By Archibong Jeremiah A man whose identity is yet to be established has committed suicide in Bashua community, Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. According to Martmercy Busaosowo, the man committed suicide after allegedly killing his wife and that he hails from neighbouring Akwa Ibom State. She went on to disclose that, “She
By Kelvin Ololo and Marylyn Uyanah As Cross Riverians join the rest of the world to mark global tourism day, WASH (Water And Sanitation Hygiene) Media Network has called on transporters to imbibe and sustain the culture of cleanliness. The call was made Sunday, during an event organised to mark this year’s World Tourism Day,
While five States are regularly funding the Accrued Rights and Retirement Savings Accounts of their workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, all the States have backlog of arrears that make retirees to wait for a few years after retirement before they get paid, Nike Popoola, Punch Newspaper reports. All State Governments’ retirees in the country suffer
By Matthew Ogune, The Guardian Newspaper Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has directed the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to make provision in its budget for the completion of the East-West road. The Ministry’s Director of Press, Patricia Deworitshe, in a statement in Abuja, quoted Akpabio to have stated this when he
By Anietie Akpan, The Guardian Newspaper Worried by the lingering dispute between communities of Akamkpa, Biase Local Government Areas of Cross River State and Wilmar Palm Plantation, environmentalists have called for the intervention of traditional institutions to end squabbles over land. Communities in Mbarakom, Ekong Anaku and others within Akamkpa and Biase Councils have complained
By Edem Edem, Daily Post The Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, CP Abdulkadir Jimoh, has deployed over 60 Mobile Policemen to the boundary between Cross River and Ebonyi States. The Mobile Policemen are to maintain peace and order in war-torn areas of Apiapum in Cross River State and Izzi in Ebonyi State that
By Yinka Kolawole, Vanguard Newspaper Cross River and 12 other States in Nigeria may have become technically insolvent as an independent research report indicated they failed fiscal sustainability test. According to the research conducted by BudgIT, a public sector-focused financial information house, the States’ revenues could not fund their recurrent expenditure obligations together with their
A court order from the vacation judge of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, has stopped INEC from recognizing any candidate of the PDP for the Cross River Northern Senatorial by-election scheduled for October 31, 2020. Vacation for federal high courts ends tomorrow Friday September 25 and federal high courts are meant to resume