The Empire Naija

By Ime Ben Following the recent retirement of the previous Coordinators for the four core communities of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, namely Eket, Esit Eket, Ibeno a destination Onna local government areas, a non governmental organization in the State, the Network Advancement Programme for Poverty and Disaster Risk Reduction, NAPPDRR, has  petitioned the oil company, demanding reappointment of community Coordinators for the four catchment areas. The NGO, in a communique issued at the end of its stakeholders meeting yesterday in Eket, signed by it President, Al Mustapha Emem Edoho, said appointment of the community Coordinators was a creation of a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and the host communities. Based on the above, NAPPDRR called on the oil giant to set machinery in motion for the review of MoU to promote healthy industrial relations and robust community engagements. Also to further ameliorate the impact ...

By Asuquo Eden Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Mike Igini has asserted that he would have  declared his father or mother of the election if they had contested and lost as the era where election results were "written" was over. Igini who was making remarks today during the ceremony to present Certificate of Return to the reelected Governor and members elect of the House of Assembly, decried the numerous lies that was levelled against him towards the build up of the polls describing his re odds as very clear having served with diligence in States including Imo, Anambra and Cross River. "When I arrived Akwa Ibom on the 5th of September 2017, I met with political Parties and revealed to them that under my watch as REC here, I will conduct a free and fair election that will be credible and that ballot papers would be delivered to all units across the State...some didn't take me seriously, today we know better. We had pledged that we will not b...

The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Barr. Onofiok Luke has tasked Councillors of the various Wards in the State to take advantage of the various capacity building openings to gather knowledge so as to be productive and effective in carrying out their mandate in the Legislature. The Speaker who was making remarks today during a two day program on Parliamentary Management facilitated by National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in collaboration with the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly noted that it was very important Akwa Ibom had intelligent men and women who would sit to discuss issues bothering on the development of the various sectors of the State economy advising them to take a cue from Akwa Ibom sons who have rose to the apex of the legislature having started the ladder as Councillors. Barr Luke paid special tribute to the State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel for making possible the hosting of the seminar stressing tha...

The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Barr Onofiok Luke, is inviting local government councillors, clerks and sergeant at arms across all the local government areas of the state to a 2-day workshop starting tomorrow, Wednesday 27th March, 2019. The workshop which is to be facilitated by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in collaboration with the Akwa Ibom state Government through the State House of Assembly, seeks to develop legislative outputs at local councils across the 31 local government areas of the state. The training has been organized for the councillors in line with the assembly’s commitment to its capacity development agenda. The 6th assembly under the leadership of Rt. Hon. Onofiok Luke has continued to emphasize human capital development as a demand for quality legislative leadership and a condition for good governance. While Governor Udom Emmanuel will be special guest of Honour, Speaker Onofiok Luke,...

Zaki M. Ahmed has just been named as the new Commissioner of Police Akwa Ibom State Command. He takes over from Bishir Makama who has spent about three months in the State. Before his transfer to Akwa Ibom Ahmed served as Commissioner of Police Rivers State, Commissioner of Police in Bauchi state and Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations in Rivers State. He hails from Kogi State.

Microfinance Banks who participated in loans disbursement with responsibility to recover have been urged to expedite action on recovery of previously disbursed SMSDF loans to enable government disburse another round of interest free loans to businesses on time. The SSA on Microfinance and Enterprise Development to the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Ime Uwah stated this at the end of a closed door meeting with heads of Microfinance Banks participating in The interest free loan scheme.  Uwah said the loans were revolving funds and not grants and as such should be paid back so as to avoid defeating the aim of the scheme. He stated further that recovering these loans will encourage a healthy business culture, foster accountability as well as make it possible for more entrepreneurs in the state to benefit from the loans.     Mr Ime Uwah stated that the state Government had paid up front, the single digit interest on the loans on behalf of beneficiaries to make the lo...