By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Bakassi Fish Festival has received endorsement by the Cross River State government as part of ways to mark its tourism calendar. The Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Chief Robert Abubakar Ewa, on Tuesday 12th September, 2023 in his office received the festival’s Board of Trustees (BOT) during a courtesy call,
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report The inaugural edition of the Bakassi Fish Festival has ended in a grand style. The 2-day festival was held at the Esuk Mkparawa, Ikang Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State. Speaking on the sidelines of the event, the Bakassi Local Government Chairman, Mr. Iyadim Amboni praised
By Ogar Monday and Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report A festival to celebrate the cultural and economic heritage of the Bakassi local government aimed at showcasing the fishing potential of the people is set to hold on Tuesday, the 28th, and Wednesday, 29th June 2022. According to the initiator Ms. Frank Edima, the event
If education is expensive, ignorance is still more costly… P. B. de La Bruère – 1903 All around continental Africa, most of the countries appear to be in a state of uncertainty as there seems to be some form of identity crisis following the inability to properly define nationalist goals and holistic approaches to achieving
By David Nsa And Efa Sunday Entrepreneurs in Cross River State have been urged to think outside the box and don’t wait to have specific amounts of money before starting up an enterprise. The charge was given by Mr. Damian Tobi, CEO Made Studio and Mr. Kelvin Essien, CEO Calabar Visual Art Studios on the
By Efa Sunday The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has charged all residents and indigenes of Bakassi to get registered for their Permanent Voters Card (PVC), reiterating that the dead line is close. The INEC Bakassi Local Government Area Officer, Mr. Lawrence Inang gave the charge over the weekend while addressing Ikang youths in a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin At the current level of advocacy in the world, achieving gender parity is 200 years away statistics from the 2017 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report have showed. This means that with the current level of gender equality advocacy, it will take about 200 years to fully have the same percentage
By CrossRiverWatch Admin August 12 is recognized by the United Nations as International Youth Day. It has been set aside to recognize the importance of youth inclusion in decision making. As the entire world celebrate young people today, I reflect deeply on the theme: Youth Building Peace, what comes to my mind is one small