Let me start by congratulating the board and management of HIT (95.9) FM on the launch of the radio station in Calabar yesterday. I saw the Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon John Gaul Lebo, member representing Ogoja state constituency, Hon Peter Odey, former Commissioner for Information, Hon. Patrick Ugbe, multiple
INTRODUCTION Recently, the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly and Member representing Abi State Constituency Hon. John Gaul Lebo communicated his plans to unveil the Abi State Constituency Development Strategy. He said that as part of the strategy, 3 strategic areas will the subject of focus. 1) Educational Discovery Initiatives and Scholarship.
As part of the then Eastern Nigeria, South-Eastern state was created in May, 1967 and renamed Cross River State in 1976 while the current Cross River State was reconfigured in 1987 when Akwa Ibom State was carved out of the former South Eastern State structure. With a population of about 3 million persons (2,892,988 from
When the 8th Assembly in our beloved Cross River State conceived the idea of a media center, it was seen as a more refined cadre that wants to be different from the 7th Assembly which never smiled at journalists. With the speed at which it was conceived and tagged a necessity to making the House
With Sony Abang, Ndoma Egba, Mary Ekpere, Clement Ebri, Usani Usani, Alex Egbona, Okoi Obono-obla, and several other heavy weights in the central senatorial district, in my judgement, the district will be an easy sway to APC in the next elections. Bassey Otu in Calabar will be a great force to reckon with. I will
By Our Editorial Board The present entity, Cross River State is among the 12 original states created in 1967 in Nigeria by General Yakubu Gowon to weaken the Eastern Nigeria which was on the verge of seceding to form the Republic of Biafra. Known then as South-Eastern State and later rechristened Cross River in 1976,
According to the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius A. Okojie, OON, “It is a tradition for every university to graduate her students and convocate such graduands in an official ceremony, where degrees are awarded to students and honorary graduates”. It has therefore become imperative, for one to question why the Cross River
There are different definitions of what a cult or a cultist is but there is one particular definition by the free dictionary that I find particularly interesting. Among other definitions, the dictionary defines a cult as “An exclusive group of person sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.” When I read that definition, it