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Tears flowed as the remains of a police officer killed by unknown gunmen in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State were lowered into grave Friday, August 13. Mr. Imeh Etim, assistant Superintendent of police, was one of the five policemen on duty killed when unknown gunmen invaded Odoro Ikpe Divisional police headquarters in Ini Local Government Area on Saturday, May 8, 2021. The gunmen, according to a source from the area, suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, stormed the police station about 2:45 a.m. in two buses and a Sienna car. They…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed shock over what it calls embarrassing financial scandal involving Governor Udom Emmanuel administration in Akwa Ibom State. The Akwa Ibom Chapter of the party said media reported that Globus Bank Limited, one of the bankers to Akwa Ibom State Government, has agreed to withhold N3,500,000,000 held in the state’s account, pending the conclusion of garnishee proceedings initiated against the state over a N4.2 billion judgment debt. According to the party, ’’The garnishee proceedings were initiated by a financial management consultancy company, Bond Investments and Holdings Limited, in whose favour the High Court of…

Team Nigeria’s Imaobong Nse Uko on Saturday won the gold medal in the women’s 400m event of the World Athletics U-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. Uko came to the Championships with the fastest time among the contenders following the 51.70secs she ran at the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival in April. She lived up to pre-race hype by becoming the fourth Nigerian woman to win the event’s gold after Fatimah Yusuf in 1990 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Olabisi Afolabi in Lisbon, Portugal in 1994 and Folashade Abugan in 2008 in Poland. The 17-year-old ran new 51.55secs personal best to achieve the…

The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has reversed an ancestral curse placed on Nigeria by his grandfather, Olu Erejuwa II, as a result of the injustice meted out to him. He made the reversal in his first proclamation on Saturday during his coronation as the 21st ruler of the Warri Kingdom in Delta State. “As the spiritual, cultural, political, and traditional ruler of this land, I, Ogiame Atuwatse III, the 21st Olu of Warri, the first son of Olu Atuwatse II, the grandson and direct descendant of Olu Erediuwa II who was offended on this throne, hereby, reverse the…

The marriage of Yusuf Buhari to Zahra Nasir Bayero has turned out to be one of Nigeria’s biggest celebrity events this year in what observers see as ‘presidential wedding.’ Yusuf is the son Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari while Zahra is the daughter of Alhaji Nasir Ado Bayero, the newly installed Emir of Bichi. The pair who are of Fulani  tribe met at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. The town of Bichi in the ancient Kano city was aflame with private jets, glamour and glitz. The runway of the airport in Nigeria’s ancient city of Kano was agog…

The Ogiame Atuwatse III, formerly known as Omoba Tshola Emiko, has been crowned as the 21st Olu of Warri Kingdom. This follows a series of activities lined up for the coronation of the monarch who ascended the throne on Saturday. Reports monitored live by Straightnews in Uyo on Saturday, August 21 from Channels Television and TVC NEWS show that activities such as colourful dance performances by various cultural groups and pleasant musical renditions from the Warri Royal Choir and Laz Ekwueme Orchestral, among others were rolled out as in marking the ceremony . Shortly after his arrival at the venue…

Chinese super idol Jackson Yee has topped the Forbes China Celebrity List for the second year in a row, followed by singer and actor Wang Yibo and comedian Jia Ling. Yee, a member of Chinese pop-music band TFBoys, is the youngest among the top 10, according to the 2021 list published by Forbes China on Friday. The 20-year-old starred in the Chinese feature film “A Little Red Flower” (2020), playing a teenage boy who battles cancer. The movie took in a total of 1.4 billion yuan ($220 million). Yee’s ranking rocketed from eighth place in 2019 to the first in…

Akwa Ibom Christians are enjoined to play active role in political leadership and governance in order to contribute their quota to societal growth. Governor Udom Emmanuel as the special guest of honour made the call at a breakfast meeting for the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Akwa Ibom State Chapter on Friday at Ibom Icon and Golf Resort, Uyo. Emmanuel called upon Christian leaders to support his administration in fervent prayers to achieve his vision as encapsulated in the 8-point agenda, but emphasised the need for them to play down on the emergence of a successor. According to him, ‘’It…

Amid fear of Taliban takeover, hundreds daily besiege the US, British and French embassies at Kabul while others squat outside to obtain visas to enable them to jet out of Afghanistan.   At the Kabul Airport, the surging crowd Monday became unbearable as some refugees hung US military aircraft airlifting them while those shut out, ran alongside it, risking their lives in a desperate attempt to flee the country as the plane attempted to take off.   This forced US to have suspended flights though the resumed flights Friday the evacuation of Afghan refugees.   The striking scene led to…

The whereabouts of two lecturers of Abia State University and others in Nigeria robbed and kidnapped on Thursday by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on ABSU-Isuikwuato Road in still unknown. The victims are Professor S.O. Eze of the Department of Industrial Chemistry, a Methodist minister, and Professor Chris Afulike of the Department of Mass Communications, who were travelling in their separate cars. The chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, Victor Nkemdirim, who broke the news said the incident took place at about 6.00 p.m. after the two lecturers ran into the…