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  The Chairman Akwa Ibom State House Committee on Special Projects , Monitoring,Implementation and Aviation Development, Rt. Hon. Akiekan Uko has stated that the pace at ensuring that projects done by the State Governor are completed within timeline shows non compromise towards the Completion Agenda. Elder Uko made the assertion while leading members of the Committee on an Oversight function to the New Terminal Building of the Victor Attah International Airport , MRO and the International Worship Centre recently. "we as a committee are impressed by the effort of His Excellency the Governor  and all that he has done for Akwa Ibom people.  "as the representatives of the people, we are the ones to come and see things for ourselves and go to tell the people we represent.  "We have seen, we don't need to ask questions. Starting from the MRO, that one is 95% completed. The International Wing of the Victor Attah international Airport and many other structures are moving at

By Ini Adiakpan, PhD It cannot be over-emphasized the benevolence and commitment Governor Udom Emmanuel has shown in the matter of women inclusion in governance. Arguably, record shows that no Governor or State in the country comes close to matching the standard that Governor Udom Emmanuel has set.  This, of course, cannot be surprising. Recall that during his governorship electioneering campaigns both in 2015 and 2019, the Governor had vented his displeasure against the societal stereotypes and stigmatization women in the State had been made to pass through, whether in the family, society, the corporate world and in government.  As such, one of his memorable promises to women was that when he assumes office as Governor, there was going to be a paradigm shift and a rewriting of history. As a man of his words, the Governor has in a way, unprecedented in the history of governance in the State, fulfilled that promise and raised the bar so high that whoever shall come after him will have t