Politics & Policy

MEDIATRACNET The Group General Manager in charge of the Shipping at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Inuwa Waya, has announced his decision to voluntarily retire from the company in December this year. Although the retirement of the top management staff is yet to be officially confirmed by the NNPC,…

MEDIATRACNET Recent political crises in Guinea and Mali portend grave danger to the effort towards consolidation of democratic governance in the West African region, the President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Edward Amoako Asante, has warned. Asante said in Accra at a ceremony organized by the UN Association of…

MEDIATRACNET The decision by the Federal Government to carry out a comprehensive review of the Financial Regulations operational in the public service was informed by the need to entrench probity, accountability and transparency in the management of public financial resources. The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, gave the…

MEDIATRACNET Participants in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) are now to benefit from health services under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The decision to extend the universal health coverage (UHC) to the corps members followed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the NHIS and the…

MEDIATRACNET To ensure a successful electoral process in Nigeria come 2023, the country’s leading elections monitoring group, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) on Thursday reviewed the state of the country’s electoral process and announced a six-point advocacy agenda for the next four years. The agenda was announced by its new…

By Etim Etim In the first part of this article, I focused on the growing menace of involvement of some pastors (or supposed men of God) and Governor Udom Emmanuel’s family members in the succession politics of 2023 in Akwa Ibom State. In that essay, I said: ‘’The Fathers of…

By Etim Etim A familiar malady is creeping into the transition politics of Gov. Udom Emmanuel, and that is the influence of family members. This writer has been reliably informed that one of the governor’s brothers is mounting pressure on the governor to anoint Umoh Eno, the Commissioner for Lands…

By Ini Udoka His Eminence, Prelate Emeritus Sunday Mbang Eket, Nigeria Your Eminence, We have heard you that no cultist shall govern our State in 2023. Good! My question, like most concerned Akwa Ibom citizens, is: What about people who are occultists? Can you spot the difference? Cultists are those…

By Sam Akpe As a Deacon in his local church, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State loves to quote the Bible anytime he speaks. In almost all his public speeches, he laces them with copious references to God Almighty. He talks as someone who loves God. As a practical…