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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to publish copies of loan agreements obtained by the administrations of past Presidents since 1999. SERAP asked Tinubu “to direct appropriate ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to provide our organization with copies of the loan agreements obtained by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.” This was contained in a statement issued by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, and made available to journalists on Sunday. SERAP is also seeking “the spending details of any such loans as…

Akwa Ibom Governor, Pastor Umo Eno has directed exhumation of the body of Ms. Abigail Frederick who died in a boat mishap for reburial in her hometown in Akwa Ibom State. Recall that few days ago, Abigail was involved in the mishap alongside actor, Pope Jr and a couple of other persons, but she did not make it. Straightnews gathered that the deceased parents were unable to raise N150,000 needed to perform the traditional rituals and bring back her body to Akwa Ibom for proper burial. As a result of that, she was hurriedly buried at the bank of the…

… Real Brass is an Akwa Ibom exportable goods ‘‘Vincent Enyeama, ex-Nigeria’s professional footballer and goal keeper, was my student,’’ former teacher, Boniface Ebewo, now Real Brass progenitor, told Straightnews. Though Enyeama and Ebewo are indigenes of Ika Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State, their meeting was circumstantial as teacher-student– one looking for academic knowledge and the other, wanting to eke a living. Ebewo, who delved into the odyssey of his life, traced his working experiences from a teacher, broadcaster, personal assistant to a board Chairman, Ika Local Government Chairman to the progenitor of Real brass, the veritable and…

Three students of University of Calabar, UNICAL, in Cross River State, recently kidnapped two weeks ago, have breathed fresh air of freedom. Straightnews reported that gunmen stormed Freedom Hostel, owned by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday night, March 29, 2024, and whisked the victims away to an unknown destination. A statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Effiong Eyo, on Friday, April 12, 2024, noted that the students, Ojang Precious Ebejin, Ugwu Chukwuemeka and Damilola Dickson, were released unharmed and have been re-united with their parents.  The statement further noted that the Vice…

The funeral service of an octogenarian Etieka Peninnah Ebong Abak from Nkek Abak in Akwa Ibom State expected to be solemn was turned to a carnival of dances and songs rendition. Women of different ilk at the Methodist Church Nigeria in the serene Nkek Abak Circuit, Diocesan Headquarters, venue of the service, uniquely engaged one another in body roll dancing steps. The women went up, removed the casket from the stand and roamed into the crowd, singing and dancing to the melodious tunes of the hired band set. They jacked up the coffin with the remains of the 82-year-old, carried…

Troops from the Nigerian Army (NA) at Ibagwa in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa State have reportedly burnt down homes of two suspected cult leaders specialising in kidnapping unsuspecting members of the public for ransom. It was learnt on Thursday in Uyo, that the incident took place at Ikot Abasi Akpan village, in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area, where the troops stormed, and set ablaze the two buildings which the fleeing kidnappers used as their hideouts to keep kidnapped victims, while negotiating for ransom. “It was discovered that these criminal had abducted a businessman, a principal dealer in beer…

Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology under the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, is dead. Onu, a former governor of Abia State, died after a brief illness in an undisclosed hospital in Nigeria. He hailed from Ụbụrụ in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, South-east Nigeria. Onu’s political profile Mr Onu graduated with a First Class Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos State in 1976 before obtaining his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley four years later. Also read Okwadike of Anambra politics departs for eternal home  Ohanaeze Ndigbo PG Prof…

An Akwa Ibom son has stated his readiness to attempt a 150-hour Guinness World Record (GWR) title for the longest teaching of Mathematics lesson. Tagged Math-a-thon 2024, the event will commence Saturday, April 20, 2024 to last for seven days. The candidate is Mr. Uduak Nanga, an indigene of Osuk Ediene in Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Popularly known as MC Calculus, Nanga is an HND Electronics/Electrical Engineering graduate from the Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua in Ikot Ekpene. Also read King’s Kids Schools: Utilise ICT, Creative Arts- Director Tells Graduates Longest Marathon Read-Aloud: Two attempt…

Atletico Madrid earned a 2-1 Champions League quarterfinal first leg victory over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, surviving a late onslaught from the visitors. Rodrigo De Paul and Samuel Lino’s first half goals gave Diego Simeone’s side a commanding lead but Sebastien Haller pulled one back to give the German side a foothold in the tie ahead of next week’s return in Dortmund. Edin Terzic’s side, fifth in the Bundesliga, improved greatly after a slow start and hit the woodwork twice in the final stages of a match which saw security measures reinforced after the Islamic State (IS) group made threats…

Foreign airlines have further slashed airfares on the Lagos-London route in attempt to frustrate Air Peace from successful flight operations on the route. Air Peace started direct flights from Lagos to London on March 30, pegging its price for a round-trip economy ticket at N1.2 million on a route that foreign airlines had charged as much as N3 million to fly passengers on. The move by the Nigerian airline had seen foreign airlines cut their airfares to an average of ₦1.4 million for a round-trip economy ticket last week, an action experts and stakeholders had anticipated. Checks on Wednesday show…