Akpabio’s Aide charges film makers to embrace govt’s entertainment gestures

Film Makers in Akwa Ibom State have  been charged to always sought to package and produce films that tend to project the rich cultural values of the state and to shun the temptation of projecting gangsterism, banditry, prostitution and other social vices through movies.

The Personal Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr. Essien Ndueso stated this after being conferred with an “Award of Excellence in Media Development” by Akwa Ibom Film Makers Association, (AKFIMAA) in recognition of his contribution to the growth of the media industry in the state.

Parliamentary Week- PASAN advocates special salary structure

Workers under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association (PASAN) have advocated for the adoption of a Special Salary Structure by Akwa Ibom State government to Parliamentary and Assembly Service Commission staffs.

 The State Chairman, Parliamentary Staff Association, (PASAN), Comrade Kufre-Abasi Aderi made this known during the first parliamentary staff week celebration held at the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly complex.

Akpabio is a visionary leader, says Akan Okon

The state Commissioner for Finance ,Mr.Akan Okon has attributed the uncommon transformation story of Akwa  Ibom state  to the visionary and purposeful leadership which Governor Akpabio-led administration has institutionalIzed in the last seven years.

The Commissioner who  was speaking in Uyo shortly after he was conferred  with honorary Fellow by the Chartered Institute of Leadership of Nigeria(CILN), stressed the importance of good leadership which he described as a veritable ingredient to the growth and stability of any society.

A’Ibom 2015 Governorship- G22 Reject Udom, support dialogue with Governor, President and PDP Leadership

The Forum of Akwa Ibom State PDP Governorship Aspirants otherwise called the G22 has restated its complete rejection of the purported candidature of Mr Udom Emmanuel as the PDP flag bearer in Akwa Ibom State.

In a memo to the Governor and signed by all 22 of them, the Forum said they rejected Udom, Akpabio’s maternal cousin, because the processes of his alleged emergence were fundamentally flawed and totally unacceptable. 

The Forum commended Governor Godswill Akpabio for initiating a meeting with all the 23 governorship aspirants in Abuja on Friday and for expressing his willingness to, jointly with them, find a way of resolving the impasse that has engulfed the governorship primaries of the party in Akwa Ibom State.

Akpabio forwards Nwoko’s name to AKHA for clearance

BY EMMANUEL AKPAN

The State Governor, Chief Godswill  Akpabio has forwarded Barr. Uwemedimo Nwoko’s name to the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly for screening as well as clearance for the appointment into the office as Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice in the State.

Reading Akpabio’s letter by the clerk, Mrs. Mandu Umoren to AKHA members, the governor said forwarding Barr. Nwoko’s name to the House of Assembly for confirmation was in line with the 1999 constitution as amended.

Monarch urges Mobil to pay $100m compensation over environmental hazard

Chief Effiong Archianga, the Paramount Ruler of Ibeno Local Government Area, has charged Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), Unlimited to pay $100 million compensation over environmental hazard annually in the area.

Archianga, gave the charge in an interview with the newsmen in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.

He said that Mobil can’t exploit oil without spilling and therefore should pay mandatory fee of $100 million annually for environmental hazard caused by the reoccurring oil spill in the area.

Write us officially: Ikon tells defected AKHA members

BY EMMANUEL AKPAN

The Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of  Assembly, Elder Sam Ikon has told all the defected members to put into writing, informing the House officially of their defection.

The Speaker stated this last week Thursday during Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly plenary session that was attended by over AKHA 19 members. Ikon said though he is aware that some PDP House members have defected to opposition parties as the fallout of the just concluded PDP primaries, it was necessary for them to write as well as inform the House to make it official.

Woman activist drums up support for Udom Emmanuel, ors

A front line female political activist in  the state and President of Iman Ibom Peculiar Women’s Forum, Nsidibe Obot, has called on women in the state to massively support the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the state, Udom Gabriel Emmanuel.

Obot, who is also one of the women leaders of Always Ibom Consolidation Alliance (ACA) in Etinan local government area and served as an adhoc delegate during the last series of primaries of the PDP gave the call recently in a Congratulatory message to the winners of the primaries. She said Emmanuel’s victory at the primaries did not come as a surprise to the women of the state.

Can PDP Address Discontentment among Members?

BY UKPONG UKPONG

From all indications, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State is  facing one of its toughest fights to stay afloat since the party began its reign fifteen years ago. And this time, the fight is not only from opposition parties struggling to take the seat of power but it also involves aggrieved members, resisting lack of internal democracy as well as tactlessness within the system. 

In any organization, discontentment borne out of oppression works like a cancer, spreading to all parts of the system if not treated early. So, the once ruling political party has found itself struggling to keep membership because it waited for too long to address growing annoyance among members or was deliberately insensitive to their predicament. 

Beware of the ides of 2015

BY JOE INIODU

The above title which has the allegorical caveat of Shakespeare’s epic work, Julius Caeser is deliberate and considered apt as we march with ungainful steps towards 2015. The year is assumed as the mark or mar year for Nigeria, the decider of its fate. Perhaps the kernel of Julius Caeser’s story bears recollection for ease of appreciation of the aptness. 

Julius Caeser was the king of the Roman Empire who was assassinated in 44 BC. Before his assassination on the ides of March which according the Roman calendar was March 15, a seer, Plutarch had warned that harm would come to Caeser not later than the ides of March. But Caeser, a powerful king who was well loved by his people had ignored the warning. Infact, it is said that on his way to the Theatre of Pompey where a meeting of the Senate was scheduled to hold and where he would be assassinated that fateful day, he passed the seer and poked a joke on the hollowness of his prophesy:

Christ, come quicklyChrist, come quickly

BY ANIEFIOK ESSAH

Lord Jesus, Yours Aniefiokly is not pleased celebrating your birthday in   proxy. I wish you were here. Please, come quickly. Mbok, Eyen-Abasi, idighe usongenyin, idighe emiom, sob di.  Do not even wait till Christmas. My hitherto peaceful fatherland is now a boiling cauldron – anything may happen. I desperately need you in my country (Nigeria), especially in my ruled-land-ruined State (Akwa Ibom). Your presence with even a drop of love or piece of peace would make a difference.

I need you in our land, especially, because there’s no man, no politician or political party that is interested in “Duty, Honor, Country”. Our leaders have all sinned and gone short of the glory of their citizens or followers. Their love for money overwhelms love of Country or State or Local Government. Our own dear native land is at the brink of destruction, it’s at the verge of explosion. I, and not I alone, need you because you are the mediator, advocate and redeemer of mankind who towers over Presidents, Governors, even the best of Counsellors, Psychologists and Therapists. You are the spiritual phenomenon whom we should catch fresh because there’s no other like you. 

2015- APC will sweep out PDP in A’Ibom - Eket State Constituency Candidate

A frontline politician and candidate of  the All Progressive Congress (APC) gunning for the Eket State Constituency seat in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly in the forth-coming general elections, Miss Comfort Okon Bassey is optimistic that her party will take over the State come 2015.

Speaking to newsmen on Saturday in Eket, the APC hopeful said the emergence of Obong Umana Okon Umana as flag bearer of the All Progress Congress (APC) in the 2015 gubernatorial election in the State coupled with the entrance of credible candidates of the Party in all positions of contest were enough reasons for PDP to sink into oblivion.