By Anietie Akpan The Akwa Ibom First Lady Designate, Lady Helen Eno Obareki has been honoured as the matron of the Commissioners and Special Advisers Wives Association (COSAWA). This honour according a to press release from the Media Unit, Office of the First Lady, is in recognition of her motherly role in ensuring the well-being…
Joseph Odok, PhD Esq By Joseph Odok The silencing of a voice like verydarkman will be a devastating set back to our democracy. It is becoming more risky and difficult to have someone speaking truth to power in the Nigeria of today; the fear of the brutality of people in power is real and reasonable….
Two months ago, the Cross River State Police command had confirmed that one of its officers at Atakpa Police station in Calabar, Inspector Effiong Bassey, blatantly murdered a 41 years old lady, Ijeoma Wilson Obot, when he opened fire on civilians without any form of provocation. A press release signed by the Command’s Public Relation…
By Linus Obogo The attention of the Cross River State Government has been drawn to a laughably incoherent and intellectually bankrupt publication circulating online, attributed to one nondescript Ogenye Bernard Odey – a man who evidently confuses madness for activism and vulgarity for truth. Hiding under fanciful aliases like “The Ancient Spirit Man,” Mr. Odey…
By Anietie Akpan Four Seminerians have lost their lives following a fatal accident at Ikwette community by Obudu Ranch bottom Hill in Obanliku Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State. A press release on Sunday from the Office of the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Comrade Nsa Gill, said, the government, “with deep…
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Nsa Gill (centre) with the CRS, NUJ Chairman, Comrade Archibong Bassey (left) and others during the flag off of the WPFD “Freedom Walk” on Saturday in Calabar. By Anietie Akpan Journalists in Cross River State on Saturday, May 3, painted the streets of Calabar white and green…