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Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo Published 1:33 am FOUR gunmen suspected to be pirates on Tuesday met their waterloo in a gun battle with operatives of the Marine Police in Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The pirates were killed in a sting operation carried out by the police along Ikang Creek after credible information. A statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, on Wednesday titled, ‘Steer clear of Akwa Ibom waterways’, said a speed bo...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey and Chidiebube Okeoma Published 4:00 am Patrick Odey and Chidiebube Okeoma Published 4:00 am There was panic among residents of the Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on Tuesday as the military bombarded the Ikot Akpan forest in the area. The PUNCH learnt that the military operation was aimed at flushing out hoodlums who had been attacking police formations in the state. Residents, who share boundaries with hoodlums’ hideouts, told on...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: Workers and labour leaders during a protest against a bill on the minimum wage in Ikeja, Lagos…on Wednesday. Photo: Stanley Ogidi • Wait for public hearing, stop attacking me, bill sponsor tells labour By our correspondents The leadership of the National Assembly will, on Tuesday next week, meet labour leaders over a  bill which seeks to remove the minimum wage negotiations from the exclusive legislative list. The Majority Leader of the Ho...

Punch Newspapers Sections our correspondents States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the  Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses,  Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti,  52,960 and Ondo,  75,570. Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH  in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State. Recall that the Federal Government  on Tuesday last week r...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in the Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of the state has sentenced a 31-year-old man one Edidiong Ototi to death by hanging. Edidiong, a native of Ikot-Akwa in the Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state, was convicted for killing his father, Mr Pius Ototi, whom he accused of being a wizard. In his confessional statement to the police, Edidiong admitted that he killed his father and buried him inside a pit...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Command have reportedly killed four suspected sea pirates at Iwukpom/Opolum water channel in the Ibeno Local Government Area of the state. A statement on Sunday by the Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, said the pirates were killed in a gun battle with the police, adding that three members of the gang escaped with bullet wounds. The statement said, “On March 4, 2021, at about 2.30pm, a team of 29 PMF per...

Patrick Odey, Uyo A spokesperson for the Akwa Ibom Elders Vanguard, Senator Anietie Okon, has said the shoot-at-sight order by the President, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (retd), to security agencies is not enough. Okon, a former Publicity and Organising Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party said what was needed was expressed instruction to wipe out banditry from the country. Okon, a Third Republic Senator, stated these while speaking to journalists on Sunday in Uyo the Akwa-Ibom State ca...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey,Uyo The Nigerian Export Promotion Council has vowed to make Nigerian cuisine an international brand to make it compete compete favorably with other conutries’ brands. The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, said this during a one-day sensitisation programme for exporters of Nigerian cuisine organised by NEPC on Thursday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. Awolowo, represented by the Deputy Director, International Export Offi...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo The European Union through its ECOWAS commission partners and the leadership Initiative for Trañsformation and Empowerment has organised capacity training for Nigeria military, police and paramilitary agencies. The training programme is aimed at equipping the operatives with modern methods and strategies of border management (air, land and sea) as well as strategies for collaborative policing and information sharing. Speaking at the event held at Emj...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey and Edward Nnachi Gunmen suspected to be cultists on Monday attacked and burnt a divisional police station in the Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State The incident occurred barely one week after some hoodlums in the same local government attacked members of the Quick Response Squad at the Ikpe Annang Junction and burnt an inspector of police inside a police van. Sources told our correspondent in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, that the hoodlums storm...