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October 30, 2024 No Responses

Akwa Ibom Flags Off 18-Storey Towers In Lagos

Akwa Ibom State Government, on Wednesday, flagged off 18-storey Ibom Towers in Lagos, with a promise that the project will be completed in 24 months.The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, performed the ground-breaking ceremony.Two former governors of Akwa Ibom, Udom...

May 30, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu Inaugurates N10b Ibeno Bridge

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has applauded the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as he inaugurated the N10 billion Iko-Atabrikang-Opolom-IwuoAchang Road project, which includes the 600-meter Ibeno Bridge, in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom Stat...

May 13, 2024 No Responses

NNPC E&P Ltd, NOSL Hit First Oil In OML 13 In Akwa Ibom

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Exploration and Production Limited (NNPC E&P Ltd.), NNPC Ltd.’s flagship upstream subsidiary, and Natural Oilfield Services Ltd. (NOSL), a subsidiary of Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Company Ltd....

March 4, 2024 No Responses

Dana Air Bags Gender-Friendly Airline Award

In celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, Dana Air has announced its support for the One Million Man Walk and Pan African HeforShe Summit by the African Women in Leadership Organization (AWLO) on the 6th and 7th of March...

November 5, 2021 No Responses

Ibom Air Celebrates One-Millionth Passenger

By ebosele@hotmail.com — On Wednesday, 3rd of November, 2021, the management of Ibom Air, welcomed the airline’s one-millionth passenger on board flight number IAN4134 departing from Victor Attah International Airport Uyo to Nnamdi Azikiwe Internati...

June 22, 2021 No Responses

Court Orders Mobil, NNPC To Pay N82b To Akwa Ibom Communities

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay the oil communities in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State a cumulative damages of N81.9 billion ove...

March 2, 2021 No Responses

Ibom Air Lifts 500,000 Passengers In 21 Months

Ibom Air, an Akwa Ibom owned airline lifted no fewer than 500,000 passengers since commencement of operations on June 7, 2019. This is contained in a statement issued by Mrs Anniekan Essienette, the Group Manager Marketing and Communication, ...

January 15, 2020 No Responses

Navy Impounds 1,439 Bags Of Smuggled Rice

The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, (FOB) Ibaka in Mbo, Akwa Ibom, has arrested six suspected smugglers, seized 1, 439 bags of smuggled rice between December 23, 2019, to January in the state. Peter Yilme, the Commanding Officer of FOB,...

October 17, 2019 No Responses

New Oil, Gas Parks For Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday in Abuja, approved the establishment of oil and gas parks in Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents afte...

November 20, 2018 No Responses

PDP Condemns Alleged Invasion of Akwa-Ibom Assembly

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday condemned alleged attempts by hoodlums to disrupt the sitting of members of the Akwa-Ibom state House of Assembly. The party also condemned the role allegedly played by the police in the state, in...

November 27, 2017 No Responses

Between waste, reality and politics of deep seaports

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com – Did Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State carry out any feasibility study before embarking on the Bakassi Deep Seaport project? Who carried out the feasibility study and what is the outcome? ...