It was about 5am of a fateful day, and Etuk was returning from the University of Uyo town campus after an all-night reading. He sauntered home, comfortable that no one was lurking by to snatch his cell phone at gunpoint; not with the team of Aduma men prowling the city. As he walked, he engaged himself in some recollection of what he had read few hours before.
“Oga I dey here O”, a strange voice hoarse behind him. Almost taking to his heels, Etuk decided otherwise. He turned to the direction of the voice and immediately, he beheld a bevy of scantily clad ladies. Of course, he didn't recognize any of them.
One of the ladies walked up to him, obviously the voice owner
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A man, Thomas Atumar who could not stomach the pain and shame of having another man have sex with his wife Mary Odey Atumar has ended it all tragically by shooting his wife and himself dead.
Thomas, an itinerant hunter in the village of Mbube at the outskirts of Ogoja on the 24th of July was uncontrollable when he came back from his hunting expedition in the middle of the night to find his wife in a sex romp with a youth in the village whose name was given as James.
James Weekly Insight information has it escaped through the window when the man came back unexpectedly and took off to yet to be identified destination. Efforts by the angry hunter throughout the remaining part of the night to locate and eliminate him with his gun failed and when he returned to his house at dawn, he simply turned  
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Militants Invade Mbo Coastal Village
- Manhandle Village Head, Others

 A group of armed men believed to be one of the militant groups reportedly prowling the Niger Delta waters, have recently invaded Utan Iyata Village in Mbo Local Government Area and allegedly manhandled Local dwellers including the Village Head, Chief Ita Okon Essiek.
Our reporter who visited the coastal village following the report, gathered that the group arrived Utan Iyata on the fateful day and suddenly began to unleash mayhem on villagers they could lay hold of, causing others to flee for their lives.
In an interview with Weekly Insight in Ibaka last Monday, Chief Essiek was quick to confirm the invasion but denied knowledge of any form of brutality by the said militants.
He explained that a man who was said to owe two other men in Utan Iyata hired the militants' service. The man, whose name was not disclosed, had his property confiscated by his creditors. Chief Essiek said he had sent out a message asking the debtor to show up for
  
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"Ime Albert Akpan Remains The Senator of the people" Known to the Electorates In Uyo Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State"
- Hon. (Barr.) Mfon Udeme, National Coordinator, Ibiono Ibom People's Assembly
The National Coordinator of Ibiono Ibom People's Assembly, Hon. (Barr.) Mfon Udeme, has declared that Mr. Ime Albert Akpan, whom he referred to as “The Senator of the people”, remains the only known elected Senator for Uyo Senatorial District in spite of the lingering legal battle for the seat at Abuja and the obstruction by those he refers to as “enemies of progress”.
Barr. Mfon Udeme, a former Chairman of Ibiono Ibom Local Government Council, made the declaration at a forum in Uyo organized by the socio-political group known as Ibiono Peoples
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Imoke Set To Join 'Returned Govs' List?

 

 From the unfolding events ever since Senator Liyel Imoke joined the long list of 'sacked Governors' in Nigeria on Monday, July 14, 2008, by reason of an Appeal Court judgment nullifying his April 14, 2007 gubernatorial election in Cross River State and a re-run election ordered to be held within 90 days, the pendulum of victory at the polls seems to be swinging in favour of Imoke, though he might not have it on a platter of gold in the August 23, 2008 fresh governorship election.
Having successfully succeeded former Governor Donald Duke on May 29, 2007 and governed the clean and green state of Cross River smoothly, for 14 splendid months, little did he know that a shocker awaited him, barely a week after his minor cabinet reshuffle. It came as a surprise.
In deed, it was a dark Monday as the news of annulment of
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Four New Hospitals To Be Established In Akwa Ibom

Akwa Ibom state indigene have been assured of four additional new hospitals to help the existing ones carry out health care services nearer to the people in the rural and urban areas of the State.
The state governor, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio made this known during the flag off of distribution of food supplements to people living with HIV and AIDS in Akwa Ibom state recently at John Eneiye Haven Housing Estate, Udo Udoma avenue, Uyo.
Governor Akpabio who was represented at the occasion by his Deputy Obong Engr. Patrick Ekpotu observed that good nutrition can help maintain the nutritional status of people living with HIV and AIDs (PLWHAs) by boosting defenses and thereby showing the progression of HIV to AIDs, adding that the administration of Chief Godswill Akpabio has extended the war against this epidemic to other HIV service areas like HIV Counseling and testing (HCT) by increasing HCT centers from 11 to 37 and prevention of mother to child transmission of the virus from seven to 14 centres in the State. 
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Uyo House Leader Heads South-South Councillors Forum
Chief Godswill Akpabio's prayers during his electioneering campaign and after being sworn into office have started yielding fruits. The promise-keeping Governor was fond of always telling his audience “when you work you will eat. All those who work hard will be rewarded. But I plead with you that when we touch your life, touch the lives of others …”
Hon. Anietie Eka, the Leader of Uyo Legislative Council, happens to be one of those in whom Governor Akpabio prayers have been fulfilled. Hon. Eka is receiving kudos from most members of his constituency, Ward 5 in Uyo LGA, made
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Kidnap Is A Strange Culture To Akwa Ibom People; Lets Fight It!
 
- Oliver Cromwell


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 Some Things Still Need To Be Taught.  By Ezekiel Ette Ph.D.
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Many Rivers To Cross By Esifa
Women Digitalized Dressing  By Ekanem Moses
The Guymen Of NASS  By Nnah
AKS Airport Project: The Inside Story
Obasanjo Trial
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 We Are Determine To Create The Right Atmosphere For Our People To Strive
Re: Obama, America, Their America
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Onna Deep Water Port Will Be The First In Africa
 A Summit Of Provocation

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Whither Third Tier Governance
Confession Of The Umpire
If I Should Marry Iyabo...(2)
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JAMB And The Nigerian Child
Last Counsel On St. Abacha
The Grassroots Leaders We Need
Declare State Of Emergency On Power Sector
 Obama, America, Their America
 The Best Of The Bests Polls
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Hilltop Mansion... Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain
 Nigeria, A Nation Of Celebrations
 
 
 
 

 

The Guymen Of NASS
Pray, how many of us are not in the know that it takes a mugu to fall for a guyman to wack, just as it takes sheer gullible Nigerians for our lawmakers to be exactly what they are: Dishonourables, sorry Honourables? A slip of the hand there!
Now, I must confess that I am so pained by the grim fact that our mugu side has continuously had the best of us, thereby letting the guymen of the National Assembly to sustainedly have their prankish way.
Or else, how on earth could the federal legislature, the lower House to be specific, whose tenure has barely crossed one year mark be embroiled in so many a shameful controversy such that it has and still succeeds in making us swallow it whole that they are anything close to representing our interest in the federal legislative house? The following does not at all posit that there is any exonerating of the upper House oh! How can that be with all the old-hand (ogbologbo) state and national ogas that are presently taking refuge in there? Afterall, what turned on the tap of tears that rolled down Bello-Obasanjo's royal cheeks like Gurara Falls is still very fresh.
For now, the memory of how, approximately one month into this legislature's inception, factual reports of gross financial impropriety began to trail the then Madam Speaker Patricia Ette still lingers. Her lofty position in the lower House of the National Assembly had come on the heels of the over-flogged political agenda of 30% women inclusion in our national politics and our subsequent succumbing to that pressure. But I will make haste to say that even though her misdemeanor had little or nothing to do with gender issue, it had a whole lot to do with the beautician in the Madam Speaker. Would you then blame her for any financial mismanagement having known her call? No sane man would! The political king-makers and indeed god-fathers should have known better, having had an inkling of the unbroken record of Emelda Marcos, the one-time first lady of the Philippines who had penchant for excess accumulation of all sorts of adornments that are women's, enough to float a market-size boutique. She was not a called beautician like our Patricia Ette, yet she holds unbroken world record for highest boutique shopper. So one wonders what would have happened to the Philippines' coffers if she were anything beautician.
For this reason, while shopping for Madam Ette for the House of the Reps top job, the king-makers should have known better, and so should keep all the passed bucks, and not our dear old Madam Ette o'jare.
But in any case, she did utterly disillusion the women folk, her true-blue house colleagues and the nation at large in that renovation rip-off, and the theatrics and loss of life that ensued.
We should have learnt from this but we have not, sadly. The mugu side of us always took its toll and we have opted to push the incident far behind us.
Again, when suddenly our eyes opened to the reality that ten long years on and with sixteen whooping US Dollars down the drain, our energy sector only plummeted to zero point, were we not madly enthused and got mesmerized by those shakara treats of the guymen of the National Assembly when the House's energy probe panel commenced public sitting? And barely had the committee recommended the EFCC's investigation of OBJ, Segun Agagu and Liyel Imoke, among many others than the probers were caught in the web of allegations that they compromised themselves by collecting a bride of N100m from the probed during their South South tour in April to inspect the proposed projects. And after much toing and froing on the matter, all is now calm and quiet. See who we should trust and believe? Can you see that once again the naked truth is that we have simply made ourselves easy prey to be hoodwinked at will by sitting dumb as though nothing has happened up there?
Only recently too, the much talked about Freedom of Information bill suffered being bewitched for the seventh time in about one year now by those House of Reps members we gullibly mistook for the people's representatives who have our interest at heart.
The incumbent Speaker, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, methinks started it all, when in raising the issue of the bill he described the matter as “controversial”, even though he rested his case by urging the House to give it consideration for “overriding public interest”. But if you ask me, it was not enough ground for the PDP Esan Central, Esan West and Igueben Federal Constituency representative, Patrick Ikhariale, to jump up with a shout of “point of order” on the Speaker; it was not enough reason either for that staunch underpinner of Patricia Ette, Sada Jibia, to do everything within his means to stand in the way of the passage of the bill, if they and many of the anti-FOI bill henchmen do not have so much skeletons and skulls to conceal in their carcass-replete closets. And of course other like-minded guymen like Chuma Nzeribe, Aminu Tambuwal, Mohammed Ndume and a host of others, they being of great majority, followed suit. Soon the jeering brought the rowdiness that almost brought down the high roof of the House. To us in the information management and merchandizing sector, the development was anything but funny. It was one true expression of betrayal of trust of immense dimension.
I mean, what can be more treacherous than that of a people that much is given to do everything in the course of their duties to protect the interest of the common man, their constituents? Absolutely nothing. How else do you expect a gang to tell you that there are so many ugly realities about them that they would stop at nothing to shield, even if they should be the last to do anything that should fall short of honesty and transparency to their constituency? But is must be them of all sets of people who are doing this without mincing words.
At the end of the day, bow the people must to these smart lawmakers who are virtuosos in the art of buying them over. And that is why they are politicians, the re-defined ones at that.
Who does not known by now that politics has been re-defined to suit our Nigerian, nay African terrain? As for democracy, its coffin has long been nailed. Ask me and I will readily tell you that it is all evident in the hideous political happenings and their consequences around Africa. And what else do you expect that I tell you on that?
There is a way with this bunch. They don't hide it when they work assiduously hard to ensure that their already robust allowances bloat the more. They let it all hang out too as they are hell-bent to spite the people's interest. But surprise, in the end they are sure to remain the nobs to be celebrated. And the people? They must perpetually remain the suffering-and-smiling and cheering lot. It doesn't matter if the smile goes beyond plastic to stone, the people smile on.
There is a way the guymen manipulate things that you can't beat. That is why the inference that until and unless the people can think for themselves and have full participation in governance, the mugu of the constituencies will always fall for the guymen of the federal legislature to wack is a far-reaching one.