By Jonathan Ugbal Students resident in Calabar, the Cross River Capital have shut down the Governor’s office in the State demanding an end to the prolonged industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). They began marching from the Freedom Park at Mary Slessor avenue through Murtala Muhammed highway to the office where
By News Agency of Nigeria The Cross River Universal Basic Education Board (CR-SUBEB) in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) on Tuesday commenced training of headteachers, their deputies and principals of public primary and model secondary schools in the State. The Secretary of CR-SUBEB, Cyril Itam, said this while declaring open a workshop
By Patrick Obia The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has affirmed that come October 12 slated for schools resumption in the country, public universities will remain on closed. The Chapter Chairman of ASUU, Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH, Dr. Emmanuel Ettah made the assertion as a guest on Correct 97.3 FM, Calabar, morning
By Maxwell Effiong The Calabar Book Club has launched a project to revive the reading culture amongst teenagers and youths in Cross River State. Tagged the “School Library Project,” the immediate goal is to create “a comfortable reading room in mostly public schools,” said Attah Ochinke, the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Club, at
By Jonathan Ugbal A foremost poet and dramatist, Professor Kalu Uka (emeritus) will today (Saturday) review the bestseller ’There Was A Country’ written by Chinua Achebe. Uka, who authored ‘A Harvest of Ants’ among other dramas that often hit the reader with more poetry than imagined in a drama taught in different institutions before his
By Archibong Jeremiah Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has hosted first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi. Prof. Obi was received at the Governor’s office. See pictures below from Egbelo Edward Ntebri, Media aide to the Governor.
By Patrick Obia As congratulatory messages continues to pour on the new Head of Department, Mass Communication in Cross River University of Technology ( CRUTECH), Mr. Cornelius Ellah on his recent appointment, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) congratulates him on his new position. ACROJ in a congratulatory letter signed by its Chairman and
‘It Came As A Surprise’ – Ellah By Patrick Obia “His social media accounts will be flooded with congratulatory messages because he is a jolly good fellow,” said CrossRiverWatch’s Jonathan Ugbal on Friday upon receipt of the news of Mr. Cornelius Ellah’s emergence as acting head, Department of Mass Communication in the Cross River University of