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Akpabio announces automatic employment for sons of deceased police aide

Daily Dispatch December 23, 2025

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has announced automatic employment for the two sons of his police rider, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hussani Ibrahim, who died in a ghastly accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Sunday. The announcement was made on the floor of the Senate

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A Rejoinder To A Misleading And Conjectural Report On The Akpabio-Akpoti-Uduaghan Appeal By OPR News

Daily Dispatch December 22, 2025

The referenced jaundiced reportage purporting to analyse proceedings at the Court of Appeal in the matter connected with the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is a glaring example of speculative journalism, factual distortion, and advocacy masquerading as news. It is necessary, in the interest of accuracy and the integrity of judicial reporting, to set the […]

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Akpabio heads to S’Court over Appeal Court ruling on Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension

Daily Dispatch December 21, 2025

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has escalated his legal challenge to the Supreme Court following an adverse ruling by the Court of Appeal in a case involving Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central Senatorial District. Akpabio, in a notice of appeal filed at the apex court, is seeking to overturn the judgment of the Abuja […]

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Akpabio’s office slams Sahara Reporters over false hospitalisation story, releases evidence of safe return

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2025

The Office of the Senate President has issued a firm rebuttal to what it described as a false and reckless report by Sahara Reporters alleging that Senate President Godswill Akpabio collapsed and was hospitalized in London. Contrary to the publication’s claims, verified photographs and travel records confirm that Akpabio returned to Nigeria late Monday night, […]

COLUMNS

The Akpabio Synthesis: An Uncommon Statesman at 63

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

By Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh mnipr Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little and forgets even less. To survive is one thing. To matter is another. To matter for nearly two decades at the highest levels of public life […]

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Akpabio at 63: Senate President shuns elaborate birthday celebration “because of the mood of the nation”

Daily Dispatch December 10, 2025

Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday marked his 63rd birthday in a low-key manner, saying the state of the nation made an elaborate celebration inappropriate. Unlike previous years, the occasion featured no major festivities. The only formal gesture was the presentation of a birthday cake by staff and aides in the Office of the Senate […]