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The Federacion Internacional de Abogadas (FIDA) in Akwa Ibom State branch received more than 69 complaints bordering on rape cases last year. FIDA, which is the International Federation of Women Lawyers, is an international non-governmental organization (NGO). It enhances the status of women and children by providing legal aid, legal literacy and education programmes and through advocacy, law reform, and research, among others. Mrs Emem Ette, Akwa Ibom FIDA President, in a telephone interview with Straightnews on Wednesday, said the body forwarded the list of the alleged cases to Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice who had assigned them to Director…

Akwa Ibom police, Wednesday, could not arraign seven suspects arrested over the alleged molestation of an 11-year-old student of the Deeper Life High School, Uyo. This followed the absence of a presiding magistrate in Magistrate Court, off Ikot Ekpene Road in Uyo Local Government Area to hear the case. The suspects include two minors, who are senior students of the school, accused of 3exually abusing the victim in the school dormitory. The others are staffers of the school, including a vice principal and a housemaster. Fidelis Igwe, a lawyer to the Deeper Life School, told PREMIUM TIMES he was surprised…

A medical doctor and four other persons in Akwa Ibom State have been detained by the state Police Command over the alleged molestation of an 11-year-old JSS1 student of Deeper Life High School, Idoro Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The mother of Don Davies Archibong, Deborah had alleged that the boy was molested in school based on her various Facebook videos. It was gathered that one Dr. Effiong Udimidue and four other staffers of the school were detained after the meeting the police held with all parties involved in the matter on Tuesday at the Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia in…

Few days ago, Ekiti government doled out N60 million as housing loan to some teachers and other workers in the state. In addition, the state Government has disbursed another N100 million as car loans to 278 civil servants. The Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Mr Akintunde Oyebode, told newsmen on Tuesday evening in Ado Ekiti. Giving a breakdown of the loan disbursement, he said that the sums ranging from N80,000 to N1.5 million were disbursed to the beneficiaries of the loan scheme depending on their respective grade level. Oyebode listed the number of loan recipients to include 41 workers…

Zamfara State Government has wielded a big hammer against more than 500 private schools in the state by revoking their licences for being unable to meet the required operational guidelines. The state Commissioner for Education, Ibrahim Abdullahi made the announcement Tuesday, January 5 also told newsmen that a task force would soon be inaugurated to enforce compliance. Abdullahi said, “The guidelines will have to be followed and be met by any private school proprietor before the issuance of licence to operate.” Recounting how Governor Matawalle met a “poorly-arranged” setting on the operations of private schools, Abdullahi said proprietors at that…

Nigeria has recorded 1,354 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reported on Tuesday. Of the number, Lagos State is leading with 712 followed by Federal Capital Territory and Plateau State with 145 and 117 infections. This is as Akwa Ibom State got 16 cases, bringing the total in the state to 469. ‘’On the 5th of January 2021, 1354 new confirmed cases and 1 death was recorded in Nigeria. ‘’The 1354 new cases are reported from 21 states- Lagos (712), FCT (145), Plateau (117), Kwara (81), Kaduna (54), Sokoto (39), Oyo(38), Rivers (37), Gombe…

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has admitted that it effected a hike in electricity tariff for some service bands in order to reflect the partial impact of inflation and movement in foreign exchange rates. The Commission in a statement issued on Tuesday, quoted that management as saying that, the rates for service bands A, B, C, D, and E have been adjusted by NGN2.00 to NGN4.00 per kWhr. However, the NERC’s Head of Public Affairs, Micheal Faloseyi, denied the report in a statement released in Abuja today Tuesday, January 5 that there has been a 50 per cent increase…

The Akwa Ibom Police Command, Tuesday, held a meeting with Deeper Life High School and parents of the 11-year-old said to have been molested in the school. The state government had last Wednesday handed over the alleged molestation of Don Davies, the JSS1 student of Deeper Life High School, Idoro Uyo in Akwa Ibom State to the police for investigation. The meeting held at the State Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia in Uyo was presided over by the Commissioner for Police, Amiengheme Andrew, with all the parties in attendance. This was as the State Police Command has assured that it…

Some Nigerians are bemoaning after Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, slammed 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff effective January 1, 2021. The new tariff hike regime is to be paid by customers of the 11 electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs. This is coming just two months after the Commission forced implementation of much opposed hike on Nigerians in November 2020. The Organised Labour had backpedaled from embarking on nationwide strike action on the assurance of Federal Government’s decision to dialogue on slicing off part of the electricity tariff, though the committee set to reconcile this has gone into limbo.…

Staffers of Akwa Ibom State University will smile from the end of January this year as the state government begins payment of full salary them. This was one of the resolutions reached between the state government, Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and three unions in the university on Monday, January 4. Another resolution was immediate payment of three months backing of 25 per cent salary arrears to staff of Akwa Ibom State University for February and April 2020 and the outstanding arrears of eight months would be paid subsequently in batches of three months each. The unions- Academic Staff…