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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner for Cross River State, Mr. Mike Igini, has advocated for the urgent revolutionary review of some provisions of the Electoral Act with regard to the operations of the commission. Ingini insisted that the provisions of the Electoral Act that made INEC a mere administrative body without regulatory powers […]
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Cross River, House, Legislature, State News
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR—Akamkpa community in Cross River State has decried the deplorable state of the abandoned Akamkpa-Nsan-Oban road, which links Nigeria and Cameroon, and called on the member representing Biase/Akamkpa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr Daniel Asuquo, to lobby those concerned to ensure that contract on the road was re-arwarded. Apart […]
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Cross River, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Cold war is brewing within the Cross River State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as some chieftains are said to be fighting dirty over who controls and takes custody the membership cards. Daily Sun investigations revealed that the leadership of the party has been factionalised into two following moves by Ambassador Soni Abang, […]
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Cross River, State News
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Calabar—Some members of Cross River State executive council, including commissioners, special advisers and special assistants, were, Saturday, barred from sitting at the state box at the U. J. Esuene Stadium Calabar, venue for the 51st independence anniversary celebration for coming to the event an hour late. The state box is always reserved for the governor, […]
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Bayelsa, Cross River, State News
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Barring last minute change of mind by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), two of its state governors currently enjoying tenure extension courtesy of an Appeal Court order may not seek re-election. The governors are Liyel Imoke of Cross River State and his Bayelsa counterpart, Timipre Sylva. The appellate court had extended the tenure of […]
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Cross River, State News
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Barely seven months to the April 2012 governorship election, crisis has sparked off in the Cross River State chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), as the state leader of the party, Dr. Lawrence Henshaw and other party chieftains have called for the dissolution of the State Executive Council of the party, alleging brazen corruption […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Monday, September 19th, 2011
It was celebration galore at Dayspring Island II in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State as the natives hailed the government over the donation of relief materials to victims of fire disaster in the community. It could be recalled that in January this year, fire gutted the fishing settlements destroying over 100 huts […]
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Cross River, State News
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Calabar—Against the backdrop of threat by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram to bomb some parts of the country, local government chairmen in border communities in Cross River State, have deployed security agencies in the various entry points to monitor movement of visitors. Chairman of Boki Local Government, Mr. Jonas Obi-Otu, at the grand finale 2011 […]
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Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Cross River, Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), United Nations
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
ABUJA -Three weeks after the United Nations House bomb blast, the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Daouda Toure , Wednesday announced the names of UN members of staff and other non UN persons killed in the August 26 bomb attack. Mr. Daouda Toure confirmed that 23 persons were killed in the attack of which […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Calabar-Luck ran against three persons who allegedly attempted to sell a 10-year-old boy, Mfon Bassey, at the popular Bogobiri area in Calabar, Cross River State, as they were rounded up by officers of the State Security Service, SSS. The three suspects were arrested on Sunday following a tip-off by one of the persons that wanted […]
