Nigerian Gazette

Your Blackmail Against Akwa Ibom Tribunal Judges Won’t Work, Group Slams Akpabio Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio has been advised to focus on his new assignment as a minister and stop blackmailing members of the  National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Akwa Ibom State, with false and childish bribery allegations “when he could have actually been the one who tried to compromise the tribunal members and failed.” The Elections Transparency Group, ETG, in a release on Tuesday, said it was worrisome that in his bid to arm-twist the Appeal Court President, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, into disbanding the Tribunal or move its sittings from Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital to Abuja, Senator Akpabio has now commissioned media propaganda against the Tribunal Chairman, Justice W. O. Akanbi.”  Recall that a week ago today, it was widely reported across the media space and platforms that Senator Akpabio had concluded plans to blackmail the Tribunal Chairman and oth...

Akwa Ibom Guber Tribunal: How President Buhari's Aide,  Ita Enang shot at voters to snatch voting materials ...WITNESS EXPLAINS HOW UDOM FLOORED EKERE IN IKOT ABASI President Muhammadu Buhari's Senior Special Assistant on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Solomon James Enang shot at, and injured some voters during the Governorship Elections at Ibiono Ibom, Ward 2, Units 11 and 12, with one hospitalized for many months, a witness told the Akwa Ibom state Governorship Elections Petitions Tribunal in Uyo, Friday. The witness, Nicholas Edward Andy who told the tribunal that it was the only reported incident that took place in his local government area, said Senator Enang shot at the voters to enable him cart away INEC materials in those units. Andy, a PDP agent in the Governorship Elections, testifying as RW 22 was 2nd Witness of the 2nd Respondent, as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP opened its defense. He intimated the tribunal under cross examination by Assam Assam,SAN counsel t...

Victimisation, using and dumping heads of tertiary institutions in Nigeria It has become a common phenomenon in some Academic Institutions in the Country, Nigeria for some Governments of the day to inherit Heads of Tertiary Institutions only for them to be victimized and even after removing them, government would appoint Acting Officers or transitional Heads of Tertiary Institutions and later dump them. Academic Institutions have their respective rules that govern the appointments of their Heads, most especially; Vice Chancellors, Provosts and Rectors.President and Governors newly assuming office often rubbish these rules to pave way for assertion of authorities and prejudice perhaps due to naivety, misinformation or sentimentality. It is common these days that whenever a new government is formed, the first target is usually the tertiary institutions, receiving bashes and lashes while some political thugs hail their principals at this ugly scenario of misfeasance. In the process of des...

Akwa Ibom Gov, Udom Emmanuel Meets PDP Caucus, Assures of Better Days Ahead Governor Udom Emmanuel has expressed appreciation to members of the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the PDP for their support which led to victory for the party in the last general elections, promising that better days lie ahead. The state chief executive made the appreciation at a meeting held at the permanent secretariat site of the party at Atan offot, Uyo. He commended the women,youths and Elders for their steadfastness and the support that aided his re-election, assuring that the PDP would continue to garner more strength in the state. "I thank all of you, from unit to wards and the chapters of the party." Overwhelmed by the success at the Polls Governor Emmanuel assured the party faithful of better days ahead. "Today,  I stand here as the man  elected through the platform of this great party to re-echo my avowed commitment to the Akwa Ibom Project.  "I will cha...

BREAKING: Akpabio Boasts, "I have the Appeal Court President in my pocket, Tribunal will be moved from Uyo to Abuja in the next 24 hours" Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State,  Senator Godswill Akpabio, may have finally succeeded in his plot to move sittings of the Election Petitions Tribunal from Uyo,  the state capital,  to Abuja for easy manipulations. Our reporter gathered exclusively that Akpabio boasted today, that "he has finally convinced the Appeal Court President, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa to move the Tribunal currently sitting in Uyo to Abuja in the next 24 hours from where a ruling that will favour him will be written.” Akpabio, who has been nominated as minister by President Muhammadu Buhari and is billed to be sworn in tomorrow,  is challenging the victory of Senator Chris Ekpenyong in the Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District election.  "Watch out, in the next 24 hours, the tribunal will be moved from Uyo to Abuja and as I speak, the judgement th...

Buhari, APC Urge Tribunal To Dismiss Atiku, PDP’s Petition On Technicalities, Evidential Grounds President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC have urged the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to dismiss the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the February 23 general election on technicalities and evidential grounds. The prayers formed the gamut of other requests contained in both Buhari and APC final addresses to be adopted on August 23 made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The respondents had described Abubakar’s address that urged the tribunal to sack Buhari and affirm him (Abubakar) president, as a “wild goose chase prayer’’. They alleged that PDP erroneously allowed a candidate who was not a Nigerian by birth to contest the highest position, adding that such was an adventure that violated the provision of the Constitution. The president and his party, therefore, prayed the tribunal to invok...

Multi-Million Naira Contracts Scam In Ekiti SUBEB,  Bank Accounts Flagged, Fayemi Threatens Chairman With Sack All is not well in the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board  (SUBEB) as an attempt by the Chairman, Prof Francisca Aladejana to expose what she thought was contracts scam perpetrated by the immediate past administration of Mr. Ayodele Fayose has boomerang, leading to invitation of top official of the agency to Abuja.  Also,  the bank account of Ekiti SUBEB is also said to have been flagged while some of its top officials have been invited to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in Abuja for questioning.  Sources in the known confided in our reporter that the SUBEB chairman, had discovered when she assumed office that contracts worth close to N1 billion was hurriedly awarded, with one single company getting more than 30. The contracts were allegedly sold to third parties at exorbitant rate of 35 percent making execut...