Mr Donald Duke, a former governor of Cross River, has said that he felt sorry for the next governor of the state, revealing that such individual would be faced with an uphill task to reinvent governance in the state. He made the remarks at the inauguration of 1,080-member campaign...
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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade would on November 25th play host to his Kano and Bauchi states counterparts in ,Calabar, the state capital. While in the state, Governor Abdulahi Ganduje of Kano State would grace the 2022 Cross River NUJ media summit as...
Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers says his administration has received N45 billion only from the Federal Government as Bakassi stabilisation fund. Mr Christian Ita, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Calabar on Saturday. He said that...
Stakeholders and chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River say the party is better organised to win elections, especially the 2023 general elections in the state. Mr Idi Yakubu, an elder and chieftain of the party in Ogoja, stated this during a million-man solidarity walk in...
Mrs Olumayowa Olomola, Commanding Officer, Calabar Command of the Federal Fire Service, has confirmed the fire incident that occurred inside the Cross River Government House. Olomola who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that the fire started from an electrical spark from a generator...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Former Special Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly Matters Senator Florence Ita Giwa on Sunday insisted that it’s the turn of Cross River South Senatorial District to produce the next governor in 2023. Senator Ita Giwa stated this on Sunday while...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar- The Cross River State governorship candidate of The All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bassey Otu has pledged to build on the legacies of Governor Ben Ayade if elected as governor come 2023. Senator Otu disclosed this during a courtesy visit to various stakeholders in Obanliku...
The newly established Teachers Continuous Training Institute (TCTI), in Biase, Cross River State, which kicked off last year is set to be a leading teacher educational institution in Nigeria with capacity to retrain 500,000 primary and secondary school teachers in Nigeria. TCTI was established by the Cross River State...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade on Tuesday said the Piles and Pylon factory established by his administration is set to begin commercial roll out of vibrated electric poles. Ayade said the factory will play a pivotal role in the rural electrification of...
Sen. Bassey Otu, a former lawmaker who represented Cross River South in the National Assembly, has emerged governorship flag bearer of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at the party’s governorship primary election, held at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar, Sen....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Reactions has continued to trailed the sudden removal of the Paramount ruler of Calabar South Professor Itam Ogar by the Cross River State Government The Cross River State Government had fired Professor Itam Ogar for alleged involvement in partisan politics. He was alleged to...
Mr. Ray Morphy, veteran media practitioner and former Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, on Strategy and National Contact, recently morphed into an unseemly mercenary sniper targeting Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Indeed it is debatable how well the dubious role of an out-of-job...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has reconstituted the Cross River State Electoral Commission(CROSIEC) ahead of next year Local Government election. Governor Ayade in a memo by issued by The Attorney General and Honourable Commissioner for Justice, Tanko Ashang appointed Prof Mike Ushie as chairman...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of the 2023 general election in Cross River State, over 41 support groups have called on the former lawmaker representing Southern Senatorial District, Senator Bassey Otu to contest for governorship ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The leader of the support groups, Boniface...
BY PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Alphonsus Eba, on Monday said the party has not zoned the governorship ticket to any particular zone in the State. This is coming weeks after Governor Ben Ayade disclosed that the next governor...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has shifted the judgment in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River to April 6. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had, on March 22, reported that Justice Taiwo Taiwo fixed today, Friday, for the...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senator Agom Jarigbe representing Cross River North Senatorial District has faulted allegation made by the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, that Governor Nyesome Wike, of Rivers has destroyed the PDP Chapter in Cross River. The lawmaker stated this in a statement in Calabar , was...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has rejected the use of force to intimidate ordinary voters ahead of the Saturday’s byelections for Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency and Akpabuyo State Constituency. The State Chairman of the party, Venatius Ikem made this know in Calabar on...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Barely few days to the Cross River State byelections in Ogoja Yala Federal Constituency and Akpabuyo State Constituency, the State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Alphonsus Ogar has declared the River State Governor, Nyesom Wike as a security risk to the state. Mr....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Against the backdrop of incessant iNsecurity in Cross River State, a governorship aspirant and National Assembly Caucus Chairman, Senator Gershom Bassey has promised to establish a “Cross River State Security Trust Fund” in 2023, if he becomes the next governor of the state. According...