By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Government of Cross River State has suspended the illegal collection of levies from students by the Management of the College of Health Technology, Calabar. CrossRiverWatch had unearthed how the school was collecting unapproved levies from students; a report the school management refuted, however. The State Government through the Commissioner for Health,
By Patrick Obia On a busy Friday morning at the bustling Etta Agbor in Calabar Municipal Local Government Area of Cross River State, Mr. Cornelius Ellah took his car to a nearby mechanic workshop for maintenance. What followed brought him to tears. He noticed one of the mechanics holding a very young baby. Assuming the
By Godwin Ajom The Federal High Court, Calabar Division has fined Gender and Development Action (GADA) the sume of twenty thousand (20,000) Naira for ‘blatant disregard”. GADA is also fingered of “stalling the hearing” of a suite initiated itself against Nigerian University Commission (NUC), University of Calabar (UNICAL); the Vice Chancellor of UNICAL Professor Florence
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu has appointed the Paramount Ruler of Abi Local Government Area, His Royal Majesty Ovai (Elder) Solomon Osim Edward JP, as the new State Council of Chiefs Chairman. HRM, Ovai Solomon will replace the former chairman, the Paramount of Bakassi HRH,
By Sylvia Akpan Following the election held on the 7th of June, 2024 by the Association of Cross River State Public Procurement Officers, (ACRIPPO) new members have been inaugurated and presented to the State Due Process and Price Intelligence Bureau (DPPIB). The inauguration was held at the office of the Director-General, DPPIB, where a formal
By Mary Bassey The Government of Cross River State, has ordered the immediate suspension of the proposed National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) election. The State Security Adviser, Major General O. U Obono (Rtd) gave the directive in a letter addressed to the State Secretariat of the NYCN youth house, Calabar, stating that the election
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Otu has felicitated with Muslim faithful in the State and beyond on this year’s Eid-el-Kabir, urging that they uphold the values of sacrifice, compassion, and unity. The Governor gave the felicitations in a press release issued by his Chief Security Secretary,
Like many other lies that foreigners told us about Africa and we swallowed them hook, line and sinker; lies like, it was Mungo Park who discovered River Niger, we also bought into the lie that Africa is Pantheistic. Meaning African religions have multiple gods. Those who accept and romanticize that lie are doing so because