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Security: NYCN Launches Operation Know Your Neighbor, Calls For Support

By Patrick Obia Youths of Cross River State, have been urged to know their neighbors and take total charge of security in their immediate environment. Security experts gave the spur in a one-day security summit and launch of Operation Know Your Neighbor, spearheaded by the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), in Calabar. The security

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Cross River State CID, Ayade’s Government And The Threat To Civic Space Engagement BY AGBA JALINGO

Early into Ayade’s Government, it was the EFCC they began with. In 2015, agents of Ayade administration made all kinds of wild allegations against former Director of the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service, Dr. Peter Oti. Operatives were sent from the then zonal office of the EFCC in Port Harcourt to bundle Oti from

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Cassava Now Growing Inside Abandoned N26m Hostel Project At FCE Obudu

By Socrates Mbamalu, Foundation for Investigative Journalism Multi-million-naira projects for which money has already been allocated and withdrawn have been abandoned in Cross River State, BudgIT Tracka is reporting. At Model Government Secondary School, Okpoma, Cross River State, a N15 million project for the construction of a schoolgate has been abandoned. The school, located in

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#EndPoliceBrutality: Cross River Panel To Sit Today After 50 Days Recess

By Patrick Obia and Rachel Idim The Cross River State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality and Restitutions, will today Thursday, April 22, 2021 reconvene after fifty days (50) recess. The panel last sat March 4 and had adjourned to April 16, 2021 but could not sit for reasons that were not communicated. The

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Stop Bribing Judges With Cars, We Can Buy Cars For Them – JUSUN Tells Executive

By Edem Edem, Daily Post The Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) Cross River State branch has condemned the purchase of car to judges or judicial workers after appointment. Speaking with Daily Post, the Chairman of JASUN, Cross River State branch, Comrade Asanya Ebong decried such attitude of the Executive arm of Government, noting that

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Wayas Urges Ayade To Join APC

By Nicholas Kalu, The Nation Newspaper A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Joseph Wayas Jnr, has urged Governor Ben Ayade to join them from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wayas, in a statement made available to The Nation Newspaper, said such a switch would provide the opportunity for the State

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Alleged N3.8b Debt: Appeal Court Agrees To Hear Suit Against Cross River

By Eric Ikhilae, The Nation Newspaper The Court of Appeal in Abuja has agreed to hear a case brought against the Cross River State Government over alleged N3.8billion debt being claimed by a firm engaged to refurbish and manage the popular Obudu Mountain Resort. A three-man panel of the Court, led by Justice Abubakar Datti

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