Tag: Cross River State
Ukele Indigenes Laud Imoke Over Appointments
The people of Ukele in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, have expressed gratitude to Senator…
Truck Plunges Into Gully
It took the combined efforts of the police and soldiers of the Operation MESA, the Cross River State security outfit,…
Travellers Stranded As Highway Collapses
Commuters in Calabar, Cross River State, Southsouth Nigeria have been faced with harrowing experience when traffic logjam lasted for days…
2015: Imoke Assures Ogoja Of Gov Ticket
Governor of Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, Senator Liyel Imoke has re-assured the people of the northern senatorial district of…
Ntan Obu Killings: Community Refutes Police Claims
The Ntan Obu community in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, has refuted claims by the…
Robbers In Military Uniform Kill Petrol Station Attendant
Armed men dressed in military uniform invaded a petrol station in Calabar on Friday, at about 10am and shot dead…
Obeten, ex-commissioner in Cross River dies
EMMA UNA, Calabar Mr Raymond Obeten, the immediate past commissioner for Youths and Sports Development in Cross River State, southsouth…
Teacher Dies Plucking Pear For Girlfriend
A teacher with the Federal Housing Estate Secondary School, Calabar, the Cross River State capital, southsouth Nigeria, has plunged to…
Driver Murdered By Wife’s Lover
A driver in Calabar, Cross River State capital, southsouth Nigeria, Mr. Effiom James Usor, has allegedly been murdered by his…
OIL WELLS: Supreme Court Favours Akwa Ibom
The legal battle for the ownership of 76 oil wells located in the Atlantic Ocean between Akwa Ibom and Cross…
Cross River knocks down unapproved buildings
Nigeria’s Cross River state Government has embarked on the demolition of buildings and structures that do not conform to the…
40 die, 40 missing in Nigerian communal clash
Forty people have died and forty declared missing in a communal clash between Ntan Obu-Ukpe in Odukpani Local Government Area…
Fire Razes Catholic Cathedral
Property worth millions of naira has been reported destroyed by fire at the St Benedict’s Catholic Cathedral, Ogoja in northern…
Donald Duke’s Hospital Closes Shop
For reasons attributed to mismanagement, the Women and Children Hospital owned by former Cross River State governor, Mr Donald Duke,…
Cross River To Host African Tourism Ministers
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has made a request to Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, to host its…
Influx Of Nude Lunatics Rattles Calabar Residents
Residents of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, are rattled by the alarming increase in the number of lunatics currently…
Man Impregnates Father’s Wife
A young man, Emmanuel Okon Akpan of Okoyong community in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, Southsouth Nigeria,…
LSDA Plans For 2014 Sports Festival
Lagos State Dart Association, LSDA, has concluded plans to start preparations ahead of the 2014 National Sports Festival in Calabar,…
Man Beheaded As Towns Clash
Two communities in Cross River State may soon clash as a man, Raymond Egbara, was kidnapped and later beheaded recently…
Harnessing The Tourism Potentials Of Lagos State
When the Lagos Black Heritage festival was conceptualised a few years ago, only a few believed it could be sustained,…
Imoke Appoints 15 Commisioner -Designate
Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke as a follow up to the appointment of 28 Special Advisers on Monday…
4 Die In Cult Clash
Four persons have been killed in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, southsouth Nigeria, following a cult war in the…
Accused Of Witchcraft, Woman Buried Alive
For allegedly killing five family members for money making ritual locally known as mkpinon in Efik, a prophetess, Utang Edet…
Imoke Sacks Aides
Senator Liyel Imoke, who was sworn in Tuesday to begin his second term as Cross River State governor, dissolved his…
Jonathan Hails Victorious Liyel Imoke
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated Mr. Liyel Imoke on his second term victory in Saturday’s governorship election in Cross…
Day OBJ, Jonathan, Mark Campaigned For Imoke
The who is who in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), tagged the largest party in black Africa was at the…
Imoke: Still The Man For The Job —Silas Owoho
With opposition parties and their candidates just waking from their deep slumber long after Senator Liyel Imoke, the governorship candidate…
Resolve Your Political Differences, Imoke Admonishes Bakassi Leaders
The problems which have plagued and stunted development in Bakassi are mainly political and can easily be resolved by the…
Imoke Promises Obudu, Bekwara More Amenities
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has assured the people…
Cross River State Loses Two Eminent Politicians
The death has been reported of two prominent political figures in Cross River State, Chief Mathew Mbu and Senator (Dr…