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The recent removal of Oruk Anam Vice Chairman, Abasiama Etukakpan, from office by councilors in the area over alleged falsification of his age has drawn the bile of Civil Liberties Organisation, Akwa Ibom State Chapter. A press release dated March 31 and signed by the state Chairman of CLO, Otuekong Franklyn Isong and Comrade Christopher Ekpo, Secretary for other members, said the organization is disturbed that Oruk Anam Legislative Council circumvented the procedure laid down in section 44 of the Local Government (Administration) Law of Akwa Ibom State, 2017 for the removal of a Chairman or Vice-Chairman. On March 23, 2021,…

Akwa Ibom, one of Nigeria’s states, Wednesday, discharged 62 persons who recovered from COVID-19, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced. Similarly, 16 persons who recovered from the pandemic were discharged in Ogun State. NCDC tweeted on Wednesday, March 31 ‘’Our discharges today include 62 community recoveries in Akwa Ibom and 16 in Ogun State managed in line with guidelines,’’ NCDC stated. However, Nigeria recorded 129 COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases to 162,891. On the same day, the country recorded one death, bringing the total number to 2,057. NCDC stated ‘’On the 31st of March 2021, 129 new…

United Kingdom Government has slammed a £125,000 fine on Loveworld TV channel, owned by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, for airing conspiracy theories about COVID-19. On December 1, 2020, the television channel broadcast a 29-hour programme tagged ‘The Global Day of Prayer,’ making several unfounded claims about the Coronavirus. These claims included the outbreak was ‘planned,’ the ‘sinister’ vaccine can be used to implant ‘nanochips’ that can control and cause harm to members of the public and that the virus was somehow caused by 5G. Following a detailed investigation by Ofcom, the communications regulatory body in the United Kingdom, it was concluded that…

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has reiterated its commitment to the good health of the citizens, describing it as integral to its mandate in facilitating sustainable development in the region. The NDDC Interim Administrator, Mr. Efiong Akwa, spoke this during the flag-off of the distribution of vaccines, cold chains and other related medical equipment to the nine states of the Niger Delta region at the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Akwa stated that “no community, country or society can fully realise its potential and promise, unless the best of its public health…

Nigerian Government, Tuesday, declared Friday and Monday, April 2 and April 5, 2021, respectively as public holidays to mark 2021 Easter celebrations. The Director, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Interior, Mohammed Manga, stated this in a statement issued in Abuja. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf  Aregbesola, who made the declaration for the Federal Government, urged Christians to emulate the attributes of forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, humility, love, peace and patience, which were demonstrated by Jesus Christ, Manga said. Aregbesola called on Christians to use the occasion of this year’s Easter Celebration to pray for the peace, unity,…

An ex-bank manager in Akwa Ibom State has entered miry clay as the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned him in court over alleged N14 million fraud. Mr. Victor Friday Udoh, the suspect, was arraigned before Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on two separate charges. The first charge of six counts borders on forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N13 million while the second charge is obtaining by false pretence to the tune of more than N1million. The defendant was arrested following…

Brazil has reported 3,650 COVID-19 death toll in a day on Friday, the health ministry said, as the pandemic spins out of control in Latin America’s largest economy. Since February, Brazil has seen record after record in fatalities and new cases of infection as the country second hardest hit anywhere in the world, after the United States, with more than 307,000 dead from the pandemic. It broke through the threshold of 3,000 fatalities in one day on Tuesday. Over the past week, the average daily toll is 2,400 – more than triple what it was in early January. The toll…

A father of one of the 39 students from Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Kaduna state still in kidnappers’ den has reportedly died. Ibrahim Shamaki, who was the father of Fatima Shamaki, one of the girls with hijab seen in the video that was released by bandits, died of heart attack after he fell ill shortly after he was told of his daughter’s abduction. Channels Television quoting family sources said that he died on Friday evening, March 26, when relatives were about to take him to a hospital for further medical treatment. This comes as Fatima and the other abducted students prepare to spend…

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio and All Progressives Congress have heaped coal of fire on the Peoples Democratic Party over the imprisonment of University of Calabar’s Professor on election fraud, agreeing that Akpabio has been vindicated by the ruling. Professor Peter Ogban was on Thursday, March 25 sentenced to three years by Ikot Ekpene High Court in Akwa Ibom State for committing election fraud during the 2019 National Assembly election in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District. Akpabio who was the APC candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District at the election sought a return to the…

A new Chairman of Ibom Air has been appointed by Akwa Ibom Government effective Monday, March 22. He is Imo-Abasi Jacob who until the appointment was Executive Director in Akwa Ibom Investment Corporation ( AKICORP). Jacob succeeds Air Marshall Idongesit Nkanga who passed into eternity in December 2020. From Ika Local Government Are of the state, he bagged B.SC (First Class) Management Studies from the University of Calabar and is a holder of Fellow, Chartered Accountant (FCA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, Secretary to the State Government in a press release dated March 25, 2021 said…