By Patrick Obia Mr. Castro Ezama, Special Adviser on Education to the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has urged parents and guardians of primary school pupils to retrieve whatever money they have paid for school fees, reiterating that “primary education in Cross River is free and compulsory.” Mr. Castro gave the directive when
By Patrick Obia Sweetest Kiddies Sanctuary has distributed sanitary pads and educational materials to students of Government Comprehensive Secondary school, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State. The NGO is a subsidiary of Sweetest Kiddies Empire, it’s objective is to spur every child to greatness shared 300 sanitary pads to girls, 60 copies of the
By Maxwell Effiong And Sylvia Felix A non-government organization (NGO), Connected Development (CODE), has written the management of University of Calabar (UNICAL), demanding for the institution’s audited financial statements under the Freedom of Information Act. CODE, in it’s FOI request signed by the Cross River Lead, Follow The Money Movement, Efanga Etim asked the Varsity
By Archibong Jeremiah The Federal Government of Nigeria under the 2012 budget began constructing a 3 storey Faculty of Law building in the University of Calabar, Cross River State. The project was facilitated by the Leader of the 7th National Assembly, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, who represented Cross River Central in the Senate at the time.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The acting director, alumni relations of the University of Calabar, Dr. Dorn-Cklaimz Enamhe says he hopes to instill in alumni of the institution, the culture of giving back to the place that molded them. Enamhe who was appointed in the new position on January 20th to, among others, serve as the liason
By Zubaida Baba Ibrahim, HumAngle “The best thing to have ever happened to me” was how Onuka Blessing described her ability to pay her children’s fees with empty plastic bottles through the ‘Recycles Pay’ Educational Project. When Blessing isn’t trading in Tejuosho market or frying akara (bean cakes) for sale by the roadside, she picks discarded polyethylene
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar (UNICAL), Prof. Florence Obi has said the institution only increased service charge for some subjects not tuition fee because it doesn’t exist. The first female VC of UNICAL stated this in her office while fielding questions on ‘One On One’ with Citizen Agba Jalingo which
By Sylvia Akpan Atycare Initiative, a non-profit organization based in Cross River State, in a bid to touch the lives of 1,000 pupils in Cross River and beyond, has offered scholarships to ten (10) school children of Calabar Oil Palm Estate Primary School, PAMOL, Akim-Akim of Odukpani LGA. The project – Impact 1,000 School Children