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ALL MOSLEMS ARE TERRORIST[/quote]Moslem are terrorist for all i care because thier religion does not regard human lfe as far as its non-moslem. for a country like Nigeria, they should be wiped out

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The Secrets of Governor Godswill Akpabio By Thompson Essien

For the past two and one-half years as a governor of Akwa Ibom State, Goodwill Akpabio is walking around and governing running the affairs of the State with loads of secrets on his shoulder. Here are a few examples.

1. As of this writing, there is an ongoing investigation by some indigenes of Aka Ibom State to the speculation that Governor Akpabio was arrested and detained for two weeks by the police in United Kingdom. No one knows exactly the nature of the crime for which Akpabio was arrested and detained, though some people speculate that it involved money laundering, while others said it was about drug trafficking. But informed sources confided that when the incident occurred, Barrister Assam Assam (SAN) had to travel to London to negotiate for the release of Akpabio from detention. Reports revealed that when Assam Assam arrived in London, he had a hard time negotiating with the police for the release of governor Akpabio. But through connections with some British politicians, an unnamed Member of the House of Lords was brought in to intervene before Akpabio could be released. It is said that the incident was reported to the highest authority in Nigerian.

I am told that since then Akpabio has not traveled to United Kingdom, which may explain why governor Akpabio has been sending his deputies to represent him on foreign commitments, as it happened just a few weeks ago, when former Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, in company of Akpabio’s Commissioner for Information, Aniekan Umana, were sent to Phoenix Arizona. Other sources have confirmed that the Federal Government of Nigeria actually put a cap on governor Akpabio never to leave Nigeria to any foreign trip without clearance by the Nigerian government. I cannot independently confirm the story but reports indicate that since July 2009, or there about, governor Akpabio, who used to visit the United States at least once a month, has not been in America.

An investigation on the story is still ongoing, which will bring the actual period that governor Akpabio was detained in the United Kingdom. But Akwa Ibom people do remember that there was a period when the whereabouts of the governor was not known and at the time, his aides refused to disclose his whereabouts. As of this writing, it is said that only very few kitchen-cabinet members of the governor know about the incident, and discussion of it, if it ever occurs, happens behind closed doors and in hushed tones.

2. Last month, governor Akpabio commissioned a publicly funded hospital and named it after his late uncle. At the time, many Akwa Ibom people frowned over the idea of a sitting governor dedicating a public structure for a family member. Information has just been disclosed that the governor also has instituted a memorial fund for the uncle, in which he deposited the sum of N10 billion. The money is not from private donations but the people’s money, which the people of Akwa Ibom State entrusted Governor Akpabio as the keeper. As of this writing, some concerned indigenes of the State are drafting a petition for EFCC to look into the matter, regarding the source of the fund and to ask Akpabio to return the money to the people’s treasury.

3. It has been reported that the salary of state employees for the month of December is yet to be paid. The reason for the delay, according to those in the know, is because the money for the salary of workers cannot be released by the bank, due to the contract terms of the fixed deposit, which the administration entered with the PHB bank. The administration wants to wait till the end of December before the money is withdrawn. That way, a full interest would be accrued on the money. A few months ago, though it wasn't publicly known until recently, Akpabio’s administration withdrew the sum of $3.1 million of such interest from PHB bank. The money was given to a trusted official of the bank by the name of Emem Etuk, whose husband is a Personal Assistant of governor Akpabio on Petroleum Matters, to carry it to Abuja for undisclosed reasons. When Mrs. Etuk arrived at Murtala Mohamed Airport, she was caught with the money and detained by the police. Informed sources said governor Akpabio spent more than N50 million out of the money to have the case squashed by federal authorities and force PH bank, which initially denied the ownership of the money, to assume responsibility of ownership.

By

Thompson Essien

The Voice of the Masses

Defender of the Oppressed

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Please don't be deceived by a known political opponent with an aim to Blackmail, its a common thing[/size]

chosen04:
'Osita Ike the public affair analys't must be on the pay list of this digital governor indeed.

Is sealworld a digital governance affair analyst?

am just a normal citizen

ElRazur:
May be I am silly. How is this explaining "Digital Governor"?

May be, cos the pace at which he achieves success in governance got him the nickname Digital Governor. may be you come to Akwa Ibom and see things for yourself and know why he is called the Digital Governor. Even you can not help it but to also credit him as a modern age Governor who has delivered to his people. Sorry!!!!

Gov. Akpabio’s Anniversary Gift: Free, Compulsory Education http://www.aksgonline.com/articlePage.aspx?qrID=292


21 New Projects For Nsit Ubium http://akwaibomnews.com/content/21-new-projects-nsit-ubium

Govt. Commissions 13 Projects In Ikot Ekpene http://akwaibomnews.com/content/govt-commissions-13-projects-ikot-ekpene


17 Projects For Ibesikpo Asutan http://akwaibomnews.com/content/17-projects-ibesikpo-asutan

AK Partners Belgium On Sea Port Development http://akwaibomnews.com/content/ak-partners-belgium-sea-port-development


1ST PHASE TROPICANA PROJECT FOR COMMISSIONING THIS YEAR http://akwaibomnews.com/content/1st-phase-tropicana-project-commissioning-year


NSE rates Akpabio high on roads http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/36869/1/NSE-rates-Akpabio-high-on-roads/Page1.html


many more to come,

[size=30pt]Akpabio: Garlands for ‘digital governor’[/size] culled from http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/26085/1/Akpabio-Garlands-for-digital-governor/Page1.html

When the good people of Akwa Ibom State elected Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio as their governor, two and a half years ago, they took the tide at the flood and this has led to very good fortune for the entire state.

Godswill has become a metaphor for missionary passion, administrative excellence and people-centred leadership. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, seems to agree and will thus crown Akpabio’s inspiring achievement with an honorary Doctor of Public Administration and Strategy degree today.

Born on December 9, 1962 to Chief Obot Akpabio and Madam Lucy Obot Akpabio (nee Inyang Eto) of Ukana Ikot Ntuen in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Awa Ibom State, Godswill lost his father early in life and was raised by his mother, who painstakingly inculcated in him the values of hardwork, discipline and honesty.

Primary education at Methodist Primary School, Ukana and secondary education at the prestigious Federal Government College (FGC), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, earned him the West African School Certificate /General Certificate of Education at Ordinary and Advanced levels. He proceeded to the University of Calabar, where he obtained a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) degree. After a year at the Nigerian Law School , he was called to the Nigerian Bar."

Destiny prepared His Excellency, Chief Godswill Akpabio, for leadership from early childhood. At FGC, Port Harcourt, a microcosm of the Nigerian society with students from all over Nigeria, he was appointed the General Senior Prefect. "At the University of Calabar, a federal university with true federal character in its students’ population, his charisma endeared him to the students and he was elected the Speaker of the Students’ Parliament," said Aniekan Umanah, a commissioner in his cabinet.

Akpabio worked briefly as a teacher, and was an associate partner with Paul Usoro and Co., Lagos, a leading Law firm in the country. His experience as a teacher exposed him to the educational crises in our society and his legal practice gave him insight into the needs of justice administration in Nigeria.

In 2002, Akpabio served as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of EMIS Telecoms Limited, a leading privately-owned fixed wireless company in Lagos. He helped in developing the current crop of management in the telecom industry. He was elected the National Publicity Secretary of the Association of Telecom Companies in Nigeria (ATCOM), while he was still the Company Secretary of EMIS Telecoms.

Also in 2002, he was appointed the Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources in Akwa Ibom State. He left his stamp of efficiency in this ministry as an astute administrator and was subsequently re-deployed to the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and then to the Ministry of Lands and Housing, Uyo. In the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, he supervised the 31 local government councils and traditional institutions across Akwa Ibom State.

His invaluable conflict management skills came to the fore and by always upholding the truth in all he did, he earned the respect of local government administrators and traditional rulers. As a commissioner, Akpabio related with people on the basis of their character and not where they came from.

Completely detribalised, Akpabio is imbued with a passion for excellence and driven by a sense of mission and purpose. All these attributes, coupled with his charisma put him in a vantage position and led to his landslide victory in the April 14, 2007 governorship election.

The Italians have a proverb which states that: "The right man comes at the right season." Akwa Ibom is endowed with tremendous natural and human resources.

The right man was sought to fulfill the promises which define the state as: "The Land of Promise " and to give a sense of fulfillment to the people. Chief Akpabio was destined and came at the right season. Within two and a half years of the most eventful administration in the state’s history, the entire state has become one big construction site.

In his first year in office, he commissioned more than 250 projects, and is currently commissioning more than 557 projects. More than 480 villages have benefited from electrification projects and have been linked to the national grid. More than 140 rural communities now have mini water works. About 400 brand new taxis and 40 brand new ‘City Bus Scheme’ buses enable citizens to travel in comfort, safety and style. The hallmark of the new, improved Akwa Ibom.

One of the most revolutionary steps of this youthful governor is his intervention and development of federal infrastructure. So far, his administration has spent about N81 billion on the tarring/rehabilitation of over 200 km of Federal Roads, including three roads in the University of Uyo, a federal institution and the premises of the Nigerian Television Authority, Uyo.

Through his administration’s financial assistance, University of Uyo’s 28 academic courses have been accredited by the National Universities Commission. His government has built a Dialysis Treatment Centre at University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (a federal institution) and equipped it with 17 dialysis machines and is building a paediatric ward at the same hospital.

Further more, Academic activities commenced in the Akwa Ibom State University in September 2009. The university will offer courses designed to meet the needs of a developing country like Nigeria, including courses in Ocean Science and Technology, not offered in any other Nigerian university.

Perhaps, the most widely-acclaimed and celebrated policy of this lawyer and gentleman is his free, compulsory, qualitative education programme from primary to senior secondary school levels.

The government has abolished all kinds of fees and is paying subventions to secondary school principals at the rate of N300 a student per term and to primary school headmasters at N100 a pupil per term. This costs the government N7 billion annually, but Governor Akpabio believes that no price is too high to pay for educating the next generation. His determination to fight militancy with education is thus instructive.

In developing the road network, 168 urban roads are under construction across the state. An international airport with maintenance facilities will commence operations on November 26, 2009. A one-stop hospitality complex, the Tropicana Entertainment Centre, with a mini-Disneyland, galleria, shopping mall, international convention centre, a 16-storey five-star hotel complex with 250 rooms and a cinema hall is being constructed in Uyo.

The Akpabio administration is also building a digitalized modern library and four new general hospitals. The Independent Power Plant (IPP) at Ikot Abasi (a project initiated by the past administration) has been completed, and a 20-year-contract has been signed with the Nigerian Gas Company to supply gas for uninterrupted electric power. No sector of the economy has escaped this government’s patriotic attention.

Chief Akpabio has countless feathers to his cap. He is the recipient of over 30 chieftaincy titles from all over Nigeria . These include the Iberedem Ibibio, Nta Nta Offiong Annang, Atta of Eket and the Unwana Oron, to mention a few.

Like a city set on a hill, Akpabio’s ingenuity and patriotism have received acclaim from far and near. He holds the highest national honour of Niger Republic, the "Gold Humanitarian Services Award," conferred on him by the Niger Republic ’s Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Alhaji Moussa Ibrahim. The ambassador also acknowledged the ’Digital Governor’s giant strides in development, at the Forum of Ambassadors in Nigeria.

Governor Akpabio has been honoured as the "2008 Most Outstanding Governor in Nigeria (South South)." The organisers said the award was in appreciation of his developmental strides and described his free education programme as unprecedented in the region. His Excellency also bagged the "Nehemiah Award" of the African Church of Nigeria. The church described the massive infrastructural development of Akwa Ibom State as "unequalled in the country." He was earlier honoured as the "Youth Ambassador of Nigeria" by the National Youth Council of Nigeria.

Other recent awards include that of "Governor of the Year, South South," by City People magazine; "Best Governor in Infrastructure 2009," Encomium magazine; "Best Governor South South," Encomium magazine and the "Excellency Recognition Award As Best Governor South South" from Global Excellence magazine. Prior to his emergence as governor, the Africa Independent Television/Raypower FM in the South South Region honoured him with the "Excellence in Governance Award" in 2005. These, however, are just a few of his many honours.

Today, we salute an adorable homeboy, lawyer, gentleman, statesman, astute administrator and inspiring leader, who has overcome tremendous challenges to lead and empower his people and has opened doors wide for them to enter the Land of Promise.

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Osita Ike is a public affairs analyst.

Dear NLanders
I hope you will understand after reading this article below


Godswill Obot Akpabio: MAN OF THE YEAR 2009 - National Daily
31 Dec 2009

THE difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is just that extra. That simple looking extra can go a long way in any endeavour either for the good or the worse. In every case where there has been an acclaimed paradigm shift in civilization, one man has always stood in the gap. For all of Adolf Hitler’s ruthless ingenuity, it took the strength of character of a Winston Churchill. It took a Mahatma Gandhi to showcase the enormous power of change through non-violence, and a Martin Luther King Jnr. to put that idea to test and a Barack Obama to actualize it. It took a Nelson Mandela to show that the power of forgiveness can re-write the history of an entire nation, a continent and a race. And in Nigeria, Chief Godswill Obot Apkabio has taken the step not only to stand out from the repertoire of political crowd that has been the lot of this country since independence, he has taken the decision to be outstanding in every sense of the word.


There is no other time that the appellation the “Land of Promise” rightly captures what is taking place in Akwa Ibom State than now. Never before has that State nor any other neighbouring state for that matter been turned first upside-down and then right side-up. To say that things are looking up in Akwa Ibom State may be stating the obvious but side by side other states, what is currently taking place in Akwa Ibom State is a development agenda of tsunamic proportion.


And it is all because of one man, a man not only with a mission but a man on a mission, a mission of unmistakable importance, to bring real promise to the land of promise. And it takes a promise keeper to achieve so. Godswill Akpabio’s administration could with all sense of modesty be described as the most eventful to happen to the State in its 22 years history. During his first year in office, he commissioned more than 250 projects, that got the attention of our Board of Editors, but then we felt it was the usual flash in the pan that has become the trade mark of elected office holders in Nigeria who always try to act the new broom in their first few months in office. But when we got proof that Governor Akpabio has in his second year already commissioned well over 557 projects and still counting, we saw an extra ordinary Nigerian politician, who does what he says and says what he will do. Our interest in him was further heightened when it was brought to our notice with proof that more than 480 villages have been connected to the national grid and with the completion of the Independent Power Plant at Ikot Abasi, the government has entered into a 20 year contract with the Nigeria Gas Company for uninterrupted supply of gas to power the plant as a proof that its development policies are holistic. He has over 168 urban road networks under construction.


While his colleagues were busy avoiding federal roads in their states, Governor Akpabio has already spent about N81 billion to reconstruct and rehabilitate those in Akwa Ibom State, we knew something was cooking in the land of legendary culinary.


Not done, apart from infrastructural development, Governor Akpabio’s agenda for change provided for equitable distribution in the social sectors especially education and health. His free and compulsory education program from primary to secondary school levels is worthy of mention here. His government abolished all form of fees by paying subvention of N300 per student per term in secondary schools and N100 per pupil per term in primary schools. This amounts to over N17 billion annually. This has been revolutionary in that those who engage in child labour and abuses associated with making money off minors are out of work because there has been a record school registration process in the state. Moreso, teenage boys who would ordinary have been recruited by militants now have a better alternative, one that guarantees a future. Today, the University of Uyo has recovered 28 academic courses which has been accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), he has built hundreds of primary healthcare units across the state and also a Dialysis Treatment Centre with 17 dialysis machines at University of Uyo, paediatric ward will soon be completed at the same institution. He has seen to it that the Akwa Ibom State University takes off with highly specialized courses aimed at improving the skill set of young Nigerians. A modern digital library and four new general hospitals are in different stages of construction.


To cap it all, an international fully equipped airport is ready and running with Arik Airline flights frequenting the airport. Going beyond the resolve to make Akwa-Ibom a tourist and investors’ destination, the man, known commonly as “the Digital Governor”, has completed the Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, with full capacity of 170 rooms. The Akpabio-led administration has initiated the construction of a N33billion Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, a 16-storey five-star hotel, with 250 bedrooms; a galleria, with six cinema viewing centres; a 10,000-sitting capacity dome, in addition to a Theme/water park. It is expected that the project will effect drastic and positive changes in the economic and infrastructural landscape of the State.


In these unusual times when elected office holders build castles in the sky, it is one thing to have a great development agenda; it is another to ensure its completion. Not only on the pages of newspapers, but that they are verifiable and are serving the purpose they are meant to serve, this is what cuts out Governor Akpabio from the crowd. Akpabio’s well thought out development intervention in Akwa Ibom State is not only widely acclaimed but from every indication and from the assessments of our team of development consultants, will take the state to its destination, and that is why, we at National Daily without fear of sticking out our neck, name him Man of the Year 2009.

visit www.digitalgodswill.com for more information

Thats just the best thing in Governance

Nigerian President, His Excellency Umaru Yaradua is dead according to authoritative sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre.

He died on the 10th of December at 3.30pm at an Intensive Care Unit at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah Saudi-Arabia. Sources at the Hospital say that the First lady wants to keep the news secret for the next few days for personal reasons.

At the time of his death he was surrounded by his wife, Turai and a childhood friend, Nigerian Member of Parliament,

The president left Nigeria fifty days ago after complaining of Chest pains. Sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah say that the president suffered among many other things, kidney failure, stroke and massive brain damage.


The President has been bedridden ever since. Nigerian officials had previously lied to the country that the president's health was getting better while his situation got worse. The president was conspicuously silent regarding the Christmas day bombing in which a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb on an aircraft that carried nearly 300 people.

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source: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/136017

[size=28pt][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]This is the condition the f**kin NORTHERN TERRORIST(CABAL) wanted this country to be, why shouldnt Nigeria be on the terror list while our Northern Terrorist are busy terroring this country- I wonder why this country is not divided till now so that Northern Nigeria could turn to Iraq or Yemen if they so wish[/font][/size]

[size=20pt]See as they want replace OKADA RIDER with MORE ARMED ROBBERS, this country sef[/size]

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=360123.msg5032344#msg5032344 date=1259713807]Who is the governor of Akwa-Ibom? [/quote]Some Good Man with Good leadership qualities with Love for Children called

Chief Dr. Goodswill Obot Akpabio

this is getting interesting, lets wait and see

my contact info is seal_world@yahoo.com

i dont care what those bunch of lazy do in the name of big brother Africa other than corrupting our youth in which they should be role model. its a big shame

Boarding in General Murtala Moh'd College, Yola was a wonderful experience. "Inmates" where allowed to do as they wish, going in and out of the school regularly, riot and other challenges. but i brought the best out of me

prove

Ode

owumatosa:
This is public place and not everyone would like to be disturbed with sometime like this.I respect privacy.

who don't want to be disturbed, [size=8pt][size=8pt]<<<---------< BEWARE OF FRAUDSTER[/size][/size]

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Shola2009:

if they really had the rocket luncher with war head, i believe they where battle ready. my question is why didnt they use it on the police chasing them, Naija big pass as una imagine

The strike might be part of the re-branding process, Good People Great Nation

we have a long way to go as a nation

check ur MyTV

Sanusi and EFCC have hidden agenda by not allowing the Bank chiefs to defend themselves----------Why have EFCC not arrest and detain greedy politicians that have looted our fund?

slum dog millioniare in Naija, I envy him

the guy is an idiot cos my sister got the same text msg and jst looking at the text msg i knew it was fraud cos the fool used bulk sms site with +44 number.

Diamond Bank and Ecobank always

He is indeed a good oretor, he speaks well and will certainly do well for this country.

next election, if they try rigging election, we will respond just like the ppl of Iran are responding now (afterall we have things in common "June 12")