By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has appealed to eligible voters in Cross River State to come out en mass and vote for the candidates of their choice during the Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections. The state coordinator of TMG, Ofem Ofem, made the...
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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Troops of 13 Brigade Nigerian Army, Calabar, deployed for Operation Akpakwu, have rescued the Commissioner for Women Affairs in Cross River, Mrs Gertrude Njar, from captivity. Mrs. Njar, who has been under captivity for 35 days, was rescue by the troops on Wednesday around...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Former Senate leader, Senator Ndoma Egba has decried a worrying trend where the Christian clergy in Nigeria are involved in partisan politics and turning their altars to political campaign platforms. Ndoma Egba said this on Wednesday in Calabar, during the Breakfast Prayer session organized...
Mrs Betta Edu, the National Women Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has called for inclusion of more women in the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Edu made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Calabar while commemorating the 2023 International...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has warned all political appointees to deliver their electoral wards or be shown the way out ahead of the governorship and state house of assembly elections on Saturday. Governor Ayade gave the warning at the Ernest Etim Bassey...
Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says she is convinced that the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu will address the Bakassi resettlement problem when he assume office in May 29. Ita-Giwa said this on Monday in Calabar while celebrating the victory of the president-elect. Popularly...
The Inter Party Advisory Council, (IPAC) on Saturday decried poor turnout of voters in the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections in Cross River. During in a press conference in Calabar, Mr Anthony Attah, Chairman of IPAC in Cross River, said out of over 1.7 million registered voters,...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) says it plans to challenge its defeat in Cross River North Senatorial and House of Representatives election. Mr Alphonsus Eba, the state APC Chairman said this when he addressed a news conference on Thursday in Calabar. Eba who alleged that the election was marred...
Senator Gershom Bassey while reacting to the outcome of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections in an interview with PATRICK ABANG spoke on the chances of the opposition People’s Democratic Party PDP in Cross River State. Except: What is your reaction on the poor performance of PDP...
The Anti Cultism and Kidnapping Squad (ACKS) of the Police Command in Cross River has arrested a notorious kidnap kingpin, five years after he was declared wanted. The SP Ogini Chukwuma led ACKS, acting through intelligence, had stormed the hideout of the kingpin, Kufre Etim, also called Romance, where...
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Awwal Gambo, has inaugurated projects at the Eastern Naval Command to enhance the welfare of personnel. The projects inaugurated by the CNS on Thursday included officers gym and corner shops at 1006 naval barracks, Calabar. Gambo charged officers of the Command...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – As part of efforts to sanitize the Ministry of Health, The Cross River State Government has vowed to deal decisively with medical officers who leave their area of posting. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Janet Ekpenyong during a Ministerial Briefing...
Police paraded Maurice Ibangha (22), before newsmen on Thursday in Calabar after confessing that greed led him to attempt the kidnap of his boss, Mr Peter Egba, Cross River’s Commissioner for Commerce and Industry. Ibangha said he planned the kidnap attempt with three others, including the commissioner’s driver before...
Police in Cross River have recovered one AK-47 rifle, a cutlass and N1million from fleeing herdsmen in Ikom Local Government Area. Spokesman of Zone Six of the Nigeria Police Force, SP Nelson Okpabi, said an Assistant Commissioner of Police in the zone, Mr Emeka Onyekaba led the team that...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised to introduce new social investment program and make Cross River State a new tourism wonder of the world. Tinubu said the investment programmes will improve business productivity,widen access to affordable finance...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Presidential candidate of The All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is expected in Calabar for a campaign rally on Tuesday. Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Senator John Owan Enoh, disclosed this at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Coalition of Civil Society Groups, (CCSG) on Sunday said that the new redesigned naira notes were symbols of a new Nigeria. The assertion was made in the popular Watt Market Calabar, by Mrs Lilian Cosmas, Head CCSG, South-South Zone. Mrs. Cosmas, who called...
Residents of Calabar in Cross River state have resorted to keeping vigil at Automated Teller Machine (ATM) centers in search of the new naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the situation around the metropolis, reports that the ATM points across the city have been taken...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senator Sandy Onor, the People’s Democratic (Party) PDP governorship candidate in Cross River State has advised the state government to shelf its planned of selling government properties “We have spoken many times against moves by the governor to embark on last minute programmes and...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Chairman of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Cross River Chapter, Professor James Ekpoke, has debunked insinuation created by the Presidential candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) that Mr. Peter Obi represent an ethnic and religious agenda. Prof. Ekpoke, who is the...