The Federal Government on Tuesday renamed the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON), Headquarters in Abuja after late Chief Chimezie Ikeazor (SAN). Ikeazor was the founder and President of the Nigeria Legal Aid Association, an association that propelled former President Olusegun Obasanjo into enacting the 1976 Decree which gave birth to LACON. Formed in 1974,…
By Frank Ulom The Correspondent of The Nation Newspaper, Comrade Nsa Gill has emerged as the new Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ in Cross River State. Gill, CONVERSEER reports emerged as the State Council Chairman of the NUJ on Saturday, July 16, 2022, after polling a total of 76 votes to defeat…
By Frank Ulom Barely five days to the deadline for Nigerians to return the old NGN200, NGN500 and NGN1,000 notes to commercial banks, residents of rural communities in Central and Northern Cross River State have lamented the lack of the new notes, accusing banks of hoarding the currency. Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria…
By Frank Ulom OGOJA (CONVERSEER) – The former military administrator of old Rivers State, HE General Anthony Ukpo (rtd) has been nominated by Cross River North Elders Forum as chairman of a 13-man Committee for the creation of Ogoja State. In a statement, the Committee was inaugurated on Monday, October 5, 2020, at its Secretariat…
