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12/11/2025

Hon. Moses Essien to be Inducted Fellow Institute of Corporate Leadership and Mentorship

The Member Representing Ibiono Ibom State Constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Hon. Moses Essien, will on Thursday, November 13, 2025, be inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Leadership and Mentorship (ICLM).

In a goodwill message endorsed by the International President, Prince Godwin Asanga, and Secretary, Engr. Enefiok Usungurua, the Ibiono Ibom Youth for Democracy and Development (IBIYODED) described the investiture as a testament to Hon. Essien’s visionary and inspiring leadership, as well as his exceptional mentorship role, evident in his formation and sustenance of IBIYODED as a frontline platform for nurturing youths in democratic leadership and sustainable economic development.

The youth body noted that the recognition by the Institute further affirms Hon. Essien’s selfless service and leadership commitment as a distinguished Rotarian, whose guiding philosophy of “Service Above Self” continues to define his engagements in governance and community development.

According to the group, the Fellowship equally underscores Hon. Essien’s enviable capacity and effective representation in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, particularly his unprecedented empowerment initiatives that have delivered tangible dividends of democracy to the people of Ibiono Ibom.

The group also commended the Institute of Corporate Leadership and Mentorship for rewarding excellence and for its commitment to promoting corporate leadership and structured mentorship through its specialized curriculum and recognition programmes.

They expressed confidence that the Fellowship would further inspire Hon. Essien to sustain his legacy of service, integrity, and visionary leadership.

27/10/2025

27/10/2025

🚨 SOS: AN APPEAL TO GOV. UMO ENO



Your Excellency,

Warm greetings, deepest respect. 🙏🏽

We remain loyal and inspired by your people-centered leadership and your recent release of ₦60 billion to accelerate road projects across Akwa Ibom State. That bold move testifies to your passion for development and commitment to a legacy that truly transforms lives. 🌍

Please extend this gesture to the long-abandoned Godswill Akpabio International Stadium Road — a vital link connecting Goodluck Jonathan Boulevard through Obio Etoi and Ikot Ntuen Nsit to Abak Road near UUTH.

This is not just a road. — it’s a lifeline 🚧 - Major Exit Road for the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium

It also serves:

Students and staff of Redemption Academy & Royal Neafsea Schools 🎓

Thousands of residents 🏘️

Doctors and healthcare professionals at UUTH 🏥

Businesses and families who depend on daily access and safety.

Sadly, since 2019, work has been abandoned just past the stadium fence.
Over 400 meters of the road at the Urua Ndak axis now lie in ruin —
🌊 Flooded and waterlogged
🌾 Overgrown with vegetation
🐍 Breeding dangerous reptiles and mosquitoes
😷 Creating health risks and cutting off entire neighborhoods.

Your Excellency, this road represents hope, dignity, and connection for an entire community.
With the dry season setting in and funds already released, this is the perfect time to act.

Your swift intervention will:
✅ Restore access and safety
✅ Revive local businesses
✅ Rekindle faith in government
✅ Uplift thousands of citizens who depend on this critical corridor.

📢 Please, Save Our Souls.

With utmost respect and gratitude,
Concerned Residents


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20/10/2025

Rt. Hon. Ime Okon Furnishes Six-Classroom Block at Ayadehe Technical College

The Member representing Itu/Ibiono Ibom Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. (Barr.) Ime Bassey Okon, has fulfilled his commitment by furnishing the newly constructed six-classroom block he facilitated and donated to Technical College, Ayadehe, in Itu Local Government Area.

Earlier commissioned this year, the block was completed in phases, with the furnishing delayed due to procurement procedures. Over the weekend, the lawmaker confirmed the classrooms have now been equipped with desks, chairs, electrical wiring, and ceiling fans.

“I’m committed to quality education,” Hon. Okon stated. “We’ve gone beyond construction to ensure the classrooms are comfortable and conducive for learning.”

He also urged students, staff, and community members to maintain the facility and support efforts to improve infrastructure across the constituency.

The school’s principal, Elder John Etim Bassey, expressed gratitude, describing the lawmaker’s action as timely and sincere. “He kept his word and delivered beyond expectations,” he said.

A teacher, Mr. Donald Edet, added, “Many thought it was just another political promise, but today we see the results. The entire Ayadehe community is grateful.”

The project reflects Hon. Okon’s ongoing commitment to grassroots development and educational advancement.

03/09/2025

A’Ibom Police Command Arrests 63 Suspects, Recovers Cache of Fi****ms, Ammunition in 75 Operations

The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State, CP Baba Mohammed Azare, says the Command has recorded major breakthroughs in its fight against crime, arresting 63 suspects and recovering 19 fi****ms, 104 rounds of ammunition, and other exhibits in 75 operations across the state between August 1 and September 2, 2025.
CP Azare, who announced the successes during a press briefing on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, at the Command Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, Uyo, credited the achievements to intelligence-led policing, the dedication of operatives, and community cooperation.
Highlighting the breakthroughs Azare revealed that a notorious kidnapper was neutralized in Mkpat Enin, while others linked to abductions in Eket were arrested. Two victims were rescued, with one AK-47 rifle and a pump-action gun recovered.
In collaboration with INTERPOL and Ghana Police, 20 trafficked Ghanaian nationals were rescued. A 47-year-old trafficker from Edo State was also arrested while attempting to move young women abroad.
On cultism and armed robbery, suspects were arrested in Eket, Abak, Obot Akara, and Ikot Ekpene, with recoveries including fi****ms, ammunition, fe**sh objects, and a human skull.
The Command also dismantled a five-man car theft syndicate, recovering stolen vehicles, number plates, camouflage uniforms, and forged documents.
In Itu LGA, a fake “eye doctor” who treated over 300 victims with harmful concoctions was arrested, while in Uyo four drug suspects were caught with substances suspected to be Indian h**p.
CP Azare assured that all suspects would be prosecuted, reiterating the Command’s resolve to keep Akwa Ibom safe.
The Command urged residents to continue volunteering credible intelligence and to reach out during emergencies through its hotlines: 08028916010, 08020913810, 09169839215, and 08039213071, assuring that distress calls receive a response within five minute

21/03/2024

WHO IS AFRAID OF SENATOR GODSWILL AKPABIO?
By Idorenyin Aquaisua
It is noticed that shortly after the Senate on March 12, 2024, invoked its relevant standing rules to suspend Senator Abdul Ningi for three months for making a baseless claim that the 2024 budget was padded with N3 trillion, the spate of orchestrated attack on the person of the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has intensified.
On a cursory look, it could appear as both those spoiling for ‘war’ against Akpabio and their allies calling for his head were patriotic entities who are genuinely concerned about preserving key democratic values to promote the wellbeing of the nation. But, a more critical evaluation of the situation and the facts in contention would rather indicate that the reasons for the volatile attack are more political than rational. Accordingly, the calls and demands made by these contending interests are somewhat misguided, spiteful, needless and absurd.
Whether it is to discuss Ningi’s defense on the floor of the Senate that he was misquoted or the inherent iambic details of the discordant 2024 budget padding lyrics, and the attendant demand by Ningi’s Party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Senator Akpabio should resign to allow for investigation of his engagements in the 2024 Budget making process, etc., the central issue in the narrative is the claim that the 2024 budget was padded to the tune of over 3.7 trillion naira.
Thus, it is pertinent to ask: what was the value of President Tinubu’s budget proposal to the National Assembly? How much did the National Assembly passed as the 2024 budget and why?
Records have shown that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu personally presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill to the Joint Session of the National Assembly on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. In his speech before presenting the budget proposal, President Tinubu declared: ‘an aggregate expenditure of 27.5 trillion naira is proposed for the federal government in 2024, of which non-debt recurrent expenditure is 9.92trillion naira while debt service is projected to be 8.25 trillion naira and capital expenditure is 8.7 trillion Naira”
And, following the conclusion of legislative assignments on the Budget by the various Standing Committees of both the Senate and House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee, Senator Adeola Olamilekan while presenting the harmonized report at plenary explained that in consideration of genuine requests for additional funding for underfunded items in the budget of ministries, departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government the budget has increased by 1.2trillion naira: from 27.5 trillion naira to 28.7 trillion naira.
Satisfied with the process, the National Assembly, at plenary passed the 2024 Budget of 28.7 trillion naira and same was assented to by President Tinubu on Monday, January 1, 2024.
Facts available publicly further indicate that the claim that 3.7 trillion naira in the 2024 budget is not attached to cost items is both factually incorrect and a misleading perspective to the budget padding narrative.
It is established that the ‘contested’ 3.7trillion naira is the budget for the Judiciary, National Assembly, INEC, TETFUND, North East Development Commission (NEDC), Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Government Owned Enterprise (GOE). And, customarily, as evidenced in previous years budgets, the breakdown of the budget details of these agencies are not captured in the budget document because they are statutory agencies of government whose budgets are on the first line charge.
Is it not ridiculous that a ranking Senator in the mould of Senator Ningi, could not properly understand this reality, and inexcusable that he could not correctly delineate these facts?
It goes without the saying that budget padding is a highly objectionable and consequential national economic malady that should neither be supported nor dignified with sectional sentiments by individuals or blind partisan affinity by any political party.
Thus, genuine calls for thorough investigation of the alleged budget padding saga should be properly examined and, where there are merits, conducted by relevant statutory agencies meticulously, publicly and transparently to strengthen public confidence in the legislature.
Also, if the intent is to deepen democratic engagements and actions, those aggrieved by the Senate’s suspension of Senator Ningi could challenge the constitutionality of the senate’s action at the appropriate court rather than resort to misleading comments and inciting activities ostensibly designed to advance sectional agenda and achieve selfish political goals.
For many proverbial reasons, the call for Akpabio’s resignation by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a boring display of showy opposition politics at a time that constructive synergy is highly demanded to address the besetting hash economic challenges facing the country.
If there is any meat in the budget padding narrative, the failure by the PDP, as a major opposition party, to reprimand its members who are serving as chairmen and members of the various standing committees and sub-committees of both the Senate and the House of Representatives that scrutinized the budget is an objectionable demonstration of the endemic political hypocrisy that has undermined functional democracy in Nigeria and by extension meaningful national economic development.
More so, since legislative assignment on preparing a national budget is a whole lot of structured engagements and processes by various committees and sub-committees including harmonization of reports and the concurrence by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, it becomes curious to ask why other Senators, The Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives should be absorbed of blame if there is anything like budget padding as alleged?
Why single out Senator Akpabio for crucifixion?
Are the cocktails behind the alleged budget padding agenda on a sectional political vendetta or a battle of political attrition or what?
Who is afraid of Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio as the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?
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28/06/2023

Senator Akpan pays N3.1m Scholarship to 84 undergraduates

The immediate past Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan has disbursed N3.1 million for 84 remaining of the 481 beneficiaries of his scholarship scheme for undergraduate students in tertiary institutions.

Speaking through the Head of the Scholarship Management Team, Dr Unyime Okon, Senator Akpan disclosed that the N3,1million is for the payment of second-semester’s tuition fees and stipend for the beneficiaries covering the 2021/2022 academic session.

He noted that about 70 per cent of the benefiting students are from the Medicine and Surgery of the Faculty of Basic Medical Studies, Pharmacy, and Faculty of Engineering of the University of Uyo while others are from the University of Calabar; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Akwa Ibom State University and Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua.

“It will interest you to know that 47 of the 84 current beneficiaries are expected to graduate by the end of the current semester, with the remaining 37 students to complete their respective programme by the end of the 2022/2023 academic session,” he stated.

The Senator Bassey Albert scholarship scheme launched in January 2016 to assist indigent students to achieve their educational aspirations in the universities and other tertiary institutions in the country has so far disbursed over N150 million.

According to Dr Okon, a total of 41 beneficiaries have graduated with first-class honours and over 300 with second-class upper-division honours in different fields of endeavour.

22/06/2023

OBA PETITIONS CJN ON THREATS TO LIVES
* Requests Disbandment or Relocation of Tribunal to Abuja.
Senator Bassey Akpan, the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the last election, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the President of the Court of Appeal, to relocate the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo to Abuja, following threats to his life, those of lawyers as well as his witnesses.
Senator Akpan, popularly known as OBA is before the tribunal as a petitioner in EPT/ AKW/GOV/01/2023, between him & Anor. V. INEC & 2 Ors., and 4th Respondent in Mr Akanimo A. Udofia & Anor. V. INEC & 4 Ors.
In the petition, a copy of which was also sent to the Chairman of the tribunal sitting in Uyo, OBA’s lead counsel, Ahmed Raji SAN, said the request for relocation was compelled by a number of “unsavoury life-threatening” experiences which his client, the lawyers and witnesses have gone through, particularly after the proceedings of 20th June 2023.
The petitioner said: “It is very clear to us that our lives are no longer safe in Akwa Ibom State. This has completely eroded the possibility of having a just, safe and fair trial in Uyo”. He also suggested that the tribunal should be disbanded.
He specifically blamed the June 20, 2023 attack by a combined team of police and army on Umo Eno, the current Governor of Akwa Ibom State, who is a party the Petitions above.
He recalled to their Lordships that initially, the petitioner had tried persuading Mr Daniel Akpan (a staff of the University of Uyo) to testify “but he repeatedly declined, on the ground that his life was under threat by some unknown persons, who claimed he ought not to have certified the academic records of Eno Umo Bassey-the Governor Akwa Ibom State. The life threats were so much, that he had to move his family from Uyo”.
“On this premise, the Petitioners were compelled to have sub poena served on him. He was invited to testify in Court and give evidence.

12/03/2023

AKWA IBOM GUBER:
Only God's Grace matters, not Government interest, says Father Patrick Edet

The Founder and General Overseer of Grace Family Rev. Father Patrick Edet has described as withcraftcy any power that seeks to install a leader for the people without seeking the face of God.

The fiery Pastor made this declaration when the YPP gubernatorial candidate for Akwa Ibom State, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, took members of his Akwa Ubokabasi Campaign Council to the Goshen Grace Family for a Thanksgiving service.

While speaking directly to Senator Bassey Albert he said, "Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, the above is interested in you".

He described Senator Albert as a man of grace who has earned the trust of God to receive powers to lead Akwa Ibom people.

While quoting from 1st Timothy 1-4 Father Patrick Edet called on Senator Albert to constantly pray, give thanksgiving and lead a life of peace and watch the power God is handing over to him.

He further added that any endorsement that is not sanctioned from above shall not stand. He encouraged Senator Albert to continue with his campaign of development as he stands the greater chance of emerging the leader Akwa Ibom State needs.

He took a swipe on politicians who do not have a mind of their own by always asking, what does the Governor want, describing it as a reproachable action in governance. He called on the people to stand up and choose whom they want to lead them as their Governor by ignoring all the stories of endorsement going round the state.

Rev. Edet urged the Church to watch and Pray as times are bad and may lead to the election of bad leaders who do not mean well for the people.

He called on Akwa Ibom people to elect a leader who will give them a new Akwa Ibom.