OPINION By Etim Etim Very few business organizations are as lucky as NNPCL, Nigeria’s state-owned oil company, founded over 50 years ago. Since its founding, the corporation has consistently failed to perform its basic functions and meet its organizational objectives; and rather than being liquidated or put up for sale for these failures, NNPC routinely…
The Chairman CROSIEC, Dr Ekong Edet Boco (middle) and a cross section of CROSIEC Commissioners pose for a group photograph with officials of NURTW after the courtesy call. By Anietie Akpan As plans to conduct Local Government election in the state are in top gear, the Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) has resolved…
By Magnus Effiong An advocacy group, ‘Think Cross River Initiative’ has given insight on why incessant communal clashes and killings, which had bedeviled the State for decades in many local government areas, reduced drastically within the past fifteen months. The initiator of the ‘Think Cross River Initiative’, Mr Edem Darlington, who made the disclosure in…
By Anietie Akpan United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has floated a new Learning Culture in Cross River Schools. This is a pilot capacity training programme for participants in Cross River state on a new learning culture in schools across the state and the country. The pilot programme, in a conscious effort to domesticate this aspect…
Participants from Ikot Ekong community, Akpabuyo LGAi n a group photograph after the training. By Anietie Akpan The Nkori Rural Women Development Initiative (NRWDI) has trained 120 women in some coastal communities of Cross River state on climate change impacts and the critical role of mangroves in mitigating these impacts. The capacity building training programme…
By Anietie Akpan The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), has thumbs up the Cross River state governor, Senator Bassey Otu’s visionary governance saying, “it is revitalising the state’s infrastructure and economy”. The PGF, composed of incumbent governors of States controlled by the All Progressive Congress (APC), described Governor Otu as an excellent example of a…