2019 Akwa Ibom Guber Race: Why Nsima Ekere Is The Main Issue.

As the 2019 governoship election in Akwa Ibom state draws near, many Akwa Ibomites have expressed worry over why the MD of the NDDC, H.E.Obong Nsima Ekere, is so discussed, debated, analyzed?

H. A. R. D. B. A. L. L. #2: How Most Akwa Ibomites See Gov. UDOM EMMANUEL.

Countdown to Elections 2019, three unmistakable profiles of Udom Emmanuel have emerged and are currently trending across the State.

Osun Guber Aspirant, SAKA LAYONU Extols Oluwo's Virtues At 51.

This popular quote by the great Nelson Mandela which says, "what counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" could best describe the mind of a leading governorship aspirant in the forthcoming election in the state of Osun, Dr. Ismail Abiodun Saka-Layonu (SAN) as he celebrates Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Adewale Akanbi, Telu 1 at 51.

APC 2018 National Convention: Tinubu Shades Saraki, Dogara & Co.

Though the much-touted national convention of the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC), held on Saturday June 23rd, 2018, at the Eagle Square Abuja, had come and gone and new executives who will steer affairs of the party for the next four years have been elected, but events that played out at the convention are still subjects of discussion within the political circle across the country.

Read Full Speech Of BOLA TINUBU At APC National Convention In Abuja.

Joined in goodwill by common purpose and noble endeavour, we assemble this day. The doubters who gave APC no chance of existence or of continued survival have gotten their reply in full.

UDOM EMMANUEL, WHERE IS OUR MONEY? By Clement Ikpatt.

For three years, Gov. Udom Emmanuel copiously insinuated and hid behind the excuse of having inherited huge debts from his predecessor and mentor, Chief Godswill Akpabio. 

Veteran Journalists Hold 25th Anniversary Of June 12, Laud FG.

As the League of Veteran Journalists Oyo state concludes plans for its much worked out event to mark the 25th Anniversary of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election, the League has lauded the Federal government for giving honour to the acclaimed winner of the election, Chief MKO Abiola.

Oyo Declares Tuesday June 12 As Public Holiday.

The Oyo Government at the weekend declared Tuesday, June 12, 2018 as public holiday throughout the state.

UDOM EMMANUEL IN FERTILIZER BLENDING PLANT SCANDAL.

On Friday June 01, 2018, Udom Emmanuel invited his predecessor, Sen. Godswill Akpabio (PDP, Akwa Ibom) to commission the Greenwell Technologies Fertilizer Blending Plant located in Abak Local Government Area. The much publicized commissioning was for the following purposes:

1. to officially commence the production of fertilizer products by a Public Private Partnership between Greenwell Technologies and the Akwa Ibom State Government.

2.  to register as a milestone in the implementation of Udom Emmanuel's industrialization policy while standing as Nigeria's best (400,000 metric tons per year) fertilizer producing  facility.

3.  to unfold as one of major events celebrating the third anniversary of Udom Emmanuel's government.

A Big Scam

It is now irrefutable that Udom Emmanuel takes Akwa Ibom people as illiterate _(he actually said that some Akwa Ibomites are illiterate)_ fools who can be sold snake oil put in any deceptive package.

There is no fertilizer manufacturing or blending operations by Greenwell Technologies. Ralther than for the above stated purposes, the commissioning ceremony spun to expose the underbelly of a desperate and dysfunctional government scamming invited guests and other Akwa Ibomites into believing a phantom industrialization project.

There are neither raw materials nor blending machines for the production of different types of fertilizer as claimed by the Udom Emmanuel government. There is a simple bagging machine (see picture below) for the repackaging of bulk fertilizer products supplied from elsewhere.

For the sake of emphasis, let me repeat that there is no fertilizer manufacturing or blending taking place at the Greenwell Technologies facility in Abak. Rather, what was commissioned is a dilapidating warehouse for the repackaging of bulk and finished fertilizer products.

Greenwell Technologies has no staff list because no one is yet been employed. It is also shocking to discover that the company has neither filed for approval from the National Security Adviser (NSA) to manufacture fertilizer products nor file for Standards Organization (SON) certification. Both certifications are required so that explosives and other illegal items are not mananufactured using raw materials for fertilizer production. I challenge the management of Greenwell Technologies and the Akwa Ibom State Government to provide those certifications if available.

Whoever disagrees should go on a fact finding tour of the warehouse. I call on concerned Akwa Ibom citizens and independent investigators and Journalists to visit and tour the facility in order to verify my assertions.

A Sloppy, Disrespectful And Embarrassing Event

Not only was Sen. Godswill Akpabio deceived into commissioning a mere fertilizer repackging warehouse, he was denied due honour, respect and standard practice of citing his name on the official plaque. In hindsight, it is good that his name is not engraved on anything to do with Udom Emmanuel's violation of the Akwa Ibom people.

Udom Emmanuel's name was engraved on the marble plaque  (see picture below) as the official who commissioned the warehouse facility. The dishonour may have been deliberately and spitefully done in anticipation that when capacity will have been added unto a full blown fertilizer producing plant., if ever, Udom Emmanuel should take the glory.

Sen. Akpabio must have been thoroughly embarrassed, knowing how meticulous he is with details and his knack for excellence. When he commissioned roads constructed by Gov. Nyesom Wike in Rivers State his name was properly cited. But, in Udom Emmanuel's Akwa Ibom State, Sen. Akpabio was set up to be deliberately embarrassed and disrespected.

A Dilapidating Warehouse

The Greenwell Technolgies fertilizer repackaging warehouse sits on where the abandoned PAMIL Nigeria Limited was.

PAMIL, a South Eastern State owned palm oil trading company established about fifty years was sold to the late Chief Ime Umanah, but the land and facilities bought over by Akwa Ibom State  government during the Godswill Akpabio administration.

Neither Greenwell Technologies nor Akwa Ibom State has done any major site rehabilitation work since the little that was done by the late Chief Ime Umanah (see picture below) Even the German flooring is as incomplete as it was left decades ago.

Yet, Udom Emmanuel continues to embarrass Akwa Ibomites with wanton lies about his phantom industrialization of Akwa Ibom State.

Udom's Wanton Lies

There is nothing more industrial in repackaging bulk and already blended fertilizer products than the repacking of bulk rice supplies into different bag sizes.So, Udom Emmanuel lied all the way through, just as he has been lying about to the world about his industrialization of Akwa Ibom State.

Serially lying about the set up of industries has become a signpost of the Udom Emmanuel government. Industrialization begets a manufacturing economy. Yet, in Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel's industrialization policy implementation plan begets mere products packaging operations:

1. the Pencil and Toothpick packaging warehouse in Ekom Oman, near Uyo, was presented as an industrial facility. In reality, pencil parts are imported from China and assembled in the operationally epileptic cottage facility. There are just a few low level employees packing pencils and toothpick in a warehouse that struggles to pay its rent.

2. the electric meter solutions facility in Onna was presented as an electric meters manufacturing facility. In reality, it is an assembly line for meter parts manufactured in China.

3. the controversial Jubilee Syringe factory in Onna was presented as manufacturing facility. In reality, all needle and plastic components are imported and assembled into syringes in the facility.

4. the Ibaka Deep Seaport project, the grandfather scam project of the Udom Emmanuel government, is 75% documents ready. In reality, what should have been the industrialization anchor has been craftily abandoned in Udom's web of lies mixed with leadership incompetence.

Akwa Ibom people are in for a long drawn scam from a clueless administration. I am making a modest request to anyone who doubts what I am writing here. Anybody who says Akwa Ibom has a Fertilizer Blending Plant should immediately organize a facility tour of the plant by independent Journalists and they should come back here and post their findings. The conclusion will be that there is no such Blending Plant anywhere.

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: 1 YEAR OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATION

The words of John C. Maxwell, that “effective leaders look for ways to use the successes of today to empower their people for the challenges of tomorrow” couldn’t have been truer in the case of The Technical University, Ibadan.

OYO RELEASES N9.7bn FOR L.G WORKERS SALARIES, PENSIONS.’

The Oyo State Government on Wednesday disclosed that over Nine Billion (N9bn) has been disbursed for the payment of salaries and pensions for the workers under the payroll of Local Government Councils in the state.

OYO APC CRISIS: AJIMOBI WOOS AGGRIEVED MEMBERS. CONGRATULATES OKE.

Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi , has congratulated the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress  (APC) on Monday’s successful inauguration of elected state chairmen of the party, describing the event as historic.

WIFE DRAGS HUSBAND TO COURT OVER MONEY RITUAL ALLEGATION.

A 48-year-old woman, Musilimotu Olashuyi, has approached an Igando customary court in Lagos, seeking dissolution of her four years marriage.  Where she accused her husband of conspiring with an Islamic cleric to sleep with her for 3 days in order for his business to become successful.

Mrs. Musilimotu Olashuyi, 48, and her husband, Gbenga Olashuyi, 55, who have a child together, had earlier approached the court, seeking to end her marriage, claiming that an Alfa made love to her with her husband’s approval.

Narrating the incident, Musilimotu told the court:

"Actually, my husband got to know the Alfa through me because I always go to his mosque to pray."

"When he told me that my husband business is not moving fine, I brought him home to meet my husband. Before I know what was happening, my husband conspired with him to use me for money ritual. It was with my husband’s consent that the Alfa had sexual intercourse with me for three days."

"After the incident, I started getting sick and getting emaciating and I told people around me what happened which led to the arrest of the cleric and my husband ran away. My husband resurfaced at the station after the cleric brought a remedy to cure me."

Musilimotu added that her husband threw her belongings out of their matrimonial home in her absence during which over N800,000 she kept in her boxes were stolen. She also accused him of refusing to pay back the loan she collected on his behalf in which she stood as a guarantor. She begged the court to dissolve the marriage as she was no longer in love with her husband.

But her husband, Gbenga Olashuyi denied the allegations. He told the court that his wife and her lover, the cleric, persuaded him to buy a coffin for money ritual and that gave the cleric access to his home and wife.

"My wife brought the Alfa home, he told me that God revealed to him that my business was collapsing, that he will make some rites, I agreed because truly my business was not moving well. Since that day my wife has been coming home with the cleric with different objects and concoction for me to drink and bath with which I used.

Later the cleric asked me to bring N800, 000 to buy some items for another rite. He also told me to buy a casket for him to make ritual money for me that I will put it in a separate room where nobody will enter except me. My wife begged me to comply with the Alfa’s request which I declined, he said"

Olashuyi went on to accuse his wife of infidelity. He added that the cleric usually comes to their home to make love to his wife on their matrimonial bed.

"I got to know that the cleric was sleeping with my wife in our room when Musilimotu brought the police to arrest him for using charm on her to rape her."

The cleric told the police that he never hypnotised my wife to rape, claiming it was with her consent he made love to her on those three occasions.

As a result of her infidelity, Olashuyi said he packed his wife's belongings out of his house after giving her three months notice, yet she refused to pack out. He asked the court to dissolve his marriage, stating that he was no longer interested and does not love his wife anymore.

Following the intervention of the court, presided over by Mr Akin Akinniyi, and the couple’s families, they were reconciled. The wife then wrote a withdrawal letter to the court and told them that they would work to resolve their differences.

Akinniyi, while striking out the case, admonished the couple to maintain peace and to continue to live in love and harmony.

Since the court was able to reconcile the couple through thorough counselling, I urged both of you to go home and live in peace and love," Akinniyi said.

-Linda Ikeji.

JUJU/GOSPEL ACT, SEYE SECONET LOSES DAD.

An Ibadan based up and coming Juju/Gospel singer Seye Olajide aka Seconet's father is dead.

IBADAN CENTRA ABATTOIR COMMENCES OPERATION.

Full operation has commenced at Ibadan Central Abattoir, located in Amosun Village area of Akinyele local government, Oyo State. It is a facility operated on Public Private Partnership (PPP) and the project belongs to Oyo State Government, the 11 local governments and LCDAs in Ibadan as well as a private firm, C & E Limited.