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Akwa Ibom outgoing governor, Udom Emmanuel has bidden members of the 22-member State Executive Council goodbye. Emmanuel, who presided over the EXCO meeting was held at State Executive Council chambers, Governor’s Office, Uyo, ruled the state from May 29, 2015 to May 29, 2023. Though the governor did not openly pronounce dissolution of the EXCO, public analysts and administrators viewed Friday’s EXCO meeting as Valedictory service to cabinet members of the Emmanuel administration. A press release issued by Comrade Ini Ememobong, Akwa Ibom outgoing Commissioner for Information and Strategy, said the meeting commenced at 9 a.m. with the swearing in…

The Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at the Victor Attah International Airport, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital has a capacity to process 1.5 million passengers annually in a 12- hour daily work shift and three million in a 24-hour shift. Though Obong Victor Attah initiated Akwa Ibom International Airport when he was governor from 1999 to 2007, Chief now Senator Godswill Akpabio, governor from 2007 to 2015 built the airport and landed the first aircraft at the airport on September 23, 2009. As Arik’s B737-800 aircraft with registration 5N-MJO  landed on the runway of the airport, Obong Attah and…

Hundreds of Catholics have flocked to Missouri to view the exhumed body of a nun who died at 95 in May 2019, the Catholic News Agency reported. In what is described as a “miracle in Missouri,” the corpse of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles, was discovered intact with no signs of decomposition. On close inspection of the simple wooden coffin she had been buried in, a crack was found, leading to the discovery that Sister Lancaster’s body was still very much intact, prompting a huge outpouring of worship from Catholics locally…

Emem Nkereuwem For the past months, I have spent time reminiscing over the state of our country, the nature of our political space and the peculiarity of the actors in the space. My focus anchors on the eternal lessons of Easter.  The symbolism of Easter is a great illumination to humanity as it provides an opportunity for spiritual rejuvenation and self-appraisal. To wit, the profound lessons of the sacrifice, the silent suffering, death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most humbling reflections of our salvation. The sobriety of Easter is sublime and remains timeless. Consequently for…

The untimely death of a Senior Secondary School student in Akwa Ibom State has pitched the school authority against the parents. Until her demise, Edima Ini Umoh was a SS 3 student of Full Life Academy, Uyo, Akwa Ibom. Since her death, her parents and the school authority are having frosty relationship. On its part, the school management believes the mother of the deceased has a lot of questions to answer. The Principal of Full Life Academy, Pastor Aniefonteabasi Victor- Williams, said everything happened in a flash as no one had the premonition of her death. She said the deceased…

The Supreme Court has dismissed the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to void the joint ticket of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima as presidential and vice presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 election. The PDP had claimed that Shettma violated the Electoral Act, 2022 by allowing himself to be nominated twice for two different offices – Borno Central Senatorial district and Vice President. Also read:  Supreme Court rules on PDP’s Suit Against Tinubu, Shettima May 26 In a judgment on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court,…

The driver of the deceased Femi Ebeoluwa, a former Ogun State Permanent Secretary  and his wife, Funmi has stated reason their gang murdered the couple at their residence at Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State. The suspects – Adeyemo Wale and one Kingsley- who were recently arrested for the murder of the couple confessed that they killed them because they recognised him during operation. Wale said the operation went awry when he was identified by the family and he decided to wipe out the family and their female domestic staff, regretting that while the house help survived the attack, the couple…

Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has rolled out seven new laws to provide regulatory environment to achieving efficiency, predictability, clarity and effectiveness in the country’s oil and gas industry.  This brings to 12 the number of regulations so far issued by the Commission in line with its  mandate as prescribed in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), 2021. The Commission’s Chief Executive, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe issued the new regulations at a ceremony witnessed by the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Dr Orji Ogonnaya Orji, at the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja on Thursday. Also read:  NUPRC Approves…

Some Nigerians have berated the outgoing Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, for telling President Muhammadu Buhari that appointment of a Minister of State is an aberration in the Federal cabinet, calling for its abolition. Keyamo stated this in his speech at the valedictory session presided over by President Buhari to mark the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), under Buhari administration, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. From 2015 to 2023, Keyamo had served as Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs before he was redeployed as Minister of State for…

A father of three deceased children has begged police in Lagos State to grant him permission to convey their corpses home for burial in his hometown in Ebonyi State. One Osondu from Izii in Ebonyi State is the father of the children- Uche (three), Marvelous (five) and Lazarus (eight)- said to be playing inside the compound when they entered the jeep and suffocated were seen dead inside their landlord’s Toyota RAV4 in the Imota area of Ikorodu, Lagos State . A witness said the children were playing with their cousin, Blessing (11), around 11 a.m. on Tuesday inside the compound…