By Jonathan Ugbal The Rivers State Government on Saturday conferred honors on 194 individuals including the Senator representing Cross River North district in the National Assembly, Jarigbe Agom. While Senator Agom was among 160 individuals conferred with the Distinguished Service Star of Rivers State, (DSSRS) medal, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and his counterpart
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has made a U-Turn on its decision to restrict access to the U. J. Esuene Stadium, the venue of the inauguration of the Governor-elect, Senator Bassey Otu, and his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey, slated for tomorrow, Monday by 9:00 AM. A statement issued on Sunday afternoon
I wonder how Governor Ayade feels today. I remember how he felt like eight years ago, today, 28th, May, 2015: he felt like an Emperor! A conqueror. I was invited to see him through Hon. Jerry Martins-Agba today at 10:00 AM. The appointment had earlier been fixed for the previous day but due to some
By Jonathan Ugbal With less than 24 hours left for him to exit the office, Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has barred the public from accessing the U. J. Esuene sports stadium in Calabar, the venue of the inauguration of the Governor-elect, Senator Bassey Otu and his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey. “Only those
By Sylvia Akpan Cross River State governor-elect, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu has commemorated the May 27th, 2023, children’s day celebration and said that investing in our future means investing in our children. Otu said the theme “investing in our future means investing in our children” is apt. This was contained in a statement made available
By Asare Asare The Governor-elect of Cross River State, Prince Bassey Otu has expressed the optimism that it is possible to build the State everyone is dreaming about. He made this optimism on his verified Twitter handle on Friday. Assuring that he has been given a rare mandate to serve, he assured he will not
By Richard Ndoma, Leadership Newspaper Cross River State governor Ben Ayade has embarked on a commissioning spree as he inaugurated four industries in one fell swoop. The industries are some of his legacy projects. They include the 24, 000 birds per day chicken processing factory known as Calachika which is the first of its kind
During the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Cross River State, pockets of violence were recorded in six Local Government Areas, this report by Patrick Obia documents them. The Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Cross River State was a battle of the titans, between the All Progressive Congress Sen. Bassey