A driver, Edem Bassey Effiong, a native of Calabar, Cross River State, south-south Nigeria, has disappeared with his employer’s Toyota Corolla saloon car barely three days after he was employed. The incident, according to a police source, occurred when the driver was sent by his boss identified as Mr. Bryant Oluwole to drop his wife [...]
Governor Liyel Imoke of Nigeria’s southern state of Cross River has returned to the United States for urgent medical treatment, less than a month after he came back to Nigeria, Sahara Reporters has reported. Imoke spent about three months in Maryland, USA where he underwent surgery for ailment suspected to be kidney disease. After the [...]
By David Odey After reading Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country and the recent three-part series on the 30-month Nigerian Civil War published by TheNEWS, I was compelled to write about that grim chapter of Nigerian history through the prism of a child, who experienced the war. One pathetic incident I won’t forget happened on [...]
Governor Liyel Imoke of Nigeria’s Cross River state who returned to Calabar Friday night, performed his first official function when he took the kick-off on Saturday in an international friendly match between the Golden Eaglets and their Botswana counterparts. Imoke had been away from office since 7 December, fuelling speculations about his health. But officials [...]
The 565 megawatts Odukpani Power Plant in the Nigerian southern state of Cross River will commence operation before the end of 2013, the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has said. Maku said this at a Citizens Forum/Town Hall meeting held in Calabar as part of the ongoing good governance tour of the state. He [...]
Four youths, Oliver Onyekachi, Tochukwu Chukwu, Sunday Ade and John Eze in Ogoja, northern Cross River State have been sentenced to eight years in prison for vandalising Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, cables. Justice Emmanuel Ita of the High Court in Ogoja found them guilty of three count charge brought against the accused for [...]
Inter communal strife between the people of Adadama and Igbo Amabana in Abi local government area in the central part of Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, has claimed at least seven lives. This followed two days of battle with guns and machetes. The outbreak of hostilities between the two neighbouring communities, according to sources, started on Sunday night and raged through [...]
