By Margaret John and Ololo Kelvin The Cross River University if Technology (CRUTECH) and University of Calabar (UCB) chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have resolved to embark on a one week solidarity strike over the failure of the federal government to negotiate the new minimum wage. The chapter chairman ASUU UCB,
By Deborah Obot, Efa Sunday and David Nsa Schools, banks and public offices in Calabar, the Cross River State capital were on Thursday, shut down in compliance with the directive of the organised labor for a nationwide strike over the failure of the Nigerian government to agree on the new minimum wage. Below are images
By Jonathan Ugbal and Patrick Abang Nigeria’s Niger Delta affairs minister, Usani Usani has declared his intention to run for the position of the governor of Cross River State in the 2019 general election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) putting an end to speculations about his ambition. Addressing supporters in Calabar,
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent No fewer than 33 young girls have been trained on issues relating to sexual and reproductive health under the Health Initiative for Stability in Africa (HIFASS) Local Orphan and Vulnerable Children Partners in Nigeria Region three (LOPIN 3) as a means to ensure a viable future for them. 13 of
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent The Cross River State government on Monday harvested for the first time, rice seeds from its automated rice seedlings and seed manufacturing factory popularly referred to as rice city in Calabar. The governor, Senator Ben Ayade witnessed the event and described it as a feat for the state even
In this article similar to the previous ones, I do not intend to pretend that my principal and Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade, like any other human being is without faults or shortcomings. Embarking on such course and fallacious position is to put him in the realm of a God, and gods.
By Ushang Ewa Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade was on Monday absent from the inauguration of the national convention planning committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja. Mr. Ayade, alongside his predecessor, Senator Liyel Imoke are the only two Cross Riverians appointed into the 86 – man committee headed by Delta State
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent The Cross River State government has said that there are up to 2,000 undiagnosed cases of vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) in the state. This is even as the state plans the repair of 50 VVF cases at the VVF center in Calabar in partnership with the Fistula Foundation of Nigeria and