By Archibong Jeremiah The management of Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH has reacted to the resistance by senior staff to its decision to reclaim the Boys Quarters of the Staff Quarters located within the Varsity campus in Calabar. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Owan Eno when contacted by CrossRiverWatch in his office in Calabar, said:
By Ushang Ewa Following the directive of the management of the Cross River University of Technology to revoke Staff claim to Boys Quarters attached to them in the Calabar Campus of the Varsity by December 31, 2015, more staff have joined in querying the rationale behind it. A cross section of the staff resident in
By Ushang Ewa Reports reaching CrossRiverWatch indicate that students of government secondary school(s) Akim Qua town and Barracks road have been clashing continuously for over a week now following alleged beating of their colleagues in separate incidences by the rival institution. CrossRiverWatch gathered that it began with students of GSS Barracks road beating a student
By Archibong Jeremiah Members of Cross River State College Academic Staff Union, COEASU have accused the State Government of illegally deducting five thousand, seven hundred and fifty naira (N5, 750) from their salary and that of other staff of the College for four months now for a compulsory computer ownership project implemented by the State
Few days ago the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Cross River State, Mrs. Ann Odey goofed by taking a unilateral decision on a matter that almost set the state on fire, a matter that ordinarily would not have been a problem if proper line of authority on dealing with such issues was taken. Unfortunately, the
By Our Correspondent Governor Ben Ayade has directed the immediate suspension of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Anne Odey, over the stoppage of morning devotion in secondary and primary schools in the state. To this end, a 3 man committee to be chaired by the SSG has been set up to investigate the
By Emma Una Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has rejected the directive by the Cross Rive State Government to stop morning devotion in secondary and primary schools across the state saying such a directive is totally unacceptable to the Association. In a release made available to CrossRiverWatch and, signed by its State Chairman, Archbishop Joseph
It baffles me to agree that Cross River state is still an educationally less developed state given its history as one of the first colonial base in this country. Colonialism brought many ills to the people it came to, yet in our forced government curriculum, our teachers thought us that one “advantage” of colonialism is