UbongAbasi Ise

By UbongAbasi Ise The leading political organization with a mandate of supporting and promoting government policies in Oruk Anam Local Government Area, Oruk Anam Grand Alliance, OGA, has declared its intention to support the trio of Mr. Udom Emmanuel, Senator Godswill Akpabio and Sir Udo Kierian Akpan in the forthcoming general elections scheduled for next year. The declaration was made in a joint meeting of the Executive, Advisers and Board of Trustees of the organization held recently in Uyo after the group shopped for right candidates that would bring dividends of democracy to the local government. In a motion raised by the president of the organization, Chief Bassey Essien, for the endorsement of Gov. Udom Emmanuel and Senator Godswill Akpabio as sole governorship and senatorial candidates respectively, Mr. Emmanuel Enang seconded the endorsement and every members present in the meeting unanimously supported the decision. Addressing the members of the organization ea...

By UbongAbasi Ise “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another”― William Shakespeare , Hamlet If the living witnesses would cast back their mind to the tragic Saturday afternoon of December 10 th , 2016, they may feel some jolt of dismay given the apathetic way Governor Udom Emmanuel is handling the matter involving human lives, and human deaths. When recollecting the dreadful scenes of the mangled bodies, pools of blood; the heartrending death grunts; the miserable sight of dying children; the wailings of women; the horrible, pitiful sight of victims solemnly taken away from the scene of the wreckage, coupled with the gloomy atmosphere that hung at Uyo Village Road, one could have expected the governor’s reaction to be in-extremis, in a way that could bring about a complete revolution in the building industry, and make professionals sit up in the matters of construction in the state. Gov. Udom Emmanuel (Right) Receiving the Report   of the C...

By UbongAbasi Ise The management staff of Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sufficiency could not hide their delight penultimate Monday as the 2017/2018 Batch A and B corps members came together to give the ministry’s Conference Room a facelift. The members of the National Youth Service Corps posted to the ministry repainted the walls and doors of the conference room, fixed windows, hanged up new blinds, and install new fluoresce bulbs for adequate lightning.     As the project was officially commissioned at Idongesit Nkanga’s Secretariat in Uyo, Dr. Charles Uduak Udo-Inyang, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Sufficiency, who was represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. John A. Markson, lauded the corps members for identifying the gap in the ministry and stood up according to Dakadda philosophy of the state government.   “This is small but a significant ceremony. Several times in life we meet gaps in society we found our...

By UbongAbasi Ise It was the long history of inequalities and sectional domination in the distribution of political power that gave birth to the idea of zoning in the country. Since Nigeria's independence, the question of adequate representation of different geo-political interests has confronted the nation just like any other fundamental concerns. Although zoning of positions in Nigeria officially dates back to the eve of the Second Republic in 1979 when the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, expressed it in the internal nominations for prominent federal offices, it became more pronounced after the debate of the 1994/1995 National Constitution Conference (NCC) - an event that revealed serious inequalities in the sharing of political power and natural resources in the country. Given the above historical experience, the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, in its wisdom, inherited and systematized zoning principle in its arrangement and assumed power with it as the country retu...