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EFCC Apologises As Health Unions Suspend Strike After AKSG Peace Meeting With UUTH

adminMay 18, 2026

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has apologised over the controversial altercation involving its operatives and staff of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), a development that has led to the suspension of the industrial action earlier declared by health sector unions in Akwa Ibom State. The apology was tendered during a joint...

Abandoned at Seven Months, Maltreated by Stepmother, Nigerian Lawyer Takes Fight for Women’s Justice to United Nations

adminMay 18, 2026

For Awele Ideal, standing among global leaders and advocates at the United Nations Headquarters in New York was not just another professional achievement. It was the triumph of a woman who says she was abandoned as a baby, suffered abuse while growing up, and turned her pain into a lifelong mission to defend vulnerable women...

UUTH CMD Fights Tears as EFCC Shootout Exposes Patients to Avoidable Deaths …Seeks FG, State Intervention as Hospital Services Collapse Amid Crisis

adminMay 13, 2026

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Prof. Ememabasi Bassey, struggled to hold back tears on Wednesday as he narrated how Tuesday’s violent confrontation between operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and hospital staff exposed critically ill patients to avoidable deaths and paralysed services at the...

Doctors Shut Down Health Services in Akwa Ibom as EFCC–UUTH Confrontation Sparks Nationwide Concern

adminMay 12, 2026

Healthcare delivery across Akwa Ibom State was brought to a standstill on Tuesday following an indefinite strike declared by the Nigerian Medical Association in response to a confrontation involving operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital. The development has created a tense atmosphere within the health sector,...

2027: Akpabio Backs Umo Eno, Seeks Massive Support for Tinubu in A’Ibom

adminMay 12, 2026

President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Monday night threw his weight behind the second term bid of Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, while rallying political stakeholders in the state to deliver overwhelming support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. Akpabio gave the assurance in Uyo when Governor...

Gun, Drugs Recovered as Police Raid Criminal Hideout in Abak

adminMay 8, 2026

A May 7 police operation has disrupted suspected criminal activities in Abak, with officers recovering a firearm, suspected hard drugs and other items from a forest hideout. The operation, carried out by operatives of the newly established Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU), followed credible intelligence pointing to the area along Ikot Abasi Road as a...

Diplomatic Shake-Up: Tinubu Appoints Ita Enang Ambassador to Germany

adminMay 7, 2026

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of veteran lawmaker and former presidential aide Ita Solomon Enang as Nigeria’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany. The appointment, announced on Thursday through Enang’s media aide, Uduakabasi Ikpatt, is expected to see the former senator assume duties at the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin in the coming...

GOV ENO HIGHLIGHTS GAINS OF A’IBOM AIRPORT INT’L OPERATIONS, CREATES AVIATION MINISTRY

adminMay 7, 2026

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has said the attainment of international status by the Victor Attah International Airport, VAIA, will not only benefit Akwa Ibom State, but Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea region. In a world pess briefing upon his return from the maiden international flight to the airport from Accra, Ghana,...

2027 GUBER: GOV ENO SUBMITS APC NOMINATION FORM …says party faithful should support aspiration

adminMay 7, 2026

Ahead of the 2027 governorship election, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has submitted his nomination form for the primaries of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) with a call on party faithful to support his aspiration. Speaking with Government House Correspondents at the Victor Attah International Airport upon his return from Abuja, where...

Ekong Emerges UNIUYO VC

adminApril 30, 2026

Professor Christopher Nyong Ekong has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Uyo. An abridged profile made available to newsmen on Thursday indicates that Ekong, an indigene of Uyo Local Government Area, was born on October 25, 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War. The new Vice Chancellor studied Economics at the University of Cross River...