CSOs Charge Cross River Government To Halt Incursion of Unidentified Chinese Nationals Into State Forest
Gov. Bassey Otu Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and strategic stakeholders have called on the Cross River state government to immediately halt all transactions and the incursion of an unidentified Chinese nationals into the state forest. The CSOs and stakeholders at the one day meeting of October 30 in Calabar organized...
Southern States Of Nigeria Shun Police Recruitment Exercise
Not less than nine Southern states of Nigeria have shun current ongoing nationwide police recruitment exercise by the Police Service Commission (PSC) recording very poor turn out. A press release on Wednesday signed by the Head, Press and Public Relations of the Commission, Ikechukwu Ani, said Anambra state leads from behind with only 541 applications,...
UNHCR, Multinationals Key Into FG’s Humanitarian And Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund
Dr. Betta Edu (L) and the MTN Chief Corporate Services Officer, Mr Tobechukwu Okigbo The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Chevron, MTN Foundation and other multinationals have have started keying into the Federal Government's Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund. A press release by the Special Adviser on Media...
Three Arraigned For Murder of A Woman, Four Others On Allegation Of Witchcraft In Cross River
By Tina Ezin The High Court of Justice in Cross River State, has arraigned three murder suspects over the alleged killing of five people in Ndon Nwong Community in Odukpani Local Government Area (LGA) of the state on allegation of witchcraft. The three defendants, Bassey Okon Effiong,...
Otu Felicitates Bishop Isong At 59, Says He Is A Generational Blessing
Bishop Emmah Isong Cross River state Governor, Senator Bassey Otu has described Bishop Emmah Isong who is the General Overseer of the Christian Central Chapel International (CCCI) as a true servant of God with abundant generational blessings. The governor in a birthday message released by his Chief Press Secretary, Emmanuel Ogbeche, on...
11 Feared Dead As Biafra Separatists, Cameroon Forces Clash In Bakassi Peninsula
11 persons are feared dead as Biafra Separatist groups and the Cameroon Forces clashed in Bakassi Peninsula of Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, an explosion was said to have destroyed two gunboats of Joint Border Forces at Akpankanya in Bakassi Peninsula leaving six security operatives dead.
Otu Decries Neglect Of Cross River-Oron Section Of East-West Road…Its Unfair And Injustice, Senate Committee
Governor, Prince Bassey Otu, (M), Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on East-West Road, Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi ( R), member of the committee, Senator Ikra Aliyu Bilbis ( L) during a courtesy call on the Governor on Tuesday. Cross River state Governor, Senator Bassey Otu has decried the total neglect of the Calabar-Oron section of...
FG Mulls $5 Billion Annual Humanitarian, Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund To Check Hardship
President Bola Tinubu The Federal Government is setting up a $5 billion annual humanitarian and poverty alleviation Trust Fund as part of efforts of President Bola Tinubu's led government to cushion the economic hardship on vulnerable Nigerians. A press release by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to...
A Story Gowon Owes Us
OPINION By Etim Etim Gen. Yakubu Gowon has never really been given to flamboyances, and so, when he turned 89 last week the celebrations were typically modest and subdued. There were however warm greetings from across the land. Perhaps, next year’s would be a bigger and more ostentatious event; and...
EU, Netherlands To Support Nigeria In Job Creation, Tackle Poverty, Irregular Migration
Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu (second L), the Netherlands Minister of Migration, Eric Van Der-Burg (3rd L), Nigerian Ambassador to Netherlands, Dr.Eniola Ajayi (4th L)and Hon Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Hon.Aliyu Ahmed Tijani (1st L) during Dr Edu's visit To the Ministry at Hague.