By Patrick Obia Two years after emerging winners of Mrs. Linda Ayade Literary Art competition, winners of the second edition held in 2019 are yet to receive their prize money. The Linda Ayade Literary Art Competition was conceived to promote literary creativity among young people in Cross River State who have a leaning to creative
By Ogar Monday Perhaps it can be said that the Black man is reinventing his legend, and the world is starting to honour anything African. Thus in a bid to promote this grand movement, the city of Calabar was set afire with its first-ever blazing poetry and music concert. Held recently at the James Ene
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chairman of the Cross River State Sports Commission, Orok Duke, is set to launch five books authored by him tomorrow in Abuja. The books; “Clementines, Sentinel, My Songs Dances on the plains, Ellipses” are all a collection of poems authored by the former Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly
By Ogar Monday It was a fun filled evening for lovers of poetry as eleven contestants slugged it out at the inaugural edition of the Calabar Poetry Slam, with Gabriel Nkanu going home with the top prize. While declaring the occasion open, the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul
By Ogar Monday It was a gathering of literary minds earlier in the week at the Marina resort for the first ever Festival Poetry Calabar 2015 organized by Poets In Nigeria (PIN) and the Calabar Literary Society (CLS) to revive arts in this part of the country. The event which was well attended by poets,
by crossriverwatch admin Bipam Bifefe, you stand taller than many institutions your age, O! How illustrious personalities long to attend, bowing to a sage, My beautiful Bipam Bifefe, celebrated with unseen grandeur, Like a mistress whose suitors are clouded in a mystical cage, I write for you a fond and Memorable page. But please accept