By Mary Bassey The Cross River Governor, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu has directed the immediate retirement of the State Auditor-General, Mr. John Odey. The directive was contained in a memo signed by the Chairman of the Cross River State Civil Service Commission, Mr. Inaku Uko. The memo with Ref no: CRC/P/25676/T./2 dated June, 2nd 2023
I’ve been racking my head for some time now to really decipher what exactly is wrong with the Nigerian subsidy on fuel that it should be removed. I have also seen people who together, we vehemently rejected and protested against the removal of fuel subsidies, now defending the same thing we resisted some years ago,
By Judex Okoro, The Sun Newspaper The Idum Mbube community and Ekikienkpong family in Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River State, have petitioned the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Faruk Yahaya, and the Cross River State Police Command over the alleged killing of their son, Joseph Peter Okpe, in Ogoja by troops drafted
By Archibong Jeremiah The three-man committee to review the transition report set up by the new Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu has invited selected individuals to a meeting. The notice of the meeting scheduled to hold tomorrow Monday, in a cluster was signed by Prof. Anthony Owan-Enoh, Secretary of the Committee.
Far and above what we already know about creation and its breathtaking characteristics, every creature has been endowed with incredible powers beyond whatever you can imagine or what we may have discovered. Man prides himself in supremacy amongst all creation because he has invented diverse means of dominating his environment. Yet there are other creatures
By Archibong Jeremiah Connected Development, CODE, a Pan-Africa organization whose mission is to empower grassroots communities in Africa with information and holding their government accountable have strengthened the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) and media practitioners to combat the drivers of shrinking civic space in Nigeria. The one-day workshop was held in Calabar, the
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu has revealed plans to relocate the Lemna dumpsite. He visited the site and other places two weeks and some days after The ICIR-funded investigation that revealed large-scale procurement violations in contracts awarded in 2020 was published. The investigation showed that the contract to
By Abdullateef Aliyu, Daily Trust The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Aero Contractors and the Cross River State-owned Cally Air on the operation of the airline may have hit the rock over aircraft concession move. The aircraft belonging to the state government, a Boeing 737-300 with the registration number: 5N-BYQ is at the center of