May 31, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Mixed fortunes as Akpabio confronts AKS’s developmental challenges
• 10 cities, including Uyo, to host Star Trek music Jamboree

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Tinapa gets N2.5bn lifeline
• FG shelves one laptop per child scheme
• Babangida Responsible For My Cancer - Gani
• Cross River reads riot act to warring communities
• I Left Banking For Nollywood -- Blessing Effiong-Egbe

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May 30, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Reconciliation: What Akpabio Gained
• Akpabio: We must focus on power generation
• I want to fight in Nigeria — Samuel Peter
• I’m Ready To Take On Klitschko - Samuel Peter
• Students Fault Elf, Demand N50 Million Damages
• Communities Feud Over Ownership of Oil, Gas Zone
• Cleric harps on good governance in Nigeria
• Coliseum Hosts Fashola As Star Trek Rocks Uyo

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Abiola was beaten to death, says Al-Mustapha
• No regular power till 2011, says Yar’Adua
• Yar'Adua's Chief Of Staff, Resigns
• Britain to return £40m loot to Nigeria
• Free books for Lagos pupils from September
• Cross River Earmarks N6m For EU Programmes
• Erosion cuts off CRS communities

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May 29, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom stops bank loans for councils
• I’m happy to be back home — Peter
• Give me Klitschko brothers – Peter

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• 365 days after - ‘Nothing to celebrate’
• Democracy Day: Activists hail, criticise Yar’Adua’s govt
• Militants demand N1bn to free 2 kidnapped foreigners
• FG Has No Policy On Gas Development - Imoke
• 50 Crutech Lecturers Leave For Greener Pastures

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May 28, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio begs FG to release N326 billion owed NDDC
• AKS in $12 bln LNG deal with Centrica
• $12bn LNG Project On Course - Akpabio
• AKHA - Probe Panel Accused of Bias
• Akwa Ibom uncovers fraud in local govts
• Samuel Peter returns home for Democracy Day
• 'University Of Uyo Eradicated Cult Activities With Prayers, Sports'
• AKS Professionals Urged to Lure Investors to the State
• Liz Benson brims with blessings

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Senators grill Waziri
• Why we couldn’t save Okosuns – US hospital
• Row over guidelines stalls TINAPA project
• UBA, Arsenal enter partnership deal in West Africa

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May 27, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• I had an idea of what I wanted to do before I came into office - Akpabio
• ExxonMobil Signs $2b Funding Pact With NNPC
• NDDC Executes 47 Projects In Akwa Ibom
• AKHA: Probe Panel Accused Of Bias
• UC Rusal Restarts Operations In Nigeria
• Unfortunate State Of Ewet Govt Technical College

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• CRS distributes mosquito nets
• Ekpo wants more Kanus

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May 26, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Comment: Poser for Akwa Ibom Assembly

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Okosuns Succumbs To Cancer, Dies At 61
• Nigeria’s foreign reserves to hit $73.2bn
• Sacked Obong seeks govt’s intervention
• Cross River relaunches Pelican Stars

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May 25, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Newspaper machine probe: AKS speaker biased ––Igbokwe
• Printing Machine - Group cautions probe panel
• I will never attempt drugs - Ini Edo

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Power Probe Report Will Lead To Litigation, Says Imoke
• NDLEA arrests 33 drug offenders in Cross River
• Moves to recall Iyabo Obasanjo begin
• Fertility Crisis in Nigeria
• ‘I am different from my father’ — Ojukwu II

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May 24, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• 9ice, P-Square, others, light up Star Trek - tour begins in Uyo

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• South Africa apologises for attacks on Nigerians, others
• External Reserves hit $62bn by mid-May - CBN
• Gunmen ambush Nigerian soldiers in Darfur, seize cash, weapons
• Three widows collapse at 46 soldiers’ burial
• Tinapa: Obong Of Calabar Angry With FG, Mobilises For Visit To Yar'Adua
• Why there’s delay in Tinapa — Cobham
• Ani drags CRSG to court over Obongship

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May 23, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• 11,000 Bakassi returnees seek rehabilitation
• Mobil Oil workers’ strike: What impact?
• PDP chairmanship candidate inaugurates projects dev. Committee
• Foreign Military Attaches Visit Akwa Ibom
• Opinion: Samuel Peter - It's Showtime!

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• 46 Soldiers Perish in Auto Crash, Yar'Adua Cuts Short Trip
• Senate orders new EFCC boss to quit
• FAAN, police ban okada at MMA
• 50 Years after, NNPC begins crude oil lifting
• UN to appoint Nigerian General as military adviser
• Iyabo returns to Senate, pledges good behaviour
• Cement Price Hits N1900 Per Bag Again
• Government Should Protect Investment In Calabar Port - Tukur
• Kano groundnut pyramids no longer feasible— Shekarau

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May 22, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio tasks FG on police funding
• Akpabio wants FG to release N325bn NDDC fund
• Allegations of Corruption against Akpabio Unfounded – Commissioner
• Akwa Ibom to commission 241 projects
• Eket senatorial group tasks Akpabio on food crisis
• Shutdowns, job losses loom as diesel crisis worsens
• Don advises scholarship beneficiaries to work hard
• What hope for street children?
• Letter: Posers for Akwa Ibom House of Assembly

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• World Bank To Replicate Lagos BRT In Other Cities
• Police impound 500 okadas in Kwara

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May 21, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio Urged to Address Food Crisis
• Dangote, Akpabio For Pelican Stars’ Dinne
• UC RUSAL-ALSCON Begins Exportation
• Rusal to Invest $5bn in West Africa
• PSCs: Shell, Mobil to refund $2bn to FG
• House Throws Out Bill On Degree/HND Disparity, sponsored by Ini Udo and Ekpo Ekperikpe
• NDDC completes 125 projects in Akwa Ibom

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Iyabo Obasanjo sleeps in DPO’s office
• Iyabo Obasanjo gets VIP treatment in detention
• FG may remove petroleum subsidies – Minister
• Ex-London cleaner, Obasohan, elected Mayor
• Senate Moves To Remove National Hospital From Presidency
• National Hospital’s cancer machine breaks down

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May 20, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• 'Plot to Assassinate Lawmakers, Untrue' - Chief Igbokwe
• Mobil to loan NNPC $2bn for JV operations
• Gulf of Guinea Energy spuds Uquo appraisal/development well

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• I’m fit to be President – Yar’Adua
• Iyabo remanded in police custody, weeps
• US, India, Thailand to supply Nigeria with 500,000 tonnes of rice
• Nigerians attacked in South Africa count losses
• Ibori’s wife arraigned before London’s court
• Provision Of Health Facilities Is Our Priority - Imoke

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May 19, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• AKSG Pledges To Descend On Militant Youths
• MPN, Akwa Ibom State Talk About Gas-Gasoline Plant
• NNPC/MPN JV spends N8.6b on community development
• Students On War Path With Elf In Uyo
• Militants abduct expatriate in Ikot-Ekpene

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Nigeria’s financial system to displace South Afirca’s — Soludo
• Fuel prices: US airline quits Nigerian aviation industry
• "Mirror of Beauty" lifts Nollywood high in Cannes
• Cross River To Construct 400km Rural Roads
• Obudu: The Irony of Life
• Biafra anniversary: Police raid MASSOB’s base in Enugu

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May 18, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Group criticises State Govt over media harassment
• I married my coach, so what? – Emem Edem

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Nigeria has only one helicopter for search and rescue
• Chinese Invade Ebonyi, Buy Off Local Rice
• Yar’Adua removes Lamorde, appoints Waziri to head EFCC
• Obong of Calabar disputed crown: My story, by Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi
• MASSOB Gears Up For Protest -Hoists Flags In Enugu Streets

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May 17, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio Inaugurates Akwa Ibom Council On Prerogative Of Mercy

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Ex-gov's wife duped in London - Aide absconds with N50m

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May 16, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Don King wants Peter fight in Nigeria
• ExxonMobil Restores Nigeria's Production To Pre-strike Levels
• Stakeholders advocate trust fund for oil palm development
• Akwa Utd: Ekong raises alarm
• Etim Esin slams Dolphins over ouster

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Nigerian killed in India
• 100 Die In Lagos Pipeline Fire
• NAFDAC destroys fake insulin injection, others worth N527m
• Airline, Nigerians in US meet over shabby treatment
• Cross River wants govt to clear Tinapa of obstacles
• As Cross River Plans New Home For Bakassi People
• Imoke: A call from Calabar

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May 15, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• 21 victims of human traffiking, one of whom is from AKS, intercepted in Kano
• ALSCON, Mobil hold private audiences with Akpabio
• We Will Industrialise Akwa Ibom Through Cluster Enterprises - Ekpotu
• Terminator: His duty is to kill politicians
• Firm Flays A'ibom Assembly Over Allegations
• Villagers seek damages from Shell in Holland for pollution in Nigeria

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Germany abolishes airport transit visa for Nigerians
• Fawehinmi to Yar’Adua: declare your health status
• Bakassi: Nigeria gained $300bn oil fields – Ajibola
• Energy crisis killing tourism in Cross River
• Generator fumes kills family of five in Port Harcourt
• Imoke Assures On Completion Of Nko-Agoi Ekpo Road

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May 14, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Niger Delta Crisis: Blame the Federal Government — Ekpotu
• Akutech Now Conventional University
• Monarch Advises Youths On Peace

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Yar'Adua orders arrest of aviation chiefs over missing plane
• Obong of Calabar calls for unity, peace
• CIIN revives Calabar branch
• Lagos Outlaws Street Parties

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May 13, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Nomination of Candidates - PDP Adopts New Strategy
• PDP Chief Tasks Akpabio on Projects
• Why AKHA aides are not paid – Speaker
• Federal Government seeks Malaysian govt’s support in reviving oil palm produce
• Host Communities Advise Mobil On Labour Crisis
• Total chief Jacques Marraud des Grottes bags award from UNIUYO

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Nigeria’s foreign reserve dips by $400m – CBN
• Obasanjo to panel: I’m ill
• PCN to shut unaccredited hospital pharmacies nationwide
• FG approves monorail for Murtala Mohammed Airport
• Kingibe’s tonic for Tinapa’s operation
• Atiku likely to sell US house
• Bakassi Indigenes To Get 200 Houses

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May 12, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• We will re-brand the legislature — Hon Eseme Eyibo

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Children protest against hostage taking in Rivers
• Labour Threatens Nationwide Strike Over Obasanjo
• Nigeria has 34% of sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile phones
• Imoke opens up on power sector spending: Yar’Adua, Bankole misinformed!
• S’West, N’West lawyers excluded from Constitution Review Committee

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May 11, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Communities lose N1.76b to Mobil strike
• Samuel Peter’s anointing will spur Nigerian boxers to victory in Beijing – Igbinedion

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Kidnapped Chinese Construction Workers Regain Freedom
• Nigeria has no baton exchange problem — Gebriel Okon
• FCT probe: ‘Abuja land allocated to 9-day old’
• Cross River’s most eligible bachelor takes wife

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May 10, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio - ‘We have revolutionised governance’
• Akwa Ibom Rep presents forged bank teller to tribunal, INEC
• Ekong Admits Akwa United Mistakes

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• IG warns over Al-Qaeda plot to bomb Nigeria
• NYSC to emboss photographs on discharge certificate
• Last Cross River community to leave Bakassi in August
• Cross River plans Rovers revival
• Syndicate explains how it produces fake brands of beer
• Horst Schmidt Klinik, German hospital that treats Yar’Adua, super rich Nigerians

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May 9, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Senator Effiong Bob picked as one of Constitution Amendment Committee Members
• PDP chief seeks Akpabio's direct supervision of projects

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Barrack Obama disowns MEND
• Nigeria leads Africa in malaria-related deaths
• Three Chinese workers kidnapped in Calabar
• Group Advocates Creation Of CROSOPADEC

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May 8, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• UniUyo graduates 6,174
• Mobil Host Communities Lose N1.76bn to Strike
• Akpabio, ICPC And Opposition Groups

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• FG suspends import duty on rice
• Massive leakage forces WAEC to cancel more papers
• Nigeria Records $8.4b Foreign Exchange Inflows - CBN
• Reps Step Down FOI Bill Again
• Ogoja urges FG to finish road project

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May 7, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Allegations Of Corruption Against Akpabio Baseless - Ekpu
• AKSG To Flood Uyo With Taxis
• Minister denies rift with Akwa Ibom govt.

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• NSCDC Arrests 18 Vandals In Cross River

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May 6, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• How Akwa Ibom monarch was deposed
• Aides Without Rights
• Why new industrial strategy is needed
• No political tension in Akwa Ibom — Gov’s aide
• Akpan Ekpo: Stable power supply essential to Vision 2020
• Police zonal, state commands flex muscle over robbery case file

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• 3,500 workers to go in Shell
• Delta Airline’s US passengers protest ill-treatment at MMIA
• Bassey's faction rejects second crowning of new Obong

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May 5, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• 5,000 TB Cases Recorded in One Year
• "We Are Delivering The Dividends To the People"
• Mobil's Host Communities Count Losses After Strike
• Work begins on Akwa Ibom port
• Belgium Company Partners Akwa Ibom Over Ibaka Port Project
• EU Backs NGOs, Others In Akwa Ibom, C'River
• Attah condoles with the Adesanyas

Nigerian News (In Brief)

• Nigerians to Ojukwu - "Shut Up!"
• MTN Nigeria opens new chapter in mobile content
• White Zimbabwean farmers bring change to Nigeria
• Imo To Float Data Bank For Motorcyclists
• Calabar Carnival: Group Predicts High Turnout

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May 4, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom records increase in TB cases

Nigerian News

• Dialect speaking ATMs for Nigerian banks
• Obong tears Calabar apart
• One Killed As Thugs Invade Obong's Community Again
• Another Obong capped

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May 3, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Ups and downs of Akpabio’s first year in office
• Mobil/Pengassan Reach Agreement, Call Off Strike
• Speaker threatens to sack Assembly aides over unpaid salaries
• Former UNIUYO VC hails Nigeria’s political transformation

Nigerian News

• Power supply drops to 2,300mw
• Boom time for rice importers, garri sellers prices soar to 80 per cent high
• Gunmen seize SSCE papers, WAEC postpones exam
• NDLEA arrests varsity graduates, others for drug trafficking
• Obong of Calabar inaugurates cabinet
• Tussle over Obong of Calabar claims lives
• Obong of Calabar vows to resist govt’s interference
• Imo sanitation agency carts away 724 metric tons of refuse

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May 2, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom declares emergency in food sector
• ExxonMobil workers agree to return to work as talks continue

Nigerian News

• British Airways Apologises To Nigeria
• UBA explains $15m U.S. fine
• Obong Of Calabar Inaugurates Cabinet
• Youths repel attempt to install another Obong

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May 1, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Graft - 'Akpabio Will Be Vindicated'
• ‘Allegations of corruption against Akpabio are baseless’
• Probe won’t distract Akwa Ibom, says Speaker
• SSG Denies Corruption Charges
• Nigeria to lose 1m barrels to Mobil strike
• 'Nigeria to Be a Major Producer of Steel By 2020'

Nigerian News

• Kalu transferred N887m to Slok’s account in one day – EFCC
• Reps throw out FoI Bill
• Yar’Adua approves higher electricity tariff
• Governors plot to share $17bn excess crude revenue
• Ikot Eneobong's New Tourist Status
• Calabar set for FIFA
• Varsity don battles FRSC over N3.5m royalty

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