COVID-19: Ayade orders five truckloads of almajiris back to destination
…It’s not about their region but protocol on COVID-19 interstate movement…Ita By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar Cross River State government on Thursday ordered five truckloads of almajiris including other passengers from the northern part of Nigeria back to its destination. Vanguard learned that a border patrol team, comprising of Peace Corp members, civilian Vigilantes, Border COVID-19 […]
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(BREAKING) COVID-19: Ayade declares total lockdown in Cross River
By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar Cross River state governor, Prof Ben Ayade Monday night declared that all entry points into the state by Land, Sea and air are hereby locked down stressing that access will only be by thorough screening regime. He also declared that LG elections scheduled for Saturday, March,28 remain suspended indefinitely. He made […]
NMA in Cross River insists on indefinite strike over kidnapping
The Nigerian Medical Association in Cross River on Saturday said that its members would not suspend the indefinite withdrawal of services embarked upon on March 10 until the wife of their colleague, Mrs Christiana Ekanem is released. Ekanem was kidnapped on March 10 2020, in her home in Satellite Town in Calabar by unknown gunmen. […]
Boundary Dispute: Abia, Cross River States Assemblies meet to end crisis
Following the incessant boundary crises between the people of Isu Community in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State and their neighbours from Utuma and Ukwa of Biase and Odukpani Local Government Areas respectively, both in Cross River State, the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji MNSE, on Monday […]
Kidnapping: Medical Association embark on indefinite strike in Cross River
….Calls on Buhari, Ayade, IGP to declare state emergency in C’River By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar The Nigerian Medical Association in Cross River on Thursday embarked on an indefinite strike over the kidnap of the wife of their colleague, Mrs Christian Ekanem, a staff of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH. In a communique jointly […]
Students shoot DPO dead in Cross River
By Emma Una – Calabar Students of Federal College of Education have allegedly shot Mr. Gabriel Amawu, a Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Obudu division in northern Cross River State dead. The incident took place on Tuesday night when students said to be from the College in conjunction with village hoodlums went to […]
