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
By Edem Edem, DailyNews The chairman of the Cross River Anti Tax Agency, Bishop Emmah Isong, has condemned the action of illegal tax and toll collectors in the State. Speaking in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, Bishop Isong regretted the actions of these illegal collectors explaining that “the enforcement of Governor Ben Ayade’s Anti
By Archibong Jeremiah Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has hosted first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi. Prof. Obi was received at the Governor’s office. See pictures below from Egbelo Edward Ntebri, Media aide to the Governor.