According to The vanguard news .. A’Ibom Assembly defies Court order, passes bill to end rotational headship. Even with the Court Order stopping Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly from passing the bill for a law to end rotational headship of the state Traditional Rulers Council (TRC) to allow permanent headship by the majority Ibibio ethnic group in the state. The State’s 8th House on Friday passed the Bill for a law to amend the Traditional Rulers Law, Cap. 155 Laws of Akwa Ibom State, 2023 (HAB 316) against the disapproval by the people of Annangs, Akwa Ibom second largest ethnic group who had sought the restraining order from the State High Court presided over by Justice Ntong Ntong. The State Legislature passed the Bill after members representing Etim Ekpo/Ika State Constituency, and Chairman, House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Mfon Idung submitted the committee’s report on the floor of the House. Hon Idung had told colleagues that the proposed law, amon

  Being text of a broadcast speech by His Excellency, Pastor Umo Eno, Governor, Akwa Ibom State, during the 36th anniversary of the State’s creation on September 23, 2023.  My Fellow Akwa Ibomites 1. My wife, Her Excellency, Pastor (Mrs.) Patience Umo Eno and I send our hearty congratulations to you all on the occasion of the 36th Anniversary of the creation of our dear State, the Land of Promise, Akwa Ibom State.   2. It was exactly 36 years ago, today, that God hearkened to the prayers of our forebears with the creation of this great Land of Promise that was fittingly named after Him. 3. 36 years later, it has been a story of God’s awesome grace, of stupendous lifting up even when there was a casting down. Today, the State that, upon her creation, thirty six years ago, was a dusty rural backwater, where the roads were narrow and at most looked like bush tracks, now enjoys the enviable position of being the sub national with possibly the best road network in the nation. 4. Today, a me

  Fire outbreak in Abak LGA By our Uyo Correspondence. Abraham Timothy. It was a day turn night for Utenge Friday James, an indigene of Abak LGA of Akwa-Ibom These young man  left his house early morning on 20th Sep. for his daily hustling Painter only to return home in the evening to see his house completely burn down by fire, some of his neighbours who witness the inferno said they were unable rescue any property due to the intensity of the fire owing to the fact that they were not aware of the fire when it started   An eyewitness said that they only saw tick smoke coming out from the roof of the house around 1:30pm in the afternoon but they couldn't rescue any of his belongings due to the intensity of the fire  Utenge Friday James is crying out for help by any good Samaritan he's left with just the cloth he wore yesterday  We call on the well meaning Nigerian to assist the young man in whatever they can to alleviate is suffering, also call on the Akwa-Ibom state Government t

FROM THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS THIS MORNING  Reported by our Uyo Correspondence: Abraham Timothy It was end of the road on Tuesday for two robbery gang members who robbed Uyo residents at Udoette by School Road, Ikot Udoro and its environs, as they met their waterloo in a gun battle with the Police. Another member of the gang, one Godswill Ntieno Isaac, was however lucky to have been picked up alive. Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olatoye Durosinmi announced this today in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Odiko Macdon. He said the Police were responding to a distress call at about 1:50am, last Tuesday when operatives of Quick Intervention Unit proceeded to the scene and on sighting the Police, the hoodlums engaged them in a gun duel. The Police chief said items recovered from the criminals include, 4 Locally made Pistols, 15 Live Cartridges, 2 Expanded Cartridges and one Iron Cutter. Others are, two Machetes, one dagger, 2 Plasma Television sets,