Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, Retired Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has advocated the use of culture and tradition to promote national security and national unity. Buratai made the call on Saturday in Abuja at the Army Headquarters, Departments and Commands West...
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The FCT-Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) on Saturday reminded an Abuja socialite, Mrs Aisha Achimugu to fulfil her tax obligations. FCT-IRS posted on its social media X handle that it wished the socialite warmest birthday as she lavishly celebrated her 50th birthday setting the Caribbean state of Grenada agog...
Popular American rapper, Snoop Dogg, has revealed why he turned down a $100 million offer to show his manhood on OnlyFans. OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service used primarily by sex workers who produce pornography. In a recent interview, the 52-year-old rapper said he was contacted by...
Five African-American women on Saturday in Calabar embraced Efik as their ancestral root after being inducted into the kingdom at a formal ceremony by Ntiero Edem Efiom Ekpo Royal House. Following their induction, the women had additional names added to their original names. They were named: Sandra Baker-Ekanem Abasi...
The Dec. 26, 2023 marriage between a four-year-old ‘bride’ and a 54-year-old man in a Bayelsa community is a traditional rite to save the child’s life, according to her parents. They claimed that the marriage, conducted in Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa, was...
Calas Vegas Band has emerged overall winner of the Carnival Calabar competitive events. The winning band is led by the former Minister for Culture and Tourism and former Cross River Commissioner for Tourism, Chief Edem Duke. The band which was one of the newest bands, performed energetically and...
Calabar on Thursday stood still as the parade of the bands took centre stage in the ongoing cultural festival christened “Carnival Calabar”. The parade, which saw the various bands in their colourful costumes dance through the 12 kilometres carnival route, also saw a large number of residents, tourists...
Cultural troupes from Ghana, Cameroon and 15 states in Nigeria were among those that shone at the 2023 Cultural Carnival in Calabar on Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. The event, which witnessed cultural performances from the 18 Local Government Areas of Cross River, had...
No fewer than 15 million people across the globe will watch the main event of this year’s Calabar carnival that will be beamed live on DSTV on Thursday. This was disclosed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the Commissioner for Information in Cross River, Mr Erasmus...
Visitors trooping to Cross River for the 2023 annual Calabar carnival are battling to find hotel space in the capital city, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). NAN reports that the 20th edition of the annual carnival which began on December 1st, have lived up to its...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – History was made in the Ogoja Local Government Area, as Senator Prince Bassey Otu’s administration kicked off Carnival activities in the Northern Senatorial District in Cross River State. The Ogoja carnival, adorned with colorful ambiance, featured five competing bands from the Northern...
It was shocking and difficult for me to come to terms with the reality of the news, about the death of a personified news character, in person of Aisha Bello Mustapha. Why won’t I be shocked to the marrow? when a few days ago my cell phone rang....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu has said the state is ready to host the tourism world at this year’s Carnival Calabar International Festival. Otu, who made the assertion, Sunday, while flagging-off the third carnival dry run at the Millennium Park in...
When Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on 27th May this year, I wrote this tribute in salute to a man who is undisputedly the greatest statesman and diplomatic centurion of the 20th and perhaps even the 21st century. I reproduce here a slightly amended version of that tribute as the world salutes...
The remains of Chief Felix Mgbada, one of the foremost founding fathers of Ebonyi, were on Friday laid to rest in his country home, Okposhi in Ezza North Local Government Area. Mgbada, an erstwhile Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Abakaliki Branch, and PDP stalwart, died at...
The remains of the late Mr. Taiwo Oyekanmi, the Director of Finance and Administration in the Ogun Governor’s Office, was on Thursday laid to rest. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the late Oyekanmi was buried at his hometown in Ifonyintedo in the Ipokia Local Government...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Government on Monday said arrangements has been completed for this year’s Calabar Carnival. The state Commissioner for Information, Erasmus Ekpang, disclosed this on Monday while addressing newsmen at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press Center, Calabar. “We are fully...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Monday, that the FCT Administration was open for discussion with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on tourism development. Wike stated this when the UAE Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Salem Al-Shamsi visited him in his office in...
President Bola Tinubu has expressed grief over the death of foremost Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yusuf Ali, who died in the early hours of Monday, at the age of 73. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sheikh Ali, was a Kano based scholar who held the position of...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has offered global investors willing to invest in the state of a tax haven. Otu made the commitment when he hosted top global CEOs in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, at a breakfast meeting aimed at enhancing the...