Senator Akpabio and NDDC Scavengers

A few days ago, some youth groups in the Niger Delta region aired what they termed their resentment in the appointment of Mr Effiong Okon Akwa as Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. One of the groups, Uhrobo Youth Leaders Council (UYLC) was said to have dragged the […]

Akpabio, NDDC, Ijaw Youths And The Road To Darfur 

It seems Ijaw youths are inadvertently laying landmines for an inter-ethnic conflict in the Niger Delta with the way they are attacking Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, and raising dust over the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Politics of exclusion is certainly not what the oil region needs to arm-twist the Nigerian state to […]

Niger Delta: Newspaper Sets Agenda For Akpabio, Challenges Minister On Poverty

Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, a one-term senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has been challenged by an online newspaper to vigorously address the embarrassing level of poverty in the oil and gas region. In an editorial this Tuesday, The Southern Examiner said Akpabio’s ministerial portfolio has presented him with a golden opportunity to […]

Akwa Ibom: Police Arrest Akpabio’s ‘Attackers’

The Nigeria Police Force, Akwa Ibom State Command says they have arrested the gunmen who allegedly attacked former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio. The police command made this known while parading five suspected armed robbers who allegedly robbed persons along the Aba Road, by Ikot Osurua, close to the resident of Akpabio. The Commissioner […]

Amaechi, Akpabio, Suntai: Ex-Govs got N2.484bn waiver for new private jets, helicopter

Three ex-Governors, Amaechi, Suntai and Akpabio have been named as some of the beneficiaries of Federal Government waiver on purchase of private jets and helicopter. Ex-Governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Taraba State, Godswill Akpabio; Rotimi Amaechi and Danbaba Suntai reportedly benefited from huge waivers running to billions of Naira on the purchase of private jets and […]

APC not responsible for current economic hardship – Akpabio

The Senate Minority Leader and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Godswill Akpabio has appealed to Nigerians not to blame the current economy woes on the All Progressives Congress, APC, led government. Addressing journalists in Arochukwu, Abia State, Akpabio said the country’s current economic challenge was a global phenomenon orchestrated by the steady […]

ICPC probes Fashola, Amaechi, Akpabio, others

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has set up a task force to probe eight former governors. A top operative of the commission, who confided in our correspondent on Wednesday, said that the task force was set up following petitions written against the former governors. It was learnt that top operatives of […]

Defection saga: Akpabio tells Tambuwal to resign

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday said he was not surprised over the sudden defection of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to the APC. Akpabio said he was expecting that to happen before now because Tambuwal was only a PDP member by name. Akpabio, however, said he expects Tambuwal to […]