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      The launch of Ibom Air is an achievement not only for AkwaIbomites, Nigerians but Africans as a whole. We came in with a blueprint, telling the world what we have for Akwa Ibom and what Akwa Ibom has for us, and today in History will forever remain memorable in our hearts. Aviation development cannot be underemphasized if my vision for an industrialized State must be actualized.Having turned the State to an Investors’ haven in less than four years of my administration,   is, therefore, a strong need to improve infrastructure and facilities in our airport, and get the facility ready for the influx of investors that are trouping in and out of the State on a daily basis. I assure Obong Victor Attah that the MRO that he envisioned has gone far, and in my completion agenda, top on the blueprint for aviation will be completion of the MRO, expansion of Ibom Airline operation and building of a main terminal at the Victor Attah International Airport. Thank you all f...

         The Rivers State Government will interface with the Inspector General of Police and the Rivers State Police Commissioner to produce the sacked Factional Rivers State APC Chairman, Ojukaye Flag Amachree in court for his murder trial on March 18, 2019. Addressing journalists after the Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday adjourned  the murder trial of Ojukaye Flag Amachree, Counsel to the Rivers State Government, Chief Godwin Obla (SAN) said the interface has become necessary because of the refusal of the sacked Factional Rivers State APC Chairman to willingly appear in court. Godwin Obla (SAN) noted that the State Prosecution Team will use the gap between now and the next adjourned date to interface with Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu and the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Usman Belel to request that they strictly comply with the order of the Court and produce the defendant, Ojukaye Flag Ama...

       In line with its mandate of addressing skills gap while also reducing the rate of unemployment in the State, the Lagos State Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment has again trained and graduated 250 youths with skills that would change the beneficiaries' status from being unemployed to employers of labour. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of trainees held at Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, the Commissioner for Wealth Creation and  Employment, Pharm. (Mrs.) Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf said the graduands were trained to become employable, create jobs as well as have access to finance for entrepreneurship through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF). Akinbile-Yusuf also disclosed that 50 of the graduates received training on auto-maintenance/repairs skills while 200 youths were trained on employability skills for a period of six months. She expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the graduating students throughout the training period a...

       President Buhari receives in audience Special Envoy of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, H.E. Ahmad Qattan, Hon. Minister of State for African Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in State House on 20th Feb 2019 Envoy 4: President Buhari with R-L: Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama, Hon. Minister of State for African Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia H.E. Ahmad Qattan and Amb. of Saudi Arabia to Nigeria Amb. Adnan Mahmoud Bostaji as he receives in audience Special Envoy of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in State House on 20th Feb 2019. PRESS RELEASE: NIGERIA TO CONSIDER REDUCING OIL OUTPUT FOR HIGHER PRICES – PRESIDENT BUHARI. President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday pledged the cooperation of Nigeria to the effort to reduce oil output in order to attract higher prices in the global market. Speaking at an audience with Mr Ahmad Qattan, Minister of State for African Affairs and Speci...

   According to the magazine   ''Kylie Jenner knows we've all wondered out loud who her plastic surgeon is. She just doesn't care. Once one of the more unassuming members of America's most famous family, these days her arched eyebrows and permanently pouted lips — sculpted and painted according to the impossible ratios of beauty YouTube and augmented reality apps — transfix hundreds of millions of eager fans and are ubiquitous on every feed. The 21-year-old makeup mogul says her dramatic transformation (from private teenager to public businesswoman, from demure girl-next-door to bombshell) was a conscious one, and more considered than you might assume. She's happy to talk about it."People think I fully went under the knife and completely reconstructed my face, which is completely false," she explains to me over the phone, casually and with little prompting. "I'm terrified! I would never. They don't understand what good hair and makeup and...

         The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Aminat Musa, Chief Executive Officer, Rabahaska International Company Limited, and Adekoyejo Gbadebo, Director, El-Gafok Investment Nigeria Limited for defrauding 15 home-seekers in a N34 million property scam. Musa and Gbadebo were brought before Justice M.A. Nasir of a Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Jabi, on February 19, 2019 and are facing a 17-count charge bordering on advance fee fraud and forgery. They are alleged to have at various times in 2017 collected various sums of money from their victims, amounting to N34,175,350 in the guise that they were building an estate to be known as Munauwara Estate/Rabahaska International Co, and had allocated houses to them. They also allegedly forged certain documents captioned, Ministry for Federal Capital Territory, El-Gafok Investment Nigeria Limited, Plot No ED2045, Sabon Lugbe East Extension Layout dated 20/5/2002. One of th...

 According to a lady identified as Chidinma who shared this story two hours ago on facebook.She shared this photo with the caption  ''  JSS 1 student stoned to death by his classmate in Anambra (photo) A JSS 1 student of the Dennis Memorial Grammar School Onitsha has died after one of his classmates reportedly threw a stone at him yesterday Tuesday February 19th. Facebook user, Mizta Nnamdi, who shared the sad news on his facebook page, said the deceased was a super intelligent student. Read what he wrote below(photo) HE DIED BECAUSE OF THE STUDENTS ENVY AND THE TEACHER'S CARELESSNESS. THIS is Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Nnanna , a Jss 1 student at Dennis Memorial Grammar School Onitsha, A native of Oburo Ogwa in mbaitoli LGA, Imo state. He died on Tuesday 12th February 2019 by a large stone thrown to crush his head from the school dormitory window by his fellow envious student. This happened after school hours, the victim was said to finished eating in the school cafeteri...

         President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over this week's Federal Executive Council (FEC) Meeting at the Council Chamber, State House, Abuja. Before the meeting commenced, President Buhari swore-in 8 new Permanent Secretaries- Mr. Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan, Dr Mohammad Kyari Dikwa, Dr Nwanwuche Ajani, Eng Festus Yusuf Dauda, Mr Maurice Mbaeri, Bakari Wadinga, Babatunde Lawal and Mr. Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe.More photos below.