Some farmers at work in one of the farms. By Anietie Akpan THE Executive Chairman of Yala Local Government Area (LGA), Dr Fred Okem has attracted Project Grow high yielding farms to Wodah, Ijegwu and Council headquartres, Okpoma. This is coming even as most LGAs in the state have showed less interest in the Project…
Officials and participants at the training Programme. By Anietie Akpan The Federal Government has so far trained over 30,000 unskilled and unemployed people in the first phase of the Renewed Hope Empowerment Initiative (RHEI) which kick-started last year December. The Director General, National Directorate of Employment, H. E Silas Ali Agara disclosed this n a…
Papa Dc Enamhe. By Dc Enamhe In 2018, the release of the first ever black superhero movie featuring a futuristic African kingdom and its superhero prince, T’Challa took the world by storm. Expectedly, it was a hit among Africans and the African diaspora. At the center of the black panther experience was the eye catching…
Gov. Bassey Otu (middle), Dr. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of NIDCOM (6th right), Chief Emmanuel Ironbar, Chief of Staff to the Governor (5th right), Prince Otu Okor, Chairman, CRIDCOM (3rd right), Dr. Henry Egbe Ayuk, Commissioner for Health (1st left) and others during the courtesy visit. By Anietie Akpan Cross River is partnering the Nigerians in…
Piety Lucky of Nigeria pose with Player of the Match Award in their first match against Sierra Leone. By Akanimo Kufre The high expectations that greeted the Female Yellow Greens’ initial journey towards ICC Women’s T20 World Cup ended Wednesday after a bitter defeat to a more clinical Zimbabwe team. Nigeria lost by 10 wickets…
HOMEF Director, Dr. Nnimmo Bassey. By Anietie Akpan An Environmental expert and human rights advocate has declared that Nigeria needs big political decisions and not political fertilizers to check food insecurity in the country. The environmentalist, Dr. Nnimmo Bassey who is the Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), also called for an end…