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Public servants in the state have been tasked to see the on-going personnel audit as their own by collaborating with government in weeding out miscreants from government payroll. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akan Okon, while addressing representatives of ...

The Special Adviser, Bureau of Political and Legislative Affairs, Mr. Anietie Etuk has admonished retirees in the State to assist in nurturing younger workers in the service and to lend their wealth of experience to the development of the state. ...

The Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Dr. Iniobong Essien has ordered dredging companies engaged in indiscriminate sand dredging and evacuation activities in the state to stop operations forthwith. Dr. Essien, who issued the order last Monday after a meeting ...

Principals-General and teachers in the State who have refused to key into government programmes and policies have been advised to resign rather than sabotage government efforts. The Permanent Secretary, State Secondary Education Board, Elder Akpan Solomon Akpan, who was on ...

Communities in the state embroiled in intractable border crises will henceforth forfeit such land to the State Government for agricultural purposes. The Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses Ekpo, while giving a keynote address during the Akwa Ibom and Abia Inter-State Boundary ...

The Ministry of Rural Development has issued a one-month ultimatum to contractors handling Rural Electrification Projects (RECs) in the State to deliver the projects or be sanctioned. Giving the ultimatum last Monday during a meeting with the contractors in Uyo, ...

The State government is ready to build a viable economy with a view to enhancing its revenue base, thereby complementing the monthly statutory Federal allocation. The Commissioner of Economic Development, Dr. Emmanuel Ating Onwioduokit while fielding questions on a live ...

Small and medium scale business operators in the state will, from next year, benefit from the N5 billion under the Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) Development Fund of the Bank of Industry (BoI). The Executive Chairman, Akwa Ibom ...

Widows in the State have been asked to refrain from heaping curses on their children to enable them fulfil their destiny in life. The Ika Transition Committee Chairman, Mr. Marcus Macdonald speaking last Tuesday, during a meeting by Women Advocacy ...

Governor Udom Emmanuel has called on graduates in the country to look beyond their fields of specialization in their quest to make ends meet, saying the dynamic nature of today’s society is dictated by ideas rather than certificates. Speaking at ...