By Archibong Jeremiah Governor Ben Ayade’s Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Mfon Bassey has been arrested and is currently cooling off in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Commissioner was picked up yesterday thursday at his residence in Calabar. According to very reliable source within the anti graft agency, Mr. Mfon
By Kayode Oyero, Punch Newspaper Journalist and activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo, says the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is afraid of Sahara Reporters’ publisher, Omoyele Sowore. He said Sowore and the other activists locked up since their arrest on New Year’s Eve in Abuja committed no crime for holding a protest
By Archibong Jeremiah Cross River State Government has reiterated its position of not paying 29 Magistrates salary and other entitlements for over two years. The Magistrates after the unofficial retrenchment by the Sen. Ben Ayade administration, are currently manning their duty post. The Acting Chief Judge, Justice Eyo Effiom Ita was forced to come public
In the last 6 months or so, Cross River State has witnessed numerous protests by individuals and group of organized associations over issues of nonpayment of salaries; gratuities, arrears, non-effect of promotional benefits, illegal disengagement of duly engaged Civil Servants in the cloak of concealed redundancy policy where staff were layoff without due process. Surprisingly,
These two citizens of Cross River probably don’t know each other. Am not aware of any connection between them except that each had the courage to speak up, and by coincidence, they spoke on the same day, 4th January, 2021. Both must have individually resolved that come 2021, they must take action. Thus on the
By Omeiza Ajayi, Vanguard Newspaper A former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has weighed in on the debate regarding zoning of the party’s presidential ticket in 2023, saying there is no dispute regarding the subject as it is “universally agreed” that the next president must come from the
My Most Outstanding Person of this year is Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State. What defines this choice for me is his near prophetic proclamation about the use of face mask during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Obviously, COVID-19 defined and redefined our lives and the whole world as we see it this
By Archibong Jeremiah In what may be seen as a smart move to clear the air, Mr. Frank Walter Adogbeji who has been cooling his feet in Police custody over allegation of blackmailing the Biase LGA (Cross River State) Chairman, Mrs. Ada Charles Egwu has been released. Mr. Frank Walter Adogbeji who resides in Port