C’River PDP Congress Holds Legitimately, Jarigbe Insists
By Edem Ekpo Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, representing Cross River North Senatorial District, has declared the state congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held on Saturday, September 27, 2025, as legitimate and binding. Speaking after the exercise, Senator Jarigbe dismissed claims of a postponement, insisting that the zonal committee lacked the authority to halt…
Omga007Cross River, NCAT Seal Aviation Partnership
By Edem Ekpo Cross River State has taken another major step toward economic transformation and tourism development with a new partnership with the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria. The move follows the state’s recent acquisition and launch of two state-of-the-art CRJ-1000 aircraft under the People-First administration of Governor Bassey Edet Otu. Under the…
NBSA Boss Urges Nigerians to Donate Blood, Appeals to Journalists for Advocacy
By Uloma Peace Okorie The Director-General of the National Blood Service Agency (NBSA), Prof Saleh Yuguda, has made a passionate appeal to Nigerians to voluntarily donate blood, emphasizing that the need goes far beyond just victims of road traffic accidents. Speaking during a media briefing in Abuja, Prof Yuguda called on members of the public…
A Father Comes Home : Thanking Gov Okpebholo for Wiping the Tears of Ekiadolor’s Staff
By Kingsley Efe Osawaru There are moments in public life when politics sheds its usual clamor and does something remarkably simple: it soothes a wound. For hundreds of former staff of the defunct College of Education, Ekiadolor, that moment has arrived. After years of anxious waiting, protest and anguish, Governor Monday Okpebholo has taken the…
Comrade Yakubu Garba hails Hajiya Hadiza Kuta on her Birthday
From Rashidat Suleiman,Minna The Niger State Deputy Governor Comrade Yakubu Garba has sends his warmth felicitation to Hajiya Hadiza Idris Kuta, the immediate past Commissioner for transport, on the occasion of her birthday marked on 26th September, 2025. In a statement through his Press Secretary Ummikhaltume Abdullahi Kuta, the Deputy Governor described Hajiya Hadiza as…
Breaking News : Sea Pirates Abduct 17 on Calabar Waterways
By Edem Ekpo Seventeen passengers have been abducted by suspected sea pirates along the Calabar waterways in Cross River State. The incident occurred on Thursday when gunmen attacked a commercial passenger boat operated by Sea Express Limited, which was conveying about 30 passengers from Calabar to Oron in Akwa Ibom State. Confirming the incident on…
Court Sentences Ex-Soldier to Death for Killing Port Harcourt Businessman
By Edem Ekpo The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a dismissed soldier, Corporal Stephen Iweh, formerly of the Nigerian Army’s 6 Battalion, Ibagwa, Abak, to death by hanging for the murder of a 42-year-old businessman, Mr. Christopher Enobong Jimmy. The tragic incident occurred on May 23, 2021, along the East-West…
PDP Chair, Scribe Overrule NWC On Cross River Congress
By Edem Ekpo The internal crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a dramatic turn as the party’s National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, have endorsed the conduct of the Cross River State congress, overruling an earlier decision by the National Working Committee (NWC) to postpone the exercise. In…