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After one year, Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno in dousing fire acceded to rotation of the position of President-General of the Supreme Council of Traditional Rulers among the three major tribal groups in the state. The newly amended Traditional Rulers Council Law (2024) was ratified by the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly on Friday, 20 September, 2024, authorising the President-General to remain in office for four years. The Governor maintained his stoic stance by swearing in the Oku Ibom Ibibio and President-General of the Supreme Council of Akwa Ibom State Traditional Rulers, Ntenyin Solomon Etuk, CFR on September 23, 2023,…

It was an ecstatic moment for winners of 150 houses with two-bedroom flat during a raffle draw held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Sunday evening. The winners mainly civil servants drawn from the cadre of Grade Level 01-08 could not control their emotions as they become proud owners of houses during Grace Housing Estate Promo, courtesy of the Governor Umo Eno administration. Straightnews gathered that 554 workers in the junior category obtained the ticket and entered for the draw, but 150 emerged house owners through the process. Speaking at the occasion held at Fairmore Event Centre, Uyo, Governor Eno reiterated…

After apprehensions by different political parties in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the keenly contested Saturday 21, 2024 governorship election in the South-South state. Okpebholo, 54, secured 291,667 votes to defeat Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 247,274 votes and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP) who came a distant third in the race with 22,763 votes. Fourteen other candidates contested the seat but got less than the three frontline candidates. “That Okpebholo Monday of APC having satisfied…

Ahead of the October 5 local government elections in Akwa Ibom, Governor Umo Eno said that Peoples Democratic Party would win the elections. Governor Eno spoke this at a special interdenominational thanksgiving service, themed, Peace Within Thy Walls and Prosperity Within Thy Palaces to mark the 37th anniversary of Akwa Ibom State creation and Nigeria’s 64th independence anniversary, at the International Worship Centre, Uyo. Though 12 political parties have been cleared, Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state show muscle and nerve to grab more seats during the elections. So far, PDP has fielded 31 chairmanship…

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has lost his local government to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday Okpebholo, in the September 21, 2024 governorship election in the state. Obaseki, who hails from the Oredo Local Government Area, solidly supported the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Asue Ighodalo, in Saturday’s poll. According to results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, the APC secured 30,780 votes, the PDP got 24,938 and the Labour Party’s Olumide Akpata clinched 5,389 votes. On Saturday, September 21, 2024, the people of Edo State in South-South Nigeria voted to…

By Aniefiok Christopher  Journalists in Akwa Ibom have concluded a one-day stakeholders summit with resolutions and recommendations to enhance a stronger relationship between the media community, government, public and private organizations in the state. Among other dignitaries at the stakeholders summit held at the NUJ Press Centre, Information Drive, Uyo were the State Commissioner for Information, Comrade Ini Ememobong, the Honourary Media Consultant to Governor Umo Eno, Hon. Aniekan Umanah and the State Chairman of the NUJ, Comrade Amos Etuk. The Chairman of the occasion, Comrade Israel Umoh in his opening remarks, said participants at the event were selected as…

By Agency Report Daniel Dubois dashed Anthony Joshua’s hope to  retain his IBF world heavyweight title in a fifth-round in an all-British spectacular at Wembley on Saturday. The 27-year-old dominated the opening stages of the bout against the two-time former unified heavyweight champion and Joshua had no answer to his relentless power. After being floored repeatedly, Joshua said, “I live for moments like this.” Related news How Anthony Joshua Lost N1.4b After Oleksandr Usyk’s Defeat Again, Anthony Joshua loses heavyweight belts Anthony Joshua Retains World Heavyweight Title After Thrashing Kubrat Pulev Joshua could barely stand by the end of the…

Public servants in Akwa Ibom State may soon enjoy the N70,000 new National Minimum Wage as soon as Federal Government releases modalities, Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno has assured. Eno stated this on Saturday during a MediaChat with reporters, editors and publishers at Banquet Hall in Uyo as part of the events to mark the Akwa Ibom 37th creation anniversary. President Bola Tinubu signed the minimum wage bill into law, ending months of deliberations between government authorities, and Organised Labour. Tinubu signed it at the State House in Abuja on Monday,  July 29, 2024 days after the National Assembly National had…

Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno said he would soon dissolve the State Executive Council and boards of parastatals and agencies to rejig them. Eno  announced this on Saturday during a MediaChat at Banquet Hall in Uyo with reporters, editors and publishers as part of the events to mark the Akwa Ibom 37th creation anniversary. Before his election as governor, Mr Eno was commissioner of Lands and Water Resources in the administration of his predecessor, Udom Emmanuel. Mr Eno inherited 100 per cent of the cabinet members as well as boards and agencies and parastatals of the former administration, but appointed…

A member representing Ikot Ekpene/Essien Udim/Obot Akara Federal Constituency, Hon. Patrick Umoh, has sponsored the highest quality of bills on Constitutional amendment in the first legislative year of the 10th assembly of the House of Representatives, according to FACTSHEET. In its May 2024 publication, the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, a Non-Governmental Organisation working on legislative strengthening, elections and Civil Society Organisations engagement, in collaboration with the House of Representatives, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, (formerly Department for International Development, DFID), listed Hon. Umoh as ranking highest in Bills on Constitutional amendment. Some of the…