Workers in Cross River State have dissociated themselves from the 1st August 2024 planned nationwide protest. The workers said they don’t want a repeat of what happened in October 2020 during the #EndSARS protest. The workers say history has shown that nationwide protest is causing the state more rather than helping and have resolved to…
Veteran Nigerian singer/songwriter and actress, Onyeka Onwenu, has passed on at 72. Onwenu who was also a human rights and social activist, journalist, politician, and former X Factor series judge, slumped and died after performing at a party in Lagos on Tuesday night, 30 July 2024. According to TheNiche, Onwenu was performing at the birthday…
Activists at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric hospital in Calabar, Cross River State, were on Wednesday disrupted with the protest of the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions (SSAUTHRIAI). The union protest was against the undue interference of the management of the hospital in its affairs. The protest which was at…
Hoodlums have just attacked a bus loaded with palliatives, belonging to the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River State Council. The pen professionals, upon receiving information from the Director General of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Rev. James Anam, as beneficiaries of the present phase of distribution, hurriedly moved to the…
A tragic accident has claimed the lives of three students from the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) along Calabar-Ikom highway. CONVERSEER gathered that the accident occurred on Monday afternoon at Ikom section of the road. According to a video made available to our newsroom, the students were travelling in a white bus belonging to…
