Akwa Ibom doctors set deadline for EFCC amid strike threat

Nigeria, May 18 -- Doctors in Akwa Ibom State have given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) a two-week deadline to meet conditions set by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) or fac... Read More

'Patients are dying': Hospital CMD begs striking doctors to return to work after EFCC raid

Nigeria, May 17 -- The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Emem Bassey, has appealed to doctors to suspend their strike and return to work, warning that patients a... Read More

Wike allies, assembly speaker win Rivers APC House of Reps tickets

Nigeria, May 17 -- The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has declared loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, winners of its House of Representatives pri... Read More

2027: Disqualified Akwa Ibom APC aspirants claim Akpabio, Eno hand-picked candidates

Nigeria, May 17 -- A group of disqualified Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly aspirants has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership of manipulation. The aggrieved politicians alleged th... Read More

Host communities ask Tinubu to reverse gas flare penalty order

Nigeria, May 17 -- Host communities in oil-producing areas of Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states have asked President Bola Tinubu to rescind part of Executive Order 9, which directs that gas-flare penalties... Read More

Appeal Court upholds conviction of ex-NDDC MD's aide for non-disclosure of assets

Nigeria, May 17 -- The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt has upheld the conviction and prison sentence handed to George Turnah, a former aide to the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Developm... Read More

Resource Curse? The only school in this Akwa Ibom oil community lies in ruins

Nigeria, May 16 -- In Emere-Oke Kingdom, a cluster of five gazetted villages in Eastern Obolo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, the promise of development sits uneasily beside stark neglect. ... Read More

Niger Delta groups demand audit of abandoned oil wells

Nigeria, May 16 -- Civil society groups, labour unions, environmental activists and community leaders from across the Niger Delta have demanded the immediate publication of payments made into oil and ... Read More

Eno rides roller coaster at N30bn resort project clouded in procurement secrecy

Nigeria, May 16 -- Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State on Thursday night inspected the nearly completed ARISE Palm Resort in Uyo, riding one of the newly installed roller coasters alongside commission... Read More

EFCC orders probe into its controversial teaching hospital operation

Nigeria, May 16 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied allegations that its operatives brutalised staff of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital during a controversial ope... Read More

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