Tag: Akwa Ibom
Akwa Ibom Guber: Udom Emmanuel witnesses fail to counter Umana Umana, APC
Witnesses for Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed to adequately counter…
Akwa Ibom Guber: PDP witness contradicts self at tribunal
The Akwa Ibiom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, on Wednesday opened defense in the election petition challenging his victory in the…
Investigate Akwa Ibom finances, EFCC, ICPC urged
Former Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information, Ita Awak, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Debt…
Umana closes case, as tribunal admits ballot papers in evidence
The legal battle to challenge the emergence of Udom Emmanuel as the governor of Akwa Ibom state reached a crucial…
Forensic experts find non-human prints in A/Ibom guber ballot papers
One of the forensic experts who testified before the Akwa Ibom State governorship tribunal Thursday, said out of the 140,…
Mobil pumps N160bn into NDDC in 14 years
Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, says it has contributed N160 billion to the Niger Delta Development Commission…
English football fan Wins N1.5m jackpot on Winners Golden Bet
With just N500 stake, a Nigerian won the sum of N1,521,052 on the coupon of Winners Golden Bet last weekend.…
Tribunal admits Akwa Ibom guber election materials as exhibits
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for Akwa Ibom, sitting in Abuja, has admitted as exhibits electoral materials used for the…
Akwa Ibom: APC’s Umana gets approval to call more witnesses
The Akwa Ibom State governorship election petitions tribunal in Abuja on Thursday granted leave to Umana Okon Umana of the…
Union disrupts activities of S/South Electricity Distribution Companies
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Wednesday disrupted activities at Electricity Distribution Companies in the South South over…
Akwa Ibom Guber: Umana to testify before tribunal on Thursday
The Akwa Ibom governorship candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last election is set to testify before…
How Godswill Akpabio hijacked election materials – Okori
The Justice Goddy Anunihu led the election petition tribunal sitting at the Customary Court, Dutsen Alhaji in Abuja on Thursday…
Gov. Emmanuel to Commissioners: We want results, not excuses
Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, has said that his administration will not tolerate poor performance from his commissioners and special…
Akpabio is the author of rigging, says Umana Umana
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom at the last general election, Umana Okon Umana has described former…
Stop harassing marketers, DPR tells task force
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Wednesday appealed to the State Task Force on Petroleum against harassment, extortion and…
DPR closes 30 petrol stations, suspend 7 others in Akwa Ibom
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Eket, Akwa Ibom, said it had sealed off 30 and suspended seven filling…
DPR to destroy 150 illegal petrol stations in Akwa Ibom
Asuquo Antai, Controller of Operations, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), said on Thursday the organisation would begin to demolish over…
APC call for cancellation of Akwa Ibom legislative polls
All Progressives Congress candidates who contested election into Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly on April 11 have called for…
Don’t give election materials to politicians, Akwa Ibom REC warns officials
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Akwa Ibom, Austin Okojie, has warned Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) for Saturday elections in…
Jonathan floors Buhari in Akwa Ibom
Henry Ojelu/Akwa Ibom President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recorded a decent win in Akwa Ibom…
Umana calls for cancellation of election in Akwa Ibom
Henry Ojelu/Akwa Ibom The All Progressives Congress Governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Umana Okon Umana has called for the…
I’ll collapse if I see N5bn – says REC accused of taking bribe
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom, Mr Austin Okojie, on Tuesday said he would collapse if N5billion was brought…
Akwa Ibom will vote PDP en masse – Akpabio
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom has promised the national leaders of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that his state would…
Jonathan promises to upgrade maritime academy to university
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday promised to upgrade Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) in Oron in Akwa Ibom to a…
5 die in Akwa Ibom gas explosion
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), in Eket has confirmed five persons dead in gas explosion at Afaha Ukwa in…
Religion, ethnicity not basis for Jonathan’s reelection, says Akpabio
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom on Friday said that the 2015 general elections would make the country more united…
Oron youths, women lament over marginalization in A’Ibom
Some Oron youths in Akwa Ibom on Tuesday protested over “undue marginalisation” of Oron nation by the current administration. The…
Community wants $100m compensation from Mobil
Ibeno community in Akwa Ibom, wants Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited, to pay 100 million dollars annually to the community…
2015: Akwa Ibom Group Endorses Ekpotu
Ayorinde Oluokun The Ibom True Leadership Forum (ITLF), a leadership advocacy group in Akwa Ibom state has endorsed the aspiration…
Uyo Stadium Opening: Eagles Begin Camping Today
Players of the home-based Super Eagles have been told to report to Uyo, Akwa Ibom today as they begin preparation…