By Agence France-Presse, AFP French cement giant Lafarge SA will pay a $778 million fine after pleading guilty to providing material support to Islamic State and other terror groups during the Syrian civil war, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. Lafarge acknowledged it paid millions of euros to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement
By QueenEsther Iroanusi, Premium Times Only 11 of Nigeria’s 36 state legislatures have considered and voted on the 44 constitution amendment bills passed by the National Assembly earlier in the year. The States whose houses of assembly have voted on the bills are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun, and Osun
By Ogar Monday Cross River State health authorities have confirmed the detection of 35 measles cases at the Ogoja Refugee Camp in Adagom. It further assured that the State has set in motion plans to vaccinate at least 700,000 children against the virus across the State. Dr. Janet Ekpenyong, Director-General of the State Primary Healthcare
By Patrick Obia Three Cross Riverians – Miracle Usani, Immaculata Offiong, and Edidiong Etim who are playing at the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022 have helped the Flamingos of Nigeria to book their place into the quarter-finals. The trio have been in scintillating form for the Nigeria women’s side and have garnered
By Mary Bassey The Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has extended a warm welcome to students after eight months strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU had on February 14, 2022, declared “total and comprehensive” strike and subsequently in August, an indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s
By Ogar Monday Stakeholders have identified increased funding for breast cancer detection as a means to reduce its devastating effect on society. The position was taken at a walk to commemorate the 2022 Breast Cancer Awareness Week in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Speaking at the event, Dr. Linda Ayade, the wife to Senator
CrossRiverWatch’s Entertainment Correspondent, Clement Oto-Obong better known as Walata Worldwide brings to you exclusive pictures from the 2022 Carnival Calabar’s first dry run. This year’s carnival with the theme: ‘Agro-industrialization’, was flag-off by Governor Ben Ayade on Sunday 16th October 2022. The seven competing bands are; Seagull, Passion 4, Masta Blasta, Bayside, Freedom, Diamond, and
Just like Odupkani, health centres in Akpabuyo local government in Cross River State have been abandoned after construction. Kehinde Ogunyale reports how this has affected the community’s healthcare. Every two months, Etim Ekpenyong, a businessman and farmer, earmarks N20,000 for the clinical and medical needs of his aged father. The father, Etinyin Ekpenyong, 93, is the clan