By Aplefe Ojong The Provost, Cross River State College of Education, Awi in Akamkpa, Dr. James Bassey Ejue has said that the greatest problem confronting the Nigerian educational system is the social virus called “sorting” which is now prevalent in institutions of higher learning across the country. Dr. Ejue who stated this while speaking with
By Our Correspondent The newly established Institute of Technology and Management (ITM) by the Cross River State Government today matriculated its first set of students. The Institute, situated in Ugep, and modeled after Highbury College, Portsmouth, is managed by the United Kingdom Institute. At the moment it offers courses in Business Management and Entrepreneurship, Information
By crossriverwatch admin The Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Akpabuyo, has emerged the overall best performing school in the 2014 National Examination Council, (NECO) in Cross River State. The feat has already provided the two best students with scholarships and medals from Learn Africa Development Foundation to further their studies. Attaining the status of best secondary
By Aplefe Ojong The immediate past Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Calabar Branch, Dr. James Okpiliya, says his greatest successes were in the area of providing holistic welfare packages to deserving ASUU-UNICAL members. Speaking to newsmen in his office, the former ASUU-UNICAL chairman disclosed that his administration took a
By: Aplefe Ojong Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University, Calabar Branch have elected a new Executive headed by Dr. Tony E. Eyang to pilot the affairs of the Union for the next two years. A free and fair elections held at the Chinua Achebe New Art Theatre, UNICAL, recently, saw Dr.
By Isaac Mensah Succor came the way of the staff and management of University of Calabar staff primary school recently when members of the National Youth Service Corps serving at the University of Calabar made some donation to the school as part of their Community Development Service (CDS) project to their place of primary assignment.
By Our Corrrespondent The recent open letter written to the Senator representing Southern Cross River Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Bassey Otu by some executive members of Southern Cross River Students World-Wide (SOCRISS), who dissociated themselves from the endorsement of the lawmaker for a second term has received knocks from the national exco
By Aplefe Ojong Indications are gradually emerging that the Cross River State Government and the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT in the state a heading for a collision over what the Union describes as the treating of teachers in the state government employ as casual workers. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the salaries of over 200 teachers