Tag: Niger Delta Affairs

PREMIUM TIMES has done several reports on how the convicted university professor, Peter Ogban, rigged the 2019 senatorial election for ...

While militancy has greatly reduced in the Niger Delta, oil-theft, pipeline vandalisation and related crimes have become the latest source ...

The federal government is owing the NDDC over N2 trillion, according to the MD.

“They ought to know that the appointment of ministers is the sole prerogative of the President.”

Several APC chieftains in Akwa Ibom have come out in defence of Mr Umana.

The committee is investigating the alleged spending of the NDDC funds without Senate's approval.

The Senate also asked its committee on Niger Delta Affairs to resolve the crisis between the NDDC Board and its ...

Leaders of the YPP supported Mr Akpabio's senatorial election in his district and are expecting a payback.

Mr Akpabio’s victory in the Saturday’s election came as a shock because of how the PDP had been entrenched in ...

“We are voting for the party because of the candidate, not the candidate because of the party.”

The director general of Mr Akpabio’s campaign has reacted to the development.

“The people who think Akpabio will win this election are dreaming.”

Mr Akpabio and a retired deputy inspector general of police, Udom Ekpoudom, had been engaged in a protracted battle over ...

Mr Akpabio’s major rival in the senatorial election is his former political ally, Emmanuel Enoidem, who is a candidate of ...

Emmanuel Enoidem was a close political associate of Godswill Akpabio when the latter was the governor of Akwa Ibom State.

The APC in Akwa Ibom has been bedevilled by crisis since 2021 after its state congresses and primaries.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on 23 November forwarded the names of Lauretta Onochie and 14 others for confirmation as chairman ...

The allegation was contained in a petition filed by persons who, apparently, were uncomfortable that the then Interim Administrator of ...

"Tinubu stands for good governance and performance. The presidential contest is for somebody with the capacity to deliver and Asiwaju ...

Another judge at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Emeka Nwite, had, on 15 September, ordered the INEC to accept ...

The legal section at the force headquarters, Abuja, had recommended that the APC chairman be prosecuted for forgery and impersonation.

The APC does not have a governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State.

There have been agitations for the removal of the NDDC sole administrator, Effiong Akwa, and the constitution of a new ...

Cyril Omoregbe was redeployed from Cross River State to replace Mike Igini, who retired recently as Akwa-Ibom State REC.

It is indeed a difficult time for the APC in Akwa Ibom as the chairman of the party in the ...