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Rivers State government has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court following an ongoing dispute with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT). The appeal was filed to challenge the ruling of the Court of Appeal which asked all parties involved in the case to maintain status quo ante bellum. With the FIRS and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) joined as respondents, the Attorney-General of Rivers State who is the appellant explained that the implication of the ruling of the appellate court was that parties were restored to their positions before a Federal High Court in Port…

Henceforth, any person in Akwa Ibom whose livestock strays into another person’s farm or property would face the full weight of the new anti-open livestock grazing law. Governor Udom Emmanuel gave the warning after signing into law a bill to prohibit open rearing and grazing and provide for the establishment of ranches in the state. The bill was passed into law by the state House of Assembly on Tuesday, September 14. Emmanuel who signed the bill into law on Wednesday at the state Council Chambers vowed to confiscate the animals, add fine to the revenue of the state government and…

Husband and wife in Akwa Ibom State are to face music for alleged conspiracy in poisoning their 10-year-old son to death on accusation of being a wizard. The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested the suspects: one Rita Umoh and her husband, Akan Umoh. Spokesperson of the command, Odiko Macdon, a superintendent of police, in a statement on Tuesday, September 14, said the duo was arrested by the detectives from Abak Division after a tip-off. “On 29th August, 2021, at about 4:30 p.m, relying on information received from one Mfon Francis, of Ekpat Iduot village that one Akan Jimmy Umoh and…

A welder in Akwa Ibom State is cooling his feet in the police custody for allegedly manufacturing and selling locally made guns to criminals, police said. Already, operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested the suspected gun manufacturer, Ekike Hector David of Mbiokporo 1 in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area. Spokesperson of the command, Odiko MacDon, a police superintendent of police, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday, September 14, said the suspect, a welder specializes in fabricating and selling locally made rifles and other types of guns to criminals. “On the 13th of September, 2021,…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says its members can embark on strike anytime, as the Federal Government is reneging to implement the Memorandum of Action, MOA, signed by the two parties last December. Briefing the press in Lagos on Tuesday, the Lagos Zonal Coordinator, Dr Adelaja Odukoya, also accused the government of trying to cripple the union by withholding check-off dues of members for over a year. He said the dues ran into millions of naira and that the act was perpetrated by the government through the controversial Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System, IPPIS. Odukoya, who was…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking fresh $4 billion and €710 million external loans, asking the Nigerian Senate to give approval. At plenary Tuesday, September 14, Buhari explained in his letter that the proposed loans would be financed through sovereign loans from the World Bank, French Development Agency, EXIM Bank and IFAD. In the letter routed to the Nigerian Senate through the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the President said the loan would enable the Federal Government fund critical infrastructural projects in different sectors. The letter reads in part “I write on the above subject and submit the attached addendum to…

Residents of more than 30 houses in Afaha Ikot Obio Nkan in Ibesikpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom have sent Save-Our-Souls (SOS) message to the state government and agencies to save their houses and property from being submerged. This is as the flood occasioned by persistent rainfall continues to threaten to bury the entire community. The flood caused by the construction of the ongoing multi-billion naira International Worship Centre, Banking Layout, Uyo has displaced owners and wrecked other houses leaving them in a dire state of dilapidation. When Straightnews team visited the village on Wednesday, September 8, some residents said on a…

Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses F. Ekpo has described The Sun Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on him as a great honour that will spur him more to continue to give his best to the service of the state, the journalism profession as well as the cause of humanity. Ekpo who emerged winner of The Sun Life time Achievement Award for the year, 2020, dedicated the prestigious award to Mr. Udom Emmanuel, the state governor. The deputy governor who stated this Monday while receiving the representatives of the management team in his office in Uyo, noted that it was both…

More than 700 delegates from different parts of Nigeria are expected at the first-ever National Book Clubs Conference in Nigeria holding in Akwa Ibom State. Organised by National Book Clubs and Reading Promoters Conference (NBRPN) in partnership with Uyo Book Club, the conference will hold from 16 to 18 September, 2021 at the exquisite Watbridge Hotels & Suites, Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital. The conference has as its theme The place of public libraries in this age of E-book and the challenges of social reading. Addressing members of the press on Tuesday, September 14, in Uyo, Dr. Ekong Sampson, the Chairman…

Five housemates in the Big Brother Naija house are selected for eviction this week They are Cross, Saskay, Angel, Yousef and Emmanuel. Nini, who was initially among those put up for possible eviction this week escaped after she came second in the Head of House game and used the Veto power to replace herself with Cross. After using her Veto power, Whitemoney picked Queen as the Deputy Head of House for the week.