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 The New Iman Is Making Transportation a Luxury By Ikoments In Chairman Uko Umoh's Etinan, movement has become a luxury rather than a convenience. If you live anywhere past the park heading toward the Circle, you now pay ₦300–₦500 just to reach what people are calling the "alleged ₦1.5 billion park," and as much as ₦600 to get to Ikot Akpabio — the chairman's own community. A trip from Hospital Road or the School of Health Tech bus stop used to cost no more than ₦500 to Ikot Akpabio and ₦700 to Ekom Iman. Today, that same Ekom Iman trip costs ₦1,200. Let this be clear: this is a call-out of the local government administration, not an appeal to it. I am only trying to say it as respectfully as the situation allows. What Was the Park For? Why is this administration deliberately making life harder for the very people it exists to serve? What was the point of building that park in the first place? Why does it seem that once these men get the opportunity to sit in a seat o...

IKOMENTS — ACCOUNTABILITY WATCH A single line item, multiplied 538 times, tells you almost everything about how Nigeria's budget insertion economy actually works. By Christian Hike · Ikoments In the 2025 federal budget signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on February 28, 2025, the National Assembly inserted 538 borehole projects at a combined cost of ₦114.53 billion . Divide one figure by the other, and a single fact emerges that should trouble every Nigerian who has ever paid for a borehole in their own community: the average unit cost comes to ₦212.88 million . For context, drilling a borehole in Nigeria typically costs between ₦500,000 and ₦3 million, depending on depth, geology, and location. Even at the very top of that range, in the most difficult terrain, with the most elaborate solar-powered pumping system attached, the federal figure represents a markup of roughly 70 to 425 times the going market rate....

A New Iman Is Possible — But Not Like This | Ikoments Ikoments Civic Commentary & Political Accountability — Akwa Ibom Etinan LGA — Full Accountability Audit A New Etinan Is Possible — But Not Like This Fifteen to eighteen billion naira. Three years. A road that kills. A street the chairman could not light. Buses given as loans. No bank. No economy. This is the record. By Ikpat Emmanuel Emem | Ikoments | June 2026 | Etinan LGA, Akwa Ibom State ₦480M Est. Monthly Allocation ₦18BN 3-Year Total (est.) 3 YRS Current Chairmanship 0 Banks in Etinan LGA There is a spot on John Kirk junction Uyo Etinan road, in Etinan that has claimed li...

The ₦110 Billion Audacity of Greed | Ikoments Ikoments Civic Commentary · Accountability · Public Interest Editorial · National Assembly · Accountability The ₦110 Billion Audacity of Greed A Federal High Court has confirmed what suffering Nigerians already knew: while citizens were told to endure, Abuja's political class was busy voting itself bulletproof luxury in one of the most brazen acts of self-dealing in Nigerian legislative history. By Christian Hike  ·  Ikoments Editorial  ·  June 2026 For over two years, Nigerians were told to endure. The removal of the fuel subsidy in 2023 was sold as bitter but necessary medicine — a hard sacrifice that would save the nation, rebuild its infrastructure, and restore fiscal dignity to a broken economy. Citizens were asked to tighten their belts, absorb record-breaking inflation, and watch the naira collapse ...

  They Build Hotels in Uyo, Ghost Towns Back Home | Ikoments Ikoments Civic Commentary from Akwa Ibom Editorial · Housing & Governance They Build Hotels in Uyo. Ghost Towns Back Home. Akwa Ibom's political class collects salaries from constituencies they have abandoned, funnels every naira of influence into Uyo's real estate market, and leaves their local governments to rot. The housing crisis in Uyo is the bill for that crime. By Christian Hike  ·  Ikoments Editorial  ·  June 2026 Ask any tenant in Uyo what is keeping them awake at night, and the answer is not the mosquitoes. It is the landlord. House rent in the capital city of Akwa Ibom State has become a quiet emergency — one that cuts across civil servants, traders, young professionals, and students, steadily pushing the working population toward financial ruin one annual rent cycle at a time....

There is a photograph circulating on social media. It shows Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, smiling broadly, beside a quote that reads: "I lost a grandchild because there was no incubator in the hospital. Starting today, I'm ordering all the hospitals in Akwa Ibom to have one." The caption underneath reads: "Compassion in Action. Progress in Motion." The people of Akwa Ibom should not be moved by this. They should be angry. Not because incubators in hospitals is a bad idea, it is an excellent idea. Not because the Governor does not deserve credit for acting ,action is better than silence. But because the question no one in that press office thought to ask is the most important question of all: Why did it take his grandchild? The Data Was Always There Neonatal mortality in Nigeria is not a secret. The statistics have been published, debated, and mourned for decades. According to UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, Nigeria consistently ranks among the c...