Gov Bassey Otu By Anietie Akpan Cross River State Government is inching closer to hitting its projected Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N75 billion by next year. Findings by Pillar Today showed that in July this year, the IGR of the state hit N6.3 billion and in August the figure progressed geometrically to N9 billion….
Gov. Bassey Otu (Second R) and the SMEDAN officials after the signing ceremony in Abuja. By Anietie Akpan Cross River State Government has signed a Matching Fund Collaboration of N1 billion with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN). The fund is for the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in…
By Magnus Effiong With the country grappling with high cost of foodstuffs and other socio-economic challenges, the government of Cross River state has charged farmers and indeed all Cross Riverians to double their efforts towards achieving food security. Governor Bassey Otu, who gave the charge during this year’s Leboku international new yam festival of the…
By Magnus Effiong Worried by reports from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that 3.44 million Cross Riverians were facing multidimensional poverty, the State government says it has rolled out life-touching programmes to reverse the trend. Speaking at a press briefing in Calabar, the State Commissioner for Agriculture and Irrigation Development, Hon Johnson Ebokpo said…
By Magnus Effiong Biafra Nations League (BNL), a separatist group with headquarters in Bakassi peninsular, has accused the Nigerian leaders of treating the people of the South East and South regions as third-class citizens. BNL Leader, Princewill Chimezie Richards, who said this while addressing Journalists in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, demanded that the…
