Senate President Godswill Akpabio. By Eseme Eyiboh Nigerian politics is not for the faint-hearted. It is noisy, dramatic, and often unforgiving. In a space where rumours travel faster than facts and headlines are written before the full story is known, substance can easily be drowned out. Real governance — the slow, patient work of building…
By Anietie Akpan Victor Attah International Airport has gone a step further towards achieving its international flights operations goal with the delivery of two Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs), at the new smart terminal building. It is expected that the airport will commence international flights operations first week of April. A statement the Governor’s Office MtwoMedia…
By Ita Williams, Calabar In a significant political misstep, the Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has issued a formal apology after circulating a stakeholders’ invitation list that included several highly inappropriate names. The list, intended for a pre-congress meeting with Governor Bassey Edet Otu, mistakenly summoned figures whose inclusion breaches…
By Zagazola Makama ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The United States of America has frozen the assets and properties of eight Nigerians allegedly linked to the Islamist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), according to a statement by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The move, detailed in…
By Efiom Attoe CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The recent submission of the Federal Government’s Inter-Agency Committee report to the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) may appear, on the surface, to signal a victory for Cross River State. After years in the wilderness, Cross River is projected to be relisted as an oil-producing state with…
