Category: Features

      By Uwem Akpabio   A first time visitor to the prowling city of Uyo, would by hindsight, feel the city is overtaken by a colony of mentally deranged individuals and destitutes. A cross section of the public seems to be submerged by this development, where it would be assumed that an average proportion of this lunatic and destitute population is on the increase by the indices of population growth and control. Through this development could be reviewed as prevailing development phenomenon associated with growing and developing societies…

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    By Victor Essang   ‘‘You are an asset and a proud product of our great party,’’ the State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Harrison Ekpo told Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Ekon, before presenting the award of excellence conferred on the lawmaker by the Akwa Ibom Newspaper Corporation (AKNC),publisher of The Pioneer Newspaper at its 30th anniversary celebration recently. Few days after PDP poured encomium on the lawmaker, a Federal Government organisation that has felt the impact of Ekon’s oversight functions and collaborative efforts sent a heartwarming…

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    The 2019 general election is about 13 months away but from a definite look of things, the people of Etinan Federal Constituency may have made up their minds already on who to represent them at the Green Chambers come next political dispensation, writes Editor, Udeme Inyang.     With three Local Government Areas making up this Federal Constituency, over the years, Etinan, Nsit Ubium and Nsit Ibom have been saddled with the task of producing a single representative per political dispensation to represent them.   Recently, as PDP…

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  By Udeme Afia   To majority of the politically inclined indigenes of Nigeria’s 21st State (Akwa Ibom), the emergence of a former executive director of Zenith Bank and one of Nigeria’s finest bankers, the firm-spoken Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, as the tenth chief executive of the 30-year old state, was among the greatest positive consequences of theGod’swillAkpabio’s 8-year regime. To this category of individuals, that a man who was not in their political reckoning could emerge as Akpabio’s successor was one of the wonders of the state. A lot were…

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  By Anny MICHAELS   Many have come to know Distinguished Senator Bassey Albert Akpan (OBA) as a man who strongly believes in the philosophy that ‘’There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up’’. Again, for the vibrant Senator, Service is the game changer. For a fact, the Senator is indeed a man very committed to service, it is an attribute that has become his signature and one in which he is the head of logistics. This passion over the years right from…

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By Anny Michael The décor at Senator Bassey Albert’s Liaison Office, Uyo is a great appeal for the good people of Uyo Senatorial District and the people centric Senator. That hall which seats at least 500 persons and is tastefully furnished with split ACs was within the first six months of the Distinguished Senator’s current stay at Nigeria’s senate built and donated to the good people of Akwa Ibom North East (Uyo) Senatorial District to enable them have a befitting event centre for marriages, naming Ceremonies and other allied social…

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It could be a sad fact to admit without sugar coating that it was Lord Luggard’s manipulation that brought about the entity called Nigeria, with different ethnic nations, still struggling to remain indivisible till date. In Akwa Ibom State, as in Nigeria has several ethnic groups occupying the same geographical space for years. The marriage of cultures and values has been refreshingly beneficial to all and we wouldn’t wish for anything different if there is a life after now. I however write these lines today clothed as an Ibibio man…

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