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••• Flags-off Ward Tour in Ikpa Ikono 1 and Ibiaku 2 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Mkpat Enin local government area has inaugurated its campaign Council Committee to work towards achieving victory for all candidates of the party in the forthcoming general elections in 2023. The inauguration took place at the Joe Udobia Mini-Council Hall, Mkpat Enin local government secretariat yesterday, Friday November 11, 2022. Speaking at the event, the Chairman of the Campaign Council, Prof Eno Ibanga charged the committees to embark on intensive campaigns that would translate into massive votes for the total victory of all the candidates of the party in the forthcoming elections. He congratulated the committee leaders whom he noted, were carefully selected to lead various segments of the campaign organisation,  explaining that more people will still be added to the campaign for effective delivery. While stating that the campaign Council was formed with the understanding to make it an a...

The PDP/Umo Eno Campaign Council hereby notifies the public that the  official declaration and State flag-off the Governorship Campaigns has been  scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Venue is the *Nest of Champions*  Time is 10am. Consequently, the Director-General of our Campaign Council, His Excellency,  Amb. Assam Assam hereby invites the entire leadership and members of the  Campaign Council, the political class, party faithful across the thirty-one  local government areas, support groups and the entire strata of Akwa Ibom  community to the event.  The PDP/Umo Eno Campaign Council urges all Akwa Ibom people within  and outside the state to effectively become a part of this new, collective  history in building a greater Akwa Ibom State. Signed.  Prince Chris AbasiEyo, Spokesperson, PDP/Umo Eno Campaign Coun

    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 ano...

 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 ...

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.

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 wi...

  •••  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...