This is a review of major events in Nigeria’s south-south region last week.
SPECIAL REPORT: Antimicrobial resistance crisis heightens in Nigeria, other countriesHail to the Chief Justice, By Chidi Anselm OdinkaluSPECIAL REPORT: Antimicrobial resistance crisis heightens in Nigeria, other countriesHail to the Chief Justice, By Chidi Anselm OdinkaluMr Okpebholo polled 291 667 votes to defeat his major rival, PDP’s Ighodalo, who scored 247, 274, while the Labour Party candidate, Olumide Akpata, came third with 22,763 votes.
The PDP, the state’s ruling party, temporarily suspended its political campaigns for next month’s local government election in honour of the departed first lady.the sale of petrol after the price climbed to N2,500 a litre. The price hike followed the withdrawal of services by members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria over an alleged confiscation of trucks by operatives of a Joint Task Force on security.
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Death of Akwa Ibom First Lady: PDP suspends local election campaignMrs Eno died on Thursday in a hospital following an undisclosed illness, according to a statement issued on Friday morning by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Akwa Ibom, Ini Emembong.
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Gov Mbah mourns Akwa Ibom First Lady, commiserates with Umo EnoGovernor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has expressed deep grief over the demise of the First Lady of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Patience Umo Eno, describing it as a huge loss to her family, Akwa Ibom and the nation as a whole.
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BREAKING: IGP Reacts To Death Of Akwa Ibom First LadyA Trusted Nigerian Newspaper
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Tinubu, southern governors commiserate with Akwa Ibom over first lady's deathNigeria's independent online newspaper
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Orji Kalu, Abia North indigenes accessing Abia through Akwa IbomSenator Orji Uzor Kalu and the Abia State government have engaged in a war of words following the flagging off of the contract for the reconstruction of the Ohafia-Arochukwu Federal road in Abia State.
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Lagos to probe death of Akwa Ibom police commissionerThe Lagos state government says it has set up a medical panel to probe the circumstances leading to the death of
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