Your lecture room is an eyesore. With students sitting on the floor. 500 students stuffed in a lecture hall built for 50. No additional facilities. No public address system. No ventilation other than the broken 4×4 windows. Students sitting by window rails and hanging along the corridor, stretching their necks to try to hear what
By Zubaida Baba Ibrahim, HumAngle “The best thing to have ever happened to me” was how Onuka Blessing described her ability to pay her children’s fees with empty plastic bottles through the ‘Recycles Pay’ Educational Project. When Blessing isn’t trading in Tejuosho market or frying akara (bean cakes) for sale by the roadside, she picks discarded polyethylene
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