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- Godswill Akpabio stated that the APC will have victory in Akwa Ibom in 2019 general elections - Akpabio, a senator representing Akwa Ibom northwest district, said the people of the state appreciate President Buhari's achievements - He maintained that the electorate would reciprocate the kind gesture of the president by voting massively for him and all candidates of the APC Senator Godswill Akpabio representing Akwa Ibom northwest district declared that President Muhammadu Buhari's achievements in the state will make the All Progressives Congress have victory in 2019 general elections. Akpabio maintained that Akwa Ibom people are very appreciative of his effort at developing the state and the various appointments the APC led administration has offered the people of the state. Vanguard reports that he made this known in a statement at Ukana his country home in Essien Udim local government area of the state. According to him, ''The electorate in the state w...

Update:: Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has revealed 6 ‘facts’ to prove that President Muhammadu Buhari has been ‘replaced’ by an impostor known as ‘Jubril Aminu Alsudani’. PoliticsNGR gathered that in a broadcast from Israel on Saturday, Kanu said; “In the past few days, the Presidency of Nigeria has worked very hard to put a spin on the credible revelations that the man passing off as President of Nigeria is not Buhari but a Jubril from Sudan. The spin runs like this: That Buhari does not have a ‘clone’ or that Jubril is not Buhari’s clone or that Buhari has not been biologically cloned. Even ‘Jubril’ himself, during his current trip to Poland, claimed that he is the ‘real’ Buhari, not a ‘clone’. The standard qualification to becoming a successful body double or impersonator is close resemblance to the person being impersonated. In other words, the political decoy is an individual who has been selected because of strong physical resemblance to the p...

Update:: The Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) have said that nothing is working under President Buhari’s government. The group also said that it has withdrawn its support for the President ahead of the upcoming 2019 presidential election. According to a statement issued to newsmen, NEF said that Buhari has failed to deliver on the conditions given to him in 2015 when they rejected former President Goodluck Jonathan. The statement reads: “Two of the conditions we gave Buhari upon his assumption of office were that he should take concrete steps to address the abject poverty and underdevelopment in the North and he has woefully failed to marginally address any of them. “Assuming that things are working in the North or in Nigeria as a whole, we would have taken a different position but everyone can see that things are not working under this government. Perhaps, as a prelude to where this government has taken this country, Buhari wasted six months before being able to set up his...

Update:: Legendary singer, Tuface Idibia has disclosed how having many children from different women led him to depression. The father of seven, while gracing the December edition of leading lifestyle magazine, Genevieve, narrated difficulty he faced being a ‘father to many children’ 2face in the interview said he drank a lot at some point in his life where he was called names despite his efforts in music. He said: “Having so many children from different women at such a young age almost sent me into depression. “I drank a lot because people laughed at me and called me names. “Nobody cared that I was an artiste or that I hard worked so hard.” Tuface has seven children. Two with his wife,Annie, two with baby mama Sumbo Ajaba-Adeoye and three with Pero Adeniyi.

Update:: Faith Morey, born Faith Chituru Amadi, comes from Ikwerre in Rivers state. She started her modelling career in 2008, and according to her, Naomi Campbell is her role model. She reached her breakthrough after participation in Nigeria’s Next Super Model competition in 2009. The Nigerian model married in 2010 and is a mother of one.  See below for more photos.

Update:: Lauretta Onochie Presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie has reportedly uncovered a plot by the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to rig the 2019 General Elections. On Sunday, Onochie alleged that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and other PDP stakeholders had plotted to use the electoral bill if signed to rig the forthcoming 2019 elections. It could be recalled that Scooper earlier reported that President Buhari declined to assent to the bill for a fourth time citing certain clauses in the bill could negatively affect the conduct of the 2019 general elections. Onochie wrote; “Pres. Buhari came to governance through the popular will of the people of Nigeria who used the Card Reader to put a stop to his years of winning Presidential elections and never announced winner. He loves the Card reader. We love the Card Reader. What they did was to cleverly replace “COUNT & ANNOUNCE”, with only “ANNOUNCE” in...

Update:: Talk about a family bonding session! Ariana Grande went to get her latest ink and inspired her grandmother, Marjorie Grande, to get a tattoo in the process. The pop star, 25, documented the outing on her Instagram Story on Friday, December 7, after she accepted her Woman of the Year award at the Billboard Women in Music event in New York City. "I feel fine,"  Marjorie said as she laughed at the pain with her family members, including Joan Grande and Frankie Grande.  "I've had a little bit more excitement than this." For her tattoo, Marjorie chose to have her late husband Frank Grande's nickname "Ciccio" inked on her left ring finger. Hours earlier, Grande took the stage in New York City to accept her Woman of the Year title. During her tearful speech, Grande told the crowd,  "This is really special. I want to say that I find it interesting that this has been one of the best years in my career and one...

Update:: Armenia votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday triggered years ahead of schedule by reformist leader Nikol Pashinyan, who is aiming to cement his political authority in the post-Soviet country. The 43-year-old former journalist became prime minister in May after spearheading weeks of peaceful anti-government rallies that ousted veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian. However Pashinyan's reform drive was stalled for months by opposition from Sarkisian's ruling party which dominated parliament. After weeks of political manoeuvring by the prime minister and more street protests, the parliament was dissolved last month. Pashinyan's party is expected to get a majority in the new legislature, allowing him to push ahead with his campaign to reshape the South Caucasus nation's political landscape and spark an "economic revolution". "We will turn Armenia into an industrial, high-tech, export-oriented country," Pashinyan told supporters at a...

Update:: In Asaba, Delta State, armed policemen have reportedly stripped a man naked for refusing to offer bribe. The law enforcement officers are seen in a video as they forced him into an awaiting vehicle. In the clip, the victim struggles but his power was not enough to resist the policemen who appeared menacing in their handling of him.

Update:: Www.churchillchoken.blogspot.com has been furnished with Photographs from the Burial of Late Mrs. Gold-coast Dickson, Mother of Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State at Toru-Angiama, Patani LGA, Delta State. See Below;

Update:: The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Buhari for refusing to sign the Electoral Bill into law. Buhari, in a letter to the National Assembly on Thursday, December 6, 2018, declined assent to the bill. Among other reasons, the President said: "I am declining assent to the Bill principally because I am concerned that passing a new electoral bill this far into the electoral process for the 2019 general election which commenced under the 2015 Electoral Act, could create some uncertainty about the applicable legislation to govern the process.” In a statement on Twitter, the PDP presidential candidate said Buhari’s refusal to sign the electoral bill into law shows his assurances for a freeand fair election cannot be taken seriously. “Mr President, assurances that your administration will conduct a free, fair and credible elections can not be taken seriously. For Nigerians and es...

Update:: Nigerian pop singer and song writer, Reekado Banks has announced his exit from the record he started from, Mavin Records to pursue bigger opportunities. This announcement was made on social media by the Blessings artiste where he stated that although it is painful to leave the family that made him who he has become in the past five years, it is imperative he takes this action for the sake of his growth despite his love for the records.  He said; ''Today I write in tears, not from a place of of pain, but of joy and gratitude. A place of bliss and satisfaction because I am more than contented with how far this opportunity has brought me. The last five years have been the most blissful years of my career, The journey has been extremely wonderful and filled with the best experiences... Joing the mavin records family was the best thing to have happend to me in the last decade. Don Jazzy took me in and treated me like his own son. I'll be e...

Update::THE national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC has set machinery in place to whip Governors Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha in line towards advancing the interests of the party in the governorship elections in Ogun and Imo States respectively. Over 10 thousand fans turned up for Orezi concert Besides, the two governors who have sworn not to support the APC governorship candidates in their two states, the party, Saturday Vanguard gathered, is also putting focus on at least two ministers, Adebayo Shittu and Solomon Dalung, and also on the director general of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu. Amsoun and Okorocha were peeved by the decision of the national leadership to enthrone persons opposed by them as the APC governorship candidates in their two states. Both men have sworn to support their favoured candidates in alternative platforms but at the same time also support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid on the basis of what the...

Update:: Comedian, Akpororo took a swipe at Daddy Freeze over his constant attack on Tithing.  Akpororo slammed Freeze during his performance at #TheExperience13, a Christian musical concert which took place in Lagos yesterday December 7th. During his performance, Akpororo said if he was a pastor, he would have an annoying annoiting that can turn people like Daddy Freeze into a wall gecko so he would stop talking and become harmless. Click here to watch the video

Update:: Why NYSC cancelled Davido’s service year has been revealed, just after report of their fallout went viral across social media platforms. Top sources in the NYSC who spoke to a Punch correspondent, disclosed that management of NYSC cancelled Davido’s service year for “absconding” from the camp during the orientation camp and this reportedly brought to an end his participation in the 2018 Batch ‘B’ Stream II in Lagos State, where he had been posted. The source said The NYSC was constrained to “dekit” Davido for violating the rules guiding conduct and activities in the camp. As a matter of fact, he absconded because he was away from the camp without permission. That prompted the Corps to issue him a query which was sent from Abuja. So, he is no longer a serving corps member.” It was also gathered that Davido violated many of the scheme’s regulations which include; bringing vehicles into the orientation camp; disclosing of...

Update:: Late rapper Mac Miller has received a posthumous Grammy nomination, having gotten a nod for Swimming in the Best Rap Album section. It is his first Grammy Award nomination. The fifth studio album from Miller, Swimming was released on 3 August – just over a month before he was found dead at his home outside Los Angeles at the age of 26. Shortly after his death, former girlfriend Ariana Grande shared a short video of the two together on her Instagram page, writing: “I adored you from the day I met you when I was nineteen and I always will. I can’t believe you aren’t here anymore. I really can’t wrap my head around it. We talked about this. So many times. “I’m so mad, I’m so sad I don’t know what to do. You were my dearest friend. For so long. “Above anything else. I’m so sorry I couldn’t fix or take your pain away. I really wanted to. The kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved. “I hope you’re okay now. Rest.” Many other famous faces paid tr...

Update:: The 2019 GRAMMY nominations are here -- and one of rap's biggest names didn't make the list. While Cardi B scored five nods -- including major nominations in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories -- Nicki Minaj was entirely shut out of the music awards show, save for a guest appearance on Post Malone's heavily nominated Beerbongs & Bentleys. Cardi, meanwhile, will likely be front row at the February awards show, waiting to see if her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, and Bad Bunny/J Balvin collab, "I Like It," will win the night's big awards. The 26-year-old rapper was also nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," and Best Rap Performance for "Be Careful." The feud between the rap queens has been well-documented. After a (click here) physical altercation at a New York Fashion Week party in September, Cardi and Nicki traded barbs on social media and beyond -- wi...

Update:: ’Femi Asu Axxela Limited, a Nigerian gas and power portfolio company, has signed a Gas Transportation Agreement with the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited to transport over 15 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas via the West African Gas Pipeline to Lome, Togo. The Chief Executive Officer, Axxela, Bolaji Osunsanya, was quoted as saying at the signing ceremony in Accra, Ghana, “The partnership between Axxela, WAPCo, and the West African Gas Pipeline Authority, portends major benefits for the West African gas markets.” He said, according to a statement, that the flow of new molecules beyond the existing foundation contracts would diversify gas supply sources into the WAGP. Osunsanya, who affirmed Axxela’s mid-term growth plan, said, “Propelled by our professionalism, strategic partnerships, and excellence across our business enterprise, we remain firmly committed to the positioning of gas as a catalyst for socio-economic empowerment across the ...