The Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) has reduced the price of forms for the forthcoming 2024 Local Government Election. The Commission also issued a new timetable and guidelines for the election. This was sequel to the appeal earlier made by the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) to CROSIEC. The new forms price and timetable…
OPINION By Etim Etim At a public function in Lagos two weeks ago, the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, gave startling revelations on the weaknesses and inadequacies of our tax system and came up with a damning verdict that it is riddled with corruption and stymied by…
The remain of the Hope Waddel Training Institution student, Ephraim Samuel Etim, who was killed by a delivery van on 30th September, has been laid to rest. CONVERSEER reports that Ephraim was the only son of his parents and was knocked to death by a delivery van (DELVAN) along Calabar Road by Total Filling Station…
After smugglers reportedly forced them off two boats in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti earlier this week, rescuers were looking for the remaining 111 African migrants on Thursday, according to the Djiboutian coastguard. There are reportedly at least 48 drowning victims. The International Organisation for Migration reports that 310 people were aboard…
Sergei Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister of Russia, gave a press conference on Thursday regarding the BRICS Summit that will take place in Russia later this month. According to Ryabkov, thirty delegations had confirmed their attendance, and additional countries could be considered for membership, such as Turkey, which filed a bid to join the organisation in…
By Ita Williams, Calabar Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) has announced the extension of the state’s local government council election by one week, with a new date set for Saturday, November 2, 2024. CROSIEC had earlier scheduled the council polls for October 26. The Chairman of the commission, Dr. Ekong Edet Boco, made…
