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The public service epitomised by the civil service is seen as the ubiquitous engine room of government. The service facilitates the policy formulation and implementation and decision making of any government in power. It so because the service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically transcends transitions of political leadership. The idea aggregates the postulation of Max Weber, the German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist on bureaucracy. According to him, bureaucracy as a highly structured, formalized, and an impersonal…

Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections have risen with 499 new cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 30,748. This is as Akwa Ibom State recorded 22 new Coronavirus infections, bringing the total number so far to 126. Confirming this in a tweet on Thursday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) identified new infections in 22 states and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Lagos State maintained its lead position with 157 new infections, followed by Edo with 59, Ondo – 56, Oyo – 31, Akwa Ibom – 22, Borno – 21, Plateau – 19, Kaduna and Katsina with…

The Senate Ad-hoc Committee on investigation heard of the alleged financial recklessness in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in six months. The Senate committee during an investigative public hearing interrogated the rationale behind some expenditures it considered curious especially the amount involved in the expenditure from the document presented to the Senate by the (NDDC). The Chairman of the committee, Senator Adebunmi Adetunmbi, reeled out figures of expenditure from October to May ending. Some of the figures include: Community relations – – – N1.3bn Condolences – – – – – – – –N122.9m Consultancy – – – – –…

For the second time in three days, the All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom State Chapter has rejected the appointment of another non-career Ambassador-designate for the state. The party had on July 9 opposed the appointment of Oboro Efiong Akpabio as Ambassador-designate for Akwa Ibom. And on July 8, President Muhammadu Buhari who is also the leader of the party at the national level sent a request to Senate replacing him with John J. Usanga. But in a new twist, Mr. Nkereuwem Enyongekere, the state Publicity Secretary of the party in a signed press release of July 9, said “The attention…

A father who defiled his 15-year-old daughter in Ikot Ubo, Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom is among the five suspected rapists of minors cooling their feet in Akwa Ibom State Police Command awaiting prosecution. The five suspects were seen carrying tags bearing their names, addresses, age and dates of committing the offence conspicuously attached to them. The Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Fredrick Nnudam, who in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday in Uyo, said detectives of Ikot Ekpene Division on July 5, 2020 through a credible intelligence apprehended one Godwin Willie of…

Angry Niger Delta youths have expressed apprehension over the protracted political feuds orchestrated by Senator Magnus Abe, who blamed supporters of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi of a plot to unleash violence in Rivers state. On Wednesday at a press conference, the former Senator for Rivers South-East Senatorial District, therefore, asked security agencies to arrest and prosecute the Minister’s supporters, wondering why no arrest had been made since a petition to that effect was sent to the police. In a statement made available in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, after their emergency meeting on Thursday, the angry…

Nigeria, Wednesday, recorded 460 new cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing the country’s total caseload to 30,249. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealing this in a tweet via its official handle, said the total infections in the country stand at 30,249. The health agency also said that the pandemic has 684 persons, while 12,373 have been successfully treated and discharged. NCDC said Lagos reported the highest number of cases among the states with 150 followed by Rivers with 49. Other states with new cases are Oyo (43), Delta (38), FCT (26), Anambra (20), Kano (20), Plateau (18), Edo (14),…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Akwa Ibom Command, has clamped down on 16 illegal private guard companies in the state and arrested therir 30 staffers of the companies in the last one month. The State Commandant of the corps, Mr Samuel Fadeyi, who stated this in an interview with journalists in Uyo on Wednesday, said during the period, the command swooped on some private guard companies and discovered that some of them had yet to register with the agency as stipulated by law. “In the last one month we have been tough on unlicensed private guard companies…

Nigerian secondary final-year students would not participate in the upcoming West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations, the Federal Ministry of Education has said. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who told State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the seventh weekly virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, debunked no date for resumption of schools in the country yet. Adamu said he would prefer that Nigerian students lose an academic year than to expose them to dangers, appealing to state governments that had announced reopening of schools to reconsider their decision for the sake of the students’ safety. Speaking on the…

In what appeared as bowing to pressure, President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced the Akwa Ibom non-career Ambassador-designate with another person. Buhari had earlier sent Mr. Oboro Effiong Akpabio to Senate for confirmation but All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom State Chapter in a press release issued on July 7 faulted the nomination on the basis that he was not a partyman. On Wednesday, Buhari sent another a request to the Senate, seeking replacement the earlier nomination of Mr. Oboro Effiong Akpabio and Brigadier General Bwala Yusuf Bukar from Akwa-Ibom and Borno State, non-career Ambassadors-designate respecticvely. The request was contained in a…