One in four Nigerian men fail DNA paternity tests – Report By Nsan Neji LAGOS (CONVERSEER) – A new report by Smart DNA, Nigeria’s leading DNA testing centre, has revealed that one in every four men tested between July 2024 and June 2025 was not the biological father of the child in question. The 2025…
By Tina Ezin, Calabar Six civil society organisations have petitioned the Lagos State House of Assembly, urging it to halt ongoing privatisation moves by the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC) under its Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative. The petition, signed by the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), Citizens Free Service Forum (CFSF), Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Child Health…
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON. By Our Reporter President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, returned to the country from London early this Monday morning, looking robust and dispelling rumours of ill health. Some social media reports had claimed that Akpabio was critically ill and admitted in a London hospital, but the…
Ms. Comfort Emmanson By Etim Etim It’s very embarrassing and disgusting to read of so many men making all sorts of attractive offers to Comfort Emmanson, the lady who created a storm on Sunday when she refused to turn off her phone on that Ibom Air flight. Emmnason was eventually charged and remanded in Kirikiri…
By Comfort Isaac At the South-South stakeholders’ meeting of APC in Benin in July, the star attraction was not the beautiful speeches of the governors or the flamboyant costumes of the politicians. The main allure of the event turned out to be a 20-minute cultural entertainment offered by a group of children from Akwa Ibom…
Gov. Bassey Otu signs the bills into law as others watch. By Nsa Gill Lastweek, His Excellency, Governor Bassey Edet Otu, signed four important bills into law, each one a stepping stone toward the next phase of Cross River State’s development. Let’s break them down in plain language: 1. Cross River State Supplementary Appropriation Bill…
By Dianabasi Effiong In a show of solidarity and affirmation of continuity, the Board of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) on Saturday in Abuja returned Dr Ibrahim Abdul as its President for a second term of four years. Abdul’s re-election took place at the NWF 2025 Elective Congress held at the Gymnasium Hall, Package B…
By Nsan Neji CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The Governor of Cross River State, Bassey Otu, has signed four new bills into law. The bills, signed last week, add to the numerous bills recently signed by the Governor. Below is the breakdown of the four bills: 1. Cross River State Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2025 This bill injects…
The inaugural lecturer, Prof. Stanislaus Orjighjigh Iyorza (left), receiving a memento from the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, Prof. Tony Eyang who represented the Vice Chancellor. By Anietie Akpan A university don has urged the Federal Government to make local dialect a compulsory subject for gaining University admission. While delivering the 142nd inaugural lecture of the…
One would think that the US would consider such a group to be an ally in its New Cold War with China By Andrew Korybko SAN FRANCISCO (CONVERSEER) – The US’ systemic rivalry with China over the contours of the emerging world order has made many assume that it backs all opponents of the People’s…
