Governor Bassey Otu By Anietie Akpan Cross River state government has relaxed measures on its recent order shutting down wood logging activities in the state. The Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, had on June 20 in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Anthony Owan Enoh suspended further logging activities in the state…
I had hoped to avoid revisiting the minimum wage issue but the government’s persistent antics and labour leaders’ disappointing gullibility have forced me to speak out again. As I previously argued in my articles, labour leaders made a grave mistake by suspending the industrial action without achieving any concrete gains. They succumbed to government manipulation,…
ND & HND NURSING PROGRAMMES FOR 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION ADMISSION IN PROGRESS! PURCHASE OF FORMS FOR POST-UTME SCREENING This is to inform all prospective candidates for admission into Cross River State College of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences, Itigidi, that forms for Post UTME screening are available at the College Registry on payment of non-refundable fee…
By Carolyn Ugbor In a significant move to bolster the tourism sector and make ecotourism thrive in Cross River State Commissioner for Tourism, Arts And Culture, Chief Ewa Robert Abubakar and his management team have held an inaugural meeting with the Technical Committee for Eco-tourism Project. The meeting which was organised at the instance of…
OPINION By Rotimi Adesina There is a palpable anxiety in the banking industry over delays by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve issuance of new securities by the banks. In the last three months, over 15 banks have filed applications with SEC to issue new shares by way of right issues and public…
In the past week climate activists targeted two very different venues to send their message of doom, disrupting the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut and vandalising the Stonehenge monument at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. Their defacement of Stonehenge could be considered relatively successful because no one was able to stop them. It’s…
A Georgia judge, Christina Peterson, has been removed from the bench after she was apparently caught on camera hitting a police officer. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Peterson has broken multiple Code of Judicial Conduct policies since taking office. “We agree that removal is warranted here. The Hearing Panel found that the (JQC) Director…
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, has arrived at the federal courthouse in Saipan where he is set to plead guilty in a deal with the Department of Justice (DOJ). Assange ignored reporters as he exited the car in a dark suit. Assange spent approximately $500,000 to fly to Saipan to avoid landing on the US mainland….
Meet former Indiana teacher Charles Jansen. He was just charged for allegedly paying students to pee, sp!t and ej@cuI@te into bottles for him. He also allegedly paid students for their clothes to “satisfy Jansen’s paraphilic and masochistic s*xual desires” and asked one student to call him a b*tch. He reportedly engaged in this behaviour with…
The Southern Governors’ Forum has thrown its weight behind Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s position on the tenure of local government chairmen in Rivers State. Speaking on the political upheaval in Rivers State based on the tenure of local government chairmen, the Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, said it was unconstitutional…
