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The Internal Province of Ghana Anglican Communion has condemned one of its priests who was captured on a video k*ssing female students at St Monica’s College of Education. Executive Director to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ghana, Dr George Dawson-Ahmoah in a statement issued on Tuesday stated that an investigation has begun into the matter. According to him, the said priest, Rev. Fr Balthazar Obeng Larbi, if found culpable will be dealt with as stipulated in the norms and values of the Anglican Communion. “The Church is saddened by the news and wish to state expressly that, a thorough investigation has…

Akwa Ibom State government has expressed disappointment at failure of relevant federal government agencies to implement decisions aimed at resolving the perennial boundary crises between states. The state Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses Ekpo recalled that a previous resolution reached on the siting of a military base at the troubled border between Akwa Ibom and Cross River at the Itu end in December 2019, was yet to be effected. Ekpo stated this Tuesday, August 17 in Itu at the opening of the sensitization visit by the National Boundary Commission to the disputed area. Represented by the Permanent Secretary in his office,…

Akwa Ibom High Court in Uyo has ordered the police command to pay a N4 million compensation for detention and torture of a man who claimed he caught a policeman sleeping with his wife in his house. Clement Asuquo Etim, a businessman said he caught a policeman identified as Chief Superintendent of Police, Celestine Umeh at night in his matrimonial home at Aba Ukpo Estate in Uyo. Consequently, Etim was arrested, detained and tortured by the police command for three days. Etim who was represented by Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong in the lawsuit with Suit No: HU/FHR.72/2020, stated that Umeh who is now…

Thousands of people desperate to flee Afghanistan thronged Kabul’s airport on Monday after the Taliban seized the capital, prompting the United States to pause evacuations, as President Joe Biden confronted mounting criticism over the U.S. withdrawal. Chaotic scenes at the airport included a group clinging to a U.S. military transport plane as it taxied on the single runway. One person appeared to fall from the plane during takeoff, according to television footage. U.S. troops fired in the air to deter people trying to force their way on to a military flight evacuating U.S diplomats and embassy staff, a U.S. official…

The spike in the number of rapes and gender-based violence offences among female folks and children in Nigeria and indeed Akwa Ibom State has reached a breaking but dreadful point. Unfortunately, a few have courted the vicious crimes seen as taboos. Others perpetrating the crimes see such as a way of life. How sad! Before now, the crimes remained unreported in some homes. However, the cases surged during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. For instance, Reach Out, a magazine published by Office of the Akwa Ibom Governor’s Wife indicated that there were 58 reported rape cases mostly of girls below…

Former Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu is reportedly dead. Mantu died in a private hospital in Abuja in the early hours of Tuesday after falling ill nine days ago, family sources confirmed to Channels Television. The deceased was elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999 to represent Plateau Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly. He gathered political relevance in national politics after emerging as the Deputy Senate President in 1999, a position he held for eight years. Before his demise, Mantu was a member of the PDP Board of Trustees. He equally served in…

Akwa Ibom High Court has remanded a royal father in the state in prison custody over allegation of fraud and perjury leveled against him by two of his kinsmen, Straightnews has gathered. Etebom Enefiok Effiong Okpon, the clan head of Oku in Uyo Local Government Area, who is the man in the eyes of the storm, is battling hard to wriggle himself out of the two-count charge. The court presided over by Hon. Justice Archibong Archibong gave the order Monday, August 16 for the remand of the royal father in the prison custody. Justice Archibong who sat at the state High…

Despite opposition by some people, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday, signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. In a statement, Presidential aide Femi Adesina said President Buhari who is working from home assented to the Bill on Monday, August 16, in his determination to fulfil his constitutional duty. The Nigerian leader is complying with a mandatory five days quarantine as required by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 after returning from London on Friday, August 13. Mr Adesina in the statement said “the ceremonial part of the new legislation will be done on Wednesday, after the days of mandatory isolation would have…

Zambia opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema secured a stunning landslide victory over incumbent Edgar Lungu in Zambia’s presidential election, results showed on Monday. The electoral commission said Hichilema got 2,810,777 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201, with all but one of the 156 constituencies counted. “I therefore declare that the said Hichilema to be president of Zambia,” electoral commission chairman, Esau Chulu, said in a packed results centre in the capital Lusaka. That would make the third time that power has shifted peacefully from a ruling party to the opposition since the southern African country’s independence from Britain in 1964. Across Zambia, celebrations…

Popular Nollywood actor, Okon Lagos, has described the reactions of BBNaija housemates during the live eviction shows as ”Premium fakenes.” In a post shared on his Instagram page, Okon said the same housemates who nominated themselves would express joy when the nominated housemate is saved or act sad whenever the nominated housemate is evicted. ”This BBNaija Enh…e funny o. Na dem go nominate you for eviction, Na dem go still run come hug and show you ”love” and express ”happiness” if you are saved or ”grief” if you are evicted! Hahaha world people,” Okon wrote.