By Our Reporter Information reaching our newsroom has it that the APC campaign billboard of Sen. John Owan Enoh (APC gubernatorial candidate) located at Obioko, Ijiman Ugep was alleged to have been destroyed by supporters of his rival, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani (factional APC guber candidate) Wednesday night. One Owan Enoh’s supporters in Ugep (name
By Archibong Jeremiah Barrister James Ibor, founder of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative has accused Mrs. Edet Asim, wife of the embattled Special Adviser to the Governor of Cross River State on Biodiversity, Mr. Edet Okon Asim, who is alleged to have sexually abused a fifteen-year-old girl child (name withheld) over the course of three years
By Efa Sunday; Special Sports Correspondent Team Cross River State in the just concluded National Sports Festival Abuja 2018 clinched a total of 22 medals. Also, Hon. Orok Duke Chairman, Cross River State Sports Commission and Leader of Team Cross River delegation to the NSF Abuja 2018 attributed to the not too good performance of
By Our Reporter About two thousand members of the Bakassi Strike Force led by Benjamin Ene on Monday surrendered a cache of dreadful looking arms and ammunition to weapons to Operation Delta Safe bringing to an end five years of militancy at the Bakassi Peninsula and surrounding creeks. The event which took place at the
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has granted amnesty to the Bakassi Strike Force (Agitators), led by their leader G1. The group led by their leader G1 came out in their numbers as well as surrendered many several categories of assault rifle. The surrendering of BSF is
By Efa Sunday; Live From Abuja The Cross River contingent in the ongoing National Sport Festival (NSF) Abuja have bagged 5 Gold, 11 Silver and 5 Bronze to make a total of twenty-one (21) medal placing them at 19th position in the NSF ranking. The team members who participated in only eight sports out a
By Archibong Jeremiah Following the recent arrest of Mr. Edet Okon Asim, Special Adviser on Forestry and Biodiversity to the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade over allegation of severally abusing a 15 years old girl (name withheld) sexually, a NGO, Project Alert on Violence Against Women has written to the Inspector General (IG)
By Ushang Ewa A former local government chairman of Calabar Municipal and Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade on Biodiversity, Mr. Edet Okon Asim, is currently in police custody for continuously defiling an underaged girl (names withheld) for a period spanning about three years. The girl is said to have been coerced into aborting two