•Police There is an atmosphere of fear in Akwa Ibom State as hoodlums last night beheaded a police inspector identified simply as Osang. Our correspondent gathered that the victim was attacked by over 10 assailants at his private residence around Enen Afaha and Afaha Ube, a suburb within Uyo metropolis. An eyewitness said that there […]...
Akwa Ibom State Government has debunked an employment alert into the State Civil Service Commision, CSC, and the State Secondary Education Board, SSEB, making rounds on some sections of social media. The government says emphatically that the employment alert is fake and the handiwork of fraudsters. This was contained in a statement issued toda...
•Police Police operatives in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a 10-man suspected kidnapping gang in a forest raid along the Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area. Acting on a tip from local intelligence, the police operatives were said to have raided a forest in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, close to Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, […]
•Eno and Keyamo ANIETIE USEN, Uyo reporting For three hours yesterday Tuesday, January 16, 2024, Government House, Uyo, practically relocated to the Victor Attah International Airport to host the Minister for Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, who was on a one-day working visit to Akwa Ibom State. A surprised Keyamo to...
•Prison The Controller, Nigeria Correctional Service, Akwa Ibom Command, Mr Julius Ezugwu, said that about 2,413 out of 2,854 inmates were awaiting trials in the four correctional facilities across the state. Ezugwu said this at a one-day capacity-building workshop for the Akwa Ibom State Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee...
Two students of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, have been crushed to death. It was gathered that the incident happened yesterday, few metres away from the school’s premises, near Ikot Inyang village junction, along Aba Road in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area. It was learnt that the truck driver lost control of the vehicle […...
By the Rivers of Uta Ewa, in Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom State, there we sat down to remember our fatherland, our homeland. It was December 23, 2023, the onset of harmattan haze. The riverside was gloomy, a perfect picture of Nigeria. The currents were strong and tended to change direction suddenly, a perfect picture […]
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a High Court judge, Justice Joy Unwana, and her driver in the Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that her police orderly was killed during the incident which occurred yesterday along the Uyo-Okobo road which leads to Oron town, reports The Nation. […]
•Ekere Ebong in handcuffs The Akwa Ibom Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a lawyer identified as Ekere Ebong, who was captured in a viral video brutalising his wife in Uyo, the state capital. Ebong was seen in the video which went viral on social media beating up his wife at their Uyo residence […]
The atmosphere was electric. The trigger was the majestic entrance of the multimillion dollar, brand new Ibom Air Airbus into the sprawling frontage of the imposing aircraft workshop known as Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul, MRO, facility. This was in Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State, December 8, 2023, at the Victor Attah International Airport...
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