By Eugene Agha, Daily Trust The Nigerian Navy has declared eight security outfits that are conducting secret recruitment exercises as operating illegally in the country. It said the illegal outfits are now selling recruitment forms to unsuspecting members of the public and are also conducting secret military training for members, particularly in the South-West and
By Johnny Edward, Punch Newspaper Nigeria’s second-ranked table tennis star, Edem Offiong, is delighted after she entered the history books as the first Nigerian to win the European Cup Women’s Table Tennis title. It was also the first European title for ASD Quattro Mori Cagliari club. Offiong, currently ranked 142nd in the world, helped her
Throughout history, loyalty has been more a virtue demanded by the strong than a spontaneous act on the part of an individual or a segment of society. In the strictest sense, allegiance which is demanded, or purchased, is not really loyalty and is an unpredictable factor in human relationships. The allegiance of armies, of workers,
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has sold a property it donated to the Tulsi Chanrai Foundation, TCF, for over a decade to utilize as office space, a document sighted by CrossRiverWatch shows. The State issued a 21-day quit notice to the foundation which has managed the State’s eye care assets and outreaches
By George Odok, NAN President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Faculty of Law building, University of Calabar (UNICAL) 11 years after it was started. The project was facilitated by Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, leader of the 7th Senate, who represented Cross River Central from 2003 to 2015. President Buhari, while inaugurating the project on Saturday in
By Sylvia Akpan The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Cross River State chapter has inaugurated Dr. Trinity Ogar as Chairman. Dr. Trinity was inaugurated along with other executive members yesterday, at Gold City Gospel Ministry International, Calabar, the state capital. The National Inauguration chairman, Archbishop Joseph-Ojo, during his message to the past and present administration,
Money being expended on former governors by state governments as pension and other allowances would soon go up as 18 governors leave office in 22 days, Daily Trust on Sunday reports. An uproar has been trailing the pension schemes of former governors, which have been described as bogus by activists and other stakeholders in the country, who
TOPIC The Obubra Conflict And Communal Crisis In Cross River: Remote Causes And Sustainable Solutions. INTRODUCTION A conflict is usually defined as an argument that has become protracted. As a verb, it loosely means a clash and exists in different forms across all facets of human existence. In Cross River State, one form of conflict