Prof. Florence Obi, Vice Chancellor (VC), University of Calabar, has solicited for a robust external security presence to avert all threats of insecurity on campus. Obi made the call when the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Aminu Alhassan, paid her a courtesy call in her office on Monday in...
Cross River State
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Against the backdrop of plans to scuttle Nigerian democracy by some misguided politicians, the Cross River State Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Alphonsus Ogar Eba has appealed to the Department of State Service (DSS) to interrogate the Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate,...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senator Bassey Otu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of last Saturday governorship elections in Cross River State Declaring the result, the state collation officer and Vice chancellor of Federal University of Otueke Bayelsa Teedy Charles, said Senator Bassey...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed a letter purporting that the party had suspended its governorship candidate in Cross River, Prof. Sandy Onor. Its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, stated in Abuja that the letter of suspension of Onor purportedly signed...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the collation centre for the governorship and state house of assembly elections opened. Declaring the event open, late on Saturday at the INEC Secretariat in Calabar, Prof Gabriel Yomere, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Cross River, thanked all who were present....
A middle aged man has been shot dead while allegedly attempting to disrupt voting process in Mbube, Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River. The deceased who was identified as Joe, was said to have been shot dead by security agents. The Commissioner of Police in charge of election...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) in Cross River on Friday threatened to punish collation and returning officers who engaged in sharp practices in the governorship and state house of assembly elections. Prof. Gabriel Yomere, INEC’S Resident Electoral Commissioner for Cross River, made the threats during a training in...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Former Deputy Governor of Cross River State and Director General of Cross River State People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Efiok Cobham, has alleged that the ruling party in the state has perfected plans to rigged the Gubernatorial elections on Saturday. Addressing Journalist at Ernest Etim...
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...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of the Gubernatorial elections on Saturday, the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Bassey Otu, says if he’s elected he will adopt the National Sports Industry Policy ( NSIP) signed by President Muhammed Buhari last year. Senator Otu said The...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial elections, the organized labour in Cross River State has endorsed the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Cross River, BasseyOtu as its preferred choice. The endorsement was announced by the labour leaders during a courtesy call on the...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has extended teachers’ retirement age by five years in the state. Governor Ayade stated this on Tuesday, when he received the executive members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) at an event held on Tuesday at the...
The Police Command in Cross River has confirmed the recovery of the body of a Professor of Political Science with the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Prof. Felix Akpan. The Command’s Spokesperson, SP Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the incident, said the body was discovered on Sunday with multiple stab wounds...
Mr Simon Egboh, Labour Party Ward Chairman in Bunyia/Okubuchi Ward, Boki Local Government Area, Cross River, has defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC). Egboh announced the defection on Monday in Boki LGA during the campaign tour of Mr Hilary Bisong, a lawmaker representing Boki 2 in the Cross...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River says endorsement of its governorship candidate, Sen. Sandy Onor, by Mr Peter Obi attests to the candidate’s sound pedigree as a man of the people. PDP chairman in the state, Mr Venatius Ikem made the declaration in Calabar on Monday when...
The Mbube community in Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River has said that they would not sacrifice merit and competence for politics of ethnicity in the forthcoming governorship election in the state. This position is contained in a statement by the community’s spokesperson and chieftain of the PDP...
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 – Ahead of the governorship elections on March 11, 2023, Students Leadership Forum, National Association of Cross River State Students, NACRISS World Wide and the National Association of Nigerian students NANS and other students bodies in the state have endorsed the governorship candidate of the...