Officials of the Cross River State Government have handed out a N10 million grant to ten selected hotels in Calabar, in what is the first phase of a state government grant to hotels in the state to help them give their facilities a facelift before the commencement of Calabar Carnival festivities. Ojoi Ekpenyong, Managing Director…
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Member of Parliament, MP, Peter Akpanke, who represents Obanliku/Bekwarra/Obudu Federal Constituency, in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has mourned the demise of his constituent, Odey Michael Efenji, an undergraduate of the University of Calabar, killed by suspected armed robbers on November 21, 2023, in Calabar, Cross River State. Akpanke, on a visit to the deceased aged…
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The Ekoi Association North America, EANA, has donated hospital equipment worth millions of naira to the Model Primary Health Centre, Usene, Ugep, Yakurr LGA, as part of her commitment to help raise primary health care standards in Cross River State. At a public presentation of hospital beds, mattresses, bedsheets, pillows and pillow cases, a giant…
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Cross River State Education Commissioner, Stephen Odey, has called in the police to take charge, after an amateur video showing students of Government Secondary School Ikot Ansa, Calabar, engaged in a bloody fracas, went viral. Click to watch the video. Odey who swiftly visited the school early Thursday morning, on the heels of the…
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Akwa Ibom State owned Ibom Air, has maintained that it has not stopped flights to Calabar, contrary to repeated speculations being made that, as an underhand business strategy, it stopped flights into Calabar to help shore up traffic for the composite Christmas festival in Akwa Ibom State. In a memo dated 22nd November, 2023, signed…
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About two months ago, I wrote about my suspicion that the trending issue of male genital organ disappearance in Calabar, the capital city of Cross River State was a hoax as well as a demarketing strategy targeted at Carnival Calabar and indeed, Cross River State tourism at large. That no allegation was ever proven scientifically…