The Nigerian federal government has stated that it will provide ecological support to Jigawa State to ease the effects of floods in the state. The federal government’s special intervention is to address recurring floods and other environmental and climate-related challenges facing the state. The House of Representatives Committee on Ecological Fund, under the direction of […]
Senator Bassey Otu, Cross River State Governor, has used this year’s annual Leboku festival to call for concerted efforts to achieve food security in the state. He also used the event, which marks the annual celebration of the new yam harvest of the Yakurr people in the Central Senatorial District of the state, to commend […]
As bandits slaughtered many miners in Nigeria yesterday, the governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, ordered a clampdown on the activities of illegal miners in parts of the state. Bandits killed an unspecified number of artisanal miners yesterday at a mining site in Anguwan Mai-Giro, near Bassa in Shiroro LGA of Niger State, […]
Professor Mohammed Ali Pate, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, has disclosed that the federal government has committed to retraining 120,000 frontline health workers across the country. The Minister noted that 10,000 of them had already been retrained across the country in order to fill the gap left by health workers, especially doctors, who […]
Two weeks ago, Muslims and Christians in northern Nigeria embarked on prayer sessions beseeching the Almighty to allow rainfalls to nurture their new farms, which had withered. A few days ago, the rains brought in increased floods, which resulted in avoidable deaths in many parts of northern Nigeria, along with incidents of stabbing in other […]
The Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Kassim Shetimma, has said that the people who led and participated in the just concluded nationwide hunger protest do not respect the country’s constituted authorities. He made this remark yesterday, speaking at the graduation ceremony of 20 indigent pupils of Hau’wa Memorial School (HMS), Kaduna, owned by the AMA […]
The Chiefs of Defence Staff of the West African countries have been called upon to reject any further attempts to impose unelected national governments in the subregion. Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, made the call at Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters in Abuja. Musa spoke as chairman of the Committee of ECOWAS chiefs of […]
Cross River governor, Senator Bassey Otu has granted approval for the employment of 31 medical doctors, 22 pharmacists and 153 nurses in his bid to address the manpower deficit in the health sector of the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Henry Egbe Ayuk, who made the disclosure to newsmen in his office in […]
Akpan David, Calabar “The government of the South West will have to settle Igbos before their eviction, or else they wait and see their anger. The separatist leader, who reportedly operates with his militant group on the Bakassi Peninsula axis, warned that his loyalists would act within the Gulf of Guinea if IgboMustGo campaigners were […]
Comrade Frederick Eje Omari, Secretary of Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, in Cross River State, explained that the decision to suspend Edet Effiom indefinitely was due largely to alleged highhandedness, infantile leadership qualities, and a lack of capacity. In a statement released on Monday, he signed on behalf of 16 chairmen of other political parties in […]
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