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By Abasiofiok Inyang For residents of Chief Udo Eno Street, Akpasak Jubilee Estate, Oron road, Uyo, the award of contract by the Akwa Ibom State Government for the construction of road project in the street, ordinary would have been a thing of joy. Rather, fear of community being completely sacked by flood has enveloped them. The fear, The Sensor gathered, is as a result of poor job execution currently being handled by John Global Investment Ltd. The residents in a Save Our Souls (SOS) letter sent to the Akwa Ibom State Government through the office of the Commissioner for Works, Udo Udoma Avenue, Uyo, of which a copy has been made available to The Sensor, while expressing gratitude to the State Government for coming to construct the road said to had been in a deplorable condition for over four decades, however, regretted that the construction company awarded the road project has no experienced workforce to handle what they described as “sensitive and difficult terrain. The ...

In a cowardly display of childishness and show of shame, eight out of the ten lawmakers of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly who voted against autonomy for the legislature have sent a warning signal to the House as they shunned attending Plenary yesterday. This, as it was gathered, was owing to the public outlash the said lawmakers received after voting against the independence of the legislature, an advocacy which has always been the yearning and desire of the legislature. Out of the ten autonomy opposing lawmakers, our House Correspondent reports that only the Deputy Chief Whip, Mr.   David Lawrence and the member representing Etinan, Barr Aniefiok Dennis joined their colleagues to attend Plenary on Tuesday.   The member representing Etinan,   our reporter gathered had renegade on his earlier stance asserting that he was unsure of what he was voting for even as he had earlier voted for autonomy but voted against it after the Speaker had called for a recount of ...

The activities of gunmen who disguise as militants to wreck havoc in parts of the State especially Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun Local Government Areas have taken a more dangerous dimension following the three civilians including a woman in Udiana Enem, Ikot Obioma and Uruk Ata II, all in Etim Ekpo LGA. The killing, our crime desk gathered, happened shortly after the beheading of a joint task force, JTF informant by militants in the same Etim Ekpo LGA. It was further gathered that the informant whose name could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report was beheaded during exchange of gunfire between the JTF and the militants when the security operatives raided the militants' hideouts in Obon Obot village. A source told our correspondent that the JTF had stormed the community to arrest a wanted cultist and militant leaders, who reportedly led the Ikot Ekpene prison jail break on December 27, 2017 during which no fewer than 40 inmates escaped and are yet to be re-arrest...

The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has denied a report in a local newspaper in the state that he was no longer interested in a second term in office. The newspaper, Global Concord, in its latest mid-week edition, reported that Mr. Emmanuel has been offered the position of vice president by a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, Sule Lamido. Mr. Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State, met with the governor and other PDP leaders in Uyo on Monday when he visited the state for consultation on his 2019 presidential ambition. “The story in its entirety is false,” the governor said through a statement issued on Thursday by his spokesperson, Ekerete Udoh. “The PDP Presidential hopeful, Alhaji Sule Lamido during his courtesy call on Governor Udom Emmanuel on Monday, February 12, 2018, never offered a Vice Presidential slot to Governor Udom Emmanuel neither was such an issue ever discussed or solicited,” the statement said, adding that the govern...

By UbongAbasi Ise “You may delay, but time will not” – Benjamin Franklin Recently, The Sensor Business correspondent visited the Fine and Industrial Arts Gardens in the University of Uyo Town Campus. Somewhere at the right side of the CBN Auditorium, there stood a menacing 224cm size sculpture piece. The artwork shows a man’s figure, which hold up a clock in his right palm, neatly undergoing the process of decay. The ordering of the anatomical network of the human figure, the finality achieved in the sculpting and the finesse of the artist, altogether evoke an aesthetic sensation that could throw a keen viewer into a complete state of marvel. Attached to this masterpiece is a casket, which probably, may have been intended by the artist to inspire fear.   The casket, fastened by chains and held up by the human figure, is halfway buried in the ground, but the artist expresses the idea in the work which shows that the casket is being pulled up from the ground by the man...

By UbongAbasi Ise   “Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.” ― Rémy de Gourmont It is absolutely unbelievable that in times like this when the body polity is needed to be exorcized from the evil spirits that are bringing it affliction of corruption, people are still going about invoking demons by way of endorsements, pleading with them to continue their devour on the carcasses and remains of our state, Akwa Ibom, and the country, Nigeria. As 2019 general elections are around the horizon, we see all these political jobbers desperately forming themselves into groups calling on the ne’er-do-well incumbents to continue their stay beyond 2019, although such charades are mostly the machinations of the corrupt, power-drunk incumbents.                 I am not totally against the endorsements and calls for continuity, but I would say that I abhors such when the performanc...