By Patrick Obia Another victim from the empowerment stampede organized by the governor’s wife of Cross River State, Bishop Eyoanwan Bassey Otu, has reportedly died. The victim identified as Rose passed on at the General Hospital Ogoja on Wednesday, October, 28, 2026, evening hours after her health got worse due to the stampede and police
By Mary Ochim The Government of Cross River State has confirmed and sympathized with the family of the deceased woman who lost her life during an empowerment stampede. A woman was confirmed dead and dozens injured during scramble for empowerment rice in Ogoja Local Government Area of the state – empowerment attended by the state
In 2015, the Nigerian Government placed a ban on the importation of rice through land borders and imposed a hefty 70% tariff on imports coming through the ports. However, despite these restrictions, numerous incidents of smuggling and seizures of this contraband by the Nigerian Customs Service have been reported. In this investigation, Salihu Ayatullahi of
One of the greatest challenges to the growth of Agriculture in general and rice production in particular in Nigeria is its lack of appeal to the younger generation, who incidentally make up a larger percentage of its population. This is due to the old methods of farming employed in most parts of the nation. Another
By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent Moved by Governor Ben Ayade’s rice value chain revolution in Cross River State, the Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Professor Nelson Brambaifa has disclosed plans to key into the project and expand it to other States within the region. Brambaifa
By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele today jointly flagged off wet season rice farming and other Agricultural value chains in Calabar. The official ceremony was carried out on the 32, 000 square kilometer site of the
The rate of unemployment in Nigeria has become catastrophic in recent years. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in Sept. 2018, about 20.9 million Nigerians were without jobs. This underscores the importance of job creation in the nation. The importance of income generation for economic growth of a nation cannot also
Nigeria is the largest rice producing country in West Africa, but it is also the second largest importer of rice in the World. According to Index Mundi the total domestic milled rice consumption in Nigeria in 2017 was 6.7 million metric tonnes and rose to 6.9 million metric tonnes in 2018 showing a growth rate