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By Promise Etim PREAMBLE Over the years, football has been widely regarded as one sport with capacity to unite people from different tribe, religious and ethnic affiliation. For the people of state, Akwa United football club has continually been a source of uniting persons from the three major ethnic groups namely; the Ibibios, Annangs and Oro. This is as a result of massive development football as a sport and Akwa united as a club has brought to the people in terms of human capital development; evident in signing of home grown players to provision of infrastructures; one of such being the newly constructed 30,000 capacity Godswill Akpabio international Stadium, which has hosted a couple of league matches in the country and a some national teams. Akwa United FC, formerly referred to as Ibom Stars FC was established in November 1996, by the then Governor of the state, Navy Captain Joseph Adeusi, with key responsibilities handed down to Coach Charles Bassey and a...

December 01, 2015 His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR Aso Rock Villa Abuja Your Excellency, CONSIDER NIGERIAN YOUTH AS PART OF YOUR ADMINISTRATION I didn't thought it necessary to write you this open letter not even when you are not up to one year in office but I am compel to express my feeling and make it known to you after your recent visit to Malta to attend meeting of Commonwealth Head of Government. I was impressed to see you having a discussion with AHMED ADAMU, the Chairperson and President of Commonwealth Youth Council who coincidentally happened to come from your state.  Add caption Your Excellency, I may not have known the content of your discussion with Ahmed Adamu but as a father, you were proud to have one of your sons superintend on the highest youth group on the face of the earth covering 53 Commonwealth countries. That is the more reason why I posted the picture of that discussion here.  Sir, I recalled ...

By Admin  The Civil Resource Development Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC) today at Sheraton Hotels & Towers, Abuja launch the 2015 Nigerian States Budget Transparency Survey Results. The result which was peak at an average of 26 saw Ekiti State with 79 as the most transparent state in Nigeria followed by Cross River State with 73 while Lagos and Jigawa states were rated 60 and 49 respectively as the top four states in the country that are transparent in their budgeting.  On the bottom row were Oyo and Kaduna state pairing with 7% while Akwa Ibom and Niger State got 22% and 27% each.The launching of the National Budget Transparency Survey was organized by CIRDDOC, Enugu in collaboration with 36 fiscal governance-focused CSOs in Nigeria with the support from the Department for International Development (DFID).  Panelist at the National Budget Discussion Participants at the National Budget Launch In her welcome address, the Executive Director of CIRDDOC, M...

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On this day a year ago, God proved Himself God in my case, when men rose to truncate my return to the House Of Assembly not because I did not perform to merit a return but because of my disagreement in principles with a few happenings then, God granted me victory at Mobile Police Base Idoro Rd, venue of my Party's primaries. I return all the glory to God and will forever live to worship HIM. To those who believed in me even when all hope was gone, I say a big thank you. On this day I will specially thank the teaming youths of Nsit Ubium who stood by me against all odds, specifically OLB and other groups. Hon. Onofiok Luke with supporters I also appreciate the women who prayed and wailed and fasted on my behalf. To some of the party officials who refused to be compromised in other to betray me, I pray God to bless you all.  The Elders, Led by Sen Effiong Bob and others I thank you. Capt. Iniobong Ekong, you are a brother, you were near...

By Strive Masiyiwa Ever since I became an entrepreneur, one thing that has fascinated me almost as much as innovations that drive new businesses, is the complex management skill required to build large ones. Making a business bigger depends on management expertise. This is something many people do not really appreciate as much as they should. More than 25 years ago, I had a construction business that grew very well for a number of years. I had hired the best-qualified people I could find, and we had many contracts. Then one day almost out of nowhere, we started to struggle with cash. We just never seemed to have any money, even though we had big projects. I struggled to understand what was going on. I even accused the staff of stealing from me as I angrily sought someone to blame! Eventually I was simply overwhelmed by creditors. In the end unable to cope, I applied for voluntary liquidation of the business. It was a massive humiliation. Everything was sold to ...