UK based Kasi Usani’s ASPIRE Educational Foundation, recently provided support to 32 beneficiaries in his native Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, to help build capacity and inspire them to greater achievements beyond their basic educational qualifications. At the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, shortly before he flew out of the country to his base in…
The Akwa Ibom State University, Obio Akpo, is in the news for all the right reasons after a set of twins, Daniel and Magdalene Archibong, graduated from the same department with first class degrees. In separate “Notification of Degree Result” documents sent to Archibong, Magdalene Nkamenyin with registration number, AK16/AGR/AEC/005, and Archibong, Daniel Nkamenyin, with…
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We can confirm that Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has dragged the senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District in Nigeria’s Senate, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, before the Cross River State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Calabar, challenging the outcome of the National Assembly Elections of February 25, 2023, where Jarigbe defeated him. Ayade’s petition,…
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The Obol Lopon of Ugep and paramount ruler of Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State, HRH Obol Ofem Ubana Eteng, says the decision of the Aspire Educational Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, to provide financial support to indigent students of Yakurr from less privileged backgrounds to pursue their academic or skills training programmes, stands…
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In June 2021, I penned down my thoughts on the fate of politics in Cross River State consequent upon the defection of Governor Ben Ayade from the PDP to the APC in May 2021. My thoughts (with slight modifications on typo/syntax errors and the rationale for John Owan Enoh’s defection from the APP/ANPP to the…
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Says event marks the end of the election process of this year. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has issued a Certificate of Return to Bassey Edet Otu, governor-elect of Cross River State as well as to the 25 elected members of the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA. Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Cross…
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