CHRIST EMBASSY, UYO: REACHING OUT TO MILLIONS THROUGH THE REACHOUT NIGERIA CAMPAIGN 2015

Representative of the Zonal Pastor of Christ Embassy, South East Virtual Zone2, Pastor Frank Owokere (m) addressing journalists during the presentation of activities for reachout Nigeria Campaign 2015 in Uyo recently. With him are members of the campaign committee.

As part of activities to celebrate the 55th Independence Day of our nationhood and in our determination as a church to build a strong and viral nation where its citizenry inculcate the virtue of determination; resilience and a strong belief in the possibility of the ideals of the Dawning of a New Nation inspite of our diversity, Christ Embassy, Uyo is reaching out to millions of Akwa Ibom people across the 329 wards in the state from 1st of October through to December, 2015.
The Reach out Nigeria campaign is an initiative of our Man of God and the President of the Believers Loveworld Incorporated, Rev. Chris Oyakhilome Ph.D inspired by the Holy Ghost to build and rekindle the spirit of patriotism and national re-orientation in our people. The vision has spread tremendously since its inception and  as a church we have been able to play pivotal role in the evolution of a people oriented government; impacting the governance of our dear country, Nigeria positively and the enthronement of  the earnestly desired change by the word of God and the  power of the spirit.

The need for communal environmental sanitation

BY PRISCILLA CHRISTOPHER

This month marks the second lap of the environmental sanitation policy introduced by Gov. Udom Emmanuel to put all hands on deck in the sanitation of Akwa Ibom State. Spanning across the 31 local government areas of the state, the activity which has come to be has received accolades and commendations since its introduction into the schedule of the state last month.  The essence of this state activity, we are told, is to ensure an all-involving participation of individuals in the sanitization of the environment we all live in and thereby, making citizens responsible for their surroundings upkeep. And since cleanliness is next to godliness, keeping clean will to a large extent, attract godliness into the state be it in its minutest form. 

Erosion menace has brought untold hardship to businesses in Uyo - Ette Ekpe

In what could be term as flood salvage to erosion menace in Uyo metropolis. The  State Government through the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has evacuated refuge in the drainage system in Olusegun Obasanjo way former Abak road among other streets. Speaking in an interview with the Ink newspapers last weekend in Uyo, the managing Director Ette Ekpe and Sons Nigeria limited  Obong Sunday Ekpe stated that erosion menace has brought untold hardship to Businesses in Uyo metropolis and other parts of the State.

Ikot Ntuen Oku Youth Development Association (INOYDA) Elects new Exco

...Observers adjudge election as most credible in INOYDA’s history

 The Youths of Ikot Ntuen village in Oku Clan, Uyo local government area met on Sunday August 23, 2015 in their village town hall along Akpan Essien Lane, Uyo and in three hours of a very peaceful gathering elected officers of INOYDA to run the affairs of that body for the next two years with Comrade Kingsley Uko Edet emerging as President. The election was adjudged free, fair, credible and peaceful by observers from other villages of Oku Clan such as the representative of the Clan Head of Oku Clan, Etidung D. E. Inyang, village head of Uyo Oku village who felt impressed to be associated with such a peaceful and credible youth election.

Government investment drive yields dividend as Shoprite arrives Akwa Ibom

Akwa Ibom State Governor Mr Udom Emmanuel has commended the decision of   Resilient Africa  a shopping conglomerate  in establishing a Shopping Mall, Shoprite in the State stating that the initiative underscores the avowed determination of his administration to place the state among comity of industrialised Nations.Governor Emmanuel stated this during the ground breaking ceremony of Shoprite Shopping Mall at Ibom Tropicana Complex, Uyo.

Gov. Udom Emmanuel pledges commitment to healthcare delivery in the State

Akwa Ibom State Governor Mr. Udom Emmanuel has advised citizens to engage the services of qualified and experienced medical personnel in government approved hospitals to attend to their health needs.
Governor Udom Emmanuel gave the advice at The Apostolic Church, 69 Oron road where he attended the church service. He said his office has been inundated with complaints of poor services provided by some of our medical personnel in health institutions. The State Chief Executive frowned at the situation where medical doctors hurriedly carry out surgery on patients without proper diagnosis stressing that such patients usually leave the patients with permanent injury even as others do not survive to tell the tale of the outcome of such surgeries. Please if you are sick or somebody that you know is sick; don’t patronize a doctor with doubtful experience. A lot of deaths could have been avoided if the personnel were painstaking in their diagnosis. The situation is that, once a Doctor sees a patient, he rushes to administer treatment without adequate information on the ailment. The Commissioner of health is doing a whole lot about this. That is why we are in a haste to ensure that St. Luke’s hospital, Anua, receives immediate attention so as to provide health care services within Uyo and its environs. If you go there now, you will witness work in progress. i don’t like people patronizing quackery, I value the life of every Akwa Ibom citizen.

Invest in Akwa Ibom, Umanah tells investors

Aniekan Umanah

The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah has called on investors to emulate the shining example of Chemax Power Plaza by investing in Akwa Ibom State as a way of keying into the industrialization policy of Governor Udom Emmanuel. The Commissioner made the call last weekend during the official opening ceremony of Chemax Power Plaza at 124 Aka road, Uyo.  Mr.Umanah who was represented by his director of Technical Services, Mr. Inyang Jameson gave the assurance that such investments would be successful since Akwa Ibom is the most peaceful state in the country. He commended the chief executive officer of Chemax Power Plaza for the initiative, pointing out that by this investment the business outfit has offered employment to youths and has assisted government in combating poverty.

Unfinished business: Uyo Sex Worker fights man, 35 over refusal to pay after service

BY KENNETH JUDE

A mild drama ensued in the early hours of Wednesday (yesterday) at Nyong Essien Street, Uyo when a middle aged lady from Essien Udim and a young man, whose name was given as Anietie Effiom from Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government  Area of the state, apparently  in his early thirties engaged in what many regarded as a show of shame. One report has it that the said lady is two years in Akwa Ibom State, this, she revealed to our reporter in a terse response. According to the lady, who did not want her name in print, she explained, in a rather subdued voice that the man, whose name she refused to reveal had carnal knowledge of her when she came in to town newly with her consent on the agreement that the man will pay her after the show.

Latest Edition of THE INK NEWSPAPER, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Latest Edition of THE INK NEWS PAPER, UYO, AKWA IBOM STATE

Latest Edition of The Ink Newspaper, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

Julius Berger commences clearing of NUJ site

Construction giants, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has commenced site clearing on the proposed Godswill Akpabio International Press Centre, at the current site of the NUJ Press Centre,  Information Drive, Off IBB Way, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.

The site clearing is in preparation for the full commencement of construction work at the first phase of the Godswill Akpabio International Press Centre which include perimeter fencing/gate house, a 1000 capacity auditorium complex, a-two storey office complex and a club house.

  The architectural design of the Godswill Akpabio International Press Centre was done by a leading architectural firm in the country, Otto Trinity Studios.

Uyo Fed. Const. women declare support for Gov. Akpabio, wife …Extol leadership qualities

Obonganwan Eberefiak and Obonganwan Tommy

The women of Uyo Federal constituency have reiterated their determination to support Governor Godswill Akpabio and his wife, Mrs. Ekaette Unoma Akpabio in recognition of their leadership qualities and selfless service to people of the state.

During a well attended meeting of the women at the Ibom Hall grounds on Thursday 20th February, 2014; the women which were drawn from the four Local Government Areas constituting the Uyo Federal Constituency; Nsit Atai, Uyo, Ibesikpo Asutan and Uruan described the Governor as a gender-friendly fellow who has not discriminated the women of the state. According to them, the empowerment packages of the governor have gone across the entire people of the state especially women, widows, less-privileged and the orphans.

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.

Prince Effiong Abia: A self effacing gentleman

Pauline Peters may have considered the character tapestry of Prince Effiong Etim Abia when she stated thus: “The greatness of a leader is in his humility before God, not in his eloquence before man”. 

This submission does not devalue the value of the latter but insists that the former holds a place of incontrovertible precedence. It is why the simplicity of the serving Commissioner for Rural Development who is wont to refer in very seductive tone to people he comes across as “my brother” or “my sister” depending on the gender, must form the framework of any discourse that pertains to him. The warmth he radiates during such exchange reinforces the fact contained in Psalm 25:9 that “God guides the humble and teaches them His ways”.  

Humility is a rare commodity amongst people who deemed themselves to be successful or accomplished. We live in a stratified society where wealth and position define relationships with the culture seeping down to offsprings and spouses.

Ikpoto A’Ibom inaugurates Etinan Federal Constituency chapters

Ikpoto Akwa Ibom, a socio political group in the state has inaugurated its ward and chapter executives for Etinan Federal Constituency  with a call on members to stamp out violence and other social vices in the forth coming Gubernatorial and general elections in the state.

The three local Government Areas chapter coordinators that make up the federal constituency include; Pastor Ini Udo Ekwere, Etinan, Mr. Godwin Etukudo Okokon, Nsit Ubium and Hon. Effiong Sunday Udoakang, Nsit Ibom.
 Performing the swearing in, the National Legal Adviser of the organization, Barr. Ndipmonguwem Umoh urged the executives and members to adhere to the tenets of the group.

He reminded them that their offices will be withdrawn from them if they found wanting or commit perjury. In his speech, the National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Nsima Uwak described the body as a socio political group aimed at reducing to the barest minimum the rate of violence and other social vices in election.

He expressed shock over the high level of bloodshed in 2011 election as reported in various media, pointing out that politics should not be so played. In order to ameliorate the rate of social vices, Mr. Nsima Uwak said that the group has so far organized seminars, congresses and has also identified with Non Governmental Organizations and peace loving members of the society.

He portrayed the group as Peoples Democratic Party inclined, stressing that; its membership is limited only to PDP faithful.

UNIUYO FM bounces back

The University of Uyo campus Radio Station last week resumed full broadcasting activities after months of low-key service due to the re-branding process in the studio. The announcement was made known by the studio manager, Pastor Idy James in a meeting with presenters of the station.

At the meeting, he also announced the arrival of a new transmitter with a capacity bigger than the previous one. 

The station which transmits on the frequency modulation of 100.7 megahertz is located at the town campus of the University and has modern studio facilities to boost its service delivery.

Emem Akpabio tackles Udom Emmanuel over money, campaign structure.

 

The godfather of the Akpabio political dynasty has fallen apart with the Secretary to State Government, Udom Gabriel Emmanuel over fund, campaign structure and other sundry issues. An insider informed our reporter during the weekend in Uyo that Udom Emmanuel has suddenly gotten some nerves and is challenging the powers that be even as the SSG is said to have complained bitterly that the expenses incurred on his behalf by Sir Emem Akpabio are rather too much and may crumble the state economy if such expenses are sustained till when the elections are conducted by 2015.

Our source said since meetings for Udom Emmanuel’s ambition has always been hosted in Sir Emem Akpabio’s house, at the end of every of such meetings, a file is always given to Udom Emmanuel’s Personal Assistant, our source said, the file is always a breakdown of all the expenses incurred to host such meetings. This is said to have continued until the SSG one day called for the file and accordingly was given the file by his aide. Udom Emmanuel is said to have been shocked beyond words when he saw the amount of expenditure that is always incurred and documented in the file.