Patrick Odey
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A’Ibom group writes NOSDRA over fresh oil spill, demands clean up
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A'Ibom recorded four mpox cases in eight months - Official
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NSCDC nabs illegal miners, vandals in Akwa Ibom
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A' Ibom First Lady rehabilitates widow who fed kids with poultry feeds
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Youths clamouring for coup didn’t experience military rule – COAS
Police kill notorious A'Ibom kidnap kingpin
Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have neutralised a notorious kidnapping kingpin and leader of the Bling Bling Marine Strike Force, one Ubong Effiong Archibong, alias ‘Condiment....
29th August 2024
A’Ibom group writes NOSDRA over fresh oil spill, demands clean up
A group, the Akwa Ibom Oil Producing Community Development Network has called on the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, to heed the call by stakeholders of the coastal communities affec...
29th August 2024
A'Ibom recorded four mpox cases in eight months - Official
Akwa Ibom State has so far recorded four confirmed cases of monkey pox between January and August 2024. This was disclosed by the Disease Surveillance and Notification Officer in the State Ministry of...
28th August 2024
NSCDC nabs illegal miners, vandals in Akwa Ibom
The Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom State Command have arrested two suspects for criminal conspiracy, illegal mining and conveyance of solid minerals suspected to...
28th August 2024
A' Ibom First Lady rehabilitates widow who fed kids with poultry feeds
Wife of the Akwa Ibom State governor, Mrs Patience Umo Eno, has rehabilitated Grace Emmanuel, the 22-year-old widow who fed her four kids with chicken and fish feeds from the poultry farm she works, i...
28th August 2024
Youths clamouring for coup didn’t experience military rule – COAS
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday, restated that the military would not allow itself to be used by some interest groups to truncate democratic governance in the country. La...
28th August 2024
COAS vows army will defend democracy
The Nigerian Army has vowed not to allow itself to be used by certain interest groups to undermine democratic governance in the country. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, stated this in...
27th August 2024
Six nabbed as police raid criminal hideout in Akwa Ibom
Six suspected cultists and drug dealers were nabbed when operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command raided a criminal hideout at the Afaha Offiong community in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of...
27th August 2024
Group resolves PIA crisis in A’Ibom communities
A non-governmental organisation under the auspices of the Initiative for Africa Society Inclusion and Diversity with support from the MacArthur Foundation, said it had resolved the lingering issues mi...
25th August 2024
#EndBadGovernance protest achieved nothing, says A'Ibom lone protester
A lone protester in Akwa Ibom State, Mr David Ubaha, has decried the high costs of living in the country, saying that things are getting worse even after the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest. PUNC...
24th August 2024
Ibom Power gives reasons for prolonged power cut in Akwa Ibom
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ibom Power company in Akwa Ibom State, Meyen Etukudo, has stated that the prolonged power outage in the state is due to lack of gas supply and the ...
23rd August 2024
A’Ibom CJ frees 44 inmates
The Chief Judge Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaete Obot, has ordered the release of 44 inmates, including two females, across the correctional facilities in the three senatorial districts of the...
23rd August 2024
A'Ibom CJ frees man accused of stealing mother's cooking pot, 43 other inmates
The Chief Justice of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaete Obot, has ordered the release of 44 inmates, including two females, across the correctional facilities in the three senatorial districts of the sta...
22nd August 2024
NDV gives PAP 21-day ultimatum on alleged injustice against A’Ibom ex-agitators
The Niger Delta Volunteers has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Presidential Amnesty Programme to address injustices allegedly meted out to repentant militants in Akwa Ibom State. This was contained i...
22nd August 2024
A’Ibom buys new aircraft, plans aviation village
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, on Tuesday officially received the new Airbus A220-300 aircraft for the Ibom Air. This was as he announced plans for an Aviation Village near the Victor Attah In...
21st August 2024
Mobil not responsible for A’Ibom oil spill – Manager
Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited has disassociated itself from Thursday’s oil spill in the Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Over 27 coastal communities were said to have been badly a...
21st August 2024
ExxonMobil denies fresh oil spill claim in A'Ibom
Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited has disassociated itself from last Thursday’s fresh oil spill, which occurred in the Ibeno Local Government Area of the State. Over 27 coastal communities were ...
20th August 2024
A’Ibom youths protest fresh oil spill, barricade ExxonMobil gates
Youths drawn from Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on Monday barricaded ExxonMobil gates in Ibeno to protest a fresh oil spill which polluted the water bodies of the affected communities...
20th August 2024
Army detonates unserviceable explosives in A’Ibom
The Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion Ibagwa, Akwa Ibom State, on Monday, asked residents of the Abak Local Government Area of the state to stay off the designated area for the demolition of unserviceable or...
20th August 2024
Army demolishes unserviceable ammunition in Akwa Ibom
The Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion Ibagwa, has urged residents of Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State not to panic as it has commenced the demolition of unserviceable ammunition and explosives a...
19th August 2024
A’Ibom communities lament as fresh oil spill pollutes water bodies
More than 27 coastal communities of Akwa Ibom State have been thrown into mourning and panic following a fresh oil spill allegedly by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited Offshore facility which occurred...
19th August 2024
NSCDC denies shooting Akwa Ibom community residents
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom State Command, has faulted the allegations that its operatives attacked Atan Offot community in Uyo Local Government Area of the state and shot ...
17th August 2024
Police officers beg IG over unpaid salary arrears
Police officers under the auspices of Concerned Police Inspectors in Nigeria on Thursday visited the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, along Asutan Street, Uyo the Akwa Ibom St...
15th August 2024
A'Ibom CJ calls for judicial training to improve tax case handling
The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Obot, has emphasised the need for continuous training and retraining of judges and magistrates to ensure the effective handling of tax-related matte...
15th August 2024
A’Ibom NGO purifies water with Alkaforce
A non-governmental organisation, based in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, Life Savers Foundation, has revealed how it has saved over 100,000 people with life-threatening diseases through its right q...
15th August 2024
Ibom Air denies ticket racketeering, corruption allegations
Akwa-Ibom State-owned airline, Ibom Air, has described as unfounded and baseless allegations of ticket racketeering at its Port Harcourt station. It said that it operates under strict ethical standard...
12th August 2024
PDP elects new leaders in Akwa Ibom LGs
The Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State, on Saturday, elected its executive committee members to pilot the affairs of the party for a four-year tenure at the local government level across the ...
11th August 2024
Akwa Ibom varsity student bags American society's award
A final year student in the Department of Science Education, Akwa Ibom State University, Ikot Akpaden, in Mkpat-Enin Local Government Area of the state, Miss Erifon Ukpe, has bagged an award of commen...
10th August 2024
A’Ibom pensioners demand govt palliative
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Akwa Ibom State chapter, has appealed to Governor Umo Eno to include members in the list of beneficiaries of government palliative packages and the living minimum pens...
9th August 2024
Ibibio group urges Tinubu to cut governance cost by implementing Oronsanye report
A socio-cultural organisation of Bio ethnic nationality in Akwa Ibon State, Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to drastically reduce his over-bloated Federal Executive Counc...
8th August 2024
PSN hails Tinubu's order on zero tariffs for pharmaceutical materials
The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Prof Cyril Usifoh, has hailed President Bola Tinubu on the Presidential Order on Zero Tariffs for pharmaceutical raw materials, equipment and other es...
5th August 2024