By Mohammed Santuraki President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the immediate past Chairman of INEC, for an ambassadorial position—barely two years after he supervised the very election…
Isaac Samuel As the National Assembly prepares for another decisive round of voting on amendments to the 1999 Constitution, pressure is building from youth coalitions, civil society leaders and pro-democracy…
By ETIM ETIM Less than a year after meeting the N500 billion minimum capital requirement, Access Holdings, the parent company of Access bank Plc, is raising additional N40 billion through…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent the names of 32 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, days after he sent the first batch of three names. In two separate…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Tax Policy Implementation Committee (NTPIC). The committee, which Mr Joseph Tegbe chairs, will ensure the implementation of the administration’s…
By Chijioke Amu-Nnadi December 1, 2025 is a Monday, the beginning of the first week of the last month of the year. For Pastor Umo Eno, the governor of Akwa…
By Marcel Okeke If the heightened insecurity in Nigeria has led to anything in recent times, it is the spreading and deepening of uncertainty in the polity. This trend assumed…
By Akpandem James Every year, about this time, governments across Nigeria, both states and federal, shift attention to fiscal proposals for the coming financial cycle. By then, the Medium-Term Sector…
By ETIM ETIM While I wait for the Commissioners for Budget and Finance to give further details on the N1.39 trillion budget presented to the House of the Assembly by…
…International Flights Set to Resume in Uyo, First Quarter of 2026 Akwa Ibom State has achieved a historic milestone as the Federal Government has officially approved Victor Attah International Airport…
By Uduakabasi Ikpatt The 2026 “People’s Budget of Expan5sion and Growth” presents a bold and comprehensive roadmap for sustainable development, with a clear focus on infrastructure, human capital, and economic…
Isaac Samuel The House of Representatives may cast its vote on the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution on 10 December, the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the House Committee…
The Senate has dissolved its standing committees on Air Force, national security and intelligence with immediate effect. It also said that new committees would be reconstituted within one week. The…
The Senate has begun a heated debate on Nigeria’s worsening security situation, following a motion by Lola Ashiru from Kwara South, on the urgent need to address escalating insecurity in…
By Reuben Abati Clearly, the most compelling, and confusing development in Nigeria in recent times is the recurring spate of abductions, the reign of impunity and the apparent failure of…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday disclosed that 2,449,475 Nigerians have so far completed their registration both online and through physical capture. According to the report,…
Isaac Samuel Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase, on Wednesday alleged that names of Boko Haram members were once discovered on the Nigerian Army recruitment…
The Nigeria Police Force, through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, has successfully repatriated a 61-year-old Turkish national, Acar Huseyin, to the Republic of Turkey to face his outstanding…
By ETIM ETIM I read Michael Bush’s article in The Sun newspaper of Monday, November 24, titled ‘’Just a little friendly fire’’, and it was immediately clear to me that…
Isaac Samuel Drama erupted on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday as the Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, launched a stinging critique of…
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has presented a budget of N1,39 trillion for the the 2026 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly. Governor Eno made the…
Isaac Samuel The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has urged Nigerians to remain undaunted by recent terrorist and bandit attacks, calling for unity in confronting the nation’s…
Isaac Samuel The Southeast Caucus of the House of Representatives has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to exercise his constitutional powers to grant pardon to the detained leader of…
Isaac Samuel Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has formally registered as a member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Adamawa State. The registration took place on Monday, days after…
By Babafemi Ojudu There was a time when this country walked tall — not because it was without problems, but because it possessed the will, the confidence, and the inner…
STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the withdrawal of police officers currently providing security for Very Important Persons in the country. Henceforth, police authorities will deploy them…
By ETIM ETIM By the time Gov. Umo Eno joined APC in June, the Akwa Ibom branch of the party was a disparate and disenchanted group of people that were…
Isaac Samuel Former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, has warned that the recent wave of mass abductions in parts of northern Nigeria may be a deliberate tactic by bandits…
Isaac Samuel The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Hon. Babajimi Benson, has said sustained collaboration between Nigeria and the United States remains critical to tackling insecurity and other…
By Dare Babarinsa, I first met Dan Agbese in 1984 during the preparatory days of Newswatch, the pioneering Nigerian newsmagazine. Before then, his reputation had preceded him as one of…
Foreign intervention never begins with airplanes, sanctions or soldiers. It begins with stories. It begins with how a country is described, framed, understood and judged by powerful nations. Iraq did…
By Farooq A. Kperogi The events and atmospherics of the past few days in Nigeria feel eerily and frighteningly familiar. They are redolent of the disabling instability and helplessness (and…
By Marcel Okeke The number and variety of taxes proposed, or already imposed by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration in its 30-month of existence have begun to generate a…
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Minister of State for Defence, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, to relocate to Kebbi State over the abduction of 24 schoolgirls in the state. Matawalle, who…
By ETIM ETIM Since Gov. Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State defected to APC on June 6, the issue of disloyalty of some of his political appointees have dogged his…
Jonathan’s greatest legacy was conceding defeat in 2015 — Shettima Isaac Sameul Former President Goodluck Jonathan has warned that Nigeria’s politics is increasingly being overtaken by rascality, urging political actors…
By Charles Udoh Football will always find a way to humble you, but what happened last Sunday in Morocco was beyond humility—it was heartbreak. Painful. Avoidable. Embarrassing. A script we…
US Congressman Riley M. Moore on Wednesday met with a delegation of senior members of the Nigerian government, led by Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser to the President of…
The Senate has asked President Bola Tinubu to direct the Nigerian Armed Forces to immediately recruit at least 100,000 additional personnel to strengthen the fight against worsening insecurity across the…
STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE TINUBU POSTPONES TRIP TO G20 AND AU-EU SUMMITS FOR FURTHER SECURITY BRIEFINGS, DIRECTS MILITARY, POLICE TO DEPLOY MORE MEN TO KWARA President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has postponed…
Isaac Sameul Tension and chaos engulfed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, on Tuesday as rival party factions loyal to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),…
Isaac Samuel The House of Representatives, on Monday, commenced a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the Nigeria Police Act No. 2 of 2020, seeking to make 15 per…
by Reuben Abati The crisis in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) came to a head over the weekend that just passed, November 15 -16 when a group of PDP elders,…
By Muyiwa Akintunde He was born Daniel Ochima Agbese on 20 May 1944 into the Agila royalty in the then Northern Nigeria Protectorate, which later became Northern Region and subsequently…
By Babafemi Ojudu A lot happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in…
Uyo Social Media Conference Begins tomorro Amplifying Local Voices Through Digital Innovation: A Social Media Conference The Conference of Online Publishers in Akwa Ibom State (COOPA) is excited to announce…
By ETIM ETIM When in 2013 Aliko Dangote dreamt of establishing the first privately –owned refinery in his country, he turned to syndicate of 13 Nigeria’s banks to raise the…
By Ata Ikkideh Last Sunday will remain etched in my heart for a long, long time. It wasn’t merely another Sunday; it was one of those rare days when Heaven…
Isaac Samuel Tension nearly boiled over in the House of Representatives in the last two weeks as lawmakers expressed their frustration over the delayed implementation of capital projects under the…
High Chief Ikechi Emenike, a close ally of the former President Muhammadu Buhari, was arrested on Thursday at his DER Publications office in Surulere, Lagos, by men believed to be…
