By Godwin Otang Less than 24 hours, two separate fires have razed down a market in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State, leaving goods and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed. The Ikom inferno started at about 9:pm when daily activities in the market had closed. Just a moment ago another fire gutted
By Mary Bassey, House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly in a matter of urgent public interest has called on the State Government to take proactive steps towards revamping Songhai Farm after the recent fire outbreak. In a plenary held Tuesday 30th, 2024 at the Assembly Complex the member representing Abi
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent The Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Otu has visited the scene and victims of the fire incident that raided shops at Bogobiri in the prime hours of Friday afternoon, donating the sum of ten (10) million Naira to cushion the effect of the disaster. Otu while addressing
By Patrick Obia No less than six shops were on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, gutted by fire at Harbor in Calabar, Cross River State. The strange inferno which cannot be ascertained at the time of filing this report is said to have ignited from a nearby shop trading diesel at about 3:pm. Point of Sale
CrossRiverWatch Admin The Government of Cross River State has debunked reports of a purported fire incident in the Governor’s Office, Calabar. A press release signed by Christian Ita, Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to Governor Ben Ayade on Monday night said “there was a small fire incident on a mast within the premises of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The powerhouse, accounts, and audit sections of the Governor’s office extension in Calabar were on Saturday night gutted by fire. Government House sources say the fire started on Saturday night at the powerhouse which supplies backup electricity to the Governor’s office on Saturday night with the fire raging until Sunday morning last
By Patrick Obia A section of one of the most popular markets in the city of Calabar, Ika Ika Oqua better known as Marian market was gutted by fire in the wee hours of Tuesday 30 August 2022. The cause of the fire, eyewitnesses, and traders say started about 2am can not be ascertained but
By Sylvia Felix In 3 weeks the University of Calabar, in the first capital Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria has witnessed 3 fire outbreaks. The recent is the Department of Continuous Education and Development Studies which happened today, Wednesday, 9 February 2022. This is coming three weeks after the Department of Mathematics, in the same