By Archibong Jeremiah/Monday Ogar The University of Calabar, UNICAL has been shut down for two weeks by the school management after a protest by the students this morning disrupted academic and other activities on campus and its environs. The students took to the streets to protest the bad state of facilities in the school hostels
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Commercial Transport Regulatory Agency (CTRA) has accused the various transport unions which are Franchisees of government of being responsible for the chaos and ‘insanity’ in the transport sector of the State. The franchisees include the Association of Urban Taxi (AUT), Calabar Urban Taxi (CUT), JOFINO, Eburutu Lines and
By Our Correspondent No fewer than one Thousand inhabitants of Adiabo Community in Odukpani Local government Area of Cross River State, where the Obong of Calabar comes from have been dewormed by the medical and health Care group of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The intervention by the NYSC group was part of their
In what could be likened to a carnival, Calabar, the Cross River State capital was today agog as 37 contestants drawn from the 36 states and Abuja arrived the state for this year’s Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) Pageant. Shortly after assuming office, the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade, had signed a Memorandum of
Every administration marks out certain policy direction it intends to pursue with vigour following the ideological and political drive and colouration of the Chief driver and mover of such administration. Whatsoever policies it introduces that have never been practised by past regimes are given such impetus because the Chief Executive has a clear picture of
A short piece published in ThisDay newspaper today with the caption: “How Ayade Stings Civil Servants”, is a classic in falsehood. Cross River State civil servants have never had it so good as they do under the administration of Governor Ben Ayade. For instance, while many states with even bigger allocation from the federation account
By Our Correspondent Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has said that the Assembly is set to domesticate the Administration of Justice Sector Reform Act into the laws of the state. The Act is a Law of the National Assembly enacted in May 2015 by the Jonathan
By Our Correspondent In its renewed effort to totally eradicate the Human Immune Virus (HIV), particularly mother to child transmission (MTCT), Country Director of United Nations, Mr. Bilali Camara has set 2020 deadline to end the transmission of the virus in Cross River and Nigeria at large. Camara who dropped the hint yesterday during a