NDDC plans ICT centre in C’River
By Bassey Inyang / Calabar The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has stated that it would soon establish an Information Communication Technology in Calabar, Cross River State to train youths...
View ArticleGES: 300 fishermen receive tools
By Francis Onoiribholo / Bureau Chief Benin Over 300 artisanal fisher men in Edo State who registered and were captured in the Growth Enhancement Support (GES) scheme of the Agricultural...
View Article‘Nigerians should eschew violence, seek peace for development’
Ambassador Gabriel Chukwuma Oyibode is the President/Founder of Gabriel Oyibode Foundation, a non-governmental organization established many years back to give hope to the hopeless, needy and the less...
View ArticlePower: Community-run renewable energy sources needful –Ojo rural areas’
A relentless campaigner for environmental justice especially in the Niger Delta, Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo’s experience in environmental activism spans about two decades. He is the executive director,...
View ArticleBakassi gets new LG boss
By Bassey Inyang / Calabar A new Chairman, Bakassi Local Government Area, Mrs. Edisua Usang Iso, has been sworn-in by the state governor, Liyel Imoke. Iso was sworn-in about one month after the...
View Article500 enjoy Edo govt’s youth empowerment scheme
By Francis Onoiribholo / Bureau Chief Benin The Coordinator, Edo State Employment and Expenditure for Result (SEEFOR) project, Mr. Taiwo Akerele, has declared in Benin that over 500 youths have...
View ArticleAuctioneer sues Bayelsa commissioner over agric equipment
By Igoniko Oduma / Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Thomas Commander, has been dragged to a High Court in Yenagoa by a licensed auctioneer with the...
View ArticleOfa: Empowering Delta youths with starter packs
By Sam Akadoro / Sapele Given the high incidence of poverty and unemployment in the country occasioned by the concentration of wealth in a few hand, some of the privileged people in society have...
View ArticleEnding child rape in Nigeria
By Idongesit Ashameri/Uyo The book ‘Inside the mind of a serial rapist’ by Dennis Stevens sees rape as an ‘act of using power, manipulation or force to intimidate, humiliate, exploit, degrade or...
View ArticleSenator appeals to govt to caution Fulani herdsmen
By Idongesit Ashameri/Uyo The Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East, Senator Ita Enang, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State to call Fulani...
View ArticleOkpe youths and development
By Sam Akadoro/Sapele The youths play a critical role in the development of all nations and communities. They stand in the middle between children and the elderly. The youths are effective in...
View ArticleA’Ibom Assembly not a rubber stamp
that is, between Ibibio and Annang lawmakers in connection with the reported assault of the member representing Nsit Ubium state constituency, Barr. Onofiok Luke, at Ika local government area. What is...
View ArticleA’Ibom to host housing, building materials’ exhibition
By Idongesit Ashameri / Uyo The first Akwa Ibom Housing and Building Materials Exhibition tagged, “AKWABUILD” is underway from March 20 to 22, 2014, at Ibom Hall Grounds, Uyo, the state capital....
View ArticleIkot Abasi LG empowers 150 youths
By Idongesit Ashameri / Uyo The present leadership of Ikot Abasi Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State has so far trained 150 unemployed youths through various skill acquisition programmes aimed...
View ArticleINC flays lawmakers over poor representation
By Igoniko Oduma / Yenagoa Ijaw National Congress (INC) has taken a swipe at lawmakers of Ijaw extraction in the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly, saying many of them have left much to...
View Article2015: Zoning must not engender mediocrity – Okon
Hon. Ime Okon represents Ibiono Ibom state constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly. Also chairman, Akwa Ibom House of Assembly Committee on Business and Rules, Okon a lawyer has served...
View ArticleJonathan tasks NDDC, others on oil projects
By Daniel Abia – Port Harcourt President Goodluck Jonathan has intervened to protect the interest of oil-bearing communities in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. This followed the...
View ArticleOwan West councillors petition Edo Assembly
By Francis Onoiribholo /Benin Nine of the 11 councillors of Owan West legislative council, Edo State have petitioned against the council chairman, Mr. Gordie Aigbodion, over misappropriation of fund....
View Article‘PDP govt has delivered democracy dividends in C’River’
Essien Ayi is a member of the House of Representatives. The lawmaker, who represents Akpabuyo/Bakassi/ Calabar South Federal Constituency, in this interview with journalists in Calabar speaks about...
View ArticleGovt promises hard times for oil thieves
By Idongesit Ashameri/Uyo Oil thieves will henceforth have no hiding place in Akwa Ibom as the state government has pledged maximum cooperation to the Nigerian Navy in its aggressive onslaught against...
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