PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A lawmaker representing Calabar Municipality/Odukpani Federal Constituency, Hon. Eta Mbora, has launched an empowerment initiative targeted at promoting enterprise, self reliance, job creation as well as boosting agricultural yields. Flagging off the empowerment program, Hon. Mbora said the scheme is based on the peculiar needs...
Cross River State
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has described as shocking and devastating, news of the death of Lady Abiola Wayas in a London hospital, UK., barely a month after her husband and former Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas passed away. Lamenting the death in a...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over one hundred and eighty-eight support groups from the three Senatorial District of Cross River State has drummed support for Senator Gershom Bassey’s ambition to take over from Governor Ben Ayade in 2023. Speaking at the State Secretariat of the PDP in Calabar, where he...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – In the spirit of national unity, Governors Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Muhammad Badru Abubakar of Jigawa State on Saturday paid their Cross River State counterpart, Professor Ben Ayade a Christmas visit. Also on the entourage of the governors was former Jigawa Governor, Seminu Turaki....
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Elizabeth Fummilayo Akinlade, the newly deployed Cross River State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corp, has warned motorists involved in the habit of driving after drinking to desist from such act or faced the full weight of the law. According to the Sector Commander, the...
EFFIONG BASSEY, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has suspended the 14-month-old curfew in the state. The governor’s Deputy Chief Press Secretary, Mr Linus Obogo, announced the suspension of the curfew in a statement issued on Saturday. The curfew was imposed in October 2020, following the massive...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has said the state government has shelved plans to privatize the over thirty industries built by his administration. Governor Ayade disclosed this on Thursday during his end of year interaction with the media in the state. Some of the...
Gov. Ben Ayade declared on Thursday in Calabar that he would not privatise any of the 34 Cross River-owned companies in recognition of the choice of the people. Ayade told newsmen that while privatising the companies was the right thing to do, it was not politically correct. Few weeks...
C’River 2023: Don’t truncate zoning arrangement for selfish reasons – Commissioner warns politicians
C’River 2023: Don’t truncate zoning arrangement for selfish reasons – Commissioner warns politicians
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Commissioner for Rural Transformation, Edem Okokon Effiom, has warned politicians against the call for jettisoning the zoning arrangements in the state. “Don’t truncate what’s has been in existence with your ambition. Zoning gives us peace, it spare us a lot of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Government on Tuesday flagged off the state’s Health Insurance Scheme in a bid to enhance adequate access to health care facilities in the state. The official flag off was done by the wife of the governor, Linda Ayade who appreciated all...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Chairman of the Cross River State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alphonsus Ogar has hinted that the Ayade-led administration inherited a whopping sum of 400 billion naira debt from his predecessors. Mr. Oga disclosed this during an interactive session with journalists in Calabar...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade has given assurance that the implementation of the report of the Debt Review and Project Development Commission which he set up last year would not be an instrument for witch-hunt. Governor Ayade, who stated this while receiving the...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cletus Obun a former lawmaker and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, (APC) has blamed the Cross River State Ministry of Health for criminal negligence over the plight of his wife who was allegedly suffering from Covid-19 . Obun, said his wife who tested positive...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, on Monday suspended the 2021 Calabar Carnival. The Governor’s suspension of the 2021 Carnival at State Executive Council Chamber, took many by surprise as the governor had last week announced that the 2021 carnival will hold. The stakeholders meeting...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 6, Usman Gomna has warned applicants to be wary of fraudsters and avoid falling prey to swindlers who might take advantage of the exercise to defraud unsuspecting applicants. AIG Gomna stressed that the screening exercise is free of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has pledges to fix the moribund facilities at the Obudu Ranch Resort before December 2022. As an indigene of the area, the governor said failure to fix the resort before exiting office will amount to injustice against himself and...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Nigeria Labour congress (NLC) in Cross River State on Thursday suspended the one month industrial action in the state. The suspension of the strike follows the quick intervention of The Traditional Ruler Council in Cross River State, which was headed by Etinyin Etim Okon...