By Adele Adeniji In May 2015, the then Minister of Finance, Dr Okonjo-Iweala shocked many when she revealed that she is a cancer survivor. She made this revelation at the night of tributes in honour of the late Oronto Douglas ...
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By Comrade Ikpe Obong The All Progressive Congress (APC) Committee on restructuring headed by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai was set up in August 2017. It was meant to come out with the position of the APC on true federalism. It will ...
Read More »Neither Coalition Nor Third Force, But A Restructured Mind
By Jerome-Mario Utomi Truth, in the words of Thomas Aquinas, is the agreement of what is in the mind with what is on the lips. Considering this remark in relation to the truth as told by the former President, Chief Olusegun ...
Read More »Wisdom in Erecting a Central Place of Worship for AKS
By Sir Sunday U. Akpan (KJW) On Sunday 21st January 2018, Governor Udom Emmanuel kick-started the building of an International Worship Center for Akwa Ibom State. Some people have since questioned the rationale for according priority for such investment at ...
Read More »Buhari’s Presidency: Facts and fiction
By Abraham Ogbodo I am worried about the ongoing narrative that Nigerians desired a change from the PDP misrule and agreed in 2015 to kick out Goodluck Jonathan and vote in Muhammadu Buhari as President. Nothing sounds more fraudulent. Was ...
Read More »PMB’s Remarks on ‘Restructuring’ And Matters Arising
By Jerome-Mario Utomi From observations, there is no doubt that our leaders are experts in listening without being attentive to the masses; an attribute that has, in turn, made their relationship with the people civil but cold. A situation occasioned ...
Read More »Race For 2019 And Youths Indifference
By Jerome-Mario Utomi. As envisaged, the national political terrain has again become tensed up with a lot of intrigues that only the strong hearted will be able to wade through the minefield and come out successfully in the 2019 ...
Read More »Avengers And The Circle Of Chaos By Jerome-Mario Utomi
The sudden threat to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta region by Niger Delta Avengers should be to all a reality to worry about. The reason is simple. if such outing which they promised will be brutal, brutish and ...
Read More »Free Education in A’Ibom State … And the burden of governance By Saviour Ekpe
The four letters word ‘free’ is a relative word because it means many things to many people, circumstance and events. However, according to Oxford Advance Learner’s dictionary New 8th Edition in the context of this article, the word ‘free’ means ...
Read More »Politics of Automatic Ticket and Nigerian Fledgling Democracy By Joe Etokudor
There is a correlation between responsible political representation and prosperity of the represented all over the world. Put succinctly, the development of a people in any modern day democratic governance is a function of how well the people’s elected representative ...
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