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Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested two suspected fraudsters, Emeka Akuma and Moses Asuquo, over fake bank alerts. A statement by the command’s Public Relations officer, Odiko Macdon, on Wednesday, said Akuma was arrested with a Lexus 330 car in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on January 18, after buying the car with a fake bank alert. The second suspect, Asuquo, was reportedly apprehended on January 17, while attempting to use a fake bank alert to defraud two people of N200,000. The statement partly read, “The Akwa Ibom State P...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo A group, Enwang Professionals, has called on the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, to set up a panel of inquiry to probe killings of innocent people during the communal crisis between Uko Akpan Enwang and Ukonteghe Uda in Mbo Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that more than ten people were killed, women raped and property estimated at several million of naira destroyed in fresh hostilities which started on Monday, January 18, 2021 between the two warring factions. As part of measures to end the lingering crisis, the state...

Patrick Odey Uyo Two senior lecturers of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Dr John Enoidem and Dr Itemobong Ekaidem, on Monday confirmed vot...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo THE death toll in the ongoing communal conflict between Uko-nteghe Uda and Uko Akpan Enwang communities in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has continued to rise following escalation of crisis, our correspondent reports. Sources closed to the communities said one person was beheaded and two feared killed in fresh attacks which occurred in the early hours of Thursday. However, the police have confirmed only two casualties and have called for political solutions to the lingering crisis. According to the source, which pleaded to remain anon...

23-year-old student jailed five years for cultism in Akwa Ibom Patrick Odey Uyo An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital, has sentenced a 23-year-old student, Emmanuel Thomas, to five years’ imprisonment. Thomas, a native of Uruk Uso in Obot Akara Local Government Area of the state, was convicted for belonging to an unlawful society known as Red Skin Secret Cult Confraternity, one of the cults outlawed by the state government The presiding judge, Justice Okon Okon, on Thursday held that “by the provision of Section 1 sub section 2 of the Cultism, Offensive Weapons a...