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The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has assured staff working in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly that he will do everything within his reach to make sure that the welfare of staff as well as their working environment is better in his tenure as the peoples Speaker. Elder Uko dropped the hint while during a parley and interactive session with staff of the assembly in the assembly complex recently. On the complaints of the staff ranging from increment of their office impress, allowances to…

…Moves to re-establish Uyo main market …invokes traditional injunction The people of Uyo Local Government Area are now ready for war with the government of Akwa Ibom State under the leadership of Deacon Udom Gabriel Emmanuel over the long demolished Uyo Village Market (Urua Uyo) as they have defied government ban and launch into rebooting the market. Clearing the six years abandoned wide area, the visibly angered chiefs, market women and youths of the area, recently, said they were tired of irresponsible and unreasonable government who continually exploited the citizens…

The State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has advocated effective tax education in Nigeria with the view to motivating high degree of compliance by the people. The Governor was speaking while declaring open the Mandatory Professional Training Program of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN),in Uyo. Represented by the Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akan Okon, Governor Emmanuel who described tax as a major source of government’s revenue in most countries which is a civic duty of every eligible citizen to pay, however decried the high rate of tax evasion…

A former member of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly for Uyo State Constituency, Ekere Afia has gotten himself into a fix on dubious land deals he purportedly transacted during his tenure as lawmaker. The properties in contention belonged to many families in Ifa Ikot Akpan Etoi, Uyo Local Government Area before they were sold out to developers. Last weekend, the community and property developers in the area were shocked to receive a “final demolition notice” with a 21day ultimatum from Uyo Capital City Development Authority, (UCCDA), to uproot developing…