Leader Olumba Olumba Obu By Anietie Akpan A renowned Spiritual Leader of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS), His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu, has been invited to speak at a 2-day Africa Spiritual Day summit at African Union (AU) headquarters in Ethiopia. The summit started on Wednesday and will end today. The Summit…
By Ita Williams, Calabar The Cross River State House of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Elvert Anyambem, has been impeached amidst uproar. The impeachment which took place in the early hours of Wednesday during plenary on the floor of the assembly followed a motion of urgent public interest moved by member representing Calabar South 1…
OPINION By Etim Etim There is calm these days at the corporate headquarters of NDDC, the 24-year-old interventionist agency established by the Federal Government to fix developmental gaps in the Niger Delta region. The 13-storey edifice, commissioned in 2021, breaks into view as you turn into Eastern bypass in Port Harcourt. Inside, executives are hard…
OPINION By Etim Etim I am writing with a heavy heart. A helicopter carrying the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian and several others, crashed in a heavy fog yesterday, Sunday, May 19, in the north-western part of the country. They all perished. The weather was bad, I understand, and the…
OPINION By Etim Etim From May 16 to 17, over 2,000 of Africa’s business leaders, investors, policy makers and political leaders as well as their counterparts from around the world met in Kigali, Rwanda under the auspices of the Africa CEO Forum 2024 to discuss the continent’s development, opportunities and challenges. The Africa…
By Anietie Akpan Organizers of the Nigeria Pitch Awards are set to take the ‘uncommon transformation’ city of Uyo by storm with the tenth edition of Nigeria’s longest-running football awards scheduled for Saturday, 8th June at the Ibom Meridien Hotel and Resorts. President of Nigeria Pitch Awards, Shina Phillips said…