Day: January 17, 2025

The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Akwa Ibom State Governor on Research and Documentation, Dr. Essien Ndueso, has criticized detractors of the current administration for their renewed media attacks and campaigns of calumny. Dr. Ndueso described recent criticism of Governor Umo Eno’s decision to reward a young Nigerian, Precious Bodunde, with ₦10 million for her exceptional ability to pronounce the five longest words in the English dictionary as “mischievous.” Speaking during a television interview in Uyo, he noted that such baseless accusations were not surprising, as political opponents have…

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Akwa Ibom State‘s newly-appointed Commissioner of Police, Baba Mohammed Azare has pledged to tackle the rising wave of crime in the state. He spoke when he paid a courtesy visit to the state Governor, Pastor Umo Eno at the Government House in Uyo, the state capital. SolaceBase reports that CP Azare, who identified pockets of kidnappings, armed robbery, communal clashes, and homicidal cases as some of the security challenges facing the state, assuring the Governor that his team in collaboration with the DSS in the state have commenced profiling the sponsors…

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BUA Group has clarified the Akwa Ibom refinery’s progress, denying 90% completion claim, and assured timely delivery and energy security. The BUA group on Sunday clarified that although its 200,000 barrels per day crude oil refinery located in Akwa Ibom, South-south Nigeria, was progressing and would be delivered on schedule, it was not yet 90 per cent completed as erroneously reported in some quarters. The Abdul Samad Rabiu-led business conglomerate, in a statement on Sunday, also stated that in the last 10 years, it had spent about $3.5 billion on…

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