access Holdings will meet in Lagos on May 15 to consider the group’s financial results for FY 2024 and review its expansion strategy for the…

Rivers PDP NASS caucus backs Tinubu for 2027
Politics

Rivers PDP NASS caucus backs Tinubu for 2027

April 26, 2025

By Isaac Samuel Members of the Rivers State Caucus in the National Assembly have declared their full support for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027. The caucus,…

FG to Establish Textile Development Board, Approves bn Agribusiness, Livestock’s Development Plan
Business and Economy

FG to Establish Textile Development Board, Approves $90bn Agribusiness, Livestock’s Development Plan

April 26, 2025

The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved the establishment of a Cotton, Textile and Garment Development Board (CTGDB) to regulate activities in the sector. The CTGDB would be domiciled in…

In 2027, Tinubu Won’t Win; The Opposition Will Lose
Opinion

In 2027, Tinubu Won’t Win; The Opposition Will Lose

April 26, 2025

By Farooq A. Kperogi If economic health, social vitality, and the raw pulse of public opinion were the only indicators relied upon to prognosticate the chances of President Bola Ahmed…

Insecurity: 20 abducted in the sea
Security

Insecurity: 20 abducted in the sea

April 26, 2025

Patrick Ekpoh Akwa Ibom State Police command has confirmed the abduction of about 20 passengers including a comedian who popularly known as General Odey along the Cross River Water ways…

NAPTIP seeks collaboration to tackle rising human trafficking cases in A-Ibom
Security

NAPTIP seeks collaboration to tackle rising human trafficking cases in A-Ibom

April 25, 2025

Patrick Ekpoh The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Uyo Zonal command has called for collaboration and synergy with relevant stakeholders, including the Akwa Ibom State government to…

Senate President Akpabio leads NIGERIA’s Delegation to Pope Francis Funeral
The presidency

Senate President Akpabio leads NIGERIA’s Delegation to Pope Francis Funeral

April 25, 2025

Press Release STATEHOUSE PRESS STATEMENT: SENATE PRESIDENT AKPABIO LEADS NIGERIA’S DELEGATION TO POPE FRANCIS’ FUNERAL President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent a high-powered delegation to Vatican City to attend the…

Ibas finally appears before reps, apologises, seeks more time to brief lawmakers
Politics

Ibas finally appears before reps, apologises, seeks more time to brief lawmakers

April 25, 2025

By Isaac Samuel Rivers State Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd.), Friday made his long-awaited appearance before the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on the State of Emergency in Rivers…

World Bank appoints Aliko Dangote to Elite Group
Business and Economy

World Bank appoints Aliko Dangote to Elite Group

April 25, 2025

…Tasks him to drive Investment and job creations in emerging economies The President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been appointed to the World Bank’s Private…

Can Nigeria Afford Another Failed Census?
Opinion

Can Nigeria Afford Another Failed Census?

April 25, 2025

By Marcel Okeke President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took a major step towards the realization of the proposed national population and housing census by inaugurating an eight-man high-level committee led by…

LCCI: Drastic action needed to reduce Nigeria’s value, cost of public borrowing
Business and Economy

LCCI: Drastic action needed to reduce Nigeria’s value, cost of public borrowing

April 25, 2025

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called for drastic actions to reduce Nigeria’s value and cost of public borrowing. The LCCI stated these yesterday in a public…

What happens if Gov. Umo Eno defects to APC?
Politics

What happens if Gov. Umo Eno defects to APC?

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025

By ETIM ETIM The defection of Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State to APC yesterday has heightened speculations that his counterpart in Akwa Ibom, Pastor Umo Eno will follow suit.…

Medical professionals Begin Indefinite Strike in Akwa Ibom
Akwa Ibom Today

Medical professionals Begin Indefinite Strike in Akwa Ibom

April 24, 2025

Patrick Ekpoh Affiliate bodies of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Akwa Ibom State chapter—including the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) and the Association of Specialists Medical and…

PRESS RELEASE: President Tinubu issues new directives on Security, says “Enough is Enough” 
Politics

PRESS RELEASE: President Tinubu issues new directives on Security, says “Enough is Enough” 

April 24, 2025

President Bola Tinubu has directed an immediate and comprehensive overhaul of national security strategies, demanding urgent action to end the escalating violence in Borno, Benue, Plateau and Kwara states. The…

IMF Warns Countries to Guard Against Rising Public Debts
Business and Economy

IMF Warns Countries to Guard Against Rising Public Debts

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025

The IMF has sounded a warning to all countries over the surging public debts. This warning was issued on Wednesday by the Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, Mr. Victor Gaspar.…

Africa: IMF Fears Reversal of Strong Policy Actions
Business and Economy

Africa: IMF Fears Reversal of Strong Policy Actions

April 24, 2025

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed fear that the strong policy actions that have been taken by governments in Africa to bring down inflation, stabilize public debt, and reduce…

Breaking: Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori dumps PDP, Delta now APC State
Politics

Breaking: Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori dumps PDP, Delta now APC State

April 23, 2025

Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta has formally defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Senator James Manager announced…

BREAKING: President Tinubu meets Suspended Governor Fubara in London over Rivers political crisis
PoliticsSecurity

BREAKING: President Tinubu meets Suspended Governor Fubara in London over Rivers political crisis

April 23, 2025

According to The Africa Report, the meeting took place in London last week, shortly after Tinubu left Paris. The meeting, it was learnt, was at the insistence of Governor Fubara,…

Tinubu returns to a Nation on edge
The presidency

Tinubu returns to a Nation on edge

April 22, 2025April 23, 2025

Isaac Samuel President Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned to Nigeria Monday night after a 19-day trip to France and the United Kingdom, stepping into a country that has grown increasingly anxious…

Pope Francis (1936 – 2025)
Opinion

Pope Francis (1936 – 2025)

April 22, 2025

by Reuben Abati Pope Francis who died yesterday morning, April 21, at the age of 88 was a trailblazer in more than one respect and definitely one of the most…

Gov. Eno: I have fulfilled my promise to unite Akwa Ibom people
Akwa Ibom Today

Gov. Eno: I have fulfilled my promise to unite Akwa Ibom people

April 22, 2025

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno has reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to unity and reconciliation across the state, declaring that the sustenance of peace far outweighs any political interest.…

Expert: Trump Wants to Dismantle WTO
Business and Economy

Expert: Trump Wants to Dismantle WTO

April 22, 2025

A Professor of Economics and former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Mike Idi Obadan, has stated that the current tariff war, which…

Report: Manufacturing Investment Fell by 35. Percent in 2024
Business and Economy

Report: Manufacturing Investment Fell by 35. Percent in 2024

April 22, 2025

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in its “MAN Economic Review Second Half 2024,” has said that real manufacturing investment fell by 35.3 percent year-on-year to N658.81 billion in 2024.…

CPPE Kicks Against RMRDC’s Bill on 30% Processing of Local Raw Materials Before Export
Business and Economy

CPPE Kicks Against RMRDC’s Bill on 30% Processing of Local Raw Materials Before Export

April 22, 2025

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has kicked against the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) Bill currently before the National Assembly, which proposed that no…

Police rescue two day old baby sold by mother, grandmother for N800,000
Security

Police rescue two day old baby sold by mother, grandmother for N800,000

April 21, 2025

Comfort Isaac Akwa Ibom State Police command said it has rescued a two day old baby allegedly sold by mother, Blessing Walter and grandmother Grace Walter in Oron local government…

Bakare: Nigeria Democracy Degenerating into Tyranny
Politics

Bakare: Nigeria Democracy Degenerating into Tyranny

April 20, 2025

The Serving Overseer of The Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has declared that Nigeria’s democracy is in a decent into tyranny under the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.…

Trump to downgrade diplomatic relations with Africa
Diplomacy

Trump to downgrade diplomatic relations with Africa

April 20, 2025

By Edward Wong New York Times A draft White House executive order proposes a drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations and shutting…

The wages of presidential subterfuge
Opinion

The wages of presidential subterfuge

April 20, 2025

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On the evening of 5 April 2012, the prime-time bulletin on the television news of the Malawi Broacasting Corporation (MBC), announced to the country that the…

Easter: EFCC chairman, Olukoyede charges christians on rededication to anti-graft values
Security

Easter: EFCC chairman, Olukoyede charges christians on rededication to anti-graft values

April 20, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has encouraged Christians to reflect on the lessons of Easter season and rededicate themselves…

In a stirring Easter message, Kukah asks Tinubu to rescue Nigerians from hunger, insecurity and anguish
News

In a stirring Easter message, Kukah asks Tinubu to rescue Nigerians from hunger, insecurity and anguish

April 20, 2025

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has asked President Tinubu to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians and restore hope and peace to the nation. In his 2025 Easter…

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