By Isaac Jarigbe Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has reinstated Martins Asuquo as the Director-General of the State Scrap Metal Regulatory Agency. The reinstatement was contained in a release signed by the Deputy Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Linus Obogo. Obogo said Mr. Ayade has also approved the appointment of Agbor
By Mary Bassey Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the elevation of the General Manager of the State’s newspaper corporation, Chronicle, Mr. Emmanuel Akpong, and twenty other Directors to the rank of Permanent Secretary in the State’s public service, a release from the office of the Head of Service office says. The release,
By Jonathan Ugbal Nigerian journalist and activist, Citizen Agba Jalingo has said that those preventing presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections from partaking in debates and shielding them from asking questions should be viewed as enemies of democracy. Jalingo, who is the Editor-in-Chief of CrossRiverWatch stated this while speaking on Arise Television’s flagship program,
By Yusuf Alli and Onyedi Ojiabor, The Nation Newspaper Contractors of the 1, 250 terminated Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects have refunded cash, Niger Delta Affairs Minister Umana Okon Umana has said. He said the recoveries, made by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) due to non-performance, were made following the forensic audit
By Etido Okon And Jarigbe Isaac The All Progressive Congress (APC), Cross River State chapter will tomorrow Saturday 17, 2022 conduct the central senatorial district rerun primary election. Justice Fadimatu Aminu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, last week declared the APC’s senatorial primary which produced the Speaker of the Cross River State House of
By Jonathan Ugbal The Policy and Legal Advocacy Center, PLAC has called for an end to anti-democratic laws by State Governments in Nigeria, urging the Federal Government to stop such practices as they lead to the violation of human rights. PLAC’s Executive Director, Clement Nwankow made the call in Abuja while presenting the 2022 human
In Nigeria, most of the veterans of our struggle for independence were all young journalists who later transformed into politicians and joined political movements to seek office. I’ve been approached several times by concerned persons who feel that as a journalist, I am supposed to stay out of politics and concentrate on investigating and writing
By Francis Annagu, Florence Kekong and Farah Jolly In the Cross River State Rainforest, an average of 250 tons of timber is harvested daily; in 10 days, 2,500 tons are lost and within a year 91,250 tons of timber leave the State. As a result of deforestation, small trees and other forest products are destroyed.