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Thank God no life was lost

treesun:
https://punchng.com/overland-aircrafts-engine-catches-fire-midair-pilot-declares-emergency/

This story is just like Zee World: extraordinary everyday

ogbiwa:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/wedding-goes-wild-groom-runner-23287955

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Sindhu and new groom Chandrappha

Fr33born:
The owner of Ebonyi state has spoken.

If we have 37 of Barr. Mike Igini as RECs, then Nigeria's electoral process would have always been free and fair. God bless Mike Igini for not always compromising, may God continue to strengthen you, Sir!

Maxymilliano:
https://punchng.com/report-on-akwa-ibom-north-west-senatorial-ticket-final-inec-tells-akpabio/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1655287783

Indeed! Akwa Ibom State is Rising.

aniekaneka:
Hensek Engineering: Re-writing Brilliant Narratives Of Infrastructural Possibilities

- Samuel Ayara

As with charity in societies around the globe, development must always stay conscious of the home as the nucleus that bears the brunts, causes, and effects of every action; be it environmental, social, or economic. This in part explains why most of the top ten construction companies in the United States of America are American indigenous Civil Engineering Companies, with Bechtel topping the league, while the Turner Corporation, AECOM, The Whitting Turner, and Kiewit Corporation following in the order of their listing. The underlying drift in this is the assurance that a firm with maximum American interest would better serve their society.

Just like the liberal American society, in Germany, the first five of the top ten construction firms include Bagels Baumaschinen, Zeppelin, Multimon, Miltex, and Max bogl; dominating the top five spots does not make the rest of the first twenty construction outfits in Germany foreign-owned. The story takes the same drift across Europe and the Asian continent; even struggling climes of the western world will hardly trust their development in the hands of foreigners.

Remaining a shopping ground for never do wells have become the lot of most of the African continent, which has almost aimlessly opened out to foreigners, and in the circumstance given up all that could pass them for a sovereign people, with keys to their development safely tucked in the loins of non-nationals. Nigeria in its listing of best construction companies clearly betrays local content, lining out Julius Berger, Setraco, Reynolds, ELALAN, and Costain (marginally Nigerian owned) as first five of her ten best civil engineering outfits.

Nigeria is not alone in this darkness of foreign dominance and inability to grow a system that encourages indigenous participation, Ghana in the same region also lists Arup, Micheletti & co, Aurecon, Joshob construction, and Desimone construction as their top five construction firms, with all on its listing owned by foreigners, while they are completely condemned to the downwardly spiraling economic realities of capital flight.

This receding presence of indigenous fronts in civil engineering holds more blame for the government than the professionals - upon graduating and obtaining the required certifications to practice civil engineering, the Nigerian government has glaringly abandoned graduates of this field to fate in the capitally intensive endeavor of setting up civil engineering firms. Elsewhere, the government has a way of bringing these professionals together and getting them empowered to function, this is where ours' is grossly short on capacity building.

Leading the change from this dark narrative, Governor Udom Emmanuel in Akwa Ibom State has arguably done more than any state administration in Nigeria at encouraging indigenous construction firms and entrusting them with very sensitive projects, which some have been delivered within time and to specifications. A classical example of a state-sponsored leap in capacity is the continuous rising of a homegrown construction brand that has been positioned to square up in the national league of construction firms; the Hensek Integrated Services, owned by Engr. Uwem Okoko, an Akwa Ibom son.

By sheer commitment to sustaining an expansive rise, Hensek has proven in ways than few that the hitherto lack of confidence to deliver on jobs can be replaced with precise delivery that guarantees user satisfaction. For the Ikot Abasi-born construction entrepreneur, his advent in the Akwa Ibom construction space has cemented plausible goodwill for other indigenous hands in the construction industry, as they have necessarily found a standard to pattern their delivery after. This is good for the state, we can now agree that indigenous contractors are not synonymous with failed and abandoned projects.

Not much defines capacity than seeing him lead his team to succeed where others were adjudged to have failed. A 2021 visit by the Uyo branching the Nigerian Society of Engineers to some of his project sites was quite instructive as it offered convincing grounds to submit that in keeping to professional standards, Hensek has not only made the state proud but has shown class distinction at preserving the values of his profession. Little then wonders his not long ago fellowship investiture by the Nigerian Society of Engineers; one of the very few our state is blessed with.

With an estimated staff strength of over one thousand, I have seen a fellow who almost amounted to naught rise to the occasion of a productive living, since joining Hensek Integrated services; this could only have been possible because Okoko stepped in to bridge the gap of confidence and in the process won a chunk of the space we used to watch lesser qualified foreigners dominate. It has been consoling to realize that major work sites around the state are now devoid of chimney-styled men who dehumanized workers in such manners that made labor distasteful.

In expanding capacity, Hensek has shown through numerous examples how much people can grow when an indigenous brand grows. Not only has capital flight been checked, but his scale of commitment to corporate social responsibilities is also such that has never been experienced in the state; from massive medical outreaches to entrepreneurial supports, educational grants, and other social interventions, Uwem Okoko in sustaining the streak in quality deliveries, has shown that charity can better begin at home when a home figure is supported to stand.

On the firmament of infrastructural interventions is the imposing presence of Hensek integrated services, and in such a manner that has seen him spread tentacles to almost all of the state's ten federal constituencies. How he sustains this energy and does not compromise quality is manifest in the top-of-the-class outcomes his jobs have recorded; with attendant lesser post-construction consequences, which is a departure from the poor adherence to environmental impact analysis and professional advice that in times past got government always running to project site to salvage unpleasant situations.

Investing patriotism in building infrastructures in Akwa Ibom clearly stands Hensek out as an idea we must strive to preserve if we seek to keep experiencing the class act he has so far brought to bear in his deliveries which so far include the Construction of 12.1Km Ikot Akpan Abia-Oboyo Ikot Ita-Enen Nsit Road in Nsit Ibom LGA, the 9.5km Ring Road III from Aka Road - Nwaniba Road, 17.84Km Ikot Ikpo Inua-Ikot Etenge Ndon-Atan Eka Iko- Ikot Akpabio-Ikot Okpok-Ikot Efre Road with 4No Spurs and 3No. Bridges in Ikot Abasi LGA, 3.5km Ring Road II from Aka Road to Abak Road, Uyo LGA, Expansion of Airport Road, 4.6km School of Arts and Science Road Ikono, Mkpok-Okat Road in Onna LGA, 13.7km Obotme-Ukpakon-Nturi-Okpoto- Ikpanya Road with 30m span Bridge in Ibiono Ibom/Ini LGAs, these clearly exclude the mono-kilometer roads and countless interventions the company has undertaken in the last six years.

It is by far unassailable that this doyen of civil engineering services has in the last ten years expanded his equipment base in a manner our clime has never experienced with an indigenous firm. These strides have been phenomenal of the preparedness he arrived in the construction sector with when he took the bull step of incorporating Hensek Services in 2006; a time most people thought such investment was a risk they could not dare. So far Hensek holds the bragging rights for an expansive equipment inventory, which has taken off the burden of relying on people outside the state for construction essentials; little wonder he reserves the right of first refusal for every job the state government revokes from non-performing contractors.

In emphasizing the urgency of growing capacity for other indigenous engineering brands to emulate, we must be concerned about the staying power of our indigenous firms, if Akwa Ibom must attain such heights of reckoning that the larger Nigerian society will come to the light of our commitment to scaling up local capacity to measure up with reputable international standards. We must not lose the deliberate inroads Hensek has won in this regard and must strive for a future our indigenous firms can completely replace foreign companies in every possible specialty.

Akwa Ibom will grow to help bridge Nigeria's infrastructural gap when Hensek and more of his kind are developed to rise to the challenge; no time is too late to commit heart, mind, might, and will in metamorphosing our indigenous brands to ideas the world cannot ignore; it is a truism that when the passion is right, nothing is impossible.

Samuel Ayara writes from Ibong Otoro in Abak LGA.

Why does this man always resort to tantrums anytime he loses out? Just the same way he cried and called the Judge all sorts of names when he was sacked by the FHC in Abuja the other day . Just look at the way he's ranting like a child and yet he's the Chairman of SE Governors Forum. He keeps accusing people here and there, initially, he accused PDP of not giving Igbo's the opportunity to rule the country and now he's accusing his people of not supporting him, the other day he was accusing Anambra people of taking Ebonyi people's slots when they were in the old Anambra state. The title "accuser of brethren" will fit him o

Rascality is in his blood, thank God Mr. Mike Igini is still the AKS REC, he'll show all these rascals pepper

INEC won't recognize any aspirants from any primary election that INEC didn't supervise, So Akpabio and their failed APC in Akwa Ibom State should be ready to accuse Mr. Mike Igini again since they believe in doing things in fraudulent ways always.

Buhari is the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria since its creation

Tiwaz2:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/dont-allow-pdp-return-to-power-so-as-not-to-drag-nigeria-backward-buhari-tells-apc-members/

All this noise after February 2023, we won't hear them again

When two brothers fight and kill themselves, it's a stranger that will inherit their father's properties

When two brothers fight and kill themselves, it's a stranger that will inherit their father's properties

They should not use this to campaign o, after all a state in the country (Akwa Ibom) about three years ago has not just done this already but they are doing very well. So if APC-led FG thinks that they will use this to campaign, they have failed already.

Madam you don turn Power Horse be dat o

Nehemiah, Jabez, Jephtah

They should give them Ministry of Terrorism, Bandits, and Kidnapping Affairs with headquarters in Zamfara . This Terrorist mouthpiece called Gumi must be very sick in the head

BeeBeeOoh:
“The least they need is the Ministry of Nomadic Affairs that will look into their affairs,” Mr. Gumi stressed.



https://gazettengr.com/like-niger-delta-bandits-herdsmen-should-get-their-own-ministry-sheik-gumi/

I can see, Akwa Ibom is rising!

Hunchogee:
Agreement for the second phase has been signed between NSIA and OCP Group that would see $1.4bn invested in Akwa Ibom State utilising Nigerian gas and Moroccan phosphate to produce 750,000 tons of ammonia and one million tons of phosphate fertilizers annually by 2025.

It started off with ( as @SaharaReporters would say) @MBuhari junketing to Morocco to secure the investment himself.

https://twitter.com/ovienews/status/1531923308421300224?s=21&t=wRcSqA-rAmVuBzsIyA09tA

Akwa Ibom to the world …

Umahi is living in a fool's paradise if he thinks that he'll grab the APC Presidential ticket

Those who dig up this old forgotten piece of trash aren't making any sense at this point in time, because this so-called history is very useless and has no place in today's setting. Restructuring should be what every true Nigerian is yearning for, and not some ethnic bigots who call themselves elders coming up with pieces of trash to justify what's not justifable

mighty2:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/06/2023-presidency-s-east-chasing-illusory-ambition-yce/

Trust me, no amount of propaganda will stop Atiku from emerging as Nigeria's President in 2023

adenigga:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/FLASHBACK-How-Atiku-kicked-against-anti-open-grazing-laws

Akwa Ibom is Rising![quote author=Ilaumoh post=113356359]Akwa Ibom and Europe standard of Road na 5&6 .. photos .. Udom Emmanuel may your days be long ..

Akwa Ibom and building sexy road inside the village and J. Berger finishing work na 5&6
Etinan LGA pictures.

https://twitter.com/victoremah/status/1531537607380938752?s=21&t=TVnNUuCFCsu5-qP_dspbsA[/quote]

You're right o

SaintLucia:
Igbo people living in the north and southwest have peace of mind than those living in the southeast now.

Umahi is a dreamer... He won't even see APC ticket , this election will be between Atiku and Tinubu.

This will serve politicians well, instead of focusing on issue-based campaigns, they resort to press conferences and campaigns of calumny, character assassination, and politically motivated blackmail.

Both Umo Eno and Akan Udofia are Business tycoons and are from the same stock(Nsit), so any of them who wins will continue from where Udom stops.

Adding additional Mega Watts of Electricity to Ibom Power is a welcome development.

Happy Children's Day!

Someone tried exactly this shit with me sometime in 2020 and I knew it was a foolish scammer, so i played along with the idiot

LogicBomb8:
I didnt take my phone to church today as it was on charge, so when i returned i saw 2 missed calls one was from my jnr sister and the other was from a strange number.

So i returned the call from the strange number and it turned out to be a young man (from the voice) according to him his old father mistakenly sent #1000 recharge card to my phone and he was pleading for me to send it back.

I hung up to check my phone and almost immediately i received a text message with airtime pin and #1000, called back the number gave him the pin and advice him to be more careful after awhile the number called thanking me he also said his father (the old man who sent the card) wanted to thank me.

I greeted the old man and he sounded happy and was blessing me, my people this man was blessing me until according to him his credit wan finish so he suggested i give him a call. me not wanting to disrespect an old man and receiving blessing from the elderly (who wouldn't like that).

I called back and the blessing continued untill...

Beautiful

My question is; what's the difference between these wild animals and their Boko Haram brothers now? This is why terrorism will never depart from the North any time soon because he who kills by the sword must surely die by the sword. The same people who can't fight and defend themselves when terrorists attack them, now have the strength to fight for their god by gruesomely murdering this innocent lady. May her soul rest in peace Amen.

A factory of this magnitude is a welcome development because those that going to work here are Akwa Ibomites and Nigerians and they have been trained for this purpose. This is Human capital development as they have acquired new skillsets. Before Udom came in there was no functional factory apart from Champion Breweries but today the story has changed, all these factories are employing Akwa Ibomites and Nigerians, Ibom Air employed Nigerians too. This year about 40 Akwa IbomItes are undergoIng traInIng In AIrBus Academy In France, the list continues, so I don't understand what you're trying to insinuate here. Maybe you're one of those blind critics

Kabongo3:
So despite all the noise about this coconut refinery, it is just going to be commissioned.

Udom hasn't done anything about human infrastructure development, level of unemployment is out of the roof, poverty is stark and unbelievably high, given the amount he gets every month, what has he done with the monies?

He is the worst governor Akwa has had, so far.