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  Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, has commiserated with families that lost their loved ones and prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in a ghastly motor accident along Abaji-Kwali Expressway, Abuja on Wednesday. Rt. Hon. Bassey, who made this known through a signed statement on Thursday, expressed his grief, sympathy and condolence to the people of the state over the irreplaceable loss. “The leadership and members of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly are deeply sadden and heartbroken by the sad incident. On behalf of my colleagues and Honourable Members, I send my heartfelt sympathy and condolence to the families of the five youngsters and prospective Corp members who died in a ghastly motor accident along the Abaji-Kwali Expressway on Wednesday, July 28, 2021,” the statement said. “I am more pained that most of them were our constituents who had willingly offered themselves to serve the nation. I pray that God Alm

  A former Governorship Aspirant, Artch Ezekiel Nyaetuk has called on political leaders in Nigeria to actively engaged the youth in the main stream of governance  to enable them become self reliance. He made the call during an interaction with newsmen at  Social Housing Estate, Ikot Ntuen Nsit shortly after picking his membership card to officially join African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Wednesday, 14 July, 2021. " Our youth  must be free from that  joke of slavery and we call it responsibility transfered to the youths, we want a governor that prioritizes the youth and decides that once or two times every Month he has a dialogue with the youth,  imagine a governor sitting down with the youth teaching and training them on  responsibility, talking to them about ethics, leadership, business and values and this is what I have been doing" . His words. Nyaetuk decried the situation were youth are being servitude by political leaders for their selfish interest and constantly subje

  The member Representing INI State Constituency and the Chief Whip, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Bassey has appealed to the Federal Government of Nigeria,  Akwa Ibom State Government and the  Federal Ministry of Education to consider Nkari in INI Local Government Area as the best location for the proposed Federal University of Technology.  Speaking with journalists in Uyo, the lawmaker said this will naturally put an end to over two decades of communal clashes between Nkari and Usaka, a neighbouring community in Abia State which has led to loss of lives and property.  He noted that 'the indigenes of the area (Nkari) are now living in fear due to incessant and perpetual attacks. They can no longer go to the farm and market. Movement from one place to another within the area is done with utmost caution, which has brought untold hardship and sufferings upon the indigenes.' He further said 'Nkari is blessed with abundant natural resources and hardworkin