By Jonathan Ugbal/Ogar Monday/Oto-Obong Clement Eleven countries yesterday confirmed their participation at this year’s edition of the Carnival Calabar, just as the final dry run was concluded with a test run of the facilities and routes for what is famously billed as Africa’s biggest street party. Countries expected to hoist their cultural flags at the
By Ushang Ewa Staff of the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) resident in the staff quarters of the Calabar campus of the institution have met over the quit notice issued to them and maintained that the state government approved the rate they currently pay with the contentious boys quarters inclusive. Sources in the varsity
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Ministry of Works has commenced the implementation of the directive of the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade that every road in Calabar should be made pothole free. Ayade had given the ministry a 7-day ultimatum to fix all potholes identified in the 120 internal roads in the Calabar
By Archibong Jeremiah A stalwart of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River State and a former member of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Ernest Eki has scored the Senator Ben Ayade led administration ‘zero percent’ and called on the governor to increase the velocity of the pace of development of the State.
Traveling recently on transit through Accra airport, gave me hope Africa would get it right someday. One thing I have come to learn over time is that the society has a way of shaping her peoples degree of integrity. Arriving Accra, I needed to make a call, I found a young boy selling recharge cards,
By Ogar Monday The 2015 United Nations International Volunteer Day held in Calabar to celebrate and propagate the contributions of volunteers in the development of the nation. In one of the celebrations held at the Central Bank of Nigeria, South-South Entrepreneurial Development Center by CUSO in collaboration with Lead, Inspire and Transform (LIT), Project Nigeria
By CrossRiverWatch admin He died on Monday at the age of 86 according to family sources. Born in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, in 1929, Mr. Toyo, a professor of Economics, had his early education in Oron, Lagos and Calabar. He passed the Cambridge School Certificate in 1945 in Grade one and was exempted from London
By Our Correspondent Bakor Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital Consortium, the two concessionaires who took over the management of some general hospital in Cross River State have said that the facilities in the privatized General Hospitals in Bekwarra and Obudu local government areas were abandoned for over ten years before the eventual facelift that