NIGERIAN paper imports during the last six months of 2021 added up to N296.696bn ($716m) as a result of the fact that the nation's mills have all but grounded to a halt forcing the country to be dependent on overseas supplies.
Over recent years, Nigeria's paper mills have collapsed years after privatisation, forcing the...
GOVERNOR Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has anointed his lands and water resources commissioner Pastor Uno Eno as his successor saying that he will do everything he can to ensure he emerges as the next chief executive.
Nigeria is due to hold her general elections in February next year and Akwa Ibom is one of those states...
AKWA Ibom's state-owned airline Ibom Air has procured 10 Airbus A220 aircraft from Bombardier Aerospace as part of a comprehensive expansion plan aimed at increasing its presence in the Nigerian market.
Aiming to not only establish itself as a major operator within the Nigerian aviation market but regionally too, Ibom Air...
LAWMAKERS in Nigeria's House of Representatives are contemplating passing a bill that will offer constitutional backing to regional security operations like Amotekun and Ebubeagu in a bid to address the growing insecurity plaguing the nation.
Over recent years, Nigeria has become one of the most insecure places on earth...
AKWA Ibom State government has marked a popular church in Uyo known as Holy Ghost Ambassadors Ministry International for demolition after its clergyman Pastor Andy Nyeneime spoke against Governor Udom Emmanuel's plans to foist a successor on the state.
Last week, Pastor Nyeneime spoke out against plans by the governor to...
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) governors have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to set his ego aside and admit that there was no justification for banning Twitter in Nigeria and asked that he lift the indefinite suspension imposed on the platform.
Earlier this month, the federal government announced an indefinite...
THREE police officers including a chief superintendent of police identified as Ben Ajide have been reported to have lost their lives during the recent shootout between Nigerian security forces and the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) in Akwa Ibom State.
In the first such incident of its kinds, members of...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As the debate the future of Nigeria rages, many people are clamouring for the dissolution of states and replacing them with regions as federating units. However, that proposal is based on raw nostalgic emotion that does not stand up to scrutiny
(2) During the First Republic, our regions were too large and unwieldy....
NIGERIA'S ongoing Fulani herdsmen problem has spread to Akwa Ibom State after pastoralists invaded a farm near Uyo belonging to an aide of Governor Udom Emmanuel and destroyed at least 400 plantain stands.
Over recent months, the herdsmen saga has threatened to tear Nigeria apart as incessant clashes with local farmers have...
NIGER Delta campaigners have secured another major victory against Royal Dutch Shell after the Appeal Court at the Hague in the Netherlands asked the oil giant to pay commensurate compensation to victims of two oil-polluted communities.
Two separate oil spills from a Shell facility occurred in 2004 and 2008, polluting...
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