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178-year-old slave boat confiscated by natives, unveiled by Akwa Ibom State Govt
Akwa Ibom State government unveiled a slave boat after 178 years, which was confiscated from slave masters by angry natives of Nwaniba in Uruan Local Government Area of the state in a guerilla warfare.
The unveiling of the slave boat to the public at Marina Beach, Uyo, the state capital, was done, recently in partnership with the National Association of Akwa Ibom, NAAKIBOM, USA.
At the event, the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr. Charles Udoh, said: “The slave boat is believed to have voyaged from Liverpool to berth in Nwaniba, Uruan LGA in 1846, where the slave masters resided to transact in the nefarious businesses.
“The slave boat was confiscated from the slave masters by the natives of a coastal community of Nwaniba in Uruan LGA of the state towards the end of the slave trade era in the world.
“Irked by the excruciating pains of slavery and the inhuman treatment of the slave masters, the angry natives confiscated the slave boat in a guerilla warfare.
“This is one of the remaining relics of the colonial masters slave business in Akwa Ibom State and it is located at the Marina Beach.”
He disclosed that the slave boat restoration and preservation project was funded by investors brought in by NAAKIBOM, USA.
He expressed appreciation to NAAKIBOM for partnering state government in the promotion of tourism in the state, and solicited same partnership from other Akwa Ibom groups in the diaspora.
“Akwa Ibom is endowed with virgin untapped tourism potentials across the length and breadth of the state, the longest coastline in the region, of 129km and tourist sites with historical perspectives beckoning on investors,” Udoh added.
Famous American actor, Denzel Washington has revealed he has Nigerian ancestry.
The ‘Gladiator II’ actor disclosed that his heritage test shows that he is 90 per cent Irish and 10 per cent Nigerian.
Washington spoke in a recent interview with British-Nigerian media personality, Ada Enechi.
“I am 10 per cent Nigerian and 90 per cent Irish,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Denzel Washington has hinted at retirement.
The 69-year-old thespian disclosed during a press tour of his latest movie ‘Gladiator II’ in Australia that ‘Black Panther 3’ is one of his last films before retirement.
He said he would be retiring after shooting ‘Black Panther 3’, ‘Othello 2’ and ‘King Lear.’
About 20 suspected criminals arrested for various crimes across Osun State, including three suspected highway armed robbers, were on Friday paraded by the state police command.
Presenting the suspects to journalists, the spokesperson for the police, Yemisi Opalola, said the armed robbery suspects, Olajide Kareem (28), Mike Emmanuel (33), and Godwin Emmanuel (23) were arrested along Osu/Ilesa road.
Opalola said the suspects, during their operations robbed many people of their jewelries, phones cash, and other valuables.
She added that during one of the robbery incidents, a bus driver was shot in the leg, while a female passenger was raped by one of the suspects.
Also paraded was Emmanuel Anthony, accused of using military uniforms to rob passengers along Ekiti road, where he forced a victim from Esa Oke, to transfer a sum of N3m to his account.
Anthony was also accused of robbing other people of their mobile phones valued at N1.25m.
Seven other suspects arrested for conspiracy, armed robbery and receipt of stolen vehicles, were also paraded.
Four northern states of Gombe, Bauchi, Benue and Plateau have been thrown into darkness, due to a fault on the 330kV double circuit transmission lines of Ugwuji-Makurdi-Jos.
The states are among the franchise area of Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
According to the Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Friday Elijah, the tripping of the lines occurred in the afternoon on Friday, resulting in the loss of power supply on all the 33KV feeders.”
He disclosed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria engineers were working to rectify the fault.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the fault is rectified and power supply is restored back to normalcy,” said Elijah.
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