By Our Reporter The Candidate for the House of Representatives for Akpabuyo, Bakassi, Calabar South Federal Constituency under the platform of the ADC in the January 2027 elections, Hon. Chief Emmanuel Etene has continued his…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo The apex youth organization in the Niger Delta region, Niger Delta Youth Leaders Forum, NDYLF has appealed for increased federal allocation from 13 to 20% to oil producing states in line…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, convener of the Christ Compassion to the Rural World (CCRW) Crusade, will offer 600 free surgeries and distribute food items during the forthcoming crusade in Uyo. Ashimolowo disclosed…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has called for the standardisation of community development levies imposed on property developers across the state amid concerns over arbitrary charges, intimidation and disruption…
By Joseph Odok The death of Mary Christiana Oga during a stampede at an empowerment programme organised by Cross River State’s First Lady, Bishop-Eyoanwan Bassey Otu, in Ogoja on 22 October 2026 is a human…
By Our Reporter The 164th Inaugural Lecturer of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Senator Prof. Stephen Adi Odey, has charged governments and the private sector to invest in skills development and digital education to prepare…
Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Edet Otu, has appointed Dr Betta Edu as Director of Finance and Fundraising for the Bassey Otu/Peter Odey 2027 APC Governorship Campaign Council. Dr Edu is one of the…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo A former Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Emmanuel Ibok-Essien has renewed his call for an increase in the derivation allocation to oil-producing states from 13 per cent to 25…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly (AKHA) has explained why it is yet to commence deliberations on the bill to establish State Police. The chairman committee on information of the…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo After 18 years of communal hostilities that claimed lives, destroyed homes and forced residents to flee their ancestral communities, the Amazaaba Group of Communities in Eastern Obolo Local Government Area and…
By Sunday Anthony, Uyo A technological driven group, Ibom Innovation Network has called for stronger government, academia partnership to enhance technological take-off in Akwa Ibom. Hanson Johnson, President of Ibom Innovation Network (IIN), who made…
By Fidelis Egugbo On several occasions, news filtered in that the former Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON, was dead, but it always turned out to be a hoax, prompting some observers…
Thousands of journalists and media professionals from across Nigeria are expected to converge in Ekpene Obo, Esit Eket local government area of Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday and Friday, October 22-23, 2026, to bid a…
Otuekong Barr Ekpenyong Akiba is the Special Adviser to Gov Bassey Otu on General Duties. In this interview, he speaks on reasons Cross River people celebrating the 67th Birthday of the Governor and other…
By Our Reporter Rt. Hon. Orok Duke, The Cross River State representative on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has said he was launching five books on November 5,including the one that…
...Introduces Judicial Reforms By Our Reporter The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed the State Customary Court Bill, 2026 into law. The Bill was passed following the presentation and consideration of the report…
By Ita Williams The Nigerian Optometric Association (NOA), Cross River State Chapter, has expressed concern over the increasing activities of unqualified persons providing eye-care services in the state. The association said the situation was particularly…
By Ita Williams The Cross River State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Pastor Ekpenyong Ene Cobham, has demanded the immediate retraction of a social media report alleging that Governor Bassey Otu directed government officials to…
The lingering leadership and succession dispute of Etamkpini Qua Clan in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria has been laid to rest as Qua Clans Constituted Assembly (QCCA) Arbitration Committee presented His…
By Our Reporter Stakeholders from the five Local Government Areas of Cross River State’s Northern Senatorial District have validated Governor Bassey Edet Otu’s bid for a second term, reaffirming their support for his administration and…
By Our Reporter The Forum of State Coordinators of the Obidient Movement has tackled the Police and the government of Akwa Ibom State over the arrest and detention of the Movement's Coordinator for Akwa Ibom,and…
By Our Reporter The Zonal Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), and President/Founder of the Calabar-based Christian Central Chapel International (CCCI), Archbishop Emmah Gospel Isong, has warned Nigerians against resorting to wicked,…
By Joseph Kingston On October 1, 1960, Nigeria stepped into the community of independent nations with enormous hope. Sixty-six years later, the green-white-green flag will once again fly proudly across the country as Nigerians celebrate…
. . . Fresh Field Verification Reopens C/River’s Oil, Maritime Claims By Princewill Kingston/Solomon Okon Nearly two decades after the controversial transfer of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, a new technical development has rekindled hope…
