Did that woman say she slapped the Honorable Minister, my Minister, Senator and former governor of my State, the Great Goodswill Akpabio? This very colorful character...
The Akwa Ibom State Government on Wednesday asked striking health workers to resume work immediately or risk being sacked. The threat was contained in a statement...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly on Tuesday lifted the suspension of the chairman of Nsit Atai local government area of the state, Lady Emem...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has regretted that President Muhammadu Buhari, allegedly, refused to learn from mistakes he made in his first...
A recent release by the Debt Management Office (DMO) has placed Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom as leading Nigeria’s most indebted states. The country’s monumental debt burden hardly seems...
The Akwa Ibom State Government has lifted the ban placed on burials and marriages in the state in the wake of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. The...
The government of Akwa Ibom State said it had not received ‘one Naira’ from the Nigerian government to fight COVID-19. The state Governor Udom Emmanuel made...
The pastor of Nung Akpa Ime branch of the Christ Embassy Church, Emmanuel Effiong, who disregarded COVID-19 guidelines in Akwa Ibom State, has been pardoned by...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly is seeking tougher sanctions against rapists in the state and has thus urged all law enforcement agencies, courts and...
The Akwa Ibom State government has refuted claims in some quarters that it is planning to cut workers’ salaries due to the dwindling revenues accruing to...
The Akwa Ibom State government said on Wednesday 27 COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation facilities. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic...
The Akwa Ibom State government has approved the reopening of churches in the state for worship activities beginning from June 7, 2020. In a statement on...
The Akwa Ibom State government said on Saturday that two COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation facilities. Akwa Ibom has 29 confirmed COVID-19...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has indefinitely suspended the chairmen of two local government areas in the state over alleged misconduct and administrative inefficiency....
The Akwa Ibom State government led by Governor Emmanuel Udom has threatened to withdraw the licence of any school in the state, either public or private,...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Saturday admitted it made a mistake in its report on the COVID-19 infections in Akwa Ibom State. The centre...
The Akwa Ibom State police command said Wednesday that a medical doctor and six other persons had been arrested over the alleged sale of a five-month-old...
The Akwa Ibom State government has announced that no fewer than five patients who have fully recovered from COVID-19 disease after treatment have been discharged from...
The government of Akwa Ibom state has decried smuggling of corpses from other states, chiefly from Lagos, into the state amid Nigerian government’s inter-state lockdown order....
The Akwa Ibom State government has ordered an immediate closure of all livestock markets in the state with immediate effect to stem the spread of COVID-19....
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Emmanuel Udom has revealed that the state government has deployed the use of 3G cameras to monitor human infiltration through...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Thursday passed the amended 2020 budget which saw a reduction from the initial N597.7 billion to N366 billion in...
Governor Udom Emmanuel on Tuesday said the COVID-19 pandemic did not meet the state unprepared even though the disease is a new one. Emmanuel, who spoke...
Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel has said that conducting a random test for COVID-19 in the state would amount to absolute waste of resources. “It...
The Akwa Ibom State Government on Monday denied reports that nine of its commissioners had been infected by the dreaded COVID-19 disease. The state government made...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, Thursday extended the restriction of movement imposed on the state following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the county by one...
An Internal memo from the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) in Akwa Ibom State has revealed, that health workers are staying away from their work...
The Director General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chike Ihekweazu has lamented the rejection of the test results of the five confirmed...
The Akwa Ibom State Government Thursday demanded a reconfirmation test on the five persons that had reportedly tested positive for coronavirus in the state. The Nigeria...
Policemen in Lagos have arrested a 45-year-old- man, Lament Christopher, for attempting to stab his wife, Comfort, to death. The couple, who are from Akwa Ibom,...
Police officers in Akwa Ibom State have discovered child trafficking and theft syndicate who take possession of pregnant girls until delivery and sell out the babies...
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Akwa Ibom State Branch, has called for the prosecution of persons found culpable of electoral offences during the just concluded re-run...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been forced to reject the results of Saturday’s rerun election in Essien Udim Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa-Ibom....
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of some persons involved in electoral malpractice during Saturday’s re-run election staged in Essien Udim Local...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has withdrawn from the senatorial election fixed to hold today (Saturday) January 25, in Essien Udim Local...
Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, on Tuesday urged the National Assembly (NASS) to reject the $29.9 billion loan request presented by President...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict that affirmed the elections of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde and Udom Emmanuel of Akwa...
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has withdrawn from the planned Akwa Ibom North West senatorial rerun election. Akpabio made his decision known in a...
The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has accused the state government of frustrating prosecution of suspects...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State during the last election, Nsima Ekere has dragged Governor Udom Emmanuel to the...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River, Thursday nullified the victory of Okon Asukwo in the March 9 House of Assembly election into Mbo...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has urged the international observers, chiefly the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union (EU), to...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State has ruled in favour of Godswill Akpabio and ordered a rerun election in Akwa Ibom North-West...
At least eight lecturers of the Akwa Ibom State University have been sacked by the university authorities over alleged sexual harassment and extortion, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor,...
Hello, it’s Sunday again. And, Business Wrap is upon us. Remember this serving is a featured post highlighting some of the major events that unfolded during...
The government of Akwa Ibom has described as a lie President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang’s claims on...
Governors of the 36 states in the country heard on Tuesday that Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have the highest number of HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in...
Nigerian Naval operatives attached to the Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State on Sunday said some suspected rice smugglers had...
A lawyer, Leo Ekpenyong was Tuesday arrested by men of the Nigeria Police in Abuja for alleging that the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel bribed...
The Akwa Ibom State government on Monday said it would no longer tolerate killer herdsmen in the state. This came as suspected herdsmen attacked some communities...