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PROF.UYA ON IBIBIO: A CALL FOR SEPARATION
BY INYENE EKPO
Prof. Okon Edet Uya's description of Ibibio people as contaminated, uncircumcised and slaves who were not permitted to intermarry with Oron people that were and are still clean, circumcised and free people is sorrowful and direct call for the two ethnic groups to separate so that Ibibio people would not continue to contaminate them. Read the rest of this entry
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Onofiok Luke Lavishes Gains of Democracy to Nsit Ubium people
… as he commission’s constituency office
By Our Correspondent
It could be described by Aniekpeno Mkpanang, a popular radio presenter as ‘something to remember’ in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area when the immediate past but Pioneer Speaker of Nigeria Youth Parliament, Hon. Barr. Onofiok Akpan Luke Read the rest of this entry
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NAAKISS Recognizes Bayero University and IIJ Chapters
…Annuls result of world wide elections
By Our Education Correspondent
The National Association of Akwa Ibom State Students (NAAKISS) worldwide
Legislative Parliament has given recognition to two of its chapters.
They are the Bayero University, Kano and International Institute of
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INTERVIEW: Nigeria is divided than ever – Princewill
Prince Tonye Princewill was the immediate past erstwhile Leader and gubernatorial candidate for the AC during the general elections of 2007 in Rivers State and is popularly referred to as the Prince of Niger Delta Politics. He is the scion of the Kalabari Kingdom and hails from Buguma in Rivers State. Currently the Leader of Princewill Political Associates (PPA), he was the youngest person on the 29-member Economic Advisory Council of Rivers State also counsels the State on investment and good governance. Under Amaechi he became Investment Consultant to the Rivers State Government in 2007 and has since attracted capital, valued at billions of Naira.
His dynamism and sagacity has seen his political star rising on the national horizon as well—as evinced in appointments to the Presidential Technical Committee on the Niger Delta and the Niger Delta Subcommittee of Vision 2020, which he chaired. This gentleman and son of a King did the craziest thing in the politics of Nigeria when he resigned as the Chairman of Vision2020 Sub0Committee, to protest a military assault on Gbaramatu, in Delta State by the Federal troops. Two weeks later his action and that of others resulted in a complete reversal with the same Federal Government setting up the amnesty program to arrest the militancy activities that almost crippled the main economic stay of of the country.
Such principled politics has made Prince Tonye Princewill a brand name in the Niger Delta struggle and earned him legions of awards--attesting to his emergence as an important leader. On 2nd March, 2012 while receiving members of the Rivers State Correspondents Chapel on a courtesy call at his modest country home, he made some clarifications on some national and stat Read the rest of this entry
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Opinion: Soyinka, Islamized and Christianized God
By Odimegwu Onwumere
Organized religionists in Nigeria are running into aggressive mentality causing a devastating approach to the unity of Nigeria. This people think that God is their personal acquisition because the constitution of Nigeria stipulated Christianity and Islam as the two official religions in Nigeria oblivious that this is the British imperialists’ hindsight. Read the rest of this entry
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