By NEWSCOUNT Desk President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed calls for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to hand over power to Vice President Kashim Shettima, insisting that there is no leadership vacuum in the country despite the President’s extended working vacation abroad. Akpabio spoke on Tuesday in Akwa Ibom State while commissioning road projects […]
BAT Nigeria Employees Lead Cleanup Exercise at Ibadan Factory
By NEWSCOUNT Desk British American Tobacco Nigeria Limited (BAT Nigeria) has marked the 2026 World Cleanup Day with an employee-led clean-up exercise at its manufacturing facility in Ibadan, Oyo State, reinforcing its commitment to environmental sustainability and responsible waste management. The exercise, held on September 21, brought together employees of the company who worked across […]
Tukur Was A Detribalised Nigerian, Says Akpabio
By NEWSCOUNT Desk President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has described the late elder statesman and former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, as a detribalised Nigerian, great patriot and towering national figure whose contributions to the country transcended ethnic and political boundaries. Akpabio stated this on Tuesday when he […]
WHEN PRIVACY BECOMES CONTENT:
The Dangerous Normalisation of Leaked Private Conversations By Ken Harries, Esq. There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society possible. That point is reached when a private telephone conversation is allegedly recorded, extracted from its original […]
We Complain More and Act Less
Opinion By Chukwudi George Ozalla “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”– Alice Walker Over the years, I have observed that Nigerians are very good at identifying what is wrong with the country. Almost everywhere you go, people have one complaint or another about the state […]
