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EDITORIAL: NAMDA and CONUA :Varsity Lecturers With Slavish Mentality

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    The university is the hub of knowledge and strategic exposure. Most modern civilization are known to have emanated from the university. It is the place where different schools of thought exist but all of them have a thread holding them and that is purpose, strength and achievements At the period when the universities were established for the first time in Nigeria, everybody alive had a new experience. An experience of nobility and pride in the human personality. The Universities put an end to class phobia. Anyone who attended a university became aware that he had a reason to be alive and he didn't come to this life to live for another person The consciousness that knowledge brings is a likely reason why the university lecturers have  become the single most active voice in demanding for Justice anywhere injustice is perceived. When the record is checked, it is the intellectuals who take the war to the camp of an oppressor. They never lay back and watch anyone cheat another.This

NAPTIP bursts child trafficking syndicate In A'Ibom ... rescues children

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 The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Akwa Ibom State Command  has burst a child trafficking syndicate along the Calabar-Itu road in Itu Local Government Area of the state. NAPTIP Zonal Head in-charge of Akwa Ibom, Tina Ugwu, who disclosed this over the weekend in Uyo noted that 12 children between the ages of three and nine were rescued from their abductors with three suspects arrested during the raid. She revealed that NAPTIP intelligence officials were on the trail of another six-year-old girl sold by the syndicate to a customer in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who also resold her to another buyer in Imo State. Ugwu said her men were on the mahunt for other suspected Traffickers in the ring, who seized a newborn baby from the mother and sold to buyers, adding that two suspects in her custody along with the mother were volunteering information on the crimes. “Two of the recovered victims were sold outrightly and we are yet to recover the six-year-

Fire Wrecks Havoc In Oruk Anam

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An early morning fire yesterday wrecked havoc in Nung Ikot Obiodo village, Oruk Anam Local Government Area. Our correspondent gathered that the fire incident which happened in the family compound of one Chief Friday Idiong and the ravaging inferno burned down the whole Compound including spoons Although no life was lost to the fire, house hold properties were completely destroyed, leaving Chief Idiong and his family including PDP ward Chairman of ward 7 Mr. Sunday Akpan Idiong stranded. Our correspondent gathered that the source of the fire could not be ascertained as at the time of filling this report as family members were not at home when it occurred. Idiong who was seen still sobbing and recounting the losses, said that the fire incident has posed a serious setback to members of the family. Meanwhile, the devastated Idiong has appealed to Akwa Ibom State Government, organizations, spirited individuals to come to their rescue as the entire family members have been rendered homeless.

We will tackle quackery, says NIESV Chair, Obot Akpan •••Seeks govt patronage

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ESV Obot Akpan, Chairman Rhoda Jeremiah The Nigeria Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, Akwa Ibom State Branch has expressed its readiness to stem the tide of quackery through proper advocacy on the gains of partnering with professionals in the State. The professional body has also tasked government and prospective clients to always engage the services of professional Estate Surveyors and Valuers for efficiency, speed and quality project delivery in Akwa Ibom State. The disclosure was made by the State Branch Chairman, ESV Obot Akpan  while fielding questions from The Eyes Newspaper at the Thanksgiving Service organised by the Nigeria Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, held at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Good Shepherd Assembly, 61 Itu road, Uyo last Sunday. ESV Akpan averred that on some projects, professional standards are sometime neglected  in the state because the owners intend to cut  cost. He however maintained that his administration will be intentio

OBI-DIENTs Never Endorsed Umo Eno - A'Ibom Labour Party

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  •••  Disowns Take Back Naija group Labour Party and the teaming supporters of Peter Obi in Akwa Ibom State have distanced themselves from what they described as cheap and blackmail lies circulated in the social media  purporting that followers of Labour Party's Presidential Candidate nicknamed " OBI-dient"  endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom state, Pastor Umo Eno in  the forthcoming governorship election in the State." The party also disowned a certain "Take Back Naija" group which claimed to represents the entirety of OBI-DIENT supporters in the State, describing the group as a  bunch of hungry fools without integrity. Speaking with The Eyes Newspaper Reporter in Uyo on Tuesday, the Secretary of Labour Party in Akwa Ibom state, Honourable Emmanuel Sampson, who spoke on behalf of the party explained that the so-called "Take Back Naija" group does not have the requirements to register as OBI-DIENT supp

Happy Independence Day?

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Sixty-two years today since Nigeria was pronounced an independent nation, Nigerians and her leaders  are still enslaved by the dictates of the so-called world powers. Sixty-two years down the way, our cultural values, livelihoods, governance patterns, religious systems and many more, still submerged by foreign policies and practices. Dress in a local attire and attend an interview and you would be the first to be kicked out even if you're the most qualified for the job. To be given a chance, you must dress in tie and suits- just look like a foreigner. It beats my imagination that some people eat garri and soup, an African delicacy, with forks and knives. The food is ours but the western world decides how we eat it. Sad! As each day passes, the system gets more porous and hopeless especially as our leaders now present speeches and quotes of leaders in foreign countries to us as their campaign promises and other functions in Nigeria. They struggle to identify with foreign countries f