By Kelvin Ololo The Managing Director of Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, has said poverty is one of the major threats to quality education in Cross River State and Nigeria’s public schools. Akintunde Sawyerr, stated this in a sensitization workshop and interactive session with students of the University of Cross River State
Once, I attended an ANPP campaign event in Maiduguri as a journalist and was privileged to be in the Governor’s convoy. The Governor then was ANPP. He was in company of a former National Chairman of the party, who was also from the North. (I want to withhold their names). While the governor’s convoy was
Yes this is Nigeria! Where the AK47 Economy is booming and enjoying criminal patronage from the high and mighty. This is Nigeria, where individuals who have enough storage of arms can slice any section of Nigeria where they have numerical strength and colonize it with violence and sabotage, without letting or hindering. Yet, government will
By Sylvia Akpan, Government House Correspondent Cross River State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hon. Edema Irom, says the State will use agriculture as one of its springboards to empower women as part of deliberate measures to alleviate poverty. The Commissioner disclosed this during the 2023 Apiapum New Yam Festivals, held at Apiapum, Obubra Local Government
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The hundreds of millions of dollars (US) multinational energy companies pay every year towards development in the Niger Delta are having negligible impact on people’s lives or environmental protection, a new study co-authored by civil society organizations Policy Alert (Nigeria), Publish What You Pay (PWYP) UK, has found. The report, “What’s in It for Us?” is
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Government has embarked on project monitoring and evaluation exercise to assess the Community Based Target (CBT) projects of the Youth Employment and Social Support Operations (YESSO). Dr. Inyang Asibong, Commissioner for International Development Cooperation, who monitored the exercise in Ikot Ene-Obong and Ikot Effanga Mkpa communities both in Calabar
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The recent poverty index report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that about 82.9 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty. This figure represents 40.1 per cent of the nation’s total population estimated at about 200 million. This is contained in its “2019 Poverty and Inequality” report using the Nigerian Living
By Ogar Monday The Cross River State Coordinator of the Youth Employment and Social Support Operations (YESSO), Mr. Bolinwo Ofegobi has dismissed insinuations that the organization is an employment agency. Mr. Bolinwo who disclosed this during an interview with newsmen recently in Calabar said, the organization was established to help ameliorate the plight of the