By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard News Nigeria The Cross River Police Command on Friday warned that it will no longer condone any form of street protest by any group in the State, stressing that a lot of strange elements were waiting to leverage on such avenues to carry out mayhem. The Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru
By News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Ben Ayade says he was attracted to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) by the personal character of President Muhammadu Buhari.” Sen. Ayade recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC. “I moved into the APC because of my
By Terhemba Daka, The Guardian Newspaper Barely two weeks after he defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Cross Rivers State Governor, Ben Ayade, Thursday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He was led to the State House by Chief of Staff
For months, speculations of his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, dominated discourse in the new and traditional media. Like others before him, Professor Ben Ayade, twice elected Governor of Cross River State on the platform of the PDP, played the ostrich, in a fashion that was
By Gabriel Ewepu, Vanguard News Nigeria Food production and productivity of farmers have given concern to well-meaning development partners as Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), in collaboration with Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System, phase 2 (BASICS-II) project, Wednesday, commenced training of 61 Commercial Seed Entrepreneurs (CSEs), drawn from
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN Speaker of Cross River House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams, has said that Governor Ben Ayade was not respected and honoured by the hierarchy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which led to his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Hon. Jonah-Williams, who spoke in an interview
By Patrick Obia A 300 level student of Visual Art Department, University of Cross River State, UNICROSS, Calabar campus identified as Ford (real name not verified) has been killed by armed robbers. The incident occured within the school premises close to the school administrative building, few metres away from the Security post yesterday Thursday, June
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande warned that Cross Riverians and dwellers should be aware of fraudulent job advertisement. CP Sikiru Akande gave the admonition following the defilement of a minor by a final year Law student of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, who is currently on the