By PATRICK ABANG Calabar Against the backdrop of medical tourism, The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Professor Ikpeme Ikpeme has said that the desire of his administration is to provide first class infrastructural upgrade in the teaching hospital in line with the...
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By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Former Special Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly Matters Senator Florence Ita Giwa on Sunday insisted that it’s the turn of Cross River South Senatorial District to produce the next governor in 2023. Senator Ita Giwa stated this on Sunday while...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Cross River State Command has said it would soon commence the clampdown of unregistered motorcycles, and tricycles in Cross River State. The State Sector Commander, Mr. Abdulahi Hassan disclosed this on Monday at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ) has pledged to sustain continuous partnership with the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in combating crime in the society through objective reportage of police activities as well as public sensitisation on security measures. The NUJ Chairman of Cross River...
The Police Command in Zamfara on Saturday night released the leadership Newspapers reporter, Umar Maradun, on bail. The Police released Maradun at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. Maradun was arrested in the early hours of Saturday from his country home, Maradun, Maradun Local Government Area and detained at the...
Mallam Garba Attahiru-Madami, Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara, on Thursday, called on the youth to safeguard their votes in 2023. Attahiru-Madami made the call at a symposium tagged: ”Youths and 2023 General Elections: Your Concern, My Concern”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A correspondent with The Nation Newspaper, Comrade Gill Nsa on Saturday emerged as the Council Chairman of The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Cross River State. Comrade Nsa, who scored 76 votes defeated his closet rival, Comrade Okar Ibor of Nigerian Chronicle, who...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi State Council, has condemned the arrest and detention of the Publisher of WikkiTimes, Haruna Mohammed and his reporter Kamal Idris, by the Nigeria Police Force in the state. In a statement jointly signed by the State Chairman and...
Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has urged the Nigerian electorate to vote the right people into positions of authority, to salvage the country from its current challenges. Amaechi, who was a Special Guest of Honour at the 2022 World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Uyo on Tuesday, urged...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has elected new leaders to stir the affairs of the chapel for the next three years. Speaking before the election which was held at their Dogin Daji office around Central Bank of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The first female Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Cross River State, Mrs. Elizabeth Akinlade has said the essence of FRSC road enforcement is to reduce accident rates in the state by 15 per cent. Addressing Journalists on Tuesday during a...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Controversies have rocked The Borno State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) as the union’s four (4) 100x 50 square meter plots of land allocated by the state government to develop its secretariat and press center were sold without due process, proper...
Mr Saheed Popoola, a member of the Kwara House of Assembly, says insecurity in the country has beclouded the achievements of the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) administration. Popoola made the assertion on Sunday at a News Keg programme of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Kwara Council of the Nigeria Union...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar -: Cross River State Commissioner for Rural Transformation Okokon Effiom has instituted the “Madam Beatrice Akinsheye Ayade Foundation for Best Journalists in the state. The award which is exclusively made for Correspondent Chapel members will commence on January 2022. In an interactive session with the Executive...