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Anambra State Governor’s wife, Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano and members of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), have condemned the inhuman treatment meted to a widow in the state. The unidentified woman, an indigene of Aguleri in Anambra East Local Government Area, was on Saturday paraded naked by some indigenes, after her husband allegedly collapsed and died, during sex romp with her. In a video which trended on Saturday, she had been accused of killing her husband with overdosed sex, and was walked round the community unclad. Read also: Two to die for murder of commercial s3x worker in Anambra The…

The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Akwa Ibom State Wing has ordered teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the state to proceed on an indefinite strike action. A press release dated March 13, 2022 and signed by NUT Senior State Secretary in the state , Comrade Victor O. Amirize, directed the teachers to go on strike with effect from midnight Tuesday, March 15, 2022. A copy of the letter made available to Straightnews shows that the union has made a nine-point demand. Read also: Akwa Ibom NUT Boss Berates Govts’ Attitude To Public Education The union said the action…

A 38-year-old hunter from Akwa Ibom State has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegal possession of firearms. Edet Akpan George, married with eight children, was convicted Friday by Ibiono Ibom High Court in the state. Presided by Justice Okon Okon, the court found the hunter guilty of being in possession of firearms, contrary to Section 3(1) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act, Laws of the Federation, 2004. Read also: Akwa Ibom Court sentences 36-year-old to Death for Robbery Court jails 60-year-old fraudster three years for impersonation Illegal detention: Court orders FG to pay Nnamdi Kanu…

Senator Sandy Onor has criticised Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, for dragging Cross River State into his rift with the Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Wike.  Onor representing Cross River Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly said in an interview on Monday that Obaseki was being economical with the truth and displayed ignorance when he accused Wike of being responsible for the exit of the Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade, from the PDP. Obaseki and his Rivers State counterpart, Wike, both of the Peoples Democratic Party, are currently at daggers drawn over purported verbal attacks on the…

A 300-level student of the University of Jos at the weekend committed suicide over the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) nationwide. The aggrieved teachers had on February 14, 2022 declared a one-month warning strike in protest against the government’s failure to meet their demands. The deceased, Henry Ehis, of the Department of Actuarial Science of the Faculty of Management Science, of the University, was found dead last week at the Faculty. Read also:  Academic activities to suffer as ASUU embarks on a month’s warning strike Nigerian Universities’ Lecturers may go on strike- ASUU…

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Akwa Ibom Executive Council will witness more deplete following exit of two Commissioners from the council. Investigation by Straightnews shows that in a few days from now, other members of the state executive council will tender their resignation letters. Since the adoption of Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, the Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources as the preferred choice of Governor Udom Emmanuel, the state executive council has remained shaky because the EXCO members belong to different political camps. Read also: Exclusive: Outgone A’Ibom Commissioners Still Hold Fort In Ministries Exclusive: AKSG May Dissolve State…

Two groups, Mandate Eyes and Akwa Ibom Integrity Alliance, have described as fallacious the notion of micro- zoning governorship position to a particular local government area in Akwa Ibom State. In a joint press conference at the weekend by the leaders, Dr. Uwemedimo Umana, Director of Public and Strategic Communications, Mandate Eyes and Stephen Abia and Faith Mbowo of Akwa Ibom Integrity Alliance, maintained that governorship race is opened to everyone in all the local government areas in Uyo Senatorial District of the state. ”Against the fallacious arguments put forward by certain persons believed to be supporters of the Uyo…

The Federal Government has succeeded in quietly removing subsidy on electricity tariff, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said. Ahmed who spoke at a meeting of African Finance Ministers and the International Monetary Fund noted while petrol subsidy is the next target, it has been hindered by COVID-19 and forthcoming elections. She further revealed that petrol subsidy has remained a huge problem for the government, and the rise in global oil prices would worsen the issue. The Minister said, “We are cleaning up our subsidies. We had a setback; we were to remove fuel subsidy…

The Mayor of the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, has been abducted by Russian soldiers after invading the city, Ukrainian military officials said Saturday. In a statement confirming the abduction of the Mayor, Anton Heraschenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, said 10 Russian soldiers entered the premises of Melitopol’s crisis centre on Thursday, put a bag over Fedorov’s head and took him to an unknown location. President Volodymyr Zelensky, who also confirmed the incident while condemning the abduction of Fedorov, wrote on Twitter. “A group of 10 occupiers kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. He refused…

The Secretary of its Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Senator John Akpanudoedehe, has not resigned his position, All Progressives Congress (APC) declared. In a statement on Saturday in Abuja, APC Director of Publicity, Salisu Dambatta, said that neither has Akpanudoedehe tendered his resignation nor was he sacked from the position. “Further to the media conference earlier held by the spokesman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Barrister Ismaeel Ahmed, the party wishes to note that the Secretary of the CECPC, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, never sent a resignation letter to the party to the best of its knowledge…