By Magnus Effiong Worried by reports from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that 3.44 million Cross Riverians were facing multidimensional poverty, the State government says it has rolled out life-touching programmes to reverse the trend. Speaking at a press briefing in Calabar, the State Commissioner for Agriculture and Irrigation Development, Hon Johnson Ebokpo said…
By Magnus Effiong Biafra Nations League (BNL), a separatist group with headquarters in Bakassi peninsular, has accused the Nigerian leaders of treating the people of the South East and South regions as third-class citizens. BNL Leader, Princewill Chimezie Richards, who said this while addressing Journalists in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, demanded that the…
By Magnus Effiong A Bakassi peninsular-based separatist group, Biafra Nations League (BNL), has said it would rain destructions on Nigeria’s economic assets within the Gulf of Guinea if proponents of the ‘Igbo Must Go’ campaign make real their threat. BNL Leader, Princewill Chimezie Richards, who made the remarks in Ogoja, northern Cross River State, Tuesday,…
The State House of Assembly has resolved that the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED), the State Electricity Agency as well as Ministry of Power be invited to appear before it to offer a public explanation of the poor power supply in the Ikom Local Government Area. The Assembly has also resolved that all relevant…
By Magnus Effiong The President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in Cross River State, Comrade Obol Leko Otabe Obono, has lauded Governor Bassey Otu for the ongoing implementation of promotion of local government staff as well as other interventions which have brought hope to workers in the third tier of government…
By Magnus Effiong The government of Cross River state and the UN Women have expressed readiness to partner in order to abolish harmful cultural practices against women and to frontally tackle other gender-based issues which had worked against economic emancipation of women in order to entrench a more gender equitable society. The United Nation entity,…