ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA political storm is brewing in the Effiat community of Mbo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, following controversial social media reports claiming that stakeholders of Effiat Ikpoto have endorsed the incumbent Council Chairman, Hon. Sunday Okon Etim, for a second term. Community leaders have swiftly moved to deny the claims, labelling the reports…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy UduakAbàsi Ikpat There is a quiet but powerful culture in Nigeria’s South East that many parts of the country continue to admire and, increasingly, seek to emulate. It is the culture of enterprise embodied by the Igbo trader, the craftsman who begins with little but dreams big, the apprentice who learns the ropes…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•As motorists recount ordeal, demand Gov Eno’s intervention Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday clashed with task force team of the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Transport over claims of extortion at their office along Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo. The crisis erupted when the Ministry’s taskforce team impounded a…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•Raise ₦4.05tn in verified capital As the 31 March 2026 deadline for bank recapitalisation fast approaches, 30 Nigerian banks have met the new minimum capital requirements set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), raising 4.05 trillionin verified and approved capital in the process. The CBN made this public in a statement issued, Friday,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it” – Edward the Bono By Substance Udo-Nature With the International Court of Justice’s ruling, Cross River State was left drowning in the Bermuda Triangle. Approximately two decades today, a Phoenix appears to have risen from the debris of history, to reopen closed files….
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ofonime Honesty I wish to fuse few tales into this column. The tales have Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State as the main character. No embellishments, no dilly-dallying, let’s get straight to the business of the day. Picture this: April 2024. Governor Eno is standing before former President Goodluck Jonathan during the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ofonime Honesty It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. That is the wisdom our ancestors taught us. That is the counsel David Nweze Umahi should have heeded. But he did not. He could not. He vomited bile with all the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Akwa Ibom State Government has described as false the Premium Times report which attributed revenue figures to the state and proceeded to draw comparisons between different fiscal periods but without adjusting for value erosion, exchange rate realities, inflationary pressures, or corresponding development outcomes. Commissioner for Information, Dr Aniekan Umanah, who reacted on behalf…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Nigerian Army has reportedly killed Ya Muhammad and Abou Dawuda, two terrorists described as prominent commanders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). According to Zagazola Makama, a security expert in the North-east, the terrorists were killed during a failed attack in Damboa. “Two top commanders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP),…
