The Unique Precious Care Foundation (UPCF) has once again reaffirmed its commitment to humanitarian service and child welfare as it successfully hosted the 2025 Children’s Christmas Party and Back-to-School Empowerment Programme on Wednesday, 24th December, 2025, at G-Line, Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The colourful and heart-warming event brought together about 400 children, including over 100 orphans drawn from four orphanage homes across the State, alongside children from the State Police Children Chaplaincy Centre. The programme provided not only Christmas cheer but also essential educational support aimed at preparing the children for the new school term. Speaking at…
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.as Gov. Eno shares State’s funds with politicians … Christmas under Umo Eno, worst in history–citizen By the Guide Newspaper Despite the administration of Governor Umo Eno receiving over N1.27 trillion from Federation Allocation Account Committee (FAAC) in the last two years according to published budget performance reports from the Akwa Ibom State government, there is growing biting hunger in Akwa Ibom State, the Guide Newspaper can authoritatively say this. The Guide Newspaper reports that Akwa Ibom State is one of the few States in Nigeria receiving the highest allocation of funds from the federal government and ironically also a…
•Say impeachment necessary to restore public trust on the Assembly By the Guide Newspaper In what citizens of Akwa Ibom State under the aegis of Conscience for Good Governance, describe as a complete erosion of public trust on Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, the Speaker of the Assembly Hon. Udeme Otong has denied making claim that theb2026 tickets of lawmakers for Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, were already in his pocket to be shared later to his preferred aspirants in 2027 election. Speaking exclusively to the Guide Newspaper, citizens of Akwa Ibom State under the umbrella association of…
For about two years now, Akwa Ibom State government has claimed to be paying 600 elders in Akwa Ibom State N50,000 monthly each as part of social welfare package from the government for their upkeep. However, we are worried that for about two years now the administration of Governor Umo Eno keeps making this claim in the State without providing any record to prove to the people of Akwa Ibom State, the authenticity of such claim. While the initiative of a social welfare package for the elderly in Akwa Ibom State looks on the surface as a lifeline to this…
No fewer than 4,000 public secondary schools’ teachers employed by the Akwa Ibom State Secondary Education Board (SSEB) during the 2017/18 recruitment exercise, have lamented non – payment of the backlog of promotion arrears for four years and 10 months. The affected teachers under the aegis of Concerned Akwa Ibom Teachers Forum (CAITF), in a letter of appeal addressed to the Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, lamented that many of them were wallowing in poverty and heavy debt burden, following government’s inability to address the welfare challenges confronting the affected teachers employed during the period. The protest letter dated Friday, December…
– We have lost our promotion arrears for 23 months, A’Ibom Teachers lament Teachers in the State Secondary Education Board has decried the demand for the payment of the sum of N3000 (three thousand naira) each before they are payroll In their new salary grade levels. This was confirmed by a broadcast message sent to all LEC zonal directors in the state by the PRO, State Secondary Education Authority on behalf of the Permanent Secretary. “Reports reaching the Permanent Secretary, State Secondary Education Board, Mr Okon Effiong Tom from the Head of Civil Service is that teachers, who have just…
The Federal Government has confirmed that recent air strikes carried out in parts of North West Nigeria were conducted through an ongoing security partnership with the United States, aimed at dismantling terrorist camps linked to the Islamic State West Africa Province. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Nigeria continues to work closely with international partners to combat terrorism and violent extremism, stressing that the collaboration is structured, lawful and respectful of the country’s sovereignty. According to the government, the latest operation followed intelligence driven coordination which resulted in precision strikes on identified terrorist locations…
By the Guide Newspaper The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, has described himself as an underdog politician who had little prospect in politics considering his qualification when compared to the towering profiles of his fellow contenders in 2023. Governor Umo Eno said this while delivering a Convocation Lecture at the 7th Convocation Ceremony of Mountain Top University (MTU), Ibafo, where he charged graduates to “dream big, start small, and most importantly, start,” stressing that greatness is achieved through discipline, ethical conduct and faith in God. Eno while addressing the graduands at the convocation ceremony recalled that he…
•Says Nigerians are hungry, the country not moving forward under APC •Urges APC Govt to Reassess Priorities By Shadrach Okon An elder statesman in Akwa Ibom State and former Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, RT. Hon. Nduese Essien, has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) government in Nigeria for ignoring the reality of biting hunger in the land and failing to lead the country on the path of progress 10 years after the party took over power from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in country. Chief Nduese Essien gave his assessment of APC government in Nigeria while fielding…
•INEC’s Silence, an endorsement of Speaker Otong’s impunity–IPAC blasts INEC Our Correspondent Worried by the refusal of INEC residents electoral commissioner in Akwa Ibom State Mr. Obo Effanga to address the rising controversy surrounding the recent comment made by Elder Udeme Otong, the Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, exposing plot to rig 2027 general election in Akwa Ibom State, stakeholders from different political parties and concerned citizens of the State have accused the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom State of alledgedly fine tuning plot with APC government in Akwa Ibom State to rig 2027 election…