Cross River State Governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has extended warm felicitations to his immediate predecessor, former CRS governor, Ben Ayade, as he marks his 58th birthday, describing him as an erudite scholar, audacious reformer and patriot whose years in office etched indelible footprints on the sands of the state’s history. In a goodwill message issued…
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The University Management wishes to provide further clarification regarding the ongoing concerns relating to salary payments. Over the past several weeks, the Vice-Chancellor has made deliberate and sustained efforts to ensure that the outstanding salary issues are addressed promptly and responsibly. As part of these efforts, the Vice-Chancellor paid a formal visit to the Deputy…
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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…