By Chris Njoku 243 farmers in Cross River have received the Federal Government’s agricultural inputs and feeds in the ongoing National Poverty Reduction Programme with Growth Strategy (NPRGS). The farmers who were from different value chains in the state were first verified and validated to ensure that those receiving the items were the real farmers…
By Our Reporter The Cross River State Executive Council approves the payment of West African Examination Council, WAEC fees for 16,301 indigenes of public schools in the state. The State Government will be offsetting the payment with N440,127,000 (Four Hundred and Forty Million, One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Naira) being for students writing the Senior…
By Frank Ulom Barely one month after Cross River recorded Lassa Fever outbreak, the state has recorded another deadly disease, cholera. According to a statement by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Henry Ayuk, on Friday, one case involving a child was confirmed in Akpabuyo Local Government Area in the south. “A child with watery…
By Our Reporter Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu has granted scholarships to the children of a staunch loyalist of his, Prince Offiong Effiwatt, who died on 25 December 2023. The Governor announced the scholarship award during a surprise condolence visit to the family home of the deceased in Bay Side, Calabar South on Tuesday,…
By Frank Ulom 25 years after joining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 1999, Dominic Edet Henshaw has left the party. Henshaw said the ideology of the party has changed over the last 25 years. In a resignation letter addressed to the Chairman of the party in Ward 7 in Calabar South Local Government Area…
By Frank Ulom A Community Health Officer, Mr Augustine Okutu has revealed that the increase in the number of vaccinated people in rural communities in Cross River State is as a result of drone technology. Okutu made this revelation on Monday while conducting journalists around the Ijiraga Community Primary Healthcare Centre in Yala Local Government…
