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Cross River, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
Igbo National Council yesterday issued a 14-day ultimatum to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State to release detained journalist, Agba Jalingo. The group’s President, Chilos Godsent, at a press conference in Owerri, the Imo State capital, warned that INC would storm Calabar, the Cross River State capital in protest to demand for the resignation […]
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Cross River, Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
‘Tana Aiyejina Enugu Rangers say Christian Chukwu does not need surgery abroad after undergoing treatment for an undisclosed ailment in Enugu. On Sunday, Grand Patron of Ex-Enugu Rangers Players Association, Benson Ejindu, said Chukwu, who captained the national team to their first ever Africa Cup of Nations title on home soil in 1980, was very […]
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Cross River, Elections, Elections 2019, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Judex OKORO, Calabar There has been an unprecedented turn out of voters in Cross River amidst heavy security presence. When our correspondent went round some polling units in Calabar South and Municipal, it was observed that voters had long started turning out to perform their civic duties as early as 8:00am. Polling units monitored which […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
Mudiaga Affe, Calabar There is tension in Itigidi, headquarters of Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State, following the murder of a mortician, Mr. Isong Nkanu, by anti-riot policemen who had gone to maintain peace in the community. It was learnton Tuesdaythat a detachment of anti-riot policemen were sent to the community to maintain […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Sunday, January 21st, 2018
The Cross River government on Sunday provided food and non-food items to over 3,000 Southern Cameroonian refugees camping in Ikom local government area of the state. The items included rice, plantain, beans, yam, garri, palm oil, cartons of indomie, toiletries and cooking utensils. Presenting the items, Gov. Ben Ayade of the state disclosed that the […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Friday, July 7th, 2017
Samson Folarin Tragedy struck in Amana village, in the Obanliku area of Cross River State when five children were reportedly killed after eating cucumber in the home of their grandmother. Their great grandmother, in whose custody they were at the time of the incident, was said to have also collapsed and died after she got […]
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Armed Forces, Cross River, Headlines, Navy, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
Mudiaga Affe, Calabar Normalcy has returned to Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital after a clash between Navy and the Nigerian police in a part of the city on Tuesday. Addressing journalists after an Emergency State Security Council Meeting in Calabar, Governor Ben Ayade, urged the citizenry to go about their legitimate businesses. Ayade said, […]
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Cross River, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja & Mudiaga Affe, Calabar President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed shock over the event that took the lives of several Nigerians at a football viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State, Thursday night. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President commiserated with […]
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Cross River, Headlines, Soccer, Sports, State News, Track & Field
Saturday, April 15th, 2017
What could have been a disaster was averted on Good Friday in Calabar, Cross River State, when the yet-to-be completed multipurpose Indoor Sports Hall at the U. J. Esuene, Stadium collapsed. $14m down the drain. The collapsed Indoor Sports Hall at the U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar. The uncompleted indoor sports hall was one of the […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 25th, 2017
Many customers were said to have died Saturday after an eatery operator in Ogoja, Cross River State, allegedly put poison in the food he sold them. The eatery operator, it was leant, last night, confessed to the crime. The suspect, Paul Armond, who has been arrested by the police, was said to be undergoing interrogation. […]