In the curious theatre of Nigeria’s federal drama, few paradoxes are as tragic or as telling as the insistence that Cross River State is a non-littoral abstraction, a landlocked spectator to a coastline history itself refuses to forget. This national fiction, repeated often enough to sound like doctrine, has calcified into policy. And in that…
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Chief Whip of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hilary Bisong, has condemned the burning of large parts of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Katchuan Irruan in Boki Local Government Area, Cross River Central by suspected arsonists this past Thursday, February 26, 2026. Bisong, who made a public reaction on the heels of the unfortunate…
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The remains of Victor Achima Owan, a Catholic priest ordained for the Catholic Diocese of Ogoja as well as brother of Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, John Owan Enoh, will be buried on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Ogoja, Cross River State. Information made available by the Catholic Diocese of Ogoja, revealed that on…
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By Ibrahim Haruna There are moments in public life when ambition ceases to be aspiration and metastasizes into appetite — when the hunger for advantage grows so swollen it begins to consume memory, moderation, and moral proportion. In the lingering oil wells controversy between Cross River State and Akwa Ibom, the posture adopted by former…
Cross River State governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has paid a glowing tribute to former senator, Florence Ita-Giwa, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, describing her as “a lighthouse upon our political shore and a matriarch whose courage has shaped the destiny of our people.” In a richly worded felicitation release by his Chief Press…
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The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Stephen Odey, has declared that the closure of unapproved schools in the state, will continue and that the enforcement exercise will touch all parts of the state. Additionally, any school operating without an Authority to Operate, ATO, or lacking a safe and conducive learning environment, will face immediate…
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