President Bola Tinubu on Monday declined to receive a special delegation sent by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over ongoing xenophobic attacks targeting Nigerians in South Africa. Instead of meeting the visiting envoys directly, President Tinubu directed the South African team to engage with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye. The…
The Cross River State Representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Rt. Hon. (Otuekong) Orok Otu Duke, Ph.D, has joined the Chairman of the Commission, Chiedu Ebie, Esq., and other members of the NDDC Board in London for a three day Executive Programme in Strategic Leadership and Governance at the prestigious…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has forecast sunshine, cloudiness and thunderstorms across the country from Sunday to Tuesday. In its weather outlook released in Abuja on Sunday, NiMet predicted sunny skies with patches of clouds over the northern region on Sunday. It also forecast thunderstorms accompanied by moderate rainfall over parts of Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna…
By Ovat Abeng The wife of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has urged women across the state to use this year’s Annual August Meetings as a platform to confront the disturbing rise in cases of violent abuse, molestation, neglect and inhumane treatment of domestic workers, insisting that the silence surrounding such acts must end. In…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Government through the Executive Chairman of Idemili North Local Government Area, Hon Stanley Nkwoka, has evacuated a 14-year-old toxic waste products discovered at Owelle Aja in Obosi community within the council area. The evacuation exercise that took place between Wednesday, July 23rd, and Thursday, the 24th, 2026, in the…
By Ovat Abeng The President General of Nzuko-Ora Nnewi Town Union, Hon Prince Jude Osumuoh, has dismissed a publication making the round that the Anambra State industrial city is currently engulfing in a serious leadership crisis over the longevity of the present Executive Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area, Hon Echezona Anazodo. He urged…
By Kelvin Obambon Environmental experts, legal practitioners, conservationists, and community leaders gathered in Calabar on Thursday for the 4th Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Deforestation in Cross River State, issuing an urgent call to action against illegal logging, destructive mining, and agricultural encroachment threatening Nigeria’s primary rainforest ecosystem. The event, organized by civil society group We The…
Senator Gershom Bassey, a prominent member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and immediate past representative of the Cross River Southern Senatorial District, has voiced strong optimism regarding the transformative potential of the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project for Cross River State. Speaking during a media chat, the two-term senator urged all stakeholders to support…
By Mark Eneng The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Cross River State Chapter, has declared that the body remains the only constitutionally recognized umbrella platform for youths in the state, directing all youth organizations to operate within its statutory framework. The resolution formed part of decisions reached at an enlarged meeting of the State…
By Ovat Abeng Third daughter of Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, Oduko Soludo, has graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Neuroscience from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her mother, Mrs. Nonye Soludo, congratulated her on the achievement, describing it as the result of hard work, sacrifice and faith in God. In a congratulatory message,…
