By Patrick Obia The Cross River Police command has warned gangs and hoodlums in the State against acts that will create panic and chaos. The command said it has received intelligence of a planned invasion by gangstars and hoodlums masquerading as gang members to wreak havoc. Some gangsters had infiltrated Awi in Akamkpa Local Government
By Patrick Obia The management of University of Calabar (UNICAL), have expelled two students, Gift Adalikwu and Cordelia Obongha; suspend Oyama Peter Bassey and hand automatic carry over to Nsa Bassey Ekpenyong, over various degrees of misconducts. The Vice Chancellor of the Varsity, Prof. Florence Banku Obi, acted on the report of the Institution’s Examination
By Patrick Obia Cross River born Minister of State for Power, Prince Goddy Jedy-Agba, on Saturday, bagged a Doctorate Degree in Public Administration. The Honorary Degree conferred on him by the Benson Idahosa University, BIU, Benin City, Edo State during it’s 16th convocation ceremony of the varsity held at the University Legacy campus. In a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin An online news platform WikkiTimes has insisted that, its story detailing how the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) squandered a N1 Billion constituency project is true, accurate and credible. The investigation revealed how N1 Billion constituency projects nominated by the former
By Nathaniel Bivan, HumAngle Fourteen-year-old Uchenna Amarachi, a second-year student at Junior Secondary School (JSS) Kayarda, has never used a library though she lives about a kilometre away from one — or what is supposed to be the Kuje public library/ICT centre. Amarachi lives at Unguwar Gede, a settlement within Kuje Area Council in Nigeria’s
By Ushang Ewa Nkasi Ford Moses, a graduate of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS, formerly Cross River University of Technology) who lost his life after been stabbed on June 3, 2021 will be buried today. Ford, 27, a native of Igbo Ekureku in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River had returned to
By Glorita Agba Mr. Victor Omaga has just been inaugurated as the Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Cross River. The inauguration was done by the Honourable Commissioner for Quality Education, Dr. Godwin Amanke at the Ministry of Education, Calabar. See pictures from the inauguration ceremony below.
By Elijah Akoji, WikkiTimes Three years ago, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) released the sum of N97 million to three companies for the construction and rehabilitation of classrooms in the federal constituency represented by Yakubu Dogara in Bauchi State. The money was part of a N1 billion consistency project of the former Speaker of