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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 boat mounted with 115HP Yamaha engine, two rifles and six rounds of ammunition were recovered from the...

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 one of our correspondents that the bombing of the forest started at 8am and ended at 12 noon on Tuesda...

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 House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing workers wh...

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 received  3.94 million doses of the  vaccine from  COVAX facility, an initiative co-led by the Vac...

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 toilet on November 18, 2018. Delivering judgment on Monday, Justice Augustine Odokwo held that the ...