BMW Tupac was shot dead in is being sold with bullet holes for $1.75m
The car Tupac Shakur was in when he was shot dead has been put up for sale for $1.75m. The legendary rapper was a passenger in a BMW 750 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996. The shooting took place while Tupac Shakur was being driven by his friend and notorious record producer, Suge Knight after watching a...
Buhari At 77: “Please Tell Baba We Are With Him All The Way” – Femi Adesina
I boarded a commercial airliner heading to Lagos from Abuja. I was already seated, and strapping my seat belt, when a young man approached me. He must have been in his late 20s, or at most, early 30s. I shook hands, greeted him warmly, and he slipped something in my palm. He went back to his seat. It was a...
[OPINION] POOR SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN ABIA STATE, BY NWAGBOGU AMARA
Education in Abia state, especially in the public sector is in a state of dysfunction. The students are disillusioned with public education. Their teachers are frustrated in the face of poor motivation and Lack of good facilities. What is clear is that successive governments have paid lip service to revamp a sector bedevilled by low budgetary allocations, poor incentives for...
Political Inclusion: Governor Udom Emmanuel’s Matrix
B. N. Etim Last week, precisely on Thursday, November 21, eleven (11) bonafide members of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom state who are stakeholders of the party in...
MAN holds workshop on cyber crimes, cultism, drugs for secondary schools
Edet Okpo The Management of Maritime Academy of Nigeria is relentless in the advancement of its sustainable template for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for the host communities of the Academy. On Friday, November 22, 2019, the Academy successfully organized a Sensitization workshop on the theme: “Curbing Drug Abuse, Cyber Crime and Cultism Among Secondary School Students”. This was one...
A’Ibom Works Commissioner, Ephraim Inyang and his failed roads
Abasifreke Effiong If you drive slowly from Ikot Akpaden, Mkpat Enin to Uyo through the 12.742 kilometres Mkpat Enin-ONNA road, from Comprehensive High School Ikot Ayan to the Y junction which leads to Awa, you will count about 50 potholes and multitude distresses of different geometric patterns. The road has moderate volume traffic with limited heavy vehicles, yet it...
Governor Emmanuel’s feats in quest for power for all by 2021
Kufre Etuk On 11th March, 2018, during the 25th Power Sector Stakeholders’ Meeting in Nigeria held in Uyo, the then Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, described Akwa Ibom State as a “power State”, considering the numerous investment carried out in the sector by the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel. Right from when the Governor took over...
Ibom Airline’s success spins new perspective on Udom’s industrialisation prog’
By Abasifreke Effiong Ibom Airline's success story within 100 days of operations in the Nigerian Airspace has spin a new positive perspective on the industrialisation agenda of Governor Udom Emmanuel administration. The visibility, excellent operations as well as testimonies of good services rendered by the Akwa Ibom State government-owned airliners are significantly pushing renowned, unapolgetic pessimists and opponents of...
