By Joe Udo AWKA (CONVERSEER) – Pandemonium broke out on Friday in Awka, the Anambra state capital, as fire gutted one of the popular fuel stations in the city. NTA’s Ngozi Okekearu, who was at the fire scene, reports that though no life was lost, vehicles and buildings were torched and businesses were affected. Eyewitness…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The Commissioner representing Cross River State in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board, Rt. Hon. (Otuekong) Orok Otu Duke PhD, has joined family, friends, and sympathisers to pay his last respects to the late Mr Eyo Edem Duke, who was laid to rest after a funeral service in…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Cross River State Government has acquired Kada Cinema and all its assets for N220 million in order to boost the state’s tourism sector. The approval for the acquisition was given by Governor Bassey Otu during the 8th State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in July. Converseer reports that Kada Cinema…
By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Federal House of Representatives has resolved the indigenous contractors crisis. Payments to indigenous contractors being owed by the Federal Government for projects executed are expected to commence from Monday next week. Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, in a statement, says this followed a resolution reached by…
By Proff Aboki CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Sir Sen. Benedict Ayade has suffered more from the people he appointed under his watch as Governor of Cross River State. Recently, I saw a negative post about Ayade that he paid sweepers in Cross River state three thousand Naira (N3,000) when he was in power as Governor and…
THE VILLAGE IN NIGERIA WHERE MEN AND WOMEN SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES By Daniel Ochui OBUDU (CONVERSEER) – Deep in the hills of Obudu of Cross River State, Nigeria, there’s a large farming community called Ubang, but what makes it special isn’t the crops or climate. In Ubang, men and women speak completely different words for…
