by crossriverwatch admin Some blocks of class rooms at the Presbyterian Church Primary School Ediba, renovated by Airtel Nigeria, under its “adopt a school” program have been delivered to Ediba community and commissioned by the Cross River State Government. The commissioning was performed by the State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Offiong Offiong who described the
by crossriverwatch admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke yesterday performed the ground breaking for the construction of the new Institute of Technology and Management in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government. The Institute, which is to be run by the Highbury College, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, will commence academic programs in October, the Governor disclosed. The
by crossriverwatcch admin The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor James Epoke has said the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union Of Universities, ASUU has disrupted the academic calendar of the institution which was planned to end by September 2013. Epoke who spoke in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch said the strike
by crossriverwatch admin Henceforth, civil servants who fail to acquire Computer and Information Technology basic education by the end of 2015 risk loosing their job. The State Head of Service, Mary-Theresa Ikwen Stated this in calabar during her opening remark at a two-day sensitization workshop on computer skills acquisition for Civil and Public Servants in
by crossriverwatch admin A mild drama ensued at the Family Support Nursery and Primary School Calabar, Cross River State, on Thursday, as parents booed the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Edak Iwuchukwu, and staged a walk out on her. Iwuchukwu, whose ministry oversees the running of the school, was accused of arbitrarily hiking tuition without
by crossriverwatch admin A 20 year old boy, Godwin Odu has been arrested by the police in Calabar for allegedly stabbing Boniface Odinaka, a student of Army Day Secondary School, 13 Amphibious Brigade, Eburutu Barracks, Calabar to death. Odinaka who is the Labor Prefect of the school was attacked and killed after school hours by
by crossriverwatch admin An education activist, Dr. Raphael Ogar Oko has described the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, as inimical to the upbringing of Nigerian student s and has called on the Ministry of Education and the Nigerian University Commission, NUC, to resort to an alternative system of education
by crossriverwatch admin Suspected cultists that were killed and those arrested recently in the clash between the KKK and Vikings Confraternity are not students of the Federal College of Education Obudu. Reacting to the killings and subsequent arrests of the cultists whom earlier publications had claimed were students of the school, Dr. Eugene Ibili ,