By Yemi Sodeeq, The Informant247 Between 2019 and 2020, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing released over N200 million to four different companies for the construction and rehabilitation of an access road in Oyo state. The Informant247’s Yemi Sodeeq reports that despite these releases, the road – from Iresaadu through Igboaka to Onipanu in Surulere
By Patrick Obia Some traders at the Ika Ika Oqua (Marian) market of Calabar Municipal Local Government Area, Cross River State are currently counting losses as shops and goods worth millions of Naira have been razed down by fire. The fire, according to eyewitnesses, started in the early hours of Saturday 21 January 2023 at
By Mary Bassey Nigerians have been urged to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) and cast their vote properly. Vote Not Fight Election No Be War, A Well-Informed Adolescent Initiative, and The Bridge Leadership Foundation collaboratively matched the streets of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, calling on Nigerians to collect their PVCs. The group
It’s not OK to keep deceiving your people consistently with videos and pictures. If any governor deserves a huge award for optics, it’s our governor. Deliberately, this video was done mostly at night and under very beautiful lighting carefully arranged for the shooting. The most important thing missing in the video is where patients are
By Patrick Obia With just 35 days away from the commencement of the first lap of the 2023 general elections and the clamor for all and sundry eligible voters to get their Permanent Voters Card (PVC), the Cross River State Government has declared two work-free days to enable civil servants in the State to collect
By Patrick Obia The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has flagged off its three-year forest conservation program in eight communities in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Southern Cross River State. The program which is all about securing important forest resources for nature conservation, eco-tourism, sustainable natural forest resource management as well as maximizing forest potential and
By Our Reporter Policy Alert, a non-governmental organization working to promote economic and ecological justice in the Niger Delta, has announced that the US Consul General (Nigeria) Will Stevens will attend the first in a series of OpenGov Town Halls this Friday in Asaba, Delta State. The event is being organized under the auspices of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Social Democratic Party (SDP) Deputy Governorship candidate in Cross River State, Mr. Daniel Obo has officially defected to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). The defection took place in his Obubra Urban Ward in Obubra LGA, Central Senatorial District of the State. He defected with some SDP ward Chairmen. He was received