The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, August 25, 2026, a public holiday to mark this year’s Eid ul Mawlid, commemorating the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, announced the holiday on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement issued on Friday by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry,…
By Kelvin Obambon The Cross River State Government has officially flagged off the distribution of 20,000 bags of fertilizers to 8,000 smallholder farmers across various agricultural value chains in the state. The initiative, implemented under the Farm Input Support Programme (FISP), an intervention of the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), is designed to ease input…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Police Command, said it has recorded another significant breakthrough in its ongoing intelligence-led operations against kidnapping, armed robbery and other violent crimes across the State. According to SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the Command’s Public Relations Officer in a statement in Awka on Wednesday, “In the early morning of today, 19th…
The Cross River State Representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Rt. Hon. Orok Duke, Ph.D., has called for a more proactive and coordinated approach to disaster management in Cross River State following the devastating flooding along Anansa Road and other parts of the state. Duke, while expressing deep sympathy to…
THE Cross River State Business Men’s Forum, an association with over ten thousand business executives in all sectors spanning the entire Cross River and the diaspora has again restated its unalloyed support for Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu’s second tenure. The Business Men’s Forum made this known after a meeting in Calabar where the performance…
By Kelvin Obambon Cross River State Governor, Prince Bassey Otu, has ordered the immediate release of a political critic, Denis Odama, who was detained following a complaint filed by the governor’s aides over derogatory comments made against the Governor Otu. In a statement issued on Wednesday night, via his official Facebook handle, Governor Otu directed…
The Federal Government has explained how resources generated from the removal of petrol subsidy and foreign exchange reforms were distributed and spent between June 2023 and December 2025. According to the Federal Ministry of Finance’s Nigeria Reform Scorecard presented on Wednesday, the reforms generated N15.8tn in subsidy savings for the Federation during the period. However,…
By Kelvin Obambon The Cross River State Government has thrown down the gauntlet to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Sir Arthur Jarvis Archibong, challenging him to an open, public debate on policy, governance performance, and strategic vision for the state ahead of the 2027 general elections. The challenge was made on Tuesday, August…
The University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) has opened its 2026/2027 First-Choice Admission Screening Exercise with the introduction of 19 new academic programmes, creating expanded opportunities for prospective students across a range of professional and emerging disciplines. The new programmes, located across the university’s Calabar and Okuku campuses, span architecture, engineering, computing, physical sciences and…
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Cross River State Council, Comrade Archibong Bassey, has shared a deeply personal story of how family responsibilities prevented her from pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a beauty queen, even as she pledged to support young girls who are now daring to pursue the dreams she once…
