As Local Government elections are scheduled to hold in Cross River State tomorrow, Saturday November 2, 2024, the state Commissioner of Police, Cross River State Command, Gyogon Augustine Grimah, has ordered the restriction of movement across all 18 local government areas of the state. A CRS police command release, signed by Irene Ugbo, a Superintendent…
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As it is with Nigerian politicians; and in the realm of governance, it has always been common place to promise in poetry and deliver in prose. Promises are often mere rhetoric, lost in the labyrinth of political discourse. However, the recent actions of the Cross River State governor, Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu mark a…
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The Cross River State Government has declared Thursday, 31st October, & Friday, 1st November, 2024, as public holidays. In a press release signed by Gill Nsa, Chief Press Secretary to the CRSG, the state government stated that, the public holidays were declared to help “…ensure full participation of all Cross Riverians in the upcoming local…
Governor Bassey Otu has paid a condolence visit to George O’ben-Etchi, Chairman, Cross River Forestry Commission, on the passing of his beloved wife, Faith O’ben-Etchi. Otu expressed his heartfelt sympathies to O’ben-Etchi and his family, praying that God brings them comfort during this difficult time. “Losing a loved one is profoundly sad, and I pray…
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Ahead of the November 2, 2024 local government election in Cross River State, the state Commissioner of Police, Gyongon Augustine Grimah, has given assurance that the exercise will be a peaceful one. Briefing the media shortly after the state security meeting presided over by the state governor, Bassey Edet Otu, Grimah disclosed that the focus…
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By Asare Asare A landlord, identified simply as Obong Ete, whose house is on Waddell Street Calabar South of Cross River State, has been beaten to a pulp by his tenants and neighbours for robbing them. The neighbourhood flogged the landlord with horse whips and canes; hit him with planks and severely beat him up….
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