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*What will President Buhari tell Akwa Ibom people?* By Edidiong Udobia In the build up to the 2015 elections, I wrote an article wherein I asked, “what will President Goodluck Jonathan tell Akwa Ibom people?”. The article was premise on the fact that after over 4 years, Akwa Ibom had nothing tangible to show for the overwhelming support she gave to the Goodluck Jonathan administration. So, in looking into a very near future, I wondered what exactly the then president will tell the people of Akwa Ibom when he comes to seek our support for his reelection. True to my fears, when he visited the state to campaign, Goodluck Jonathan admitted that he did not do anything for Akwa Ibom and pleaded for forgiveness. History always has a way of repeating itself. I recalled that it was at the Nest of Champions that the former president was hosted during his reelection campaign in the state. Tomorrow, Friday, 28 December, 2018, President Buhari will be visiting the state to flag-off is...

FLAGOFF OF APC CAMPAIGN IN UYO: WILL AKS BOO MR PRESIDENT? President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, President and CinC of the armed forces federal Republic of Nigeria visits Akwa Ibom State on 28th December 2018 to flagoff his campaign for second term in office. Ordinarily this should have been seen as an honor to the state but rather it seems curious. To begin with no one I have interviewed could remember anytime Mr. President visited Akwa Ibom for any reason during his first 3 and half years in office. The only time the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo visited was to commission the Syringe Factory at Onna, an initiative of the Udom’s administration. No one could point at any item or developmental project or any structure for that matter in the state today which represents the President’s interest in the state. More curious is when you consider that both the Minister for Budget Sen Udo Udoma (who oversees every project budgeted for in the country), the SA to the President...

*Christmas: May Those Who Threatened ‘Warsaw’ In A’Ibom Be Put To Shame – Gov Emmanuel * Uyo – Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has called on God to put to shame all those who have made elaborate plans to convert the state to a theatre of violence ahead of, and during the 2019 general elections. Governor Emmanuel said the people of Akwa Ibom State who have collectively enjoyed peace in the State during the past three and half years are only interested in rising to the faith of their greatness and those of their children, by promoting peace. In his Christmas broadcast message to the people of Akwa Ibom State on Tuesday, Emmanuel said: “As we celebrate Christmas, the birth of the Prince of Peace, my prayer is that may those who wish to unleash terror on our people, may those who have made elaborate plans to allow our State become a theatre of violence as in ‘Warsaw saw war’ be put to shame by the collective will of our people who...

BREAKING: AKWA IBOM SPORTS FESTIVAL DISCOVERY BREAKS RECORD AT NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL Teenage discovery at the Second Edition of the Akwa Ibom Youth Sports Festival, Imaobong Nse has won gold in the women's 400m final at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Abuja. Imaobong Nse, a 14 year old JSS1 Student who represented Ibeno LGA in the last edition of the Akwa Ibom Youth Sports Festival defeated her older rivals in 52:35 secs to clinch gold. Udo's impressive performance sent the entire stadium into sparks, as a anonymous philanthropist quickly announced a donation of One Hundred Thousand Naira and a pair of Spike shoes to the athlete. Governor Udom Emmanuel kickstarted the Akwa Ibom Youth Sports Festival in 2016 to serve as a springboard for young boys and girls of school age to excel in the field of sports. Imabong Nse's gold increases Team Akwa Ibom's medal haul to  21 gold medals. © Aniekeme Finbarr

Red Card over fraudulent Acts: Ogoni, Other Niger Delta communities and Contractors order for immediate resignation of MD, Nsima Ekere  By Umani Uwemedimo The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC has been labelled an incapacitated commission by community leaders under the leadership of the APC Gubernatorial Candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Nsima Ekere who's been accused of running the Commission as his Personal Automated Money Dispensing Machine, ATM.  The Ogoni community youths in a peaceful demonstration earlier today matched en-masse to the Commission's headquarters in Port Harcourt, clamouring for the immediate resignation of Nsima Ekere of APC as the MD of the Commission.  The reason behind this drastic decision by the youths of Ogoni, is that several contracts which were awarded for some internal roads to be rehabilitated, thereby rescuing them from complete collapsed, were abandoned upon excavation hence, making the state's of those roads more deteriorating th...

Former APC members in Akwa Ibom allege threat to lives Some of the former members of the All Progressives Congress who dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday have raised the alarm over alleged threat to their lives. The former APC members led by Mr Joseph Amah, made the allegation at a press conference on Tuesday, in Uyo, the state capital. Amah claimed that they were molested by hoodlums suspected to have been sponsored by the APC while returning home from the rally where they announced their defection. He said a vehicle belonging to a former chapter chairman of Nsit Atai was vandalised while his colleagues from Ibesikpo Asutan, Eket, Ikot Ekpene and other former APC chiefs were harassed. He said, “Our members came out and celebrated their freedom from political oppression and unending impunity as being practised in the APC. “Thereafter, as our people were heading home to share the good news of redemption with their kith and kin, they were moles...

METHODIST ARCHBISHOP STOPS AKPABIO FROM CAMPAIGNING FOR NSIMA EKERE IN CHURCH Most Rev. Sunday B. Uko, Archbishop of the church, Ikot Ekpene on Sunday cautioned Senator Godswill Akpabio and wife, Unoma for making political comments at Methodist Church Nigeria, Ukana Ikot Ntuen in Essien Udim local government area of Akwa Ibom State. The Akpabios who spoke during the presentation of Sir Etekamba Umoren as the new Lay President of Methodist Church Nigeria, Essien Udim Diocese, attempted to canvass support for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and Nsima Ekere, All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate during the forthcoming general elections. However, Most Rev. Sunday B. Uko, Archbishop of the church, Ikot Ekpene rose from his seat and stopped them  from further making the political comments in the church, saying “You cannot use the church as a platform for political campaign. Many members of this church belong to different political parties. You cann...

*2019: DEAL DONATES CAMPAIGN MATERIALS TO DIVINE MANDATE* *…RALLYS SUPPORT FOR UDOM EMMANUEL* _By Umoh-Obong Kingsley_ A socio-economic and political advocacy group in Akwa Ibom State, Dakkada Entrepreneurs Ambassadors League (DEAL), has provided over 5,000 units of various materials specially branded for campaign in support of the second term bid of Governor Udom Emmanuel come 2019. In a partnership and consultation visit on Wednesday to the Divine Mandate Organisation headquarters, DEAL presented the campaign materials including branded utility vehicle, air fresheners, bathing and washing soaps, tissue papers, hair and body creams among other made-in-Akwa Ibom products, to the Divine Mandate Campaign organization for use durinf the campaigns. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Marketing and Brand Management, Hon. Sam Edoho, who is the Chairman of the group, noted that DEAL has gone round the state up to unit levels to recruit members towards ensuring that Gov U...

EXCLUSIVE! AKPABIO’S WARSAW ONSLAUGHT ON JOURNALISTS CLAIMS ANOTHER CASUALTY  …AS POLICE REMANDS UTITOFON MORGAN ON FALSE CHARGES, TARGETS MORE JOURNALISTS MEDIA COMMUNITY, COMMUNICATION LECTURER SPIT ON AKPABIO OVER ARREST   By Victoria Ekere, Uyo | December 3, 2018   A seething anger is growing by the second within the media community in Akwa Ibom State following the arrest and detention of popular blogger Utitofon Morgan of the Sittipe fame on the orders of the Senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District Mr Godswill Akpabio as part of his continuous onslaught on media practitioners in the state. Investigations by DailyMail Newspaper reveal that Akpabio’s order for the arrest and detention of Mr Utitofon Morgan is misdirected as the story which the popular blogger is persecuted for captioned “CBN probes Akpabio’s N865b unrecorded deposits in 3 banks” was published by a certain online Newspaper known as ...