By Frank Ulom Governor Bassey Otu has suspended the Cross River State Civil Service Commission Chairman, Mr Uko Inaku with immediate effect. CONVERSEER gathered that Inaku who was appointed by former Governor Ben Ayade was suspended on Monday, 11 March 2024. The Governor also appointed Sir Maurice Effiwatt to replace Inaku as the Acting Chairman…
By Our Reporter Efut Combined Assembly, the apex decision-making body of the Efuts in the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State has rejected the imposition of Prof. Itam Hogan Itam as the Muri Munene and Paramount ruler of Efut by the State Government. The position of the monarchs is contained in a press release…
By Our Reporter The Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey asserts that the All Progressives Congress, APC received a significant boost with the defection of Hon. Mike Usibe, a former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Federal House of Representatives candidate, and Mr Ukeh Ikem, the brother of the State PDP Chairman, Hon….
By Our Reporter The Lawmaker representing Yakurr I State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Cyril James Omini, on Friday, disbursed ₦15 million to 150 women in his constituency for their small-scale businesses. While disbursing the cash at the ceremony held at Council Guest House, Ugep, Omini said the empowerment of…
By Our Reporter Governor Bassey Otu has felicitated with former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, on his 68th birthday celebration. In a birthday message the Governor personally signed on Friday, 8 March 2024, he described the Chairman of the State’s 2023 Transition Committee as a “worthy and dependable servant-leader clothed in humility and focused on…
By Frank Ulom The wife of the Governor of Cross River State, Rev (Mrs) Eyoanwan Bassey Otu, has footed the hospital bills of the two traders who suffered severe electrocution injuries in Calabar last Saturday. Rev. (Mrs) Otu who visited the victims, Chijioke Udoji and Uzoma Anthony, at the Calabar General Hospital on Thursday, was…
By Our Reporter The 10th Cross River State House of Assembly, led by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Elvert Ayambem has recovered some state-owned construction equipment following an investigation into the misappropriation of 34 State-owned heavy-duty construction equipment by certain government officials during the administration of former Governor Ben Ayade. Recall that on Thursday, 22 February…
By Mo Isa President Bola Tinubu has approved the reconstitution and amended structure of the Governing Board of the FGN Power Company, which is tasked with implementing the accelerated performance agreement with Siemens Energy. The development, CONVERSEER learned was in furtherance of his landmark effort to achieve the full end-to-end modernisation of the nation’s electric…
By Frank Ulom President Tinubu has suspended the Managing Director/CEO of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, alongside three Executive Directors of the Agency, from office indefinitely. Their suspension, CONVERSEER learned was in the light of new findings unearthed during a comprehensive investigation into the financial activities of the agency. The three others…
By Frank Ulom Governor Bassey Otu has appointed 21 persons into four Cross River State Urban Development Authorities, namely, Ikom, Ugep, Obudu and Ogoja. This was contained in a press release with reference number: “Our Ref: GO/PRESS/014/VOL.IV/45”, signed by Mr Emmanuel Ogbeche, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, on Wednesday, 6 March 2024. According to…
