By Frank Edima The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS recently organized a one day workshop to sensitize stakeholders in Cross River State and environs on the implementation of ECOWAS Common External Tariff, CET in Calabar. According to Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Cross River State Command, Mr. Ejido Azikiwe who was one of the resource persons, “The
By Jonathan Ugbal Two of the three senators representing Cross River State in the 8th Assembly were among the 29 reported to have followed the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki to the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja Tuesday, September 22, 2015. The senators representing Cross River Northern and Southern senatorial districts,
By Our Correspondent Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, has enjoined all Muslims in Nigeria, to use the occasion of the Eid-el-Kabir to team up with all governments across the country in other to move Nigeria to greater heights. Governor Ayade who made the call in his Eid-el-Kabir message signed by his Special Assistant
By Solomon Asha/Emmanuel Ulayi The main idea of government is not just to run an organized society with civilized laws to guide human conduct and man’s relationship with his fellow man but also to ensure the provision of the right environment for the expression of the full potentials of the citizenry and services that will
By Bassey Inyang The Federal High Court sitting in Calabar on Tuesday declared that Senator Gershom Bassey representing Cross River South senatorial district was academically qualified to contest the 2015 senatorial election. Justice E A. Ibli made the declaration while delivering judgment in a pre-election matter instituted by Emmanuel Ironbar, challenging the eligibility
This is not a topic that on a normal day I would have written about, but because of certain misconceptions floating all over the internet, some blaming the Governor, some blaming his aides, others blaming petition writers as being unpatriotic and others blaming Mr. President as heeding to politics in cancelling the trip, made me
I was going through a Facebook narration by John Offiong of his experience with litter, yesterday in Union Station, Washington DC and he concluded his article thus: ‘’Truth is, our people are mostly very dirty people living in a filthy country and our cities can bear witness to this assertion. Even my beloved Calabar
By Our Correspondent Following the inability of the contractors handling evacuation of refuse in Calabar metropolis to meet their obligations in line with the terms of agreement, Cross River State Government has announced an immediate termination of their contracts. It will be recalled that Governor Ben Ayade, shortly on assumption of office three months ago,