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Two notorious robbery and rape suspects arrested by Akwa Ibom Police Command are to be arraigned before court of competent jurisdiction for trial. A press release by SP Odiko MacDon, Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer on Friday said police recovered firearms from the suspects. MacDon said, ”On 11/5/2022, one Godfirst Edet Bassey ‘m’ was arrested in connection with Rape/Armed Robbery at Mbo LGA. The suspect blocked one Effiong Mfon ‘m’ while returning from Ibaka to his residence, hit him on the eye with a gun and collected the sum of Thirty Thousand Naira (N30,000) from him. ”On the same…

Akwa Ibom Commissioner of Police, Andrew Amiengheme, fdc, recently promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) has been decorated. Inspector General of Police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman, psc+, NPM, fdc, assisted by Joyce, wife of Amiengheme, decorated the newly promoted AIG on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Usman charged the AIG and other Senior Officers to be more loyal and dedicated to their duties and to serve with professionalism as they assume higher responsibilities. A press release by SP Odiko MacDon, Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer on Friday, said ”The Niger Delta trail blazer has been…

The All Progressives Congress’ presidential screening committee has disqualified 10 aspirants from its primaries scheduled for June 6-7, 2022. The Chairman of the Committee, John Oyegun, who stated this Friday, said 13 out of the 23 aspirants screened were cleared by the committee. When asked about the identity of the disqualified aspirants, Mr Oyegun declined to disclose the names. Oyegun added that contrary to rumours making the rounds, it didn’t screen former President Goodluck Jonathan. The committee held the screening exercise between Monday and Tuesday this week. Read also: APC Presidential primary: Lawan, Akpabio support consensus option Cleared aspirants are…

By Alkali Dan Tsoho Sometime in 2013, a gentleman bank employee with background of a certified chartered accountant and Deacon in a church, United Evangelical Church or (Qua Iboe Church, QIC) was appointed into the office of Secretary to the Government of Akwa Ibom State. His arrival was heralded. The quest by the State Government to implement the policy of 31 industrial transformation projects for the state’s 31 local government areas was realisable. The excitement was palpable; his title of deacon made it more reassuring. Soon in 2014, he was drafted into the appointer’s succession race. Though surrounded by a…

One-fifth of Ukrainian territory is under Russia’s control, with Donbas “almost entirely destroyed”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed while addressing Luxembourg’s lawmakers on Thursday. “As of today, about 20% of our territory is under the control of the occupiers, almost 125 thousand square kilometers. This is much larger than the area of all the Benelux countries combined,” Zelensky said to the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg via video link, CNN reported. Zelensky also stated fighting continues along the front line that is stretched over “more than a thousand kilometers” along the territories of Kharkiv region to Mykolaiv in the country’s…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegate, Tanko Rossi Sabo from Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State has shared more than N12 million election largesse to the less privileged and paid WAEC and NECO examinations fees to secondary school students. Rossi, a delegate at the party’s National Convention won by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the Presidential candidate, got the largesse from some aspirants alleged to be doling out Dollars to woo the delegates. This was as one Chief Agworo, another ‘delegate, was spotted in a viral video on Instagram celebrating a new car he claimed to have bought after…

World leaders have felicitated Queen Elizabeth 11, the longest serving British monarch, for marking 70 years’ reign on the throne. The Queen, who became the first British Monarch to celebrate Platinum Jubilee, clocked 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth on February 6, 2022. Pope Francis sent telegram to Queen Elizabeth II for Platinum Jubilee: “I send cordial greetings and good wishes, together with the renewed assurance of my prayers that almighty god will bestow upon you … blessings of unity, prosperity and peace.” Read also: Queen Elizabeth 11 Greets Nigeria…

A 24-year-old housewife was, Wednesday, docked at Ota Magistrate Court in Ogun State for allegedly stealing N80,000 and two cell phones worth N228,000. The police charged Adijat Oluwatoyin, whose address was not given with conspiracy, burglary and theft. The Prosecutor Counsel, Insp. E.O. Adaraloye, told the court that the defendant and another, at large, committed the offence on April 30, in Iwoye area. Adaraloye alleged that the defendant broke into a shop belonging to the complainant, Zakariya Ariyo, stole N80,000 cash and two mobile phones worth N228,000. Read also: Court jails Hunter 10 years for illegal possession of Firearms He…

The Nigerian Army (NA), Tuesday, denied allegations of complicity of its troops in the kidnap incident of the Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, His Eminence Samuel Uche, and two others in Umunneochi, Abia State, on Sunday. The Prelate, his Chaplain, Very Rev. Abidemi Shittu and the Methodist Bishop of Owerri Diocese, Rt. Rev. Dennis Mark, were abducted along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway in Umunneochi Local Government Area. While narrating his ordeal in the hands of the kidnappers, Uche, who was released on Monday after paying N100 million ransom, had alleged that some soldiers from the North, posted to the area,…

Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel has directed security agents to clamp down on those who perpetuated mischief and falsehood by linking him to a malicious statement in the social media.  Dissociating himself from uncomplimentary remarks credited to him by some social media platforms, Emmanuel said he never described any of the Presidential aspirants in the just-concluded national party primaries as a “talkative.” The Governor who fielded questions from Government House Correspondents at the Victor Attah International Airport, Uyo, on return from a brief official trip to Abuja, said “It is all lies and I stand here to reaffirm again that…