By Patrick Obia Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has apologized for the unstable public power supply witnessed in its franchise States will be rectified soon. PHED in a public announcement on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, said the outage is as a result of generation constraint which has led to the intermittent supplies and will
By Patrick Obia Rainforest Resource and Development Centre, RRDC, has sent SOS to 100 Boki Local Government Council (Cross River State) sons and daughters well placed in the society to rescue their God-given resources. The group in a letter signed by its Executive Director, Mr. Odey Oyama and addressed to the Boki stakeholders revealed that it had
By Archibong Jeremiah The factional crisis rocking the Cross River State charter of APC may have come to an end. The State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade facilitated the sheathing of swords by the warlords fighting for control of the party in an integration dinner held Sunday at Dorschester hall, Spar Mall, Calabar. The Governor whose
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Ben Ayade has recalled his aide on aviation, Agbiji Mbeh Agbiji hours after he was sacked. This is contained in a statement signed by his spokesman, Mr. Christian Ita and issued on Monday afternoon, hours after a different statement said he, alongside 8 other had been “relieved” of their appointments. “Hon.
By Jonathan Ugbal The protest by civil servants engaged by the Cross River State Government between 2017 and 2018 over non payment of salaries continued today in front of the Governor’s office in Calabar. The protest which began on Tuesday last week has continued despite a snub by Governor Ayade and his supporters. On Thursday,
By Ushang Ewa Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has relieved four commissioners of their appointments after they refused to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with him. They are Messrs Mike Usibe, Rita Ayim, Asu Okang and Donatus Etim. The quartet had allegedly resigned their appointments after Mr. Ayade was railroaded into
Can we organize at least, community town hall meetings, one for the very representatives who hitherto buy motorcycles, sewing machines and deep freezers to empower the people in communities where electricity has never been seen, and youths lack the technical capacity to compete with their counterparts in other States, women lack the capacity to sew.
By Patrick Obia In a bid to ensure proper menstrual hygiene practices among teenagers, the Professor Charles Effiong Foundation, on Thursday, took their campaign on teaching young girls on the use of reusable pads to the Government Technical College, Mayne Avenue in Calabar. This was part of the activities marking the 2021 World Menstrual Hygiene