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  • BBNaija S6: Emmanuel tackles Liquorose as she distances self

    BBNaija S6: Emmanuel tackles Liquorose as she distances self

    Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemate, Emmanuel, has confronted his love interest Liquorose, for distancing herself from him.

    He met Liquorose lying down on the couch in the early hours of Wednesday, day 53 of the show, and asked her what the problem was.

    TheNewsGuru recalls that Liquorose’s ‘rift’ with Emmanuel is a prank by Biggie, who said she should avoid Emmanuel to win BB tokens.

    In order to get her prize, Liquorose must act like she’s in a squabble with Emmanuel till her next Diary Session.

    Emmanuel, however, is unaware of the prank as he wondered what may have gone wrong.

    When Emmanuel approached Liquorose, she didn’t want to talk to him but blamed him for not being there when she wanted to talk to him.

    Emmanuel said, “You can’t look at my face. I come up to you and you’re not talking to me.”

    “Because when I needed you to talk to me, you were not there. When I needed you by my side, you were not there. So what’s the point?” Liquorose asked.

    Emmanuel explained that he was there for her but Liquorose stated that it seemed like she was holding him back and from now on, she wanted to let him be.

    Liquorose asked him, “Am I holding you back? Am I caging you from things you really want to do?”

    “Why are you feeling that way? Did you feel like you’re caging me?” Emmanuel countered.

    She answered, “I feel so. I feel like I’m in your way,”

    Confused, Emmanuel asked, “On my way to what?”

    “I don’t know. You should know better,” Liquorose said.

    With a note of finality, she said, “I’m sleeping here tonight. Let me get used to not sleeping beside you. So just respect that.”

     

  • Photo: Osinbajo, Tambuwal, Wike, Emmanuel, Obaseki others storm Delta for Okowa’s father’s burial

    Photo: Osinbajo, Tambuwal, Wike, Emmanuel, Obaseki others storm Delta for Okowa’s father’s burial

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Governors Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Godwin Obaseki (Edo) are currently attending the church service of burial ceremony of the father of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Sir (Chief) Arthur Okorie Okowa.

    Also in attendance are former Governor James Ibori, Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva; National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus; PDP BoT Chairman, Alhaji Walid Jubrin and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lucky Irabor.

    The Deputy Governor of Delta, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro; Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori and a host of others are also in attendance.

    The church service is holding at Saint Michael’s Anglican Church Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State.

    The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Primate Henry Ndukuba, is ministering at the burial service which also had other top minister of God in attendance.

    More details later…

  • BBNaija: Why I like Emmanuel, Liquorose relationship – WhiteMoney

    BBNaija: Why I like Emmanuel, Liquorose relationship – WhiteMoney

    WhiteMoney, one of the Big Brother Naija season 6 housemates has revealed that he likes the relationship between Emmanuel and Liquorose.

    TheNewsGuru recalls that Emmanuel and Liquorose got together since the second week of the ‘Shine Ya Eye’ season after they both declared their love interest for each other.

    They have been seen eating, sleeping on the same bed and kissing each other severally in the house.

    WhiteMoney, speaking after the Friday night Jacuzzi party said he loves and respect Emmanuel and Liquorose’s relationship because of how they respect and look out for each other.

    WhiteMoney said: “Emmanuel was dancing and rocking girls, Liquorose was also dancing and rocking guys. They didn’t bother themselves.

    “But after the party, they held hands and walked away together. I really like them and I respect them. That’s the kind of relationship I want.”

     

  • BBNaija: I don’t regret kissing Emmanuel– Liquorose

    BBNaija: I don’t regret kissing Emmanuel– Liquorose

    Big Brother Naija, BBNaija housemate, Liquorose has said she does not regret kissing Emmanuel on Saturday night.

    TheNewsGuru recalls that Liquorose got tipsy on Friday and Saturday nights which got her making advances at Emmanuel her love interest.

    Liquorose went to Emmanuel in the room and kissed him fervently and made sexual advances at him.

    She also broke down in tears because she missed her dad.

    However, speaking with Biggie during her secret diary session, Liquorose said she does not regret kissing Emmanuel in her ‘drunk state’.

    Liquorose told Biggie: “Friday night was crazy Biggie. I was tipsy and I just walked to Emmanuel from the bathroom and kissed him.

    “It was not bad and I don’t regret it but the confidence I had wow.”

    The love affair between Emmanuel and Liquorose continues to grow fervent against all odds.

     

     

  • BBNaija: Tega, Nini, Saskay, Princess, others nominated for eviction

    BBNaija: Tega, Nini, Saskay, Princess, others nominated for eviction

    Big Brother Naija, BBNaijaa housemates, on Monday, nominated housemates for possible eviction next week Sunday.

    Housemates were told to nominate two housemates for eviction except Pere and four new housemates.

    At the end of the nomination process; Princess, Arin, Tega, Saskay, Emmanuel and Nini were put up for possible eviction.

    Pere used his Veto power to save Saga, replacing him with Saskay.

    At least, one of the housemates will be evicted from the reality show next week Sunday.

    Here is how the housemates voted;

    Boma: Princess and Saskay

    Cross: Princess and Tega

    Saga: Princess and Tega

    Whitemoney: Arin and JayPaul

    Nini: Princess and Emmanuel

    Jackie B: Saga and Nini

    Sammie: Tega and Princess

    JayPaul: Maria and Peace

    Liquorose: Saga and Arin

    Arin: Emmanuel and Tega

    Yousef: Arin and Boma

    Tega: Saga and Arin

    Pere: Princess and Saskay

    Saskay: Whitemoney and Nini

    Peace: Tega and Princess

    Emmanuel: Arin and Angel

    Tega: Nini and Arin

    Angel: Princess and Emmanuel

    Maria: Arin and Angel.

  • Militants threaten Gov Emmanuel, demand publication of council allocations from 2015

    Militants threaten Gov Emmanuel, demand publication of council allocations from 2015

    Militants under the aegis of Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF) have given Governor Udom Emmanuel 14 days ultimatum to publish federal allocations to local governments in Akwa Ibom State.

    The agitators asked the governor to make public records of council allocations received by the state from June 2015 to date, failing which they will stage a mass protest, which may lead to some grave impacts on the state.

    The NDLF last week accused the Emmanuel administration of stalling development at the grassroots by tampering with council funds since his assumption of office in 2015.

    But the state government denied the allegation.

    In a statement at the weekend by the state commander of the NDLF, ‘Captain’ Victor Eyoh and four others, the group asked the state government to prove its innocence by making public records of council allocations.

    The statement said: “For the avoidance of doubt, as indigenes of Akwa Ibom State, we are aware that during the first five months after the inauguration of the outgoing local government councils, the 31 councils were operating on zero allocations.

    ‘’In subsequent months, N6 to N8million per month were disbursed to each local government for the payment of political office holders, elected councillors and traditional rulers.

    ‘’We, therefore, stand by our earlier claims that the state government has been illegally tampering with local government funds, and challenge the government to publish for public scrutiny details of the monthly receipts of revenue from the Federation Account from June 2015 in respect of the allocations to the 31 local governments and records of disbursements of same to the councils.”

    The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Iniobong Ememobong, has denied tampering with council funds, saying Governor Emmanuel is not a signatory to any local government council account.

    Ememobong, who said the NDLF might be working for the opposition, asked the group to approach the Federal Government for records of funds allocations to local government councils in the state.

    He said: ‘’The publication of allocation to local government areas is done by the Federal Government and is available for all to see.

    ‘’The local government leadership through ALGON can answer whether the governor has been tampering with their allocation or not.

    ‘’However, for your information, the governor isn’t a signatory to any local government council account and therefore cannot tamper with an account he’s not a signatory to.

    ‘’But it’s amazing how a militant group can now claim to be spokespersons for issues that make them sound like echo chambers of some Akwa Ibom opposition chieftains’’.

  • Emmanuel commends peaceful Council polls in Akwa Ibom

    Emmanuel commends peaceful Council polls in Akwa Ibom

    Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has commended the peaceful conduct of the Local Government Councils’ elections in spite of voters’ apathy.

    Emmanuel made the commendation while at his polling unit for accreditation and voting at Awa ward 1, Onna Local Government Area on Saturday.

    He applauded the preparedness of the Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC) for the exercise.

    The governor described the processes leading up to the elections as transparent.

    “I think this is one of the peaceful elections we have ever conducted. I drove from Uyo down here trying to monitor the elections.

    “I like the quietness and orderliness of the elections and I am also appreciating the preparedness of AKISIEC, the quality of materials; it is of a very high standard.

    “They can keep it up, and even the transparency of the processes is commendable.

    “They have done a good work but it is unfortunate that people will still be complaining even when we score the process 99 per cent. I would only encourage them to do more,’’ he said.

    Emmanuel said that as the governor of the state he had confidence in the local government system.

    “I have confidence in the elections. If I didn’t have confidence, why should I waste my time coming here?

    “I have confidence much more than ever before. This is the most peaceful election,’’ he said.

  • Akpabio opens can of worms on frosty relationship with Gov Emmanuel, loss of senatorial election

    Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and senator representing Akwa Ibom North-West District in the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has opened up on his relationship with Governor Udom Emmanuel

    Akpabio said stood by him (Emmanuel) to emerge governor despite opposition from over 28 other candidates within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party he (Akpabio) has since dumped for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The former Senate Minority Leader however noted that despite his perceived hatred for joining the APC, his “dream” for the state “lives on”.

    Recall that Akpabio lost his bid to return to the Senate for a second term; he was defeated by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chris Ekpenyong.

    He is at the tribunal to challenge the election result.

    Mr Akpabio’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), lost almost all the elections in the state, including the governorship and the presidential elections.

    “My dream for Akwa Ibom lives on. My love for Akwa Ibom and Nigeria waxes stronger,” Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom, said in a post-election article.

    The article titled, The Lies and Liars of the Election, was released by Akpabio’s media office.

    Akpabio said in the article that men, including clerics, have been paid to lie against him during the elections.

    He said some persons went as far as lying that he equated himself to God and that he also planned to “sell the state to Moslems for the establishment of cattle colonies”.

    “I am happy that God is not like some of His priests,” the senator said.

    “Ever since I decamped to APC, they have been praying against me and they have joined in peddling the lies about me.

    “Very well-known Church prelates and Bishops that dined with me for eight years while I was governor, despite my benevolence to them and their families joined the fray calling me killer herdsman for joining APC.

    “But some of these ‘men of God’ were in this same country in 2012 when the farmers/herdsmen clashes claimed the lives of over 1000 people in the Benue/Plateau/Mambilla axis. At that time, a Christian was the President but was not accused of being a killer of Christians.

    “I am happy that God does not condemn a man based on one man’s testimony, but He sees the heart and judges our motives and intentions. Whether one is a Christian or Muslim, we all worship the same God who will at the appointed time judge us from our deeds in words and actions,” he said.

    Akpabio said having enjoyed God’s mercies there was no way he could have blasphemed against God.

    “In 2015 my wife was in a coma for months and the best doctors in the world with the help of the best life-support equipment gave her less than five percent chance of making it. Doctors and science gave up on her. The press wrote that she had died. But we held on to God and God brought her back to life. Science could not explain this awesome testimony.

    “In 2015, I was involved in an accident, which details are still suspect. I survived against all odds because God showed up for me.

    “Can a man who has seen so much favour from God, turn around to blaspheme him? Can such a man seek to play God or seek to share His glory with Him? Such a man can never say ‘where was God when I made Udom Emmanuel governor?’” the senator said.

    Akpabio after leaving Government House, Uyo, in 2015, fell apart with his successor, Udom Emmanuel, whom he had helped to become governor against all the odds.

    The senator in the article wrote about his relationship with his successor, Mr Emmanuel.

    “I met Udom Emmanuel performing the duties of a deacon in Qua Iboe Church, Surulere. I immediately adjudged that as a deacon, he would superintend over the affairs of the State with the fear of God.

    “Whether I was right or wrong is for history to judge. Nevertheless, I picked him to succeed me and by the grace of God and the votes of Akwa Ibom electorates, he won the election. So God made him governor.

    “Yes. I made enemies out of 28 other aspirants who desired that same office. That remains my cross,” he said.

    Akpabio added, “I call on those who have been sucked into this axis of evil to stop the lies, the smear campaigns, the propaganda, and the deliberate falsehood.

    “I wish to serve notice that I would remain undaunted and focused in serving humanity.”

     

  • APC speaks on sponsoring ‘impeachment’ plans against Gov Emmanuel

    APC speaks on sponsoring ‘impeachment’ plans against Gov Emmanuel

    The All Progressive Congress (APC) says it has no plan whatsoever to impeach Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom as being speculated in some quarters.

    Mr Ime Okopido, the state APC Chairman stated this while speaking with newsmen in Uyo on Thursday, while reacting to the crisis in the state House of Assembly.

    Okopido said that the APC and its lawmakers would not waste precious time to institute a process of impeachment on the governor, who has about three months to leave office.

    He described the statement credited to the state PDP Chairman, Mr Paul Ekpo, on Nov. 27, alleging that the APC lawmakers met to impeach the governor as faulty and misleading.

    “Let me state categorically clear that we in APC have never discussed plans to impeach the governor, and indeed, we are not interested in moving for his impeachment.

    “Rather, we are eagerly waiting for March 2, 2019, when Akwa Ibom people will vote out this incompetent and clueless governor.

    “We have just three months to go, so there is no need to waste time on impeachment,” Okopido said.

    The chairman said that the party or its lawmakers have no hand in the current crisis in the House of Assembly.

    According to him, the illegality of declaring seats of five APC members of the House vacant, in spite of subsisting court action, is the immediate cause of the crisis.

    Okopido expressed displeasure over the way and manner the PDP and its agents were insulting APC Chieftains in the state and called for a stop.

    He wondered why the PDP is calling for redeployment of the state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Musa Kimo, who is barely one week in office and expressed the party’s confidence on him.

     

  • A/Ibom Assembly crisis: Gov. Emmanuel seeks President Buhari’s intervention

    Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the Akwa Ibom Assembly crisis to ensure continuous peace in the state.

    Emmanuel said this at a news conference held in the Government Lodge in Uyo on Tuesday after the pandemonium in the State House of Assembly.

    He said that the state would continue to remain peaceful in spite the siege in Akwa Ibom House of Assembly.

    “We are calling on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, please, we are citizens of this country and the President should take necessary action to forestall this because we have seen the sign.

    “I want to believe my people will be protected by the constitution and by the law of this country.

    ” We stand for peace and we shall ever remain peaceful and law abiding citizens of this country,” Emmanuel said.

    The governor also expressed displeasure over the deployment of police to the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly and called for the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Kimo from the state.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kimo assumed duty in the state on Nov. 23.

    The governor said that democracy in the state was being threatened and appealed for support to protect `the hard earned democracy.’

    He said that the state government had received intelligence report on plans by the sacked lawmakers to take over the house of assembly alleging that the plans were being executed and supervised by the police.

    He alleged that the same police that he used state resources to equip were fighting the state; adding that several petitions to President Buhari and the IGP about the activities of the Police and the sacked lawmakers had been ignored.

    “The court ordered the speaker that those who had defected, their seats should be declared vacant, this is not the first time and it is in line with the rule of law.

    “I want to call on the police force to ensure that the commissioner of police and the Quick Response Squad are withdrawn so that we can maintain peace,” Emmanuel said.

    Recently, angry youth and supporters of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state had stormed the assembly complex to protest the sack of a lawmaker, Idongesit Ituen.

    Ituen, who represented the Itu State Constituency, was sacked by a federal high court for defecting from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.

    In spite of the protest, the Speaker, Onofiok Luke, then declared vacant the seats of four more lawmakers who had also defected from PDP to APC.

    The sacked lawmakers, (five), later held their sitting where they ‘removed’ the speaker, Luke, and ‘elected’ one of them, Nse Ntuen (Essien Udim State Constituency) as the “new speaker.”