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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…

More than 220,000 people in central Japan were evacuated on Wednesday as torrential rains hit the area after leaving at least 58 dead in the country’s southwest. Most of the central regions have been placed under a severe weather alert due to the storms and flooding, which have seen the worst rainfall recorded in the country for several decades. The Gifu and Nagano prefectures have been the most affected by the downpours, which has led authorities to issue the highest weather warning and relocate around 220,000 residents to safety. More than 800 millimeters of rain has fallen in the area…

The White House has expressed concern by some people, especially the protesters of “Black Lives Matter” campaign to erase the valued contributions by their ancestors to the emergence and growth of the United States of America. This concern arose from defacing and demolition of statues of confederates following the May 25 police killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an African American man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck and whose death galvanized protesters around the globe to rally against police brutality and racism. From its Twitter handle, White House (@WhiteHouse) tweeted on July…

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Akwa Ibom State Chapter is rumbling against President Muhammadu Buhari over what it described as “unfamiliar method” adopted in appointing people from the state to political offices without reference to the party. In a press release dated July 7 and entitled: Extraneous Federal Appointment from Akwa Ibom State, the party particularly faulted the appointment of a foreign envoy nominee, Oboro Effiong Akpabio, who the party claimed, was not from the State. The release signed by Nkereuwem Eyongekere, APC’s Publicity Secretary in the state noted that such an appointment was already unsettling members and weakening the…

Owing to uproar and complaints that greeted the salary cut and wage review of staffers of Public Service in Akwa Ibom, the state Government has backed down with a pledge to refund outstanding deductions in the month of June 2020 to the beneficiaries. The government, in a circular No. GHU/AKS/S/175/VOL.38 of June 25, 2020 had undertaken to review the Consolidated Akwa Ibom State Enhanced Public Service Salary (CONAKESS) table which was adopted by the New National Minimum Wage Agreement of January 01, 2020. Straightnews learned that the circular signed by Ephraim Inyang-eyen, the Chief of Staff to Governor Udom Emmanuel,…