By Archibong Jeremiah Consortium for Conflict Resolution and Development (CONCORD) Initiative, a network of state and non-state actors operating in the early warning, early response, and peacebuilding sector has been flagged off in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The network will serve as a community of practice and fulcrum of a national peace architecture
By Patrick Obia Over three Communities in Cross River State – Ugbem, Ekpri Iko, Iwuru Obio Ntan, and among others, all in Biase Local Government Area have staged a peaceful protest demanding the immediate transfer of Magistrate I. I Abam; an embattled trial Magistrate accused of abuse of office. The Communities had on Tuesday, August
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Council of the Nigerian Labor Congress, NLC has voted to join the nationwide protests to draw attention to what the labor center describes as “the hardship being meted out to Nigerians by unfriendly, unpeopled Policies by the Federal Government.” This followed a resolution from the emergency State Executive
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Executive Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu has appointed Angela Ogeyi Odey as the new Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). The appointment was contained in a press release signed by Edem Darlington, Deputy Chief Press Secretary to the Governor dated August 1,
By Etido Okon Environmental Activists in the Niger Delta region of the country have chatted and proffered a strategy that will help oil-producing Host Communities in the region. This was in a two-day strategic workshop with the theme ‘no restoration, no divestment’ held in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, was to x-ray a paradigm of the
By Gloria Nwafor, The Guardian Newspaper Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it is fully prepared for Wednesday’s nationwide strike, even as all state councils and civil societies have been mobilized. A top official of the congress told The Guardian Newspaper on condition of anonymity, ahead of a meeting with civil societies, yesterday, that finishing
By Alphonsus Iormaan The Management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has been petitioned for the withdrawal of 566 students over poor grades. The petition titled: “Petition against the Management of the University of Calabar over the withdrawal of 638 students by the University Management” is signed by three parties – Peter Ogar, Akor Joseph,
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State Government has directed workers in the State public service to ignore a circular directing them to acquire staff identity cards “as means of identification in the forthcoming State-wide personnel verification exercise.” The directive was contained in a press release signed by Dr. Innocent Eteng, the Permanent Secretary, for