By Frank Ulom A secondary school teacher and some students were arrested over alleged cultism at Government Secondary School, Akai Efa, Calabar Municipality Local Government Area of Cross River State. CONVERSEER gathered that the teacher (name withheld) and the students (name withheld) were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after a fight broke out at the school….
By Frank Ulom Nine heavyweights of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and their multitude of supporters, have dumped the party in Cross River State. One of them is Rt. Hon. Efa Esua, a two-time member representing Calabar Municipality State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly. Esua resigned from the party on 16…
By Frank Ulom Two-time House of Assembly Member, Rt. Hon. Efa Esua, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State. CONVERSEER reports that Esua who represented Calabar Municipality State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly from 2015 to 2023, tendered his resignation letter from the PDP on 16 February…
By Frank Ulom The governor of Cross River State, Sen. Bassey Otu, has said the current minimum wage for workers is not enough to cover the level of inflation faced by the country. Otu stated this on Tuesday while addressing protesting workers in Calabar. According to the Governor who was ably represented by his deputy,…
By Our Reporter Leaders of the Niger Delta Ex-agitators have commended the efforts of Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu Rtd., and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the ongoing reforms in the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) being implemented by the current PAP Management. Speaking in Calabar on Tuesday, during an interactive session facilitated by the Presidential Amnesty…
By Frank Ulom The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has opened up on the scraping, merging and fusion of 104 Ministries, Development and Agencies, MDAs, as proposed by Stephen Oronsaye’s report. The Oronsaye report established that there are 541 Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies (statutory and non-statutory) and recommended…
By Joshua Akpan On November 27, 1895, Swedish inventor, chemist and occasional poet, Alfred Nobel instituted the famous Nobel Prize, to bequeath a lasting legacy in the fields of science, medicine, literature and governance. Nobel is also known for inventing the Dynamite. In 1986, history was made, when the Nobel Foundation, at The Stockholm Concert…
By Joe Udo France has deported a Muslim Iman, Mahjoub Mahjoubi, days after he disrespected the French flag calling it ‘satanic.’ Mahjoubi, originally from Tunisia posted a viral video earlier last week where he ranted about the “tricolour flag” calling it “satanic” whilst saying it has “no value with Allah”. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin…
By Joe Udo Two Federal High Courts sitting in Enugu (Enugu State) and Akwa (Anambra State) and presided over by Justices Mohammed Garba Umar and Nnamdi Dimgba, have convicted and sentenced 31 internet fraudsters (popularly referred to as Yahoo Boys) to prison. Their conviction, CONVERSEER learned was secured by the Enugu Zonal Command of the…
By Agba Jalingo Until 1.14 pm WAT, on September 11, 2001, when 2,996 people were killed in a terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York, I frankly was not very familiar with the word “terrorism.” The frenzy that trailed that very horrible terror attack forced the word from nearly every news outlet…
