By Patrick Obia The management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) says they will tighten security in the institution haven “received classified intelligence report indicating imminent terror attack on staff and students.” In a memo with reference number UC/REG/CIR/68 signed by the registrar, Gabriel Egbe noted that “any moment from now, there would be heightened
By Joseph Erunke, Vanguard Newspaper THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ended its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting late Monday (yesterday), with a resolution not to embark on another strike action over the payment of half salaries to members by the Federal Government. However, the union, according to Vanguard source, resolved to wait for
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River, Mr. Sam Bassey, and some community leaders in Biase Local Government Area of the State have pledged support for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Sandy Onor. They made the declaration at a stakeholders’
This is a keynote presentation by the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo in a 2-day (7- 10 November 2022) training on Conflict Sensitive Reporting, 2023 General Elections And Countering Fake News in Port Harcourt for journalists and civic space actors. The training is organized by the Centre for Democracy and
Governor Ayade held a meeting with APC party stakeholders and started this; That I, Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, was his Boy. Correction: I am in my 50s and Ayade is in his 50s, from the records in his preferred Age Declaration. I never heard of the name, Ayade, in Cross River State, until I turned
Barely forty days before the end of former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke’s administration, in a petition dated April 16, 2015, Cross River lawyer and former presidential aide, Okoi Obono Obla, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, to investigate the expenditure of allocations to the 18 local governments in Cross River State
By Archibong Jeremiah Cross River State Chapter of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) has committed to working with the Vote Not Fight, Election No Be War campaign team to ensure the forthcoming general elections are peaceful and participatory. The State Chairman of IPAC, Mr. Anthony Attah Bissong who played host to the State Technical Committee
By Mary Bassey The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has kicked against the claim of the $500 million funds by the Federal Government. According to the Chairman of the Revenue Allocation Mobilization and Fiscal Commission, RAMFAC, Mr. A. M. Shehu, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Program alleged that the Federal Government pays $500 million