By Ogar Monday A report by two non-governmental organizations, We The People and the Rainforest Resources Development Centre (RRDC), have indicted 79 companies and individuals, including Dansa Allied Agro, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, Wilmar International, the Cross River State Government for the continuous depletion of the forest in the State. The 23-page report highlighted
By Sylvia Akpan The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has apologized for the Adiabo sub-station fire outbreak. The substation on September 3, 2022, exploded into flames. TCN in a statement through its General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, assured consumers that there will be a restoration of bulk power supply in the affected areas. “The
By Ogar Monday Community leaders in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State have added their voices to the fight to eliminate all forms of Gender Based Violence, GBV, especially, against women and children, as a community surveillance team with a responsibility to report and escalate cases of GBV in their communities has been
By Patrick Obia Mrs. Joy Amadi, the mother of the Nigerian Law School student who died mysteriously, Nnenna Amadi, has demanded proper clarification and justice for her “brilliant daughter.” Nnenna Amadi was said to have passed on in the Nigerian Law School, Lagos Campus due to alleged negligence from the school’s medical center. It was
By News Agency of Nigeria Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has expressed sadness over the fire that destroyed goods worth millions of naira on Tuesday at the popular fruits Market at Marian in Calabar. The governor disclosed this in a statement by his deputy chief press secretary, Linus Obogo, on Wednesday. “I am saddened
By Emma Una, Vanguard Newspaper Two widows, Mrs. Martina Osom and Mrs. Rose Akon, were tortured to death by youths in Ebbaken community, Boje, Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State over witchcraft allegations on Saturday. An eye witness, a son-in-law to one of the widows, told Vanguard that both women were returning from
By Patrick Obia A section of one of the most popular markets in the city of Calabar, Ika Ika Oqua better known as Marian market was gutted by fire in the wee hours of Tuesday 30 August 2022. The cause of the fire, eyewitnesses, and traders say started about 2am can not be ascertained but
By Adejumo Kabir, HumAngle Isoko Eta, 42, sat quietly in front of his burnt house. He had just swept the surroundings of his late wife’s grave and was thinking about how to raise their newborn twins. HumAngle learnt that Eta’s wife, Joy, died of shock from Nigerian soldiers’ gunshots while trying to give birth on