By Unini Chioma, The Nigerian Lawyer For the first time since she left office in 2021, the former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, revealed in her book titled: “Stepping on Toes”, how her battle to streamline excesses in the nation’s port system cost her job. According to her, the
By Our Reporters The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrested no fewer than 65 persons on Saturday, March 18, 2023, across the 28 states where Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted, for alleged voter inducement. Four out of the 65 persons were arrested in the capital Cross River State, Calabar. The
By Mary Bassey Nigerians have been urged to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) and cast their vote properly. Vote Not Fight Election No Be War, A Well-Informed Adolescent Initiative, and The Bridge Leadership Foundation collaboratively matched the streets of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, calling on Nigerians to collect their PVCs. The group
By Patrick Obia and Etido Okon A family of seven has called on the government and well-meaning individuals to come to their aid after fire razed down their apartment in Calabar, Cross River State capital. Mr. Etim Effiong made the appeal while narrating the unexplainable outbreak. The advanced-in-age watchman in a construction vicinity at Atimbo
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade Sunday in Calabar attended the 2023 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration. At the colorful ceremony held at the Millennium Park Cenotaph in the Cross River state capital, the governor called on governments at all levels to reflect on the sacrifices ex-servicemen have made for the
By Channels TV The 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has expressed confidence that his party will win all elections next year. Speaking in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital, on Tuesday during a town hall meeting with stakeholders of the party, he told the cheering crowd that he has
By Nsa Gill, The Nation Newspaper The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the campaign visit of the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to Calabar, the Cross River State, has announced that all is set to host him in a town hall meeting with stakeholders in the South-South
By Jonathan Ugbal On Friday, Nigeria’s oldest civil aviation company, Aero contractors resumed flying the Calabar route from Lagos and Abuja after it halted flights into the Cross River State capital for eight months. The airline had halted flights into the city before it stopped scheduling services on July 20, 2022, over financial difficulties. The