An obvious truth about life is that there are two most important days in a man’s existence. The day he was born into this other side of eternity, which is his birthday and the day he shuffles off this mortal coil to the world beyond. In spite of the pleasures and vicissitudes that life throws
By Sylvia Etta Reprieve has come the way of the former Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Barrister Venatius Ikem as the High Court of Cross River State sitting in Calabar has granted a stay of action on the order of arrest issued against Ikem by Chief Magistrate E.E. Edodi on Wednesday, January 13,
By Owai Obo The Chairman, Cross River State House of Assembly Committee on Youth and Sports Development and member representing Biase State Constituency, Honorable Ogbor Ogbor, has said that school sports is a veritable tool for promoting peaceful coexistence among ethnic, religious and cultural groups in the state. Hon. Ogbor stated this during the 78th
By Solomon Azu The special Adviser to the governor on Community and Primary Health Care in Cross River state, Dr. Betta Edu has commended the Yakurr Legislative Council for passing two bye-laws following the outbreak of diarrhoea in Ugep Urban which has affected more than 150 children. The two bye-laws are law against open defecation
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade has described as critical, the need to address the restiveness that has characterized the Niger Delta region as a panacea for development. Ayade stated this when he received the Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Sean Hoy and his team during a courtesy visit to
By Jonathan Ugbal Some business outfit owners operating along the popular Bedwell street in Calabar grumbled over the Environment Commissioner’s decision to sanitize the area. The Commissioner, Engineer Mike Eraye in the company of the CUDA boss Joe-Mary Ekeng and his counterpart in the State Waste Management Agency, Willie Okokon and some staff of the
By Our Editorial Board The present entity, Cross River State is among the 12 original states created in 1967 in Nigeria by General Yakubu Gowon to weaken the Eastern Nigeria which was on the verge of seceding to form the Republic of Biafra. Known then as South-Eastern State and later rechristened Cross River in 1976,
I have for the past eight or there-about months watch very keenly with intense attention how the information of the Governor of Cross River state, Professor Ben Ayade has been managed by the Chief Press Secretary and Special Assistant Media, Mr. Christian Ita. Christian Ita’s method of managing the governor’s information machinery is what I