By Our Reporter President Bola Tinubu has signed the 2024 Budget, capped at N28.7 trillion into law. He assented to the 2024 Appropriation Bill at a brief ceremony at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday. Among those with the President while he signed were the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the…
By Chris Njoku Prof. Grace Etuk, Head of Department, HOD Social Works at the University of Calabar, UNICAL has called on Nigerian politicians to make sacrifices too in 2024. Etuk made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Monday in Calabar. It would be recalled that President Bola Tinubu…
By Our Reporter Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, has assured that Cross Riverians will have no regrets for voting him as governor. The Governor, who promised to transform and grow the economic fortunes of the state and restore the state to her pride of place in the country, made the commitment during a…
By Our Reporter The Director General of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Rev. Hon. James Anam has tasked political stakeholders in Calabar Municipality to complement government efforts in ensuring the security of lives and property of the people within their domains to guarantee an enabling environment for the smooth implementation of lofty…
By Nsikak Ibatt A 300-level student of the Department of Economics, University of Calabar, UNICAL, Miss Margaret Ekpo emerged as the winner of the maiden Queen of Humanity Cross River Pageant 2023. Miss Ekpo, age 22, is an indigene of Akwa Ibom. She’s a young entrepreneur in the makeup artistry industry and the CEO of…
By Frank Ulom Nollywood actor, Zack Orji is in a critical state of health after slumping in his toilet. CONVERSEER learned that Orji who is a director, producer and filmmaker is currently at the Intensive Care Unit, ICU of the National Hospital in Abuja. According to the All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Joe Igbokwe on…
By Chris Thompson Not less than 21 persons have been killed by flash floods in the small town of Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. This was disclosed by South African officials on Saturday. “As of Friday, 29 December 2023, a total of 21 bodies have been recovered,” said police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda….
By Chris Thompson Over 10,000 Palestinians have moved into an already crowded town at the southernmost end of Gaza in recent days, fleeing Israel’s bombardment of the centre of the strip, as a senior U.N. official on Friday criticised Israel for continuing to impose “severe restrictions” on access to aid. According to Africanews, the renewed…
By James Ovie An artificial intelligence neural network discovered something unusual in a famous painting by Raphael: one of the faces was not painted by Raphael himself. The painting is called Madonna della Rosa, and scholars have long debated whether it is an original by Raphael. While determining the provenance of a piece of art requires…
By James Ovie PlayStation hacker, TheFloW confirmed on LinkedIn that he once again won a $10,000 bonus from Sony through the HackerOne bug bounty program. This means that this researcher submitted a major vulnerability to Sony, but it is still unknown when and whether the vulnerability will be made public. The jailbreak of PS4 and…
