By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent As part of ways to boost education and infrastructure development, the Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Otu, has signed into law two bills establishing the State University of Education and Entrepreneurship in Akamkpa and the State College of Agriculture in Obubra. The two laws, officially titled the
The government is essentially saddled with the responsibility of fixing things. The task of bringing closure to teething issues. The onus of finding permanent solutions to problems. The burden of developing our communities and the duty of securing the citizens. It is charities and not-for-profit organizations, as well as philanthropy, that support the government with
Let me start by defining what palliative is. “A medicine or form of medical care that relieves symptoms without dealing with the cause of the condition.” If you are 30 years today, and politically active, and commenting on social media, that means in 1999, when democracy returned to Nigeria and when Nigeria adopted the Constitution
Since the 11th century when Islam was introduced to Nigeria and the 15th century when the first Portuguese friars introduced Christianity to Nigeria, most of the people who have run the affairs of Nigeria even before it was amalgamated up to independence, till date, are Christians and Muslims. How much of the heaven that these
India is deliberately drawing global attention through tech. Indians are the CEOs of most multi-billion dollar Silicon Valley tech companies in the US and they are the ones availing majority of global software. India banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, because they are self-sufficient in tech. Tik Tok was replaced with MX Taka Tak now
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
Being a paper presented at the second distinguished public lecture of the Department of Educational Administration and Planning, University of Calabar by Venatius Ikem Esq. on Tuesday, May 14, 2019. PREAMBLE Everywhere you turn one of the most popular topics of discussion is a lamentation on our situation. The difficulty to survive, how tough it
By Margaret John and Laura Ella A civil rights activist, Comrade Ben Usang has blamed the poor developmental indices in Cross River on the lack of insight of leaders to project the state’s issues on the national scale as well as corruption. Usang stated this Sunday in Calabar on a radio program monitored by CrossRiverWatch