No fewer than five persons have allegedly been killed in a renewed communal clash between the people of Yakurr local government area and Obubra local government area both in Cross River State.

PUPILS in public schools in Cross River recently celebrated three months of  being fed a meal a day during school hours through the Federal Government Schools Feeding Programme.

FIVE persons were reportedly beheaded in a land tussle between the villages of Bubuo and Okwabang in Boki council of Cross River State.

MFUM, a border community in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State  has come under attack by soldiers from Cameroon,  leaving  three fishermen dead and two others with bullet wounds.

The 19th National Sports Festival has been officially withdrawn from Cross River state.

The Cross River State Government, yesterday,  signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mac Creeds and Tom Consortium for the upgrade of Tinapa Lakeside Hotel in Calabar and Obudu Ranch Resort in Obanliku.

THREE Soldiers were allegedly among six persons burnt to death in Iwuru in Biase Local Government Area in central district of Cross River State on Wednesday night when a tanker laden with petroleum products crashed and exploded along the Calabar – Ikom highway.

Determined to quell rising agitation by secessionist groups, the Federal Government, yesterday, agreed to release N88 billion for the compensation of victims of the Nigeria/Biafra civil war, as well as for completion of demining and destruction of abandoned explosives within the South-East, South-South and North Central regions of the country.

One person has died while two others were seriously injured after a bus fell inside a gully at a bad portion of the Biase-Calabar federal highways.

Students of Cross River State College of Health Technology, Calabar, yesterday,  disrupted academic and social  activities in the school in protest against astronomical increase in fees.

ABUJA – The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has ordered the freezing of the Paris-London Club Refund bank accounts of Abia, Cross River, and Delta states.

The Cross River Ministry of Solid Minerals Development says it has opened Expression of Interest (EOI) bid for engagement of a Transaction Advisor for the design and construction of its proposed cement plant project.

AS a practical demonstration of the determination of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to meet the over 60-year peculiar challenges of the Niger Delta and oil production, the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, GCON, visited Cross River State from June1-2, 2017.

GOVERNMENT activities were paralysed in Cross River on Tuesday following an indefinite strike embarked upon by civil servants in the state to demand for the payment of five years gratuity to retirees of the state civil service

Mr Gabriel Odu-Oji, the Commissioner for Water Resources in Cross River, kidnapped on April 9, has regained freedom.