By Patrick Obia The three Senators-elect in Cross River State – Jarigbe Agom, Eteng Jones, and Asuquo Ekpenyong Jrn have received their Certificate of Return. The trio received the certificate at the official presentation held at the International Conference Center, Abuja on Tuesday, 7th March 2023. Jarigbe Agom of the People’s Democratic Party was reelected
By Our Reporters The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams has emerged as the winner of Saturday’s Senatorial election to represent the central district in the tenth National Assembly. Eteng, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, polled 57,344 votes to beat his closest rival
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN Speaker of Cross River House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams, has said that Governor Ben Ayade was not respected and honoured by the hierarchy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which led to his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Hon. Jonah-Williams, who spoke in an interview
By Patrick Obia Youths of Cross River State have been charged to safeguard their own and support Governor Ben Ayade’s industrialization drive. This was the clarion call by stakeholders in an Industrialization Walkathon organized by National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Cross River State chapter, held Thursday, 25 March, 2021, in Calabar. Declaring the walkathon
By Archibong Jeremiah The late Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Abudukadir Jimoh, has been described as “a brave and courageous officer who was a central figure in the fight against kidnapping and other crimes”. Jimoh who hails from Kwara State passed on Friday as a result of COVID-19 complications. The eulogy was by the
Not every Cross Riverian will agree that we have had better leaders before the Governor Ben Ayade dispensation; but most people from Cross River or who have lived in Cross River since the onset of the Fourth Republic will agree that the State has seen more visionary leadership than the joke that currently prevails. Different
Being text of the welcome address presented by the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Eteng Jonah Williams (PDP Yakurr II) at the presentation of the 2020 budget estimates. Your Excellency, I wish to very warmly welcome you to the hallowed Chamber of the Cross River State House of Assembly. I recall
By Patrick Obia And Kevin Ololo The Cross River State House of Assembly has ended a one day public hearing on the bill seeking to change State owned university (Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH) to a conventional institution. It is hoped that come January 2020, the process would have been completed. At the public