By Ushang Ewa Eight-year-old Bright Joel Udoh stole the show at the grand finale of the maiden Calabar open schools table tennis championship following his performance at the three-day tournament where he emerged top in the primary school’s category. Udoh, a pupil of Prison Primary School Calabar thrashed Victor Ogar of De-Montes Primary School in
By Jonathan Ugbal The Chairman of the Enyimba Football Club, Felix Anyansi-Agwu has commended the hospitality meted to his team who are currently playing their home matches in Calabar, the capital City of Cross River State due to ongoing renovations at their home stadium in Aba. “The people of Calabar have made us feel at
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River born Cecilia Otu-Akpan claimed the singles title at the final of the maiden Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) National Championships (women category) held at the Indoor Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos. The Cross River State Canaan Queens Table Tennis Club also came second in the Club Championships while
By Jonathan Ugbal The state owned Rovers football club of Calabar will henceforth play its home matches in the newly constructed Ikom township stadium says Cross River Sports Commissioner, Asu Okang. Asu disclosed this in an interview with AIT’s Rasheed Olanrewaju Wednesday in Ikom where he also explained the reason behind the newly launched “Thumps
By Ushang Ewa The Cross River State government requested the sum of 650 million Naira to put “finishing touches” to the necessary facilities required for the botched 19th National Sports Festival say sources in Abuja. This comes on the heels of the revocation of the right to host the games by the state as Sports
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Due to the inability of Cross River State to host the National Sports Festival since the state got the right after the last edition in Lagos, Eko Games, in 2012, Sports Minister Solomon Dalung, has revealed that the Federal Government will host the 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja next year. Cross
By Oto-Obong Clement Nairabet FC has emerged champions of the 3rd edition of the Comrade Odey Adamade Unity Cup football competition after beating FC Academy 1-0 in a keenly contested match at the Obudu Township Stadium. Speaking after the match, Coordinator of the Competition Undeshi Major said that “This is the third edition of the
By Ogar Monday: House of Assembly Correspondent The power tussle between the Cross River State Commissioner for Sports, Asu Okang and the Chairman Cross River State Sports Commission Orok Duke over who superintends over sports in Cross River state took a legislative dimension Monday, at the House of Assembly when the duo were invited to