A mother and teacher, Adrienne Gummo, has slammed the Lancaster CSD School Board in her epic speech while standing before the board. Her daughter was told to define gender on an assignment. She wrote that “gender is what you are when you’re born, male or female” and her teacher told her she was wrong. “Our…
 By Edet-Honesty Effiong In an essentially pedestrian, agro – centric, rural economy, infrastructure means Roads. And in socioeconomic governance, road means growth and development. This basically underscores the overwhelming importance of road infrastructure in the overall well-being of a people. Today, Akwa Ibom State is rated as the State with best network of roads…
By Magnus Effiong After about eights years of inactivity, the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) has finally elected executive committee to pilot its affairs with the wife of Governor Bassey Otu, Rev. Eyoanwan Bassey Otu emerging as Patron. Speaking after the elections of the committee members which took place at the Women Development Centre,…
A leading non-governmental organisation (NGO) reputable for adolescent and teenage reproductive health, Wingspan Women and Girls Initiative, has taken the campaign against sex-for-marks to rural schools in Cross River State. Marking the 2024 World Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28th May, the NGO held two-hour seminars with students from schools in rural communities, lecturing them on…
Meet female UNICAL graduate who drives keke napep for a living After 9 years of graduating from the University of Calabar (UNICAL) without a job, Miss Joy Amara Ihezie has ventured into Keke driving work (tricycle driver), operating in Delta State. The CONVERSEER learned that the female graduate operates around PTI Road and Jakpa Road…
…assures commitment to protecting lives and properties in the institution Following the recurrent incidence of infernos in the University of Calabar, the workaholic Vice Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. Florence Obi, has taken delivery of Innoson IVM 5008 fire fighting truck as part of her proactive measures to curtail and contain any future incident of…
