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It is 66 days since we recorded the first set of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Akwa Ibom State. Over this period, we have deployed all reasonable resources; financial and material, within our disposal to contain the surge of COVID-19 in our state. We have also navigated the learning curve acquiring valuable lessons in the process. CASE MANAGEMENT Our incidence curve witnessed a spike since the last update, but we are happy to report that no life has been lost since then while we have continued to treat and discharge cases. Our current statistics are as follows ❌Confirmed cases:        45 ❌Discharged cases:      14 ❌Deaths:                             2 ❌Total Active Cases :   29 SITUATION ROOM Our 24/7 Call Centre in the Akwa Ibom COVID-19 Situation Room is still inu...

Abigail Isaac Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has directed its joint Committees on Education, and Works/Transport to carry out an on-the-spot-assessment of abandoned deeply excavated gully at the State College of Education, Afaha Nsit and to make possible recommendations to the House within one month interval. SPEAKER, AKWA IBOM STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, RT. HON. ANIEKAN BASSEY The House as presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey earlier today at plenary, mandated the Committees following a motion on the "Concern Over Deeply Excavated Gully Abandoned in Akwa Ibom State College of Education, Afaha Nsit: A Call for Immediate Intervention to Avert Disaster" moved by Hon. Ifiok Udoh, Member representing Nsit Ibom State Constituency. Presenting the Motion, Hon. Udoh said, the gully erosion which is a deathtrap at the concentric of the citadel of studies is not a natural phenomenon caused by erosion but a-man-made disaster resulting from excav...

Governor Udom Emmanuel has formally flagged off a farmers' enumeration exercise in Akwa Ibom state with a charge on people to take agricultural activities as serious business. The State Chief Executive assured that with such cooperation, agriculture would become a major driver of the state's economy thereby bringing to an end, the over-dependence on government for survival. GOV. UDOM EMMANUEL OF AKWA IBOM STATE CHAIRMAN AKIICORP, PASTOR UMO BASSEY ENO WITH TEAM The governor who spoke at his office in Uyo, was enumerated as the number one cocoa and plantain farmer in the state in the ongoing farmer's Enumeration exercise by the Akwa Ibom Investment company limited-AKIICORP. Mr Emmanuel said the scheme said there was need for the people to harness the resources in the state and create wealth out of Agriculture. While thanking the Akwa Ibom Investment Company limited-AKIICORP for driving his vision in the agricultural sector, Governor Emmanuel assu...