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By UbongAbasi Ise The continuous stay-at-home order issued by the Akwa Ibom State government and its consequences on the residents of the state has become a major worry for the Foundation for Civic Education, Human Rights, and Development Advancement, FoCEHRaDA. In a press statement released recently to the media by its Executive Director, Barr. Clifford Thomas, FoCEHRaDA said the announcement of the sit-at-home directives in the state  neglected basic steps required before and within the lockdown. The rights group noted that before the pronouncement of lockdown, the distribution of essential commodities and other welfare packages to Akwa Ibom residents could have been achieved through same strategies adopted by Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, and the National Population Commission, NPC, in enumerating buildings. "In Akwa Ibom State, the announcement of the lockdown directives did not take the necessary consequences thereon into consideration. Pr

By UbongAbasi Ise  The Foundation for Civic Education, Human Rights and Development Advancement, FoCEHRaDA, has stoked up fire for the sack of Dr. Dominic Ukpong as the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Health within seven days. In a letter addressed to Governor Udom Emmanuel and signed by FoCEHRaDA's Executive Director, Barr. Clifford Thomas,  the human rights body called on the state governor to relieve Dr. Ukpong of his job within seven days beginning from Monday 27th April 2020 to save Akwa Ibom people from disaster.  The group alleged that the actions of Dr. Ukpong has fetched the state unfavorable statistics on health crisis in the country.  FoCEHuRaDA accused the health commissioner of mismanaging the state's health sector,  including creating tension amongst the health workers. "The implication of his present action, and preceding actions which has made Akwa Ibom State to fare badly in other areas where peer review is required like in the fig

By Da Effiong Daniel “And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." - Genesis 12 We thank God for what He has done in preserving you, Israel, as Abraham's heritage from when he called in him (Gen.12). Till now, you are the children of Abraham and of the covenant he made with him. Last year God said, "I have returned to you Jerusalem with my sure mercies.” We know from that time till now,  you have seen the mercies of God in your life. Even  Akwa Abasi Ibom state, an extension of Israel in Africa, is in God’s mercies because it is Christ's state in Africa just as Israel in the middle East. Hallelujah. When God named Israel by his mouth (Gen. 32:28; 35:9-12

By Da Effiong Daniel  The type of dead Jesus died for us was a cursed dead, for cursed is a man that is hanged on a tree.In Annang if you die on Edet market day you are cursed. If Jesus came to die for all, that also concels annang peoples' prayer which says lord may i not die on a cursed day. He was cursed for the Annang people.      The days God had created - from first to the seventh day were blessed and til now those days, in the heart of God, are blessed days.  When man first sinned against God, Satan introduced days to Adam’s generations and from that time till now, men replaced and created names for those days for themselves or their idols, yet the original   days God made are blessed. (And God saw everything that he had made and behold, it is very good and the evening and the morning were the sixth day).Gen. 1:31.        I want to believe if you look at your traditions now, there are some of the days you would not wish to be born or die. To some, it is b

By UbongAbasi Ise Governor Udom Emmanuel's effort to ameloriate the hardship caused by the 14-day lockdown in Akwa Ibom State may come to nought as some inflencial members of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, have been accused of cornering the relief materials meant for the indigents of the rural areas in the state to their own use. According to a source who spoke with our correspondent on condition of anonymity, the forms for the selection of the beneficiaries were to be handled by the village heads but they have since been hijacked by the PDP stalwarts in different local government areas. The source noted that village heads in Adiasim and Okon in Essien Udim local government areas, in particular, are yet to know the whereabout of the palliative forms as at the time he made the revelation. He stressed that this underhand practice has been replicated in nearly all the local government areas in the state. The source further called on Mr. Udom Emmanuel to immedia

By Uwem Jonah Akpan The influenza epidemic of 1918-19 has been described as the one of the deadliest epidemic in human history. The pandemic swept the globe and in a matter of months, infected about 500 million people (about a quarter of the world’s population at the time). The death toll is estimated to have been between 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million. The number of deaths was thrice of those killed in military action in World War 1 (which lasted from the 29th of July 1914 to the 11th of November 1918). It is believed that the disaster overwhelmed whatever claims might have been made for the 6th century Plague of Justiniana or the Black Death of the 14th century in terms of its mortality. The influenza’s most peculiar and disturbing feature was the overwhelming preponderance of young adults’ mortality. It was totally impervious to the methods and practices of European – or any other – medicine. Its extreme infectivity, short incubation period, and th

By Da Daniel Effiong “With God all things are possible to them that believed” In the above statement, a question may be asked: What about those that doesn’t believe in God? What about those that believe that God's thing or religion is" an opium for the masses or to the poor to forget their sorrows?" We can also believe that solution to those problems that are caused by only God cannot be solved by men but by God himself. It is believed that when God is angry with a person or a nation like he did to Pharaoh and Egypt of old, he   punished them just to bring them to the knowledge that He is God and He rules in the affairs of men, and that only him must be feared and worshipped. Till now some people and nations never believe in God; some never believe in His existence. But the words of God say “a fool says there is no God". Some believe in their scientific and technological prowess as their gods, they never believe in God the Creator: the God of the whole

By UbongAbasi Ise The protagonist of social governance, Arc. Ezekiel Nya-Etok, has maintained his philanthropic brand as he sends palliatives to the people of Nsiak community in Ikot Ekpene local government area to help them stay safe at home during this 14 day lockdown ordered by the Akwa Ibom State Government in an attempt to contain the spread of the Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic. Nyaetok, over the weekend, doled out N10, 000 each to the indigent members of his community through 10 heads of the families. He also donated food items, hand sanitizers and 40 litres water-tap containers during the COVID-19 awareness session with the people, encouraging them to adhere strictly to social distancing practice. Addressing the family heads,  Arc. Ezekiel Nya-Etok, represented by his Media Consultant, Mr Emmanuel Effiong, urged  the heads of each of the families to be fair in choosing who should benefit from the items, with special preference being the widows. "This is pre