The billboards have lit up the Calabar, landscape, announcing with gusto that the “Jesus Or Nothing” crusade is coming to Calabar, Cross River State, on September 12, 2025, at The Dome, Municipal Garden, courtesy of Kingdom Stars Gospel Centre. Peter Inyang, who pastors this upscale church which recently built and handed over a bungalow to…
The maiden Ugep Open Table Tennis Tournament, drew to a close Sunday evening, with Isaac Ettah emerging men’s champion after defeating his opponent, James Ofem, in three straight games to win the tournament star prize of ?100,000 (one hundred thousand naira). James Ofem took home the runner-up prize of ?40,000 (forty thousand naira). They were…
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Driven by visions of a coalition of interests and inspired for the common aims of unity, service and prosperity, the Ugep People Consultative Assembly, UPCA, says it is working to bring together all sons and daughters of the Ugep, Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, to embrace a communal approach to achieving development. Oka Obono, Africa’s…
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In what is an undeniable sports milestone, the First Ever Ugep Open Table Tennis Tournament, which has seen throngs of locals trooping to the Ijiman, Ugep, venue to watch an array of skills being displayed by indigenous players, has reached the quarter finals stage. The tournament, sponsored by an indigenous large scale farm, Blakkam Urban…
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Hundreds of casual staff currently engaged by the Cross River State Government in her various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, MDAs are to smile soon as plans have reached an advanced stage to regularise their appointments. Innocent Eteng, Cross River State Head of Service, who made this disclosure as part of activities marking this year’s Civil…
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The road to Ugep, in better-governed countries, should have been a ten-hour love affair between man and landscape, a smooth, lazy dance of asphalt from Abuja’s orderly chaos into the green bosom of home. But this is Nigeria, my friend, where even a simple road trip can audition for a Nollywood tragedy. Mine became a…
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