IME UWAH: LIVING IN-BETWEEN PASSION AND SUCCESS
By: Udeme INYANG
A week ago, a casual post by Ime Uwah on one of his social media pages not only attracted attention and traffic...
CHRISTMAS BONANZA: NIGERIAN PROSTITUTES SLASH PRICES
Commercial sex workers in Nigeria have reportedly reduced their price to encourage patronage during the festive season.
According to reports, a round of sex now...
UDOM APPLAUDS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S RENEWED VISION IN AGRICULTURE
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has lauded the Federal Government’s decision to break new grounds in the development of agriculture to ensure...
UDOM’S INDUSTRIALIZATION PLAN IS FAULTY, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED – APOSTLE EDUOK
A renowned industrialist, Apostle Usen Eduok, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Usmer Ventures, has faulted the on-going industrialization plan of Governor Udom Emmanuel, adding...
UDOM’S AIDES PARLEY WITH MARKET WOMEN
Market women and other traders in the state have expressed joy and satisfaction with Governor Udom Emmanuel for making life more meaningful for them...
AKWA IBOM OPENS INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR BUSINESS SEPTEMBER
A consortium of Chinese Companies comprising China Railway And Airport Construction Company, Yiwu International Market Group, Ande Logistics, Forte Energy and Jaagris Nigeria Limited...
A’IBOM FINANCE COMMISSIONER EXPLAINS UDOM’S N10B LOAN
The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akan Okon, said the N10 billion loan facility guaranteed to Wizchino Nigerian Limited for construction...
GROUP DEMAND FOR RELOCATION OF EXXONMOBIL’S HEDQUARTERS TO AKWA IBOM
There has been renewed call for oil giant, ExxonMobil, to relocate its Headquarters from Lagos to Akwa Ibom State where the company has its...
AKSG SIGNS MoU FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OIL AND GAS TRAINING...
The Akwa Ibom State Government has signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Halliburton Nigeria for the establishment of Oil and Gas training Center...
AKHA APPROVES ANOTHER N5BILLION LOAN REQUEST
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly at plenary on Tuesday approved a request to allow the state government guarantee Wizchino Construction Company to...
FG INTRODUCES NEW VEHICLE REGISTRATION SYSTEM
The federal government of Nigeria is introducing a new electronic Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun says.
Any vehicle on which duty has...
AKPABIO LEFT N64. 5BILLION DEBT FOR AKWA IBOM – AKAN OKON
Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akan Okon, has said the Udom Emmanuel led administration inherited from the administration of Chief Godswill Akpabio...
AKEES IS NOT A LOBBIED ENTERPRISE – UFOT EBONG
The Akwa Ibom State Government has assured youths of the state that one of its pet projects, Akwa Ibom Enterprise and Employment Scheme (AKEES),...
EPHRAIM INYANG AGAIN!
…How He Was Forced To Fix Ibom Connection By NTA Expose
… Why He Is Frustrating NDDC Repair Jobs
Governor Udom Emmanuel’s right hand man and...
MTN, GLO, OTHERS MAY BLOCK SKYPE, WHATSAPP CALLS
Feelers from telecommunications companies (telcos) indicate that they may have no choice than to ban the use of mobile applications that allow unlimited voice...
CRUDE OIL PRICE HITS 16-MONTH HIGH
Oil prices on Yesterday, December 5, 2016, rose to its highest point in 16 months following an agreement between OPEC members to reduce production.
Brent...
DPR Seals NNPC Filling Station In Uyo
DPR Seals NNPC Filling Station In Uyo
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Akwa Ibom said it had sealed the NNPC mega filling station...
NIGERIAN MAN PASSES OUT ABOARD KLM FLIGHT
Pandemonium broke out Friday aboard KLM Flight KL 0587 bound to Lagos from Amsterdam after a male passenger passed out in the hands of...
STANFORD MF BANK HUNTS DEFAULTERS
In a bid to recover over N10million debts, an emerging financial institution in the state, Stanford Microfinance Bank Limited has moved against its defaulters,...
MMM ‘INVESTORS’ DONATE MILLIONS TO HOSPITAL PATIENTS IN IBADAN
Community of mutual aid and donation exchange populalrly known as MMM on Thursday, November 17, 2016 donated about N2.5Million to hospital patients in Ibadan,...
CBN CLOSES FX GAP AS NAIRA MOVES TOWARDS 300/US$1
Nigerian Naira on Thursday, March 23, 2017, moved towards 300 per Dollar at the black market as Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, keeps...
NAIRA CRASHES AGAINST THREE MAJOR CURRENCIES AT PARALLEL MARKET
Naira, today (Friday), depreciated further against three major currencies - Dollar, Euro and Pound at the parallel market as speculation, hoarding and increasing zero...
ANOTHER BATCH OF JOB-SEEKING GRADUATES: HOW FAR HAS AKEES GONE?
By UbongAbasi Ise
“It is difficult for me to imagine what ‘personal liberty’ is enjoyed by unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find...
FAAC: HOW FG, STATES, LGs SHARED N455Bn ALLOCATION FOR OCTOBER
… As Akwa Ibom Gets 13% Derivation
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said Federal, State Governments and the Local Government Councils shared N455 billion...
CBN SANCTIONS GTB, ECOBANK, OTHERS FOR FOREX INFRACTIONS
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has barred 15 commercial banks from dealing in foreign exchange through the recently created small and medium enterprises...
LAGOS, OSUN, AKWA IBOM LEAD AS DEBT PROFILE OF STATES HITS...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that the debt burden of the 36 states has risen to over N3.342 trillion...
UDOM WANTS MULTINATIONALS TO INVEST IN CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has challenged multinational oil companies to show more commitment to capacity development and technology transfer in their...
ARIK AIR SUSPENDS LONDON, JOHANNESBURG ROUTES
Arik Air has suspended flight operations to London and Johannesburg, the two most lucrative routes of the embattled airline.
The airline made this known in...
SAMSUNG Crisis Sends Shares Sliding
Shares in Samsung fell further on Wednesday after the Smartphone maker said it would scrap production of its flagship Note 7 model.
Shares fell 3%...
NAIRA GAIN MORE STRENGTH AS CBN PUMPS $185M INTO FX MARKET
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pumped a total of $185 million into the foreign exchange market in order to continue to save...
AKEES, SMEDAN SIGN PARTNERSHIP MoU
Governor Udom Emmanuel has expressed appreciation to the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, for partnering with the Akwa Ibom Enterprise...
DANGOTE RELEASES FIRST BATCH OF LOCALLY ASSEMBLED TRUCKS
Dangote Sinotruck West Africa Limited recently rolled out its first set of locally assembled Chinese trucks, The Group General Manager, Projects, Mr. Hikmat Thapa,...
APRIL DEBTS: AKWA IBOM ESCAPES FG’S DEDUCTION OF 32BN FROM STATES’...
The Federal Government has deducted a total of N32bn from allocations of states from the Federation Account in the month of April 2016 for...