The Direct General of PENCOM, Ms. Omolola Oloworaran speaking at the meeting with the Police Retirees in Calabar on Tuesday. By Anietie Akpan The National Pension Commission (PENCOM) has once again declared that massive reforms will soon take place in Police pension even as Nigeria Police Retirees have called for a total exit from the…
By Tina Ezin, Calabar Six civil society organisations have petitioned the Lagos State House of Assembly, urging it to halt ongoing privatisation moves by the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC) under its Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative. The petition, signed by the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), Citizens Free Service Forum (CFSF), Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Child Health…
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON. By Our Reporter President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, returned to the country from London early this Monday morning, looking robust and dispelling rumours of ill health. Some social media reports had claimed that Akpabio was critically ill and admitted in a London hospital, but the…
By Comfort Isaac At the South-South stakeholders’ meeting of APC in Benin in July, the star attraction was not the beautiful speeches of the governors or the flamboyant costumes of the politicians. The main allure of the event turned out to be a 20-minute cultural entertainment offered by a group of children from Akwa Ibom…
Representative of the First Lady Designate, the Special Assistant to the Governor on General Duties, Pastor Ann Abraham (left), presenting the maternal care packs to one of the pregnant women in Eket. By Anietie Akpan Women in Akwa Ibom State have been charged to indulge in exclusive breastfeeding of their babies within the first six…
Barrister Fidelis Onyebueke. By Ita Williams, Calabar A Prominent legal practitioner, Barrister Fidelis Onyebueke, has called on the Cross River State Government to consider returning to the Supreme Court to challenge a controversial judgment over disputed oil wells, insisting the state was “cheated” in the transaction. In an interview with journalists at his chambers recently,…