Today, it is with a heavy heart that I join you to mourn our colleague and brother, Hon. Godwin Akwaji, Member representing Obudu State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly. The greatest pain is not the one received when we are physically hurt. Neither is it the one received when we are
Governor Ayade of Cross River state has earmarked N24billion for COVID-19 relief and recovery. The figure was contained in the reviewed 2020 Budget of Olympotic Merristemasis sent to the State House of Assembly, yesterday for consideration. The initial budget of 1.1trillion which the governor signed in January 2020 was reviewed downward to N147,130,166,996 and 16.3
Out of concern for the not too encouraging current state of our dear party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, I will be sharing my personal experience in the proper management of a political party and will also attempt to proffer some workable solutions to these issues bedeviling the Party. I gathered this experience as a
Recently, the Cross River state Commissioner for Lands, John Inyang, delivered N45million to two communities, Amunga and Busafong in Obanlikwu LGA, northern Cross River in exchange for their lands. The N45million was paid as compensation for the land the Ayade government has acquired to build what the governor calls a ” World Class Resort And
ADDRESS DELIVERED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF OKAMBI COMMUNITY COUNCIL, OKAMBI, OBUDU DURING THE VISIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR BEN AYADE ON THE OCCASION OF THIS MEETING HELD ON THE 13TH JULY 2020 WITH THE HOST COMMUNITIES OF THE OBUDU INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER AND CARGO AIRPORT, OBUDU, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA. Your Excellency the Executive Governor of
Late Mrs. Gertrude Amorkeye JD Agba is one beautiful woman. I have had the privilege to see her at her son’s home in Life Camp Abuja. She is a fair complexion woman. Tall, and slightly bent forward and walks with a calculated swag. Late Mrs. Gertrude JD Agba was born on 26th of March, 1938. She attended
On this fateful and historic day, 6 July 1967, federal troops under the command of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, crossed over to Gakem which was then part of Biafra land, and fired the first shots at unarmed civilians at “Ushara Hills” and consequently ignited a bloody civil war that lasted for 30 months. Gakem is
The University of Calabar situated in Cross River State, South-south Nigeria, is one of Nigeria’s second generation and foremost Federal Universities. The University of Calabar was a campus of the University of Nigeria until 1975. The architecture was designed by John Elliott. It was established by decree to fulfill this traditional mandate, its motto, “Knowledge