PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – In its drive to reduce the scourge of unemployment in the country, the National Directorate of Employment has disbursed starter packs of about N4m to 26 graduates in Cross River State. The graduates are beneficiaries of the Environmental Beautification Training Scheme (EBTS), which...
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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced the registration of artisans in Cross River state. The exercise which commenced on Monday 17th July, 2023 is at the Directive of the Director General of the NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo and is being...
Police Command in Cross River has arrested two staff members of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) over alleged vandalism of the company’s utility cables. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two PHEDC staff members were among the 17 suspects paraded for various offences by the...
One Mr Matthew Uyangha has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old orphan (name withheld). Uyangha was sentenced by Justice Blessing Egwu of the Calabar Division of the High Court of Cross River on Thursday, July 20 The rapist had drugged and kidnapped the...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Following the conflict in Southern Cameroon, over 18,000 refugees are said to have invaded Cross River State in the Southern part of Nigeria. The refugees are expected to go through a verification exercise organized by United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Calabar...
Mr Elvert Ayambem, Speaker of the Cross River House of Assembly has called for the arrest and prosecution of organisers of a gay party in Calabar. Ayambem made the call in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Matthew Okache, on Tuesday in Calabar. It would be...
A total of 11 students under the aegis of the Nigeria Medical Students Association (NIMSA) were rescued on Saturday after a speedboat capsized at a resort in Calabar, Cross River State. The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the rescue, noting that efforts had intensified to rescue...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River Governor, Sen. Prince Bassey Otu, has concluded plans to end the 14-year law on forest moratorium in the state. Otu hinted that the decision was informed by the loss of revenue to illegal logging activities going on in the state’s rich forests....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Sen. Prince Bassey Otu, has donated N10m to traders whose stores were gutted by fire at the Bogobiri area of the Calabar, the state capital. He also assured that his administration will erect ultra-modern palm oil market in the affected...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu has charged his newly appointed principal officers to live above board and be ready to render quality and selfless service to the people. The governor gave the charge in his office, in Calabar, during an interactive session with his...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested two identical twins: Takwan Potential and Takwan Peter and 26 others for alleged internet fraud in Calabar, Cross River State. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said in a...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu has frowned at the activities of petroleum dealers in the state who suddenly jacked up the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and created artificial scarcity of the products. Governor Otu, who inaugurated a multi stakeholders taskforce...
The price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) has soared in Calabar, Cross River, since the pronouncement by President Bola Tinubu to end the subsidy regime. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the product is being dispensed at between N400 and N600 per litre, depending on the filling...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar Cross River State Governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has directed that all accounts belonging to the state government should be frozen with immediate effect. The governor gave the directive while speaking on Tuesday in Calabar during an interface with members of the press. “I have asked that...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu on Monday Promised to liased with the Federal Government in a bid to remove the bottleneck confronting the Tinapa Business Resorts and make it fully functional. The governor disclosed this during his inaugural speech to the people of Cross...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – No fewer than twenty-eight Civil Society Organizations (CSO) has expressed concerned over the increasing rate of illegal logging in Cross River communities . This is contained in an open letter made available to some newsmen yesterday in Calabar from Indigenous people, CSOs and environmental...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Against the backdrop of persistent denials by Central Bank of Nigeria and other financial institutions to grant credit facilities to natural rubber farmers in the country, the National Rubber Producers, Processors and marketers Association of Nigeria, NARPPMAN, has devised another way to raise funds...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A chairmanship candidate of the Nigerian Football Association (NFA), Cross River State Chapter, Dr Eric Akpo has attributed the low level of sporting activities in the state to the poor performance of sports administrators. ” We have seen that things are stagnated in terms...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A senior advocate of Nigeria, Murtala Abdul-Rasheed has condemned the venue of the Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal venue over what he called deteriorating state of the High Court. He described the Tribunal venue as very shameful and disturbing. The state High Court...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Program coordinator of Worthy Association for Tracking Environmental Ruins (WATER) Chief Edwin Ogar on Monday said his organization has dragged the Cross River State Forestry commission to Court over what he called illegal logging in Ekuri Community despite the ban. Chief Ogar said...