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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
BY NDON ASIAN The Akwa Ibom State Government found itself at a cross road in the ongoing trial of Dr. Ime Sampson Umanah as Hon. Justice Ifiok Ukana ruled to reject the statement of the first accused person in the trial within trial. This is the second time that the same statement has been ruled […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
By Bassey Ukpe AKPABIO’S MONEY HOLDER ON THE RUN The alleged custodian of the overseas assets of Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has taken off. The guy named Kola Aluko, is on the run from the law over several controversial and fraudulent dealings in the petroleum industry. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
By Thompson Essien Breaking News!!! Godswill Akpabio Orders the Arrest of a Journalist—Mr. Thomas Thomas Mr. Thomas Thomas is the editor of a front line newspaper in Akwa Ibom State known as the Global Concord. The newspaper is one of the few in Akwa Ibom State that stands for truth without accepting brown envelopes from […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Monday, June 16th, 2014
The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Sunday arrested 63 persons, suspected to be members of ‘Black Axe,’ a cult group. DSP Etim Dickson, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, announced this while briefing newsmen in Uyo. He said that the suspected cult members were arrested during their initiation at Effoi village forest, near Eket. The […]
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Akwa Ibom, Columnists, Ikpafak Thompson Essien, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

By Ikpafak Thompson Essien – Portland, Oregon, USA | May 27, 2014 – Shortly after Godswill Akpabio was sworn in as the governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2007, his first official performance was to harass journalists. He hated and had a high disdain for any journalist who reported the truth, the type of truth […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
Dear Sir, It is unfortunate that the writer is ascribing the action of perhaps one person or a few persons to an entire state and hiding under that cover to launch an attack on the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio. Or how else do I describe a report on the so-called child […]
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Abia, Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Monday, February 24th, 2014
ay, February 24, 2014 Re: Go to Akwa Ibom, weep for Abia State! (1) advertisement Ebere€ €¬Wabara,ewabara@yahoo.com€ €¬ 08055001948 This column will today and next week, hopefully, publish some of the rejoinders to my article last week. Please, fresh reactions may not be published subsequently because of unaddressed […]
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Abia, Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, February 16th, 2014
2 Comments » Ebere Wabara, ewabara@yahoo.com ,08055001948 The governors of Akwa Ibom and Abia states, Godswill Obot Akpabio and Theodore Orji, respectively, are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), both states border each other and are oil-producing entities. Indigenes of the two sub-nationalities inter-marry and some of their communities have cultural and language affinities! I […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
Contrary to allegations in some quarters that the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, is nursing an ambition to become president or vice-president of the country in 2015, the state government has stated that there was no iota of truth in the allegations, describing them as an “invidious campaign of calumny and blackmail.” […]
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Akwa Ibom, Edo, Headlines, State News
Saturday, December 28th, 2013
By SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY It was quite sad and a pathetic end for Mr Victor Nsongbunyo, an indigene of Akwa Ibom state and Deputy Manager at the Nigeria Petroleum Development (NPDC) Company, Benin City. The deceased allegedly murdered by his wife Mrs Enebong Victor and her Pastor boy friend, Prince Udoka Nkanchukwu who were […]