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The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, has lost its Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA). He was Mr. Aniefiok Umoh who died Sunday, August 8, 2021, after a brief illness. An Akwa Ibom son, Umoh attended Accra Polytechnic, and Methodist University College, both in Ghana, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting respectively. He started his banking career in 1977, with the then Barclays Bank of Nigeria (now Union Bank). He later transferred his services to MedAfrica Shipping Line, Lagos in 1985 as an accountant. The late Umoh held a number…

Isonguyo Iniodu The Awire (water yam) FOOD FESTIVAL AND CULTURE (AFFAC) is an age-long food and cultural festival. It is celebrated annually to herald the harvesting and eating of awire (water yam) in the new food season. More than 300 years old, the festival originated from Ikot Inyang, Afaha Obong clan in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The ceremony goes back to the days of the forbears and has outlived many generations, recalled Chief Akpan Patrick Essien, the Village Head of Ikot Inyang. The current custodian of the festival took over from his father, who joined his ancestors at the…

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has indicated its readiness to pay N45.9 billion to Ogoni people in Rivers State. This came as an Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered the company to pay the sum to the affected within 21 days. Mohammed confirmed this that A.O Ejelamo, lawyer to Shell said the company has resolved to pay the monetary compensation awarded in 2010 following a lawsuit instituted by 10 representatives of Ogoni people in 2001. Justice Ibrahim Buba of the then Port Harcourt division of the Federal High Court awarded N17 billion as compensation to…

Amnesty International (AI), a global human rights group, Wednesday said at least 112 people were killed, 160 abducted and thousands displaced in communities in Kaduna and Plateau States between July and August 2021. In a statement issued Wednesday, the body attributed this to failure of the Nigerian authorities to live up to their obligation to protect the right to life has enabled a month of bloody attacks on both farmers and herders in some parts of Kaduna and Plateau States. “Our findings show that despite clear signs that there will be retaliatory attacks, enough is not being done to prevent…

West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will commence throughout the council’s sub-region from August 16 to October 8, 2021, ending in Nigeria on September 30, 2021. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) announced this Wednesday its readiness to conduct the examination that will for seven weeks for school candidates. Briefing journalists at a programme to also inaugurate its request management system and WAEC–ChatBot in Lagos, the Head of National Office (HNO), Mr. Patrick Areghan, stated that the National Identification Number (NIN) would become a major requirement for registration for the examination with effect from 2022 and subsequent ones. “This…

Twenty four members of a family have died of suspected food poisoning in Danzanke village, Bargaja ward in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Sokoto Commissioner for Health, Dr Ali Innameon, who confirmed the deaths in a statement on Tuesday, said the incident occurred on Monday, August 9. According to the Commissioner, the incident was caused by use of a fertiliser type of chemical, popularly called ‘Gishirin Lalle in Hausa’ as seasoning in domestic family cooking which was considered as common salt. “Regrettably, the entire family who ate the meal lost their lives, except two female members, who merely tasted the…

Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor, Moses Ekpo has expressed shock at the number of projects listed for inspection by the Senate Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development. ”Most of the projects were neither known to the government nor were their needs and locations assessed and rationalized,’’ Ekpo said. The deputy governor who stood in for Governor Udom Emmanuel stated this when the Senate Committee paid him a courtesy call at Government House, Uyo on Tuesday. He, therefore, called for a closer collaboration with the federal government and its agencies in the execution of projects in the state. According to him,…

Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis has vowed to descend on defaulting school leaders enacting or enforcing their pupils to wear masks by withholding their salaries. Earlier, DeSanctis, a Republican, had issued an order against such policies in schools, but some districts in Florida have pushed back, saying their pupils must still mask up. The ensuing drama comes as schools begin their new academic year with school authorities scared that the Delta variant will affect younger groups. In a statement on Tuesday, August 10, the governor said the state board of education “could move to withhold the salary of the district superintendent…

More than 40 local officials in China are in trouble for failing to control the spiraling effects of  Delta variant outbreak. This is as Chinese authorities is struggling to stop the worst resurgence of Covid-19 the country has seen in over a year. The current outbreak of the virus,  first emerged in the eastern city of Nanjing. It has now spread to over half of China’s 31 provinces and caused more than 1,000 symptomatic infections in three weeks. Authorities have rushed to impose stringent lockdowns, mass testing, extensive quarantine and travel restrictions . Reports from China say the new covid-19…

Nigerian Army has come under intense criticism for embracing Boko Haram terrorists who slaughtered innocent Nigerians over the years. The terrorists, it is alleged, have killed thousands, plundered properties and rendered many homeless and Internally Displaced Persons. Oluwaseun, the widow of slain Ibrahim Sakaba, a lieutenant-colonel, has slammed the Nigerian Army for commending the 1,081 Boko Haram terrorists who purportedly surrendered in Bama, Borno State, on Monday. In a statement on Monday, the army stated that a so-called bomb expert for the terrorist group known as Musa Adamu, a.k.a Mala Musa Abuja, and his second in command Usman Adamu, a.k.a…