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Akwa Ibom lawmakers on Thursday at their plenary confirmed and ratified the list of nominees for appointment into the state executive Council as Commissioners and Special Advisers. They are 2 Special Advisers and 18 Commissioners nominees. Those cleared for the position of Special Adviser...

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) would between December 6 and 9 relocate to Akwa Ibom for the trial of 50 public officers in the state who allegedly breached the code of conduct ethics. Mr Danladi Umar, Chairman of the tribunal, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According...

The Akwa Ibom state government has lashed out at BudgIT, a data sampling civic organisation, for including the state in a list of states currently owing salaries. Ekerete Udoh, chief press secretary to the Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel said list by BudgIT was nothing but ‘voodoo...

Two children of a Mr. Nsikak Michael have been killed by a erosene explosion in Ikono Ibom Clan, Uyo LGA of Akwa Ibom state. Three others were injured by the blast. Mr. Michael, who operates a small poultry farm near his residence in Ikot Enyingne Ikono, was trying to light up a lantern to...

Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, has sacked all the commissioners in his cabinet. A statement released by the Secretary to the State Government, Etekamba Umoren, announced the dissolution of the State Executive Council. The statement advised all the commissioners to hand over to the...

Akwa Ibom lawyer, Inibehe Effiong has shared photos of a man whose right hand was chopped off while allegedly trying to steal a flat screen TV from a football viewing centre at Aka Itiam/Ibiam Street in Uyo.

Women of Obotim Nsit community, Nsit Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa-Ibom State have vowed to protest nude to summon the wrath of the gods against government and a gas company whose pipeline was blown up in the community by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, July 24, for allegedly abandoning them...

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmauel Udom has explained why he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso rock Presidential villa. Addressing state house correspondents after the meeting, Governor Udom said, ''I am still serving a state and the state is within the country and the president...

Senator Godswill Akpabio, has reacted to rumours stating that he will be defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The rumours started after the Minority leader visited National leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu. Speaking to DAILY SUN, the...

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested a three-man gang, which allegedly specialises in using tricycle to pick young women, hypnotised and rape them. It was learnt that the rape syndicate usually insert an object into their victims’ private parts, telling them they...

The Akwa Ibom Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Sunday said it arrested 13 suspected vandals last Friday. The state Commandant of the Corps, Mr Emmanuel Ojeniyi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo that the suspects would be charged to court immediately the...