By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) says it has begun the adoption of modern innovations to improve service delivery to customers in its four franchise states. The states include Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, and Rivers. The PHED’s Managing Director, Mr. Benson Uwheru, made this known during his
By Vanguard Newspaper Governors Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Emmanuel Udom (Akwa Ibom), and Ben Ayade (Cross River), as constitutionally prescribed, will hand over power to the governors-elect of their respective states on May 29 after eight years in office. Preparations are already in top gear in the states with the inauguration of transition
By Omobola Tolu-Kusimo, The Nation Newspaper Edo Leads Civil servants in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, and Bayelsa States may not retire well due to the non-implementation and compliance of pension laws by their governors. But civil servants of Edo, Delta, and Rivers States have a lot to benefit from upon retirement as their State Governors
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River and Akwa Ibom States now have legal instruments to fight discrimination, domestic violence, and child abuse – The VAPP and Disability Rights Laws. Help support the fight to end violence against women, children, and persons living with disabilities. Powered by ProjectAlert.
By Agency Reporter Justices Ijeoma Ojukwu and Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, and Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, have convicted and sentenced five internet fraudsters to various jail terms. The convicts: Mmabuchi Anthony Chinaemerem, John Bassey Akpan, Eneji Matthew Ngaji, Louis Samuel Akanimoh, and Uchenna Ibekwe, were jailed
By Ogar Monday Cross River, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Ondo, Abia, and Osun States are set to benefit from the United States Department of Agriculture’s program to support cocoa farmers in Nigeria. The program, under the USDA’s Food for Progress program, will be carried out in collaboration with the Lutheran World Relief, and it is meant
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Barrister Inibehe Effiong who was committed to one month imprisonment has just been released. Watch the live feed here. More details later.
By Jonathan Ugbal A group of concerned civic space actors, family, and a colleague of rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong Esq who was jailed by the Chief Judge of the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Obot for alleged contempt are kicking against his transfer from the Ikot Ekpene Medium Security Custodial Center to