By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked Cross River PDP delegates to join him in restoring the party to power in the State. Atiku, who was in Calabar during the weekend to continue his nationwide consultation, said there is a need
By Mary Bassey Listen To The Report Fusion 196, a political support group in the All Progressives Congress, APC on Tuesday in Calabar pledged its support for guber aspirant, Senator Bassey Otu, saying it will reconcile with aggrieved party members. Senator Otu emerged as consensus candidate of the APC in a meeting presided over by
By Godswill Ikemefuna, Naija Times Listen To The Report A law lecturer at the University of Calabar, Paschal Aboh, has been arrested for allegedly impersonating a resit student. Aboh was nabbed last week during the law exams at the Bwari campus of the Nigerian Law School. The lecturer, who is presently in police custody, is
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Newspaper Listen To The Report There was wild jubilation on Monday in Calabar, as power returned after 38 days of total darkness. Recall that Calabar and its environs had been without power since April 8 but before then major parts of the metropolis had been in darkness for 54 days. The
By Archibong Jeremiah Listen To The Report Members of the Cross River State Customary Court have decried nonpayment of 3 years’ salary, which has brought them untold hardship. Customary or District Courts are grassroots courts and Cross River State has 96 across the three senatorial districts. Each District Court is made up of a President
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and the Office of the National Women’s Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, headed by Dr. Betta Edu, during the weekend hosted about 700 APC female aspirants for different offices in the
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report The Cross River State Government has begun the Second Outbreak Response, OBR2, vaccination exercise aimed at keeping the State polio count at zero. The Government said it has also set up a Rapid Response Team across major borders in the State to optimize poliomyelitis vaccination and other childhood
By Sylvia Akpan and Mary Bassey Listen To The Report Barrister Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner in charge of information and voter’s education in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said the data from the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration, CVR of the commission shows that the youths have the potential to determine the 2023