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The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly yesterday erupted during plenary as an external influence from the Executive arm of government affected smooth legislative activities leading to members expressing anger with the Speaker Mr. Aniekan Bassey and his Deputy, Felicia Bassey. Members of the Assembly who spoke with THE INK reporter expressed dismay and shock over what they described as the Speaker's inability to stand his grounds and carry on a simple legislative assignment. Our reporter understands that the House of Assembly was billed yesterday to amongst other things listen to an interim Report of the House Committee on Judiciary, Justice, Human Rights and Public Petitions on Alleged Gross Misconduct and financial impropriety against the Chairperson of Nsit Atai Local Government Council, Lady Emem Ibanga as was listed on the order paper for the day. The item was billed to be the last issue to be deliberated upon before the sitting be adjourned. But while proceedings wa...

 Governor Udom Emmanuel and some power transformers in the state Story Highlights Governor Udom Emmanuel took the oath of office five years ago His administration has invested significantly in power infrastructure A 33/11kv, 2 x15MVA injection substation was constructed at Edet Akpan Avenue 132/33kv, 1 x 60MVA transformer was commissioned at Afaha Ube, Uyo 132/33kv, 1 x 60MVA substation constructed at Ekim 30MVA transformer secured for the proposed Ikot Abasi substation Five years ago, Mr. Udom Emmanuel took the oath of office. It was expected that he would sustain the economic activities and provision of infrastructure set in motion by his predecessor. Sustainable infrastructure development would eventually industrialize Akwa Ibom State, however, without steady power supply, industrialization is beyond the realm of reason. It is probably the reason Governor Udom Emmanuel put so much into the development of power infrastructure in the last...

245 new cases of COVID19; 131-Lagos 16-Jigawa 13-Ogun 12-Borno 9-Kaduna 9-Oyo 9-Rivers 9-Ebonyi 8-Kano 7-Kwara 5-Katsina 3-Akwa Ibom 3-Sokoto 2-Bauchi 2-Yobe 1-Anambra 1-Gombe 1-Niger 1-Ondo 1-Plateau 1-FCT 1-Bayelsa 7261 cases of COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 2007 Deaths: 221

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has described Cross River State as deserving of its coronavirus free status. NCDC stated this on Monday during a verification visit to the State. The Leader of the NCDC team, Dr Omobolanle Olowu, lauded the State Governor, Sir Ben Ayade for his strong leadership in the battle against the pandemic, successfully keeping it away from the State. “The Federal Government strongly Commends the Action Governor of Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, and his energetic team who started response in January when others still lived in denial. They (Cross River) deserve to still be without a case of COVID-19. “The governor was proactive in shutting down borders, screening visitors and suspected cases and initiating the no mask no movement campaign in Nigeria,” she said. She also expressed delight at the level of compliance with the no mask no movement policy of the government. Expressing disbelief, she said: “I cannot believe I did not...

Nigeria’s coronavirus cases have jumped to 5621 after 176 new cases were reported on Saturday night. The latest update from the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) reads: “176 new cases of #COVID19; 95-Lagos 31-Oyo 11-FCT 8-Niger 8-Borno 6-Jigawa 4-Kaduna 3-Anambra 2-Edo 2-Rivers 2-Nasarawa 2-Bauchi 1-Benue 1-Zamfara 5621 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Discharged: 1472 Deaths: 176″

Emmanuel Nicholas Agriculture is a major sector of the economy. In fact, calls for diversification from total dependence on  oil can hardly be overemphasized. The sector is believed  to be the key to eradication of poverty and hub sustainable development. The possibility is that the sector can been transformed by mechanization and commercialization towards providing medium and large-scale enterprises for farmers. Major crops for this  purpose include, among others, palm oil, cashew nuts, kola nut, cocoa, cassava, cocoa beans, groundnut, rubber, gum Arabic, maize melon, palm kernel, millet, yams, beans, soya beans and plantain. Akwa Ibom through the leadership model of Governor Emmanuel has since launched a strategic plan to achieving food sufficiency in the state, and diversifying the  economy from Crude oil-driven to Agro-based Economy, especially considering the dwindling oil prices due to Covid 19 Epidemic that have lockdown the entire world economy....

The naira on Thursday exchanged at N450 to  dollar at the parallel market as build up on dollar demand continued to rise. The naira is seen weakening on the black market as dollar demand rises from foreign investors and importers with payment obligations accumulated amid hard currency shortages triggered by an oil price crash, traders said. Aside devaluing the naira in March,  the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) also adopted a unified exchange rate, and pushed the official rate of the naira to N376 to dollar for International Money Transfer Operators rate to banks; N377 to dollar for banks’ dollar sale to CBN and pegged CBN’s dollar sales to banks at N378. The CBN also moved the official rate to N360 to the dollar from N307 per dollar previously and now selling dollar to foreign portfolio investors (FPI) at N380 at the Investors’ & Exporters FOREX window from N366 per dollar previously. But the move has failed to strengthen the local currency which many ex...