Edu Seeks Collaboration With Interior Ministry To Check Humanitarian Crisis
Alarmed with humanitarian crisis in the country, the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu has called for a strong collaboration with the Ministry of Interior. The collaboration according to Edu, who said this during a visit to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo on Tuesday, will be in areas of...
C’River Collaborates Brazil To Showcase Best Carnival This Year, Onah
The Cross River state government is in collaboration with Brazil and others to showcase the best carnival ever in the state this year. The 2023 Carnival Calabar according to the Chairman, Cross River State Carnival Commission, Mr Gabe Onah during a meeting with the newly constituted members of the Commission in Calabar, Tuesday, the...
Ten Persons Killed as Tiv, Yache Communal War Rages
By Magnus Effiong Violent conflict between the Tiv people of Mbaaka, Benue State and Ijiegu-Yache community of Yala local government area of Cross River may have claimed ten lives if reports from the area is anything to go by. Property worth millions of Naira were also said to have been destroyed in two days of confrontation between youths of the two...
It Won’t Be Business As Usual, Edu Warns NEDC Management
The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, showing love to an IDP at Bulunkutu Rehabilitation camp in Borne State. The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu has read the riot act to the management and staff of the North East Development...
Otu To Stimulate Economic Development Amongst Rural Dwellers
Gov. Bassey Otu Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Edet Otu has given the assurance that his administration will run policies that will stimulate economic development in the rural areas. A press release by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Emmanuel Ogbeche, said the...
Insecurity: Gov Otu Procures Technology to Track Kidnappers
By Magnus Effiong With kidnappers attempting to step up their activities in Cross River in recent times with the abduction of a female medical doctor in Calabar, Governor Bassey Otu has disclosed that his government had procured latest technology to track them. Gov Otu, who spoke in a media parley to mark his hundred days in office, weekend, said the equipment...
Cameroon Forces Sack Pro Biafra Rebels In Abana, Bakassi
Cameroon's Rapid d'intervention Battalions (BIR) has dislodged the pro Biafra militant group that had control of Abana, the former headquarters of Bakassi Peninsular in the Gulf of Guidance. The separatist pro Biafra rebel group, the Black Marine had for over three months held sway at Abana after sacking the Cameroonian military and oil companies...
Cross River Rejects Loss of Bakassi, May Seek Referendum
Gov. Bassey Otu Cross River state government has rejected the ceding of Bakassi Pennisular to Cameroon 21 years ago saying there was no referendum to that effect. Nigeria and the people of the state lost Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroon through the judgement of the International Court...
Cross River Gives Prime Attention To Agriculture With N30 billion Credit Guarantee Fund
Gov Bassey Otu (2nd from right), flanked on his left by the State Chairman of APC, Barr Alphonsus Eba, on his right, the SSG, Prof. Anthony Owan-Enoh and the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Erasmus Ekpang Faced with a near zero income from the Federation account, the Cross River state...
Succour Comes The Way Of Over 900 Households In Shwari IDP Camps, Maiduguri
Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu (left), presenting some of the relief materials to one of the IDPs It was thrills and excitement at the Shwari Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri, Borno state on Friday as over 900 households got relief materials.