‘ Updated October 22, 2022 Former Chief of Army Staff, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, says Nigeria is being brought to ruin by heavily armed “useless” criminals. The former defence minister, who insisted on self-defence to drive out country’s common “enemy”, said Nigeria will be finished if this is not done. The octogenarian spoke on Saturday when he delivered a goodwill message in Wukari, Taraba State, where Governor Darius Ishaku presented staff of office to His Majesty Manu Ishaku Adda Ali, the 25th Aku Uka. He knocked the military for living in denial over Nigeria’s aggravating security challenges, saying the “evidence” of what he said four years ago is now obvious for all eyes to see. Danjuma had in March 2018 urged Nigerians to defend themselves against their killers but his call for self-defence attracted stark criticisms. Four years later, the former defence chief on Saturday said, “Our country is under siege by armed bandits, all over the country when some few years ago, I wa...

 Oil theft: Tompolo’s men arrest captain, 7 others, recover stolen crude oil October 13, 2022Joseph Atinayang …Reject N25m bribe from oil cabal to free ship Operatives of Tantita Security Services Limited, TSSL, owned by ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, have ambushed and arrested eight members of a suspected crude oil syndicate while they were pumping crude oil from a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, pipeline in Delta State, into an improvised 87-metre long ocean-going vessel, MT Deino. At the time Tantita operatives and Nigerian security officials swooped on the captain of the vessel, Captain Temple Manasseh, from Bayelsa State and seven other suspects, they had pumped 605 cubic metres of crude oil into the vessel with 12 compartments from an illegal connection attached to a CNL crude pipeline, between Abiteye community and Escravos in Warri South Local Government Area. The vessel bore an International Maritime Organisation, IMO, number, 7210526, at the time ...

 Akwa Ibom map is incomplete – Prof. Peter Esuh.  October 13, 2022 Joseph Atinayang Advocates setting up of committee of experts to review current map State Surveyor General to address the issue shortly. The current map of Akwa Ibom State has been described as “incomplete” and “distorted.” A professor of Corporate and Marketing Communication and Applied Rhetoric, Peter Esuh, asserted this on the sideline of the opening of the Week of the Information Chapel of the Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Uyo. Esuh, who is also the Dean, Faculty of Communications and Media Studies, University of Uyo, Uyo, had stirred the curiosity of WatchmanPost, when, during his keynote address at the event, he remarked that the current map of the state was distorted. The professor, who was speaking on the theme of the Chapel’s Week, ‘Government Information Managers: Impact, Challenges and Prospects in the Completion Agenda’, as the keynote speaker on the occasion, advoca...

 He who the Cap fits, let him wear. By Victor Ekpo During the monthly general meeting of the APC in Udung Uko Ward 3 which took place at Eyo's compound in Eyosung village yesterday, the 4th of August 2022, the elders of the party with permission from the ward and chapter executives from the ward nominated the Udung Uko born ex army special force to be their political leader, stating that the award winning Oro activist posses the quality of being fit into that office.  The Vice Chairman of APC in Udung Uko Chapter who also hails from Ward 3, Comrade Samuel Iyohokwa commended Captain Effiong for his love for Oro issues in general, and the party in particular. He added that nomination of Captain Eyo as their political leader was a round peck in a round hole. Architect Rex Ubokulo, a retired civil servant and an elder of the party in the ward expressed his satisfaction and said the emergence of his younger brother is the best thing that can happen to their ward and adviced him to ...

 Vanguard News  A’Ibom 2023: Oron leaders task Ibibio, Annang on tripod principle ...say no governorship slot, no election in Oron June 26, 2021 By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo LEADERS of Oron ethnic nationality in Akwa Ibom state comprising Oron, Okobo, Udung Uko, Urueoffong/Oruko and Mbo local government areas have called on the Ibibio and the Annang ethnic nationalities to respect the tripod principle in the 2023 general election in the interest of fairness, justice, and equity. They spoke weekend during a world press conference to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the historic document of the people, “the Oro Bill of Rights’ jointly addressed by Oron National Forum(ONAF), Oron Women Action Group (OWAG) and the Oro Youth Movement (OYOM) at the Antofitel hotel, Oron LGA. Speaking, the national President of ONAF, Comrade Ita Ante stated that it would amount to injustice and marginalization if the Ibibio and Annang ethnic nationalities, which are the first and second legs of the tri...

 APC MULLS CONSENSUS OPTION FOR A'IBOM GUBER By Ubon Nkaiso  Stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress in Akwa Ibom state have begun to mount pressure on the party's national leadership to adopt the consensus option in choosing the governorship candidate of the party. This development,our reporter learnt is to diffuse the tension generated by the skewed primary election that produced   Obong Akanimo Udofia,last week. The election which has been roundly condemned on all sides has become a burden to the party in the state. Following this,a group of party elders have begun conciliatory moves to bring party faithful and leaders under one roof. "We must close ranks, come to together and speak in one voice to capture power in this state. You know that Obong Akanimo Udofia was not properly elected by party delegates. It was a kangaroo arrangement which has no place in this day and age.This is why we are talking to the leadership at the national to consider a candidate fr...

APC Shuns Akan Udofia's Gov. Bid By Femi Otolorin.  It has been revealed that Obong Akanimo Udofia's dream of governing Akwa Ibom State may be long in coming. Days after his controversial victory at the hastily contrived All Progressive Congress(APC) governorship primary in Uyo, party officials are hesitant to validate the nomination in Abuja, the Nigerian Capital.  A ranking party official who would not have his name in print told the reporter that the national body is prepared to distance itself from the Akwa Ibom Guber nomination in order to protect it's credibility. He said," As a party,we do not condone sharp and unethical practises that hamper the growth of democracy. What happened in Akwa Ibom was a mockery of internal party democracy". He disclosed that some members of the electoral panel were forced against their will to conduct and announce the" staged primary in the dead of the night". Udofia,a private entrepreneur with no history of political...