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The Top 10 Universities in Africa (Part I)

by Christine Lai, Africa.com and Yolaan Begbie, Africa.com While students from across the continent continue to move abroad to study at leading learning institutions in the U.S. and Europe, Africa boasts its own league of great universities. Presented below is Part I of Africa.com’s Top 10 Universities in Africa. Part II will feature the Top

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List of Successful Candidates for the Ben Ayade Scholarship and Bursary Scheme.

Story by CrossRiverWatch Admin The Senator Ben Ayade Scholarship And Bursary Scheme Committee has approved a list of 216 successful candidates made up of 4 candidates from each of the 54 wards comprising Cross River North Senatorial District. A total of 2,914 applications were received . In a statement, the scholarship committee said they were

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Gov. Imoke Commends Airtel for Adopting Rural School

by crossriverwatch admin Calabar, Nigeria; October 4, 2012: Nigeria’s Leading mobile operator, Airtel Networks Limited, has been commended by His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, for adopting a rural primary school in the state. The governor, who was speaking, when a team of Airtel executives led by the Managing

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I Regret Participating in Today’s Protest – CRUTECH SUG President

The President, Students Union Government of the Cross River State University of Technology, CRUTECH, Mr. Ekong Ita has told crossriverwatch this evening that he regrets his participation in a march this morning by National Association of Cross River Students, NACRISS to protest what the students referred to as extortion and insecurity on campus. Contrary to

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CRUTECH Students Protest Extortion and Insecurity

Deputy Governor Booed! Story by crossriverwatch admin Students of the Cross River State University of Technology took to the streets in Calabar early today morning bearing green branches and leaves to protest what they described as extortion by the authorities of the institution and general insecurity on the school campus. The protest organized under the

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Mixed reactions trail Senator Ayade’s scholarship scheme.

List will be out soon – Ayade. Story by crossriverwatch admin. Tertiary institutions students from the northern senatorial district of Cross River State have expressed worries over the Senator Ben Ayade Scholarship and Bursary Scheme (SBASBS). Some of the applicants who spoke to crossriverwatch were bitter that since last year when they filled and submitted

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Teacher Dies Plucking Pear For Girlfriend

A teacher with the Federal Housing Estate Secondary School, Calabar, the Cross River State capital, southsouth Nigeria, has plunged to death from a pear tree. The man simply called Eddy fell off while trying to pluck pear from a big pear tree at the back of their house. Eddy, who hails from Biase and lives

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CRUTECH Admission is a racket – Students.

Students of the Cross River State University of Technology have raised the alarm over the growing menace of admission racketeering in the institution calling on the state government to come to their rescue and save the reputation of the young institution. Cross River Watch spoke with several of the students who for fear of victimization

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