Educationist flays multiple taxation on private Schools in Oron

As the private school proprietors in Oron continue to lament and condemn the alarming rate of multiple taxation afflicted on them by different government, private and individually operated agencies, a frontline school administrator in the area has passionately appealed to the state government to come to their aid.

Making the plea in an exclusive interview in his office, the principal of Etiedu International Schools comprising Nursery, Primary and Secondary, Pastor Albert E. Edet revealed that in the last couple of years, his school has been inundated with series of multiple taxation assessment and remand notices amounting to thousands of Naira.

Akwa Ibom First Lady honoured by NCWS

The National Executive Council of the NCWS, recently decorated the wife of the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mrs. Ekaette Unoma Akpabio, as a patron of the Council. National President of the NCWS, Mrs. Nkechi Mba, said the honour was in recognition of Mrs. Akpabio’s consistent support for the NCWS and her achievements for women in the state.  

The national leadership of the NCWS was in the state to conduct the State Congress and Elections of the Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the Council held earlier that evening at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Uyo. The election finally brought to an end the crisis that had been rocking the NCWS in the state recently.