By Efa Sunday It was a tragic day for the family of Mrs. Happiness Sunday Okon and the students and staffs of Government Secondary School Atekong as an adjoining electric pole electrocuted one of the student, Isaac Sunday Okon to death Friday afternoon in Calabar. CrossRiverWatch gathered that Isaac Sunday Okon is the only son
By Efa Sunday A motivational speaker and business coach, Mr. Steve Harris has tasked students of the University of Calabar to desist from going the conventional way by selling their résumé through the front office which may never get opened. Harris, who said he dropped out of school at some point shared a short way
By Deborah Obot The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has inducted and licensed 143 new teachers in Cross River State. The event was held recently at the Senate Chambers of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) with the Vice Chancellor of the Varsity, Prof. Zana Akapagu, TRCN Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Josiah Olusegun, Dean of the
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 Efa Sunday, Margaret John And Deborah Obot The Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) has ended a one-day capacity building training for it’s members on ‘Election Reporting Skills’, in preparedness for the upcoming elections in 2019. The workshop which took place on Thursday at Adsuit Hotel Calabar, had in attendance Head of Voters
By Uchino Amatey; Agency Report Following the approval of the Governor of Cross River State Senator Ben Ayade, for the recruitment of 2000 teachers and 500 security men for primary schools across the State, the State Universal Basic Education Board is calling for on-line applications from candidates of Cross River State origin who possess NCE
Patrick Obia, Kelvin Ololo And Godwin Otang The Vice Chancellor of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH), Prof. Anthony Owan Enoh yesterday appealed to his students in Calabar campus to suspend the peaceful protest embarked on as a result of prolonged power blackout on campus among other things. He assured them that, “The management is
By Uchino Amatey: Agency Reports The Cross River Government has said that it will soon release promotion letters to teachers for the years spanning 2009 to 2016. The Executive Chairman of the State’s Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Stephen Odey stated this Friday in Calabar during a chat with newsmen. “This is a backlog of