By Tunde Eludini Nigeria’s U-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, are through to next year’s African U-17 Championships scheduled to take place in Niger Republic as the Eaglets thrashed their counterparts from Gabon 5-0 today, Saturday at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar. The result was more than good enough for the Eaglets who only lost
by crossriverwatch admin A former Chairman of Obudu Local Government Council, Dr. Abu Undiandeye has called on Senator Benedict Ayade (PDP, Cross River North) to use his position to ensure that the entire Ogoja road is rehabilitated by the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA. While commending the Senator for initiating the repair work on the
By Raymond Ekemini Following the violence that rocked the election of the Students Union Government Executives in the University of Calabar last month, the school has announced that it is now set to re-conduct the botched election, but this time, online. Briefing the students at the first ever town hall meeting of the University, the
by Raymond Ekemini Christians all over the world have set aside Sundays as a holy day for worship and thanksgiving to God. The third commandment of God according to the Holy Bible, also commands us to remember the Sabbath day and to keep it holy. All these seemed to have made no sense in the
Something Worse Than Death Okay, let us call her IMA-OBONG, she doesn’t use to have those tears you see in her eyes, she was born happily and the earth received her with joy as usual, her community welcomed her and blessed her existence. Amazing how fast she grew, she was a bunch of blessing and
By Archibong Jeremiah The Bekwara Development Association, Calabar branch over the weekend marked its 2014 new yam festival with pomp and pageantry. The Chairman of the festival Mr. Godwin Iyala asserted that the festival was an opportunity for the association to say thank you to God Almighty for the prosperous new yams harvest which is
By Cynthia Michael The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA has identified Cross River and 11 other states as well as the Federal Capital Territory as HIV endemic states in the country. Director-General of NACA, Prof. John Idoko, said this in Ikom, Cross River, at the opening of a four-day free HIV and
By Obaji Akpet The pageant representing Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; Elizabeth Ndukwe, 20 has emerged winner of Miss Hospitality Ambassador Nigeria. The 300 level student of Human Resource Management, Zenith University, Accra, Ghana became winner of the much coveted National pageantry, which held at the Mirage Hotel in Nigeria’s number one tourism destination, Calabar, recently.