By Ogar Monday A report by two non-governmental organizations, We The People and the Rainforest Resources Development Centre (RRDC), have indicted 79 companies and individuals, including Dansa Allied Agro, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, Wilmar International, the Cross River State Government for the continuous depletion of the forest in the State. The 23-page report highlighted
By Patrick Obia The Cross River Movement (TCRM), a non-partisan, non-governmental, and not-for-profit reformative organization is set to engage the five gubernatorial candidates in Cross River as the 2023 general elections muscle up. TCRM in partnership with Africa Leadership Group, Calabar Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture; Cross River Economic Summit Organization, among others,
By Jonathan Ugbal Bigwigs of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State last weekend stormed Obudu to welcome over 700 defectors from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, into the opposition. The event coincided with the Obudu New Yam festival which the State Chairman of the PDP, Venatius Ikem Esq hosted the party’s
By Sylvia Akpan The Young Progressives Party (YPP) Chairman in Cross River, Mr. Anthony Bisong Attah has been reelected as the State Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Chairman. IPAC is the umbrella body of all the existing political parties in Nigeria, it also serves as an advisory body to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
By Yemi Sodeeq, Informant247 Between 2019 and 2021, the Ogun/Osun River Basin Development Authority has released millions of naira to Salta Infrastructure for the rehabilitation of farm settlements and Chayakyagi road to Gbaradogi in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State. But two years down the line, The Informant247 reports that despite the funds, the
By Sylvia Akpan The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has apologized for the Adiabo sub-station fire outbreak. The substation on September 3, 2022, exploded into flames. TCN in a statement through its General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, assured consumers that there will be a restoration of bulk power supply in the affected areas. “The
One of the first lessons students of journalism are ingrained in the classroom is, poet John Milton’s 1644 pamphlet “Areopagitica”, written in response to the British Parliament’s passage of a law requiring the government to approve all books prior to publication. In the Areopagitica, Milton argued that truth and understanding, “are not such wares as
By Jonathan Ugbal The National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW football club has won the ninth edition of the Odey Adamade Unity Football Competition in Obudu. The union club won Okworogung football club one nil at the finals held at the UTI J. A Agba stadium on Friday, and took home the grand prize