By Our Reporter The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed the 2024 Cross River State Assembly Service Commission Amendment Bill for Governor Bassey Otu’s assent into law. The bill which was passed on the 6th of February 2024, aims to make specific amendments to the Assembly Service Commission Law, bringing it in line…
By Our Reporter Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu has granted scholarships to the children of a staunch loyalist of his, Prince Offiong Effiwatt, who died on 25 December 2023. The Governor announced the scholarship award during a surprise condolence visit to the family home of the deceased in Bay Side, Calabar South on Tuesday,…
By Frank Ulom 25 years after joining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 1999, Dominic Edet Henshaw has left the party. Henshaw said the ideology of the party has changed over the last 25 years. In a resignation letter addressed to the Chairman of the party in Ward 7 in Calabar South Local Government Area…
By Our Reporter A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Network Against Corruption and Trafficking Initiative, NACAT, has rejected the list of former governors the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC wishes to investigate. The group in a world press conference on Saturday, in Abuja, wondered why the anti-graft agency omitted former Governor Ben Ayade of Cross…
By Frank Ulom The European Union, EU Ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Ms Samuela Isopi, said the union has committed five million euros (€5m) to conserve wildlife and forestry in Cross River State. Isopi stated this on Friday while being hosted by the Governor of Cross River State,…
By Our Reporter In a move aimed at enhancing the operations of the Press Unit at Government House, the Governor of Cross River State, His Excellency Senator Bassey Otu, on Friday presented a brand new 18-seater bus to the unit. This gesture, lauded as a significant boost to press coverage and government transparency, aligns with…
By Mo Isa The Vice President of Nigeria, VP Kashim Shettima has labelled some Nigerians as clowns, over comments celebrating the Naira free fall against the United States Dollar. He stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking at a function. The VP who expressed his dissatisfaction with some Nigerians who took to social media,…
By Our Reporter The member representing Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar South Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. Joseph Bassey, has distributed food items, cash and other relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs of Bakassi at the refugee camp. The Lawmaker, who was accompanied by a crowd of supporters during the visit to the camp, said…
By Mo Isa President Bola Tinubu has restored funding for 13 national health regulators. This was revealed during the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by the President on 25 January 2024. According to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, the regulatory agencies were initially defunded in the…
By Chris Njoku A cleric, Bishop Emmah Isong, says the exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is a wake-up call for the sub-regional bloc. Isong, who is the General Overseer/Founder of Christian Central Chapel International, CCCI disclosed this in an interview with the News…
