Udom Emmanuel and his day of Glory BY ANIEFIOK MACAULEY

 "The state governor while congratulating the Secretary to the State Government for his faithfulness in God and for imbibing the culture of thanksgiving said “God has accepted this thanksgiving. This is what I like all Akwa Ibom children to emulate. You have to imbibe the spirit of always coming back to thank God.”

Going back memory lane, Akpabio recalled “when I came in as governor in 2007, I came like this to thank God and the little I knew about governance because as a neophyte, I did not know much about governance.”

The crowd was over whelming; the ambience was mild and accommodating.
 Akwa  Ibom people, men, women and children in different  colourful uniforms  adorned the canopies, the Real Brass and the Little David saxophonist were on hand to provide melodious tones to the listening pleasure of the excited crowd, the politicians and captains of industry joined voices in thanking God in behalf of Emmanuel’s family.

Guber 2015: Ibiono Ibom CAKA supports Effiong Abia

 

The recent move by the national body of Coalition for Akwa Ibom Agenda (CAKA) a frontline socio political organization in the State to woo the commissioner for Rural Development Barr Effiong Abia to contest the forthcoming 2015 gubernatorial election in the State has been applauded by the patron of Ibiono Ibom Chapter of the group, engr. Kufre Ekong Inyang who also described the move as a bold step taken in the right direction by the leadership of the group.

Reacting after the national hierarchy of the group visited the council of Oron Traditional Rulers to prevail on the Royal fathers to plead with their son Barr. Abia to hearken to the clarion call by the group, Engr. Kufre Ekong Inyang said Ibiono Ibom Chapter of CAKA who heartedly aligned with the national body on the choice of Barr. Effiong Abia because of his pedigree, honesty, experience and above all being a brilliant and outstanding student of the “College of Uncommon Transformation” headed by His Excellency Obong Godswill Akpabio, who deem it fit with the ruling party in the State to zone the 2015 governorship position to Eket Senatorial District.

GITTO: 3 people perish

 

Reactions have continued to trail the recent ghastly motor accident in Okobo LGA which claimed three lives leaving others unconscious.

Our reporter who visited the place as at the time of the incident was informed by eye witnesses that that the accident occurred about 6pm on the 1st of January, 2014 along Amamong Ekeya round about where there is a borrow pit which Gitto Construction Company excavated red earth that was used in the building of the run way in the Akwa Ibom International Airport and left it uncovered which has claimed so many lives including the last incidence despite frantic efforts by the communities and residents of the area to draw the company and government attention.

Udom Emmanuel: A corporate administrator in cooperate governance

History was again made in the life of governance in Akwa Ibom State sequel the inauguration of the present Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Udom Emmanuel.

Like the state governor who performed the inauguration declared, the experience the new Secretary to Government has gathered over the years having worked in the private sector, will bring the needed skill to his job as Secretary to the State Government.

When looking at the background of the new Scribe, one would be tempted to conclude that if given the enabling environment to exhibit his ingenuity and dexterity, Akwa Ibom state will soon stand out among her contemporaries like the Zenith Bank that is today standing as the biggest and strongest private financial institution, not just in Nigeria, but in Africa as a whole.

The day Akwa Ibom stood still at Nsit Ubium BY AMOS ETUK

Ikot Edibon, the Council Secretariat of Nsit Ubium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State stood still on Friday, December 13, 2013 as the people of the state converged in this community to honour the invitation of the youthful czar and exemplary legislator of the Fifth Assembly of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Hon. (Barr.) Onofiok Akpan Luke, member representing Nsit Ubium State Constituency at his 2013 Constituency briefing.

The scene was more of an atmosphere of a political convention, a political rally, a meeting point for party chieftains, stakeholders in the Akwa Ibom State polity, the youths who came out in their thousands, the women who danced in praise for the Uncommon effective representation of their son, the clergy who extolled the qualities of a vibrant lawmaker and the traditional institution who beamed with smiles on the success story of a representative that had touched the lives of his constituents and of course, the media, who thronged the venue to celebrate the milestones of a close associate and strong supporter. 

Umana Umana may be arrested

 

Barring any last minute change of mind, the former Secretary to the State Government, Obong Umana Umana may be arrested and kept on check until after the next general elections. THE INK gathered from reliable sources that the plot to keep Umana in check is what the state Governor has devised in order to shut down the financial influence of the embattled ex SSG.

 

 It was gathered that there have been some sharp practices that was allegedly committed by the office of the SSG when the Nsit Ubium born technocrat was in charge. An Insider informed that this is the premise in which the State Government wants to use to ensure that Umana is put under check as it has also been revealed that the ex SSG has piled up lots of war chest against Governor Akpabio with one of the underlying factor being that the Governor has continued to undermine Obong Umana ever since the ex SSG was sacked.

Desperate days in AKHA

These are not the best of times for the Speaker and the leadership of the State House of Assembly following that stampede that occurred at the legislative quarters where members expressed grievances at the actions of the Speaker, Elder Sam Ikon which they described as inactive and walked away, dumping that day’s sitting and rejecting the One Million Naira bribe issued to each of them by the Speaker. This incidence happened barely one month ago.
A House member in defense of the action taken by himself and his colleagues decried the inability of the Speaker to attract personnel development to them despite their contributions to the Godswill Akpabio led administration even to the point of being labeled an inactive and a rubber stamp Assembly.

Get out, you are irrelevant * Aniekan Umana tells ex SSG Umana Umana

 

The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umanah has been alleged to have lashed out at the former Secretary to State Government, Obong Umana Umana; describing him as politically irrelevant in Akwa Ibom State.

Aniekan Umanah is said to have remarked that way on Umana Umana while reacting to an alleged plot by the latter to pull down the Governor’s political structures. The Commissioner is said to have stated that it is laughable for the Ex-Secretary who is politically irrelevant in the State to think he can fight Akpabio from Abuja.