By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar (UNICAL), Prof. Florence Obi has said the institution only increased service charge for some subjects not tuition fee because it doesn’t exist. The first female VC of UNICAL stated this in her office while fielding questions on ‘One On One’ with Citizen Agba Jalingo which
By Sylvia Akpan Atycare Initiative, a non-profit organization based in Cross River State, in a bid to touch the lives of 1,000 pupils in Cross River and beyond, has offered scholarships to ten (10) school children of Calabar Oil Palm Estate Primary School, PAMOL, Akim-Akim of Odukpani LGA. The project – Impact 1,000 School Children
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Benedict Ayade has said that all public examinations conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO) are now made compulsory for all public schools in the State reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Public schools in Cross River only register students for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examinations
By Patrick Obia 50 students, from 10 secondary schools in Cross River State, on Tuesday , benefited from the 2021/2022 Teacher Essien Ita Education Foundation scholarship scheme. The foundation, set up eight years ago in honor of Esien Ita Itam, father of retired Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), Ekpenyong Essien Ita Jr,
By Patrick Obia In Cross River State’s 2019 budget, over N145 million was earmarked for new classrooms at PCN Primary School Ikot Ishie in Calabar Municipality while more than 7 million was budgeted for a motorised borehole in the school under the model school project of the State. The contracts were eventually awarded through the
By Patrick Obia Edgerley Memorial Girls Secondary School Calabar has named a sport house after the late Mrs. Temitope Ekpenyong Ita. Late Temitope was the wife of Mr. Ita Ekpenyong, retired Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), now Department of State Services (DSS). She was called to yonder in March 2019 after a
I do not have the temperament to witness the ongoing mis-governance in Ayade’s Cross River State without staging a protest, without putting up some resistance against such maladministration which is being forced down our throats in a civilised society. The state continues to sink into the abyss without a trace of redemption, yet only a
By Patrick Obia There is disquiet in the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) as the National Universities Commission, (NUC) has issued a December 5, 2021 deadline for management to fix the studios of the Department of Mass Communication or lose accreditation. This less than a year after the institution changed its name from the