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By Etok Okon A team of consultants engaged by the Akwa Ibom State Government to execute the construction of the now litigation-prone government house complex in Uyo, have dragged Arc. Ime Ekpo,  to the ICPC over alleged misappropriation of over 4bn Naira fees for appointed consultants. Ime Ekpo, a former Director of Housing and current Commissioner for Lands and Town Planning who is also the General Overseer of God's Own Ministry International, Akpan Essien Street, Uyo, represented the Supervising Ministry of Housing and Urban Renewal then. So he was directly the technical resource person interfacing with consultants and contractors, paying fees to consultants. It is allegedly noted that the said Ime Ekpo continued to supervise the project even after his retirement from the Akwa Ibom State Civil Service making him a retiree who deployed his privileged confidential information in his position as Director of Housing in his private company in the same project. As a Director, he superv...

A socio-political group in Etinan local government area has ditched Elder Sam Ikon, the present member representing Etinan Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives while calling on the current speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Barr. Onofiok Luke, to move on and to take over the seat at the green chambers come 2019. At the recent meeting held by Etinan Chapter of Grassroot Support Movement, GSM, and witnessed by key members of the international executive council of the group, the Etinan constituents expressed support for Barr. Onofiok Luke to continue his political career at the federal level as they decried legislative misrepresentation of their constituency at the federal level. In his address, the Etinan chapter coordinator of GSM, Mr. Edidiong Akpan, said that Iman people have been cheated despite having a representative at the lower chamber of the federal legislature and expressed the need for Onofiok Luke who has the track-record of communi...

By UbongAbasi Ise Akwa Ibom is home to variety of delicacies, and one uncommon item of food that could adapt very well to the taste of various local dishes is mushroom.   Whether okra soup,   atama soup, afia efere, edikang ikong, afang, editan, melon soup, pepper soup, yam porridge, ekpang or source, edible mushrooms could be prepared in such a way that brings a savory meal experience to diners. Apart from having food value, mushroom also has medicinal value. Experts say that some of its species are enriched in protein, unsaturated and saturated fat; and they contain vitamin D, niacin as well as minerals such as iron potassium and selerium.             One of the important values of mushroom is that it could be best used for weight watch and also used in the control of cholesterol. It has the capacity to diminish harmful toxins especially hydrocarbon that is present in the air. But the concern is that mushroo...

Barely six weeks to the conduct of local government election in the State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has disgraced the State Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses Ekpo by dropping his anointed candidate and party flag-bearer for the much expected election in Abak, sir, Gabriel Etim. The Sensor authoritatively gathered that Ekpo was instrumental to the emergence of Etim as the flag-bearer despite protest from other aspirants who contested for the ticket. The number two citizen in the State was said to have argued that Etim is his only slot after he failed to produce another anointed candidate as a councillorship candidate from his ward. Mr. Moses Ekpo It was further gathered that in the wake of the protests by the aspirants allegedly supported by elected and political appointees from Abak, PDP succumbed to the presume and dumped the Deputy Governor’s candidate, a development said to be a slap on him. In the place of Etim, a retired Direction in SUBEB, one Barr. Imoh William...

By UbongAbasi Ise “You can fool some people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” – Abraham Lincoln The game of politics in our clime can be quite interesting anyway; but unfortunately too, it can degenerate to a point bereft of a single speck of moral sense and conscience. Most times, it comes to a point whereby power-mongers would mechanically take people merely as election materials instead of humans; they see electorates as something akin to raw materials from which the political power would be extracted and conferred upon them. As 2019 electioneering season is surfacing from the horizon, we would now see these politicians to coming down heavy on the masses to scramble for votes. All they would do is to play on the people’s psyche, appear as gracious as angels with the aura of populism, and beguile the masses with the promises packed with unimaginable programmes and projects that are merely vote-catching gimmicks.     ...

By UbongAbasi Ise “Cryptocurrency would do to banks what e-mail do to post office” – Nsuwake Jimmy Not just the Naira, other major fiat currencies such as the Pound Sterling, Dollar, Euros, Francs, Yuan, Yen,   and so on are predicted by some digital money experts to lose their grounds to the emerging digital means of exchange called cryptocurrency, and this would happen in the near future. However, Akwa Ibom State in recent times has witnessed increasing dots of Cryptocurrency exchange outlets especially in Uyo, and this rings the bell to announce that another sort of revolution in the financial sector is on the horizon. Speaking with The Sensor recently, Mr. Udeme Rufus, a Digital Asset/Blockchain consultant, said that the use of this digital currencies would soon become a new norm. According to him, it is believed by the experts that cryptocurrency might wipe out the banks, although this remains to be seen.          ...