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Liverpool roared back to their best to register their first Premier League win of the season at the fourth attempt, dismantling Bournemouth 9-0 at Anfield. A match that many predicted would be one-sided, no-one could have foreseen the first-half flurry of goals that Liverpool notched, with the highlight being a rocket from range off the right boot of Trent Alexander-Arnold. Luis Diaz opened the scoring after only three minutes, nodding home a Roberto Firmino cross past the helpless Mark Travers, and youngster Harvey Elliott curled a sumptuous shot beyond the scrambling visiting goalkeeper to double the Reds’ money three minutes…

National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has granted accreditation to programmes run by Trinity Polytechnic, Mbak/Ifa Road in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. This is as the Rector and Pioneer Registrar of the Polytechnic, Kingsley S. Udoibok, FCAI, has decried the proliferation of Polytechnics. A letter dated May 27, 2022, signed by the Director, Polytechnic Programme, Arc. Ngbede Ogoh for Executive Secretary and copied to Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Abuja announced approval of academic programmes. They include Accountancy, Business Administration/Management, Computer Eng. & Tech., Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Estate Management, and Science Laboratory Technology. Others Mass Communications, Public Administration…

Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio, a foremost socio-cultural organization in the country, has vowed to stop the contentious National Water Resources Bill from seeing the light of the day. ‘‘That working with other ethnic nationality groups in the Niger Delta region and sister coastal states, Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio will mobilise strong resistance to the Water Resources Bill and hopes that other patriotic Nigerians who desire the unity and cohesion of the country will lend their voices as well, as injury to one is injury to all,’’ Mboho said. Mboho decision was contained in a communiqué signed by Akparawa James Edet, the 11th…

Owing to continued detention of innocent persons in Correctional facilities, Inibehe Effiong, human rights lawyer, has advocated the re-examination of Criminal Justice in Akwa Ibom and in Nigeria. Effiong who was freed after spending 30 days in Uyo Custodial Service Centre told journalists that while in the centre, he facilitated release of 17 prison inmates who could not secure their bonds. Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge, Justice Ekaete Obot, sent the human rights lawyer to imprisonment for allegedly committing ‘contempt’ of court on July 27. ‘‘So, the remaining 17, I am hopeful that before the end of today they will…

Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel and Senator Akon Eyakenyi have greeted Dr. Sunday Mbang on his 86th birthday for his contributions in fostering religious harmony and unity among Nigerians.   The Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr. Mbang, (CON) who turned 86 Friday. Governor Emmanuel said “the State and the nation have been blessed by your huge contributions in fostering inter- religious  harmony, unity, peaceful coexistence and above all, the projection of our moral underpinnings. Read also Emmanuel tasks Pastors on selfless service as Church ordains four new Bishops Go, Renounce Cultism In The Press- Prelate Mbang…

In a two-part fan interview, Uwem Akpan’s novel, New York, My Village (Norton, Nov 2021 & Parresia Nigeria, March 2022) differs from other writers and mentions issues that led to Biafran now called Nigerian war. These and others form pillars of the compelling but down-to-earth interview. HIGHLIGHTS Half of a Yellow Sun vs New York, My Village How the Annangs at home and abroad are celebrating ‘New York, My Village’ How the one-sided Biafra narrative affected my seminary studies What my mother thinks of New York bedbugs Why the Senate must press on to impeach Buhari Why Nnamdi Kanu must be…

After spending 30 days in the correctional centre in Akwa Ibom State, Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has been released from Uyo prison for alleged contempt of court. The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Ekaete Obot, on July 27, sentenced Effiong to prison after the lawyer objected to the presence of two armed police operatives in the courtroom. The lawyer stepped out of the prison at around 8 a.m. to a waiting crowd of supporters around the prison premises. Read also Jailed Inibehe Effiong drags Akwa Ibom Chief Judge to Court ‘You don’t Teach me the Law from there’…

Ahead of the 2023 general election, former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo is said to be mobilising support for the election of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi. Obasanjo who is in London is said to have met with some Peoples Democratic Party Governors. Photos shared online showed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state attended the meeting with his allies including Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State; Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, among others. Read also Obasanjo Tells PDP leaders: ‘I can never return to the…

A total of N954.085 billion was shared by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) among the Federal, State Governments, and Local Government Councils in the country for July 2022 Federation Account Revenue.  This is contained in a communiqué issued by the Director (Information, Press and Public Relations), Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Henshaw Ogubike, at the end of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting held on Wednesday in Abuja. The N954.085 billion total distributable revenue comprised statutory revenue of N776.918  billion and Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N177.167 billion. Read also FAAC: FG, States, LGs Share N640…

The nabbed Director, Finance and Account of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Eno Ubi Otu, is being grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It was learnt that Otu was arrested by the detectives of the anti-graft agency at about 11:15am in relation to a case of alleged diversion of over N25 billion tax remittances. A source at the Commission said the NDDC official was still with the operatives as at 7:15pm when this report was filed. Read also NDDC: FG cancels Contracts, directs contractors to refund Mobilisation monies EFCC Nabs Ex-NDDC MD, Nsima…