The Eyes Newspaper

Nurses under the aegis of the Nigeria Opthalmic Nurses Association ( NONA) Akwa Ibom State  have described the allegations that nurses in the Akwa Ibom State Government Eye Clinic sell glasses frames and lenses without the prescription of an Optometrist to patients as cheap  lies and a wicked plot to blackmail hardworking nurses committed to saving lives. Refuting claims in "The Will" newspaper of December 5th, 2021 in which trained and professional nurses were referred to as quacks and fraudsters, the nurses noted that the content of the report were derogatory, malicious and libelous, because the story did not in anyway mention the name of any nurse involved in the racketeering, neither did it mention the name of a patient who  bought the frames or lens. These gaps in the highly opinionated story,  the nurses maintained betrayed the story as fake news and the antics  of people who always do not seek the peace and progress of Akwa Ibom state; and therefore shoul...

The GMD of Desicon Engineering Limited Mr. Akan Udofia has reiterated his passion and resolve to support budding entrepreneurs who are fighting hard to establish businesses in the state. Udofia, Nsit Ibom born business mogul and frontline contender for the 2023 governorship seat in Akwa Ibom State said this over the weekend when he graced the official launching of a new shopping mall in Eket Local Government. At the event attended by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Rt. Hon. Frank Archibong, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Udom Emmanuel on Intergovernmental and Donour Agencies, Mr. Ndiana Nana Udom, Eket Local Government Chairman, Hon, Akaninyeme Tommy amongst other dignitaries, Mr Udofia emphasized the need to create enabling environment for small and medium enterprises to thrive. “I have been facing a very tight and busy schedule, but as long as this is about entrepreneurship, creating jobs and adding value, there is no way I would not suspend a...

A new socio-political group that aims at deeply integrating people of the grassroots about the person and ideals of Mr. Akan Udofia, GMD of Desicon Engineering Limited has emerged. The group, named Unit to Unit Movement for Akan Udofia, U2U4 Akan Udofia, was launched in Uyo on Sunday, 12th December, 2021. At the inaugural meeting, friends and political associates of Mr. Akan Udofia, a frontline contender in the 2023 governorship race in Akwa Ibom State spoke glowingly of the character, personality and ability of Mr. Udofia to ensure ‘benefitting industrialization’ and tourism development in  Akwa Ibom State if given a chance to govern the state.   Pass and serving elected government officials across Akwa Ibom State, political stakeholders across all the thirty one Local Government Areas in the state and other right-hand men of ‘AK Prosperity’ were in attendance at the inauguration. Speaking at the event, Hon. Nathan Akpan, while addressing the attendees said that the even...

The Managing Director of Ibom Power Company Limited, Engr. Meyen Etukudo, yesterday, marked his sixth year at the helm of Akwa Ibom State’s Power Sector as the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Udom Emmanuel on Power. Engr. Etukudo, who was the Assistant General Manager, AGM-Lines, at the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, before joining Akwa Ibom State Government on secondment, said that his most laudable achievement in the last six years is that all the engineers in his office have been trained and can install transformers. He said engineers require constant exposure to training to make them better professionals stating that he attended training at home and abroad in his over three decades of work experience with the defunct National Electric Power Authority, NEPA, TCN, and the National Integrated Power Projects, NIPP. Engr. Etukudo, a Fellow of six professional engineering bodies, said he would have had regrets if he did not relocate to Akwa Ibom State. “I was posted to other ...

The Managing Director of Ibom Power Company, Engr Meyen Etukudo has bagged his sixth professional Fellowship Awards   today, August 21st, 2021. The professional Fellowship Award was conferred on Engr Etukudo by  the Council of  Institute of Corporate Administration of Nigeria during her  2021 Quarterly Management Conference held at New Point Hotel Uyo. Before this Professional Fellowship Award, Engr. Meyen Etukudo who doubled as the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Power, had in different times and occasions been conferred with  Fellow of the Nigerian Association of Technologist in Engineering (FNATE);  Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Safety Engineers (FNIsafetyE);  Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Power Engineers (FNIPE);  Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (FNIEEE); and Fellow  of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE) . Consequently, he might be best addressed as  Engr Me...

•••Says Ward Congress Did Not Hold in A’Ibom   By Michael Ufot In what they described as negligence of responsibilities and breach of ward congress guidelines, the State Executive Committee of the All Progressive Congress in Akwa Ibom State have suspended its acting Chairman, Dr Ita Udosen and other members of the State Working Committee of the Party indefinitely.  The party also  passed a vote of no confidence on  its  National Secretary, Sen. John Udoedehe  for his alleged role in the disunity of APC as well as  usurp ing  the party structure and powers for his selfish interest  in Akwa Ibom State . Addressing journalists in a press briefing held at the NUJ State Secretariat in Uyo yesterday, t he  party SEC  members, who were led by a national caucus member of the party, Group Capt. Sam Ewang (rtd ),   explained its legality on the power to suspend the SWC members in the State as thus: “Article 13.7 of the party constit...

The quest for unity and development of Atai Uyo - a conglomerate of the four local government areas of Uyo, Nsit Atai, Uruan and Ibesikpo Asutan, which were under the old Uyo LGA, has earned the support of notable political chieftain and former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Prince Uwem Ita Etuk. The political bigwig, a former Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) while hosting executives and members of the Atai Uyo Peoples Forum (AUPF) in his Nung Udoe, Ibesikpo Asutan hometown on Wednesday, suggested that prevailing realities in the polity make it necessary for Atai Uyo to return to the drawing board and re-strategize as a united and progressive front. Recalling that Atai Uyo used to be a frontline bloc even before the creation of Akwa Ibom State, Prince Etuk lamented that greed, hatred and retrogressive political antics contributed to its redundant status in recent past. Labelling the bloc as the "carburettor ...