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Also on hand to receive the Gulder Ultimate search crew were the Deputy Governor, Valerie Ebe; the state’s Head of Service; commissioners; and special advisers among others

The petition further revealed that following the arrests of the five assailants, one of them identified himself as Emmanuel Bassey Ekpenyong, the Akwa Ibom State Governor’s Personal Assistant and referred to his fellow assailants as “his boys”, pleading earnestly for their release – a plea the officers were said to have turned down

Akpabio explained: “We don’t want to stop capital flight, but we want to minimize the number of people that die while trying to travel to Europe and India for medical check-up and to minimize the turn-out of Nigerians that leave the country

I can tell you that based on the insistence of the Country Director of The World Bank, Akwa Ibom is one of the states expected to benefit from this

Already there has arisen a lot of argument in many quarters regarding where the next governor should hail from. Ethnic warlords and political jobbers believe the next occupant of the Hilltop Mansion, as the Akwa Ibom State Government house is known, must come from the Eket Senatorial District. They argue that the district has never produced a governor in Akwa Ibom since the creation of the state about 25 years ago and that it is the turn of the district to produce the governor of the state in 2015

The coordinator enumerated unwholesome practices perpetrated by the manufacturers to include non-perforation of tissue papers and use of low grammage paper with particles

Governor Godswill Akpabio, who stated this on Wednesday during a dinner organised for him by the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mahesh Sachdev, at his private residence in Maitama, Abuja, directed the state Commissioner of Education, Prof. Atim Antai, to select 150 graduates in the state for the training in India

Governor Godswill Akpabio dropped this hint on Friday when the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mahesh Sachdev, paid him a courtesy visit at the Akwa Ibom State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja

Ndoma-Egba said that the meeting focused on finding ways to resolve the intra-party crisis engulfing the party in the two states

Akpabio noted: “…They shall generally recommend appropriate measures or actions to be taken by any person, institution or authority to guard against future occurrence, investigate any other matter which
may appear to the Commission to be incidental or contributory to the matter stated in paragraph above

Governor Godswill Akpabio, who stated this on Monday when the Chairmen of Eket, Ikot Ekpene and Uyo branches of the Nigerian Bar Association in the state, led by Barrister Paul Ubom, paid him a courtesy visit at Governor’s Office, Uyo, said the government wants to commence training of lawyers to prepare them for the state’s emerging economy

The governor emphasised the need to partner the body in addressing crucial issues affecting the indigenes and touching lives of Akwa Ibom people living in Lagos

“When you are through, you will say well all the states are doing well but Akwa Ibom State….”
Akpabio highlighted significant projects in the state that would make the tour of Akwa Ibom State by the group different from other states to include the first Pipe Jacking drainage system in Africa, Akwa Ibom International Airport with the best runway and almost completed Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul facility, E-library, Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Galleria and other projects