Gunmen attack NYSC lodge, rob, r*pe women in Akwa Ibom …They arrived on a tricycle, popularly called Keke and immediately started operation, a corp member disclosed EDITOR’S PICK: Plights Continues In PDP As Wike Rejects One-On-One Meeting With Atiku Sanwo-Olu Applauded On Staff Development, Capacity Building (PHOTOS Court Orders Ex-Presidential Candidate To Pay Ex-Wife €15M … Read more
Ex-presidential aspirant Senator Godswill Akpabio and Udom Ekpoudom are fighting over the Akwa Ibom Northwest APC senatorial ticket …recalls Akpabio withdrew his presidential ambition for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu last week at the primaries EDITOR’S PICK Roots TV Founder, Kachikwu, Ends Moghalu’s Presidential Dream, Emerges ADC 2023 Flagbearer Tinubu Defeats Osinbajo, Amaechi, Others, Clinches APC … Read more
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, said the commission would only recognise the winner of the primaries monitored by INEC He denied the claim that the commission monitored the re-run APC senatorial primaries, where Akpabio emerged winner. EDITOR’S PICK Roots TV Founder, Kachikwu, Ends Moghalu’s Presidential Dream, Emerges ADC 2023 Flagbearer Tinubu … Read more
INEC Declares Akwa Ibom APC Guber Aspirant Seat Vacant. This was announced even after Mr. Akanimo Udofia was declared the winner of the APC governorship primary with a total vote of 1227 to defeat eight other aspirants. EDITOR’S PICK 2023: Full Details Of Tinubu’s Closed Door Meeting With Yahaya Bello Emerge 2023: Tinubu Drop Hints … Read more
Akpabio, who stepped down for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during the just concluded presidential primary of the party, emerged winner with 478 votes The State APC Chairman, Stephen Ntukekpo, said he was directed by the party at the national level to carry out the re-run, citing infractions in the first primary EDITOR’S PICK: 2023: Things To … Read more
According to a source, the gunmen shot several times into the air to scare people away before whisking the Catholic priest away …the youth leader said more than 18 persons had been abducted in the last six months EDITOR’S PICK Why I Haven’t Named Those Behind Insecurity In Imo —Uzodimma 2023 Presidency: Ohanaeze Threatens Boycott … Read more
The pastor said the kidnappers tortured him so that he could accept to pay the initial ₦100 million ransom demanded He said after his release, he first visited the capital ground of his church because it was close to the kidnappers den EDITOR’S PICK Sultan Declares Monday Eid-el-fitr Day In Nigeria Eid-el-Fitr: NLC To Shift … Read more
Akpabio To Officially Join Presidential Race On Wednesday. According to his media aide, Anietie Ekong, Akpabio will declare his intention to join the presidential race on Wednesday, April 4, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital. EDITOR’S PICK [JUST IN] 2023: Uwazuruike Under Fire For Endorsing Yahaya Bello 2023: PDP Picks Abuja For Convention, NEC Decides … Read more
Niger Delta Militants Declare Massive Support For Tinubu. In a 1 minute 17 seconds video, shared on social media, the armed men were on the water. All of them were masked and apparently understands the terrain of the water. EDITOR’S PICK [JUST IN] 2023: Sanwo-Olu Presents His Gov Nomination Forms To Tinubu ‘Forget About 2023 … Read more
Popular Akwa Ibom Pastor regains freedom, after spending 4 days with the kidnappers I can confirm that Apostle John has been released, but I don’t have any information on whether the ransom was paid – Police Public Relations, Officer EDITOR’S PICK [BREAKING] 2023: Goodluck Jonathan Opens Up On ‘Contesting’ For President [BREAKING] 2023: Protesters Storm … Read more
Akwa Ibom state elders have threatened to work against any governorship aspirant found making inciteful comments capable of jeopardising the state’s current peaceful atmosphere. They declared that they would oppose any attempt by politicians to return the state to the ignominious days of politically motivated assassinations and kidnappings that dotted the political landscape between 2007 … Read more
Thugs suspected of supporting a prominent politician in Akwa Ibom State have kidnapped the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon Aniekan Bassey, while he was on a consultation visit to the state’s Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area. At a joint media briefing on Sunday, two groups under the auspices of the Mandate Eyes … Read more
A minor disagreement ensued between the suspected cultist and the pupil and he stabbed his victim to death and fled The state government ordered that the institution be shut to enable the State Secondary Education Board and the Ministry of Education to wade into the matter EKO HOT BLOG reports that Akwa Ibom State Government … Read more
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for beating his father to death and tagging him a wizard. Philip, a native of Mbiakpan Atan in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area was tried and convicted by Justice Bassey Nkanang for killing his 68-year-old father over allegations that he was a wizard, and responsible for the … Read more
Beside winning the Deji Tinubu trophy, the overall school in the SBN International Athletics Championship will get some development programmes and prize money not less than N5 million The competition is to enable young athletes, particularly, those in private schools, to compete and feel the experience their counterparts in other countries enjoy. EKO HOT BLOG … Read more
Ekerete Udo, quoted Emmanuel as saying God picked Eno as the next governor… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the choice of Umo Eno, Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Lands, as Governor Udom Emmanuel’s preferred candidate for the 2023 gubernatorial election has divided the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. At a stakeholders’ meeting on … Read more
Lagos4Lagos Defection: PDP Chairman, Governors, Stalwarts Storm Lagos to Receive defecting APC Group to the party EKO HOT BLOG reports that elected state Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other chieftains, led by its National chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, on Friday, converged in Lagos, for the defection of members of the “Lagos4Lagos … Read more
Court discharges corps member accused of killing boyfriend in Akwa Ibom EKO HOT BLOG reports that Chidinma Paschaline Odume, a 2021 Batch ‘A’ member of the National Youths Service Corps, Akwa Ibom State, who was on trial for the horrible murder of one Akwaowo Japheth 26, has been dismissed by the State High Court sitting … Read more
…the suspect, aside from impersonating the commissioner on Facebook, defrauded unsuspecting members of the public, mostly women… EKO HOT BLOG reports that operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department have arrested a suspected fraudster, Imaobong Akpan, for allegedly impersonating the state Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources, … Read more
Three persons have been dead as youths and Hausa clash. EKO HOT BLOG reports that there is panic in Afaha Oku, Ikpa community, in the Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, following the killing of two scrap collectors in the community. It was gathered that the victims were lynched in retaliation for their … Read more