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Nigerian Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, has directed his legal counsels to withdraw all defamation suits he had instituted against some persons in the law courts. He gave the directive after becoming moved by the New Year Mass sermon he heard from a Catholic priest at the Sacred Heart Parish in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state on […]
Continue ReadingGodswill Obot Akpabio, born 1962, now Senate President, and Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, born 1979, share December 9 like unwilling twins; one leads the red chamber, the other fights to keep her seat in it. Their connection should have stayed a harmless trivia nugget. Instead, it became the punchline nobody dared tell aloud. Or maybe a few […]
Continue ReadingTop intelligence sources have provided insights into how some military officers accused of alleged coup plot had planned to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government and disrupt the country’s 26 years of continuous democracy. Premium Times had reported how about 20 officers were arrested and detained for allegedly planning to stage the coup. A top military source […]
Continue ReadingSenator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central at Nigeria’s National Assembly, on Tuesday resumed legislative duties after months of suspension, describing Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, as a “dictator.” Her return followed the unsealing of her office, located in Suite 2.05 of the Senate Wing, by the Deputy Director of the National Assembly Sergeant-at-Arms, Alabi Adedeji. The […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has shown her discontentment over the appeal filed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, seeking to overturn a Federal High Court ruling that ordered her reinstatement to the Senate. Akpabio, through his legal team, approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the July 4 judgment delivered by […]
Continue ReadingWhen General Sani Abacha deceptively seized power in 1993 from the interim government led by Chief Ernest Shonekan, one thing he pretended about was returning power to the people. First was that he pretended that he had a plan to hand over to Chief MKO Abiola, who was believed to have won the annulled June […]
Continue ReadingThe suspended Nigerian Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has on Sunday, taken a satirical swipe at Nigerian Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, posting a mock apology over allegations of sexual harassment which she first raised earlier this year. In the letter shared on her official Facebook page late Sunday, Natasha, adopting a tone heavy with sarcasm, […]
Continue ReadingIn South Africa under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, any analysis of government and governance without factoring sex into the mix was tame and lame. Zuma was a notorious polygamist who had six official wives as president, many more by unofficial account and 22 children from the liaisons. He was a kingpin of lechery. On May 8, 2006, […]
Continue Reading“Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary of Idioms’ contains that example of a warning that has been with us since Geoffrey Chaucer’s 1385 epic poem, Troilus and Criseyde. When the storm is angry and howling, the wise stay […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Wednesday formally submitted a petition against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, accusing him of sexual harassment. Natasha, speaking under Order 40 of the Senate Rules, told her colleagues that she had previously made the allegations during an interview on Arise TV and was now officially presenting them before […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Mrs. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has through her lawyer, Victor Giwa, filed a N100.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio. The suit was a consequence of the clash between Akpabio and the female Kogi lawmaker which occurred last week over the relocation of her seat in the […]
Continue ReadingThe torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nigerians into a precipitous decline in quality of life. This dire situation is exacerbated by insensitive, almost mocking remarks from those responsible for inflicting this pain. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, aptly nicknamed “T-Pain,” recently stated from London […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement dated 17th August 2024, signed by an organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project’s (SERAP’s) Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, has asked the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, to disclose the “exact amount of monthly running costs” allocated to members of the National Assembly. […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement released on Monday in Abuja, Nigeria, the leadership of the United Nigerians in the Diaspora (UND) has said it will embark on massive street protest to some Nigerian embassies in Washington DC, some other US cities, London and other major cities in Europe and Asia nations, asking for immediate resignation of Chairman […]
Continue ReadingGodswill Akpabio (then Akwa Ibom State Governor) once stated that only the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan could guarantee peace in Nigeria. At an interdenominational church service beamed live on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) network on 2 January 2015, he declared: “As a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) chieftain, I have found the solution to the peace we […]
Continue ReadingFather of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips in his 1901 book he entitled The Psychopathology of Everyday […]
Continue ReadingMany an unflattering adjective has been deployed to describe the vulgarisms of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. None of it matters. If you thought his predecessor, Ahmad Lawan, was too servile in his dealings with the executive, Akpabio leaves you with no doubt that he would be a lickspittle. In the video his aides made of […]
Continue ReadingAllies turned foes, former governor Nyesom Wike and former governor Aminu Tambuwal, have both lost out in the supremacy battle for the leadership of the minority caucus of the Nigerian senate. While Wike, who held a series of meetings with Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, pushing for a particular senator, Tambuwal made known his interest in […]
Continue ReadingSecond term Senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Godswill Akpabio, has been elected as the Nigerian Senate President of the 10th Assembly. Akpabio is the preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sani Tambuwal, had called for nominations, and the senator-elect for Borno South, Ali Ndume, nominated […]
Continue ReadingCivil Society Organisations (CSO) in Nigeria in conjunction with Network Against Corruption And Trafficking (NACAT) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate Senator Godswill Akpabio over allegations of financial misconduct. The group held a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja where they called for an investigation into Senator Godswill Akpabio’s alleged […]
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