by NAN The Cross River Government has won $1 million prize instituted by Bill Gates Foundation for polio Immunization in Africa, Commissioner for Local Government Affairs Peter Ojie has said. Ojie told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar that the state emerged the best in polio immunization in the South South
by crossriverwatch admin The moribund resource center in the General Hospital, Calabar has been re-equipped with modern research facilities. The center which was re-equipped to promote evidence-based health care services was commissioned by the State commissioner for Health, Professor Angela Oyo-Ita. Speaking while commissioning the center, the Commissioner said the Resource Center is been refurbished
by crossriverwatch admin Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Angela Oyo-Ita has expressed her displeasure over the continued depletion in the number of doctors in the state government employment in the rural areas of the state. Oyo-Ita said this is posing serious danger to the state health care delivery program as health care services
by crossriverwatch admin The Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC has boosted the free medical care for women and children in Cross River State with free donation of 60,000 de-worming tablets and long lasting Insecticide Treated Nets. Making the donation in Calabar, the representative of the NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Solomon Ita, said the donation of
by crossriverwatch admin Dr. Iyam Ugot has since 2000 been in government in Cross River State. He started as the Commissioner for Health and later, Special Adviser on Roll Back Malaria under Mr. Donald Duke. In 2010, Senator Liyel Imoke, occasioned by his commendable performance appointed him the Special Adviser on Community Health. In this
by crossriverwatch admin Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba this evening said the Akparabong Water project in Ikom Local Government in Cross River State has been duly completed. The statement is coming against the background of complaints by some indigenes of Akparabong Community where Senator Ndoma hails from. They are accusing Emos Trade Investment, a
by crossriverwatch admin Convener, Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday took a swipe on “absentee” governors who have been out of the country for months now for health reasons. The fiery General Overseer of The Latter Rain Assembly criticized the governors in Lagos on Monday during a roundtable to mark the first anniversary of
by crossriverwatch admin The opposition Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has called for caution and restrain from members of the political class over the controversy trailing the Cross River State Governor’s health. The party in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Obono Obla obtained exclusively by crossriverwatch urged politicians not to allow