The family of a farmer, Umog Charlie, allegedly killed by a police inspector identified as Oliver Akang in Akwa Ibom State, has cried out for justice. The family also said the command had offered them N1.3m as compensation to let the matter rest. According to the family, Umog was murdered on Asutan Street, Off Barracks
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…Bassey Akpan was convicted on a six-count charge bordering on money laundering and receipt of exotic cars worth N204m Mixed eactions have continued to trail the incarceration of the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party(YPP) Akwa Ibom State, Senator Bassey Akpan. Sen Akpan, who is also representing Uyo Senatorial district, is cooling his feet
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…Gov Emmanuel said this while addressing a mammoth crowd of PDP faithful in Akwa Ibom Ahead the 2023 Akwa Ibom governorship election, the governor of the state, Mr Udom Emmanuel has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) is the only party that is good for the state. He added that voting for PDP, in 2023
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‘NAPTIP intelligence officials are making efforts to rescue another 6-year-old girl sold by the syndicate to a customer in Port Harcourt’ The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in Akwa Ibom State has busted a human trafficking syndicate that specialised in kidnapping minors and selling them outside the state. The zonal head
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“The kidnap victims were taken deep into the forest at Ikpe Annang in Etim Ekpo LGA’ Two suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the Akwa Ibom state police command. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the kidnappers were part of the gang terrorizing people of Etim Ekpo local government area of the state. It was also
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The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel has set up a panel of inquiry to investigate the collapse of a four storey building at Iman street, off Aka road in Uyo on Saturday. Emmanuel announced this while commiserating with the families of relatives trapped and those who died in the building. He said that
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The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed that two persons died, while three others were hospitalized after a four-storey building collapsed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Saturday. The Zonal Coordinator of the agency, South- South, Godwin Tepikor, confirmed the development as he clamoured for enforcement of building codes in the state. THE DAILY VENDOR
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Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, on Friday, sentenced an 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom, Ika Local Government Area of the State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong to death by hanging for murder. The convict, who is married to 12 wives with 60 children, was standing trial on a four count charge of
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NO fewer than seven residents of Ikpanya Clan, in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State reportedly died during the recent attack on the community by warriors of Ugbo community in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State. It was gathered that four persons were missing, scores severely injured while over six houses were
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Unknown gunmen suspected to be cultists have attacked a checkpoint manned by a Police detachment of the Quick Response Squad (QRS) in Akwa Ibom, killing one Police Inspector, while others escaped in hails of bullets. The incident, according to an eye witness, Nsibiet Idiong, occurred in the early hours of Monday at Ikpe Annang junction
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Sixteen persons have been reportedly killed while 6 others are still missing following a boundary clash between the Usaka Ukwu, Azunchai , Ekpiri Ala-Ala, Ariam Elu Elu communities in Ikwuano council area of Abia State and their Nkari and Obot Akara neigbours in Ini and Obot Akara council areas of Akwa Ibom State. Other communities
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The Akwa Ibom State government on Sunday ordered all hawkers and roadside traders to vacate the streets of Uyo, the state capital, and relocate to designated market areas before February 1. The state’s Commissioner for Environment, Charles Udoh, who gave the directive in a statement, said the order was part of the state’s government’s effort
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The Akwa Ibom state chapter chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Mr. Udo Ekpenyong, has been feared dead. Ekpenyong was reported to to have passed on in the early hours of Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from suspected Covid-19 complications. Details of his rumoured demise are sketchy as neither the state government nor the party in
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The Akwa Ibom State government on Saturday declared a seven-day of mourning for the state’s former military governor, Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga, who died on Thursday. The Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, who disclosed this in a statement in Uyo, said the seven-day mourning begins on Saturday. He added that flags would be
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The High Court sitting in Akwa Ibom State has issued a Bench Warrant for the arrest of a Professor of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Prof. Ignatius Uduk, over his alleged involvement in electoral fraud during the 2019 general elections. This is coming even as high court 2 Ikot- Ikpene last week, arraigned
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