By Patrick Obia and Rachel Idim As different State’s Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Restitutions, buckle up to meet the six months life span given to them, Cross River State judicial panel is on fast foots as it resumes sitting not less than twenty days from last adjournment to trash out 9
By Patrick Obia All is set for the launch of a book, ‘Beyond The Broken Chains’, a revolutionary compendium covering 533 days of the arrest and incarceration of an unflinching prisoner of conscience; Omoyele Sowore. The book authored by Frederick Omoyoma Odorige, is an audacious mirroring the Nigerian State in 356 pages; 92 chapters and
By Sampson Unamka, The Nation Newspaper Veteran actresses, Kate Henshaw and Joke Silva have called for more women participation in politics. They spoke in a recent interview with The Nation Newspaper at the launch of the Ebony Life Creative Academy (ELCA). Kate Henshaw said: “I choose to challenge the stereotype that women cannot attain certain
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Stakeholders in Calabar Municipality/Odukpani constituency have applauded their member at the House of Representatives, Ntufam Eta Mbora for “effective representation at the lower chamber”. The member representing Calabar Municipality in the State House of Assembly, Ntufam Efa Esua said “he has demonstrated without doubt that the interest and well-being of the electorate
By Patrick Obia Stakeholders have enjoined Cross Riverians to save the future from hunger by embracing Agriculture. This was the take home message from keynote speakers and good will messages in a one-day Agro Industrialization Summit held at Transcorp Hotel, Calabar, with the theme: “Promoting Agricultural Value Chain To Boost Economic Development, Food Sufficiency And
From the fits and starts of intervening Civilian and Military rule of decades past, democracy finally settled and stabilized in Nigeria in I999. Since then, to present day it has been unbroken civilian rule. It is therefore a given and common sense that when Cross Riverians talk of ZONING OF THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE STATE,
By Archibong Jeremiah The premier indigenous university in Cross River State, Arthur Jarvis University, AJU, Akpabuyo has clocked 4. The institution which started with 2 faculties now has 5, from 15 degree programs to 42 which has been successfully accredited and has been issued with full statutory license to operate as a tertiary institution. In a
By Patrick Obia Cross River State Government is set to host a one-day Agro Industrialization Summit in Calabar, the first capital of Nigeria. The summit which is to hold Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 10am has the theme “Promoting Agricultural Value Chain To boost Economic Development, Food Sufficiency and Curb Youth Restiveness”. The event is organized