Akpabio announced setting up of collection and re-integration centres in the state for militants to submit their weapons “where all militants from here, which, I am afraid are not many, shall be kept and trained to take to meaningful and rewarding form of existence.”

By Emeka Aginam, Asst. Online Editor The Executive Director of  Nigeria Policy Institute, USA,  Jimmy Emmanuel Asiegbu has called on  both state and federal governments to pay priority  attention to the recent  rampant kidnapping and armed robbery incidents in the country, particularly in Southeast part of the country. Kidnapping and demand for  huge ransom of […]

Owing to this scenario, youths of Uyo who for more than one year have witnessed several violent killings and blood baths, decided to rise against similar violent killings by coming together to demonstrate on major streets of Uyo, calling on government to help stop the killings and kidnapping in the city.

By Tony Edike ENUGU—CHAIRMAN of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu, yesterday, listed the threat and actual unleashing of violence as strategy to gain upper hands during elections, the inequality in gender participation in politics in Nigeria and the mindset of Nigerians about elections as the broad issues that have continued to bog […]

Also speaking, a constitutional Lawyer, Barrister Omemiroro Ogedegbe, appealed to the NDDC leader to prevail on the Presidency to open up the creeks for displaced persons affected in the recent Gbaramatu crisis to pick up the pieces of their lives.