By Chris Njoku 243 farmers in Cross River have received the Federal Government’s agricultural inputs and feeds in the ongoing National Poverty Reduction Programme with Growth Strategy (NPRGS). The farmers who were from different value chains in the state were first verified and validated to ensure that those receiving the items were the real farmers…
By Our Reporter The Cross River State Executive Council approves the payment of West African Examination Council, WAEC fees for 16,301 indigenes of public schools in the state. The State Government will be offsetting the payment with N440,127,000 (Four Hundred and Forty Million, One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Naira) being for students writing the Senior…
By Mo Isa Despite the arrest of 25 persons in the previous protest, residents of Niger State have taken to the streets again on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, to protest the high cost of living in Nigeria. Recall that the last protest was in Mina, the state capital, two days ago. However, today’s protest happened…
By Mo Isa The current hardship in Nigeria has made some market women in Ogun State to call for the resignation of President Bola Tinubu. The market women who lamented the incessant hike in prices of goods and services also threatened to beat up the President if they see him one-on-one. According to SaharaReporters, the…
By Frank Ulom Barely one month after Cross River recorded Lassa Fever outbreak, the state has recorded another deadly disease, cholera. According to a statement by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Henry Ayuk, on Friday, one case involving a child was confirmed in Akpabuyo Local Government Area in the south. “A child with watery…
By Richard Inoyo Since the beginning of that public discourse, Citizens’ Solution Network decided not to comment on the issues knowing clearly that we live in a country where critical thinking is too often uninvited and underutilised in national deliberation. Today, I have decided to sum up our positions in the following manner: 1. How…
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 Good news for lovers of football as an update coming from the Super Eagles camp has it that Victor Osimhen has been declared fit to face South Africa. CONVERSEER reports that the Super Eagles of Nigeria will face the Bafana Bafana of South Africa on 7 February 2024 in a semifinal class…
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 Frank Ulom The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC officials on Saturday arrested five for alleged vote buying. CONVERSEER learned that the five suspects were allegedly involved in the buying of votes during the February 3, 2024 by-elections and rerun. According to the ICPC, three were arrested in a polling unit…
