Aniekan Umanah escapes being lynched * I was not attacked, says info. com.

 

Akwa Ibom State commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umanah last week Monday escaped a mob action in Abak along Park lane and sources say it took the intervention of his mobile police security team to ferry him away to safety in the ensuing stampede that would have caused serious bodily injury to the state information commissioner.

But Aniekan Umanah in a phone chat with our reporter denied neither being attacked nor attempts to lynch him by a group or any group of people and described himself as a home boy who is always at peace with his people.

Those who witnessed the scene informed our reporter that on the said Monday, Aniekan Umanah had stopped by at a certain joint owned by BOYO, who is said to be a relative of Mr. Umanah and had ordered that drinks be given to the youths who were already enjoying themselves. The youths are said to hail from Abak/Ika and Etim Ekpo and have outrightly rejected Umanah’s drinks alleging that the information boss is stingy and that he is only giving them drinks because he wants their support for his 2015 House of Representatives ambition which he will not win. The youths are said to thereafter charged at him and went for his jugular.

Professor Abasiattai: “Fount of Wisdom” goes home in grand style

This is the story of a man who was born on a Monday, called Monday and died on a Monday. He came, he saw, and he certainly conquered the world. No wonder the crème de la crème of the society converged at Afaha Ikot Akpan Mkpe in Onna Local Government Area to pay their last respect to him when he was laid to final rest on Friday 7th of February, 2014.

The burial ceremony of the Late Prof. Monday Benson Abasiattai was conducted at the grounds of Bright Star Nursery and Primary School, by Qua Iboe Church Nigeria. The place was filled to capacity with people from different organizations present to honour one of their own.

Testimonies on the life and times of the Late Fellow of Historical Society of Nigeria were given by different groups beginning from the family to the church. The family described his death as heartbreaking but found consolation in the fact that he lived and impacted the family in many positive ways. The village representative however called on other educated people not to abandon their people at home but to go home and help the poor as the Late Elder of Qua Iboe Church, Prof. Abasiattai, used to do.

Sports Commissioner spits - EMMANUEL AKPAN

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The last may not have been heard about what happened at the maiden sport stakeholders meeting which was convened by the new Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Sir Mondy Uko.

The meeting which took place last week Wednesday at the state box of Uyo Township Stadium was well attended by movers and shakers of Sports activities in the State. 

Sir Monday Uko while addressing the stakeholders stated that convening the meeting was necessary to create a platform for the consultation and discuss of the way forward with the owners of the system to enable him to succeed in his work.  “I convene this meeting today for everybody to air out their views and feelings and also to discuss how we can move sports forward in the state. We all know that sporting activities are not moving in the night direction, a lot of things are not done well”.

The fairy tale of team Federated Chapel: 2013 SWAN Media games champions

The 2013 SWAN Media  Games may have come  and gone, but the memory of the games will forever remain fresh in the minds of the players, coach and management of the Federated Chapel team, having surprised everyone by winning the prestigious trophy for journalists.

This is because of the way they went about winning the trophy.
Firstly, this is a team made up of players from different backgrounds, who prior to this competition, had never played together and perhaps some of them had never met each other.

Federated Chapel wins 2013 SWAN cup BY EMMANUEL AKPAN

Federated Chapel Football Team of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Akwa Ibom State chapter have emerged the winning team of the 2013 sports writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) football Cup.

 Federated chapel football team popularly known as “Federated Lions” won the cup after beating Information Chapel of the ministry of Information on penalties shoot out after playing 90 minutes and result ended stalemate at Uyo township stadium last week Monday.