By Mary Bassey and Isaac Jarigbe The Newly appointed Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Cross River State, Mr. Eric Anderson has gone on a familiarization tour of Agencies under his ministry, as well as chatting the way forward. He hit the ground less than 48 hours after his redeployment from the Commissioner for Culture
As the general elections of 2023 draw nearer by the day, politically vaccinated nay immune players feel a heightened need to put diverse controversial issues in a proper perspective, like the issue of power rotation to the South after President Buhari must have completed his tenure in office by May 29th and a host of
By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole, The Punch Newspaper The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the deployment of 24 bursars to 24 Federal Unity Colleges across the country. The Punch Newspaper reports that the announcement came shortly after the deployment of some Directors in the ministry to unity colleges. In a circular obtained from the ministry by our
By Godwin Otang, Nigerian Tribune Cross River State may be heading towards climate crisis as the pristine rainforest is fast vanishing, Nigerian Tribune reports. The Cross River rainforest, according to experts, is the most relevant, expansive, and sophisticated forest cover owned by Nigeria and West Africa. However, available statistics show that 8,686 square kilometers gradually
By News Agency Of Nigeria A total of 307,394 potential voters have yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in Cross River, INEC’s spokesperson in the State, Mrs. Tonia Nwobi, said in Calabar on Thursday. Iwobi said the refusal to collect the cards could lead to voter apathy at the 2023 general elections. She
By Alex Binley, BBC News A rule banning unmarried Nigerian police officers from getting pregnant and ensured their sacking if they did, has been scrapped. In a landmark case, a judge ruled the regulation was discriminatory as it did not apply to male officers who got co-workers pregnant. The case was brought by a corporal
The Nation Newspaper President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N24.4 billion for the first phase of the Smart Irrigation Scheme (SIS), the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammad Sani Haruna, has said. He said Nigeria is already trying to promote a multi-crops season farming
By Paradise News The Guardian Newspaper South South Deputy Bureau Chief, Mr. Anietie Akpan has won an international Award of Excellence from a UK-based non-governmental organization, Safe Child Africa for his contributions to ending witchcraft branding in Africa. Akpan emerged the overall winner from three selected across the country through documentation of witchcraft branding reports