The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against using N-power personnel as ad-hoc staff for the conduct of the forthcoming general elections. But INEC says they are not planning to use N-power personnel for the elections. The N-power is an intervention job-creation…

Godswill Akpabio, a senator from Akwa Ibom, has insisted that the state and other People's Democratic Party (PDP)-controlled states in the South-south will be won by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom, spoke in Uyo on Monday at a rally to flag off…

The Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel, has urged members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on election duty to help the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) win the forthcoming general elections in the state. The presidential election, including national assembly elections, holds on February 16, while the governorship and…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state is planning to frame its members. The PDP chairman in Akwa Ibom, Paul Ekpo, while briefing journalists on Sunday in Uyo, said the intent of the alleged plan is to arrest…

The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, said he was hopeful his estranged benefactor and predecessor, Godswill Akpabio, would be defeated in the February 16 senatorial election. Mr Emmanuel’s campaign trail was at Ikot Ekpene and Obot Akara – two key local government areas in Akwa Ibom North-West District –…

Tonye Cole no longer addresses himself as the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Rivers State apparently in obedience to a recent court judgment which nullified the primary he 'won'. The court also barred his opponent, Magnus Abe, from parading himself as a governorship candidate of the All Progressives…

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has responded to the allegations by the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, that he is behind the travails of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. The federal government on January 10 filed corruption charges at the Code of Conduct Tribunal against Mr Onnoghen…

The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has accused Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, of being responsible for the travails of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen. The federal government on January 10 filed corruption charges at the Code of Conduct Tribunal against Mr Onnoghen for allegedly…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday made some embarrassing blunders in his remarks in Warri, Delta State when he presented his party's flag to Great Ogboru, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the state. Mr Buhari was in Delta State to campaign for re-election. Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman…

The campaign trail of President Muhammadu Buhari was in Warri, Delta State, on Thursday as the president continues to solicit for votes for his reelection bid. Mr Buhari at a campaign rally in the city told a crowd of supporters he was not ready to back down on his anti-corruption…

The Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, launched his campaign manifesto on Wednesday in Uyo before a crowd of supporters at the city’s township stadium. The event which had in attendance the governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, was televised live on the Africa Independent Television (AIT). It was also streamed…

In order to curb the spread of fake news during the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria, Facebook has said only advertisers located in Nigeria would be allowed to run political advertisements on the social media site, says a news report published by Reuters. It has become an unwholesome practice, globally,…

The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has urged Nigerians to show compassion and love to the families of soldiers who lost their lives while fighting for the nation. Mr Emmanuel spoke Tuesday in Uyo during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration. “We must reach out to these families…

More than two years after the federal government flagged off the clean-up of the heavily polluted Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta region, leaders from the area have criticised the project implementation as “flawed”. The project, before now, had suffered several delays in its implementation. The clean-up was recommended by the…

Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, and his estranged benefactor and predecessor, Godswill Akpabio, on Sunday, put aside political differences and embraced each other in the church, to the admiration of those who witnessed it. Messrs Akpabio and Emmanuel met at the Cardinal Ekanem Seminary, Uyo, during the closing ceremony of…

The police in Akwa Ibom have arrested the clerk and the cashier of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The clerk is Mandu Umoren, while the cashier is Monday Akpan. The two, according to an official of the state assembly, have been detained at the…

Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said President Muhammadu Buhari will be re-elected for a second term in 2019, for the sake of Nigeria. Mr Tinubu, who was speaking, Friday, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, during the flag-off of the APC presidential campaign, said Mr…

A prominent pentecostal pastor in Akwa Ibom has rejected the idea that the state must be separated from religion. Cletus Bassey, an archbishop, and founder of Destiny International Mission Inc, Uyo, said it was wrong for people to want to separate the state from religion. “It is only happening in…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday flagged off his campaign for re-election in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, with a promise not to fail Nigerians. “I assure you that you will not regret trusting us,” Mr Buhari said from the stage, where he stood with other leaders of the All Progressives Congress…

The “hunger” by Nigerians today is caused by the havoc wreaked on the nation’s economy by the previous administrations of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. “They said you are hungry,” Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, said on Friday in Uyo, Akwa…

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom state, Ini Okopido, has described Godswill Akpabio, a senator and former governor of the state, as an “uncommon defector”. Mr Okopido, in his welcome address on Friday at the flag-off of the APC election campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom,…

The Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, is billed to receive President Muhammadu Buhari at the Victor Attah International Airport, Uyo, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. Mr Buhari is visiting Akwa Ibom today, Friday, to flag off his re-election campaign. The Commissioner for Information in the state, Charles Udoh, confirmed to PREMIUM…

The Akwa Ibom state government has rejected the "plan" by the police to establish an anti-terrorism unit in the state. The government in a statement on Thursday by the Commissioner for Information in the state, Charles Udoh, said there was suspicion that the police wanted to use use the unit…

An Air Force personnel was on Wednesday shot dead by a police sergeant in Calabar, Cross River state. PREMIUM TIMES could not ascertain the identity of the police sergeant and the victim as at the time of filing this report. Police spokesperson in Cross River, Irene Ugbo, told PREMIUM TIMES…

The Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, said he has taken “insults” from the opposition in the state in the course of doing his job as governor but will not be intimidated. Mr Emmanuel, in his Christmas Day broadcast to the state, said “I have been insulted, called all manner of…