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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wednesday, froze “all bank accounts” owned by Akwa Ibom State, the state commissioner for information and strategy has said. Charles Udoh said state authorities only learnt of the development today, and there were no prior indications from the anti-graft agency. Mr Udoh said more information would be provided to Nigerians about the development shortly. It came a day after Governor Samuel Ortom raised an alarm that the EFCC has frozen the state’s bank accounts, trapping workers and pensioners’ salaries in a state beset by hardship following months of deadly attacks by suspected herdsmen.…

Senator Godswill Akpabio has given reasons for his defection from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the country. Before he reeled out the reasons, Akpabio burst into a song inferring that the people should love God Almighty, love one another and share what they have with one another. Speaking Wednesday at Ikot Ekpene Sports Stadium, Akwa Ibom State, Akpabio attributed his defection to the need to proffer solution to insecurity particularly in Etim Ekpo, Ika and Ukanafun in Akwa Ibom as well as Boko Haram insurgency in the North East of the country that…

More than 30 Senators of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the National Assembly witnessed the defection of Senator Godswill O. Akpabio to the party. Led by Senator Ahmed Lawan, Majority Leader in the Senate, the Senators arrived at Ikot Ekpene Sports Stadium, Akwa Ibom State in a coaster bus to the warm embrace of Senator Akpabio who defected from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after 18 years. Lawan who spoke to a mammoth crowd Wednesday, August 8 said APC has lost many Senators to PDP and African Democratic Congress, ADC, yet there was no uproar as the defection of Senator Akpabio…

Confusion is trailing the exit of two commissioners from Akwa Ibom State Executive Council as the duo and the government sharply disagreed on the manner of exit. This is coming at the wake of the departure of Senator Godswill Akpabio from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to All Progressives Congress, APC. On Tuesday, August 7, Akwa Ibom government dropped Mr Ibanga Akpabio, Commissioner for Labour, Productivity and Manpower Development and Mr Victor Antai, Commissioner for Culture and Tourism. In announcement dated Tuesday, August 7 and signed by Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, the Secretary to State Government, the state government thanked them…

Operatives of the Inspector-General Police, IGP, Monitoring Unit and its Police Intelligence Unit, have burst criminal havens in Rivers State and arrested no fewer than 12 suspects terrorising parts of the state. The IGP team had invaded a hideout where a robbery gang operates in Aluu community, Ikwerre local government area of the state and arrested seven suspects. However, the Police Intelligence Unit had also arrested five robbery suspects following an attack on the property of the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority in Isiokpo in Ikwerre local government area of the state. Parading the suspects Tuesday, in…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has decried the apathy shown by the Federal Government to the university system amidst a myriad of issues bedeviling the nation’s polity. Addressing journalists, Tuesday, in Calabar, Cross River State at the end of the National Executive Meeting, NEC of the Union, its President, Mr. Biodun Ogunyemi said that they were angry with the current position of the Federal Government on education because it had shown less concern to the growth of the system. Ogunyemi said that the Federal Government was not interested in the growth and development of the education…

Vehicular movement on Oron-Ikot Ekpene Federal Road, Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State was brought to a snarl as Senator Godswill Akpabio stormed the state to firm up his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The jubilant crowd chanted his name as he returned pleasantries and cheers by coming out of his car and interacted with them. Akpabio had arrived at the Ibom International Airport, Uyo at noon and boarded his SUV amidst cheers from the various groups which thronged the airport to welcome him. The former Senate Minority Leader is billed to make official declaration Wednesday…

The out-gone Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Lawal Musa Daura, arrested by a combined team of the Police and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), is being detained at the SARS Headquarters, Abuja. The detention follows his sack by Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, the Acting President, for “breaching national security” particularly the siege on the National Assembly complex by operatives of DSS. A press release by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Acting President, on Tuesday, directed Daura to hand over to the most senior officer of the State Security Service…

The purported resignation of the four personal aides to Godswill Akpabio, the immediate past Senate Minority Leader and Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West in the National Assembly has been busted as media hype. On Sunday, social media and some media organisations including Naijanews published the story on a banner headline: Four Personal Aides To Senator Akpabio Resign, listing the aides as Barr. Utibe Nwoko, Senior Legislative Aide; Chief (Barr) Moses Akpan, Kufre Ini-ima and Prince Ukandu Ukpe. The media further reported that the aides have disassociated themselves from the planned defection of Akpabio to the All Progressives Congress, pledging…

All is set for the formal defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio to All Progressives Congress, APC, in colourful ceremony to be graced by Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the acting President in Ikot Ekpene on Wednesday, August 8. As Akwa Ibom people await the defection, more surprises are about to unfold the emerging political drama. In a deft move, some bigwigs of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state are expected to join the moving defection train. Straightnews can authoritatively report that one of them, Udom Ekpoudom, a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police is ready to join APC Wednesday. In a telephone…