Cross River State

Patrick Uguge, a former lawmaker in the Cross River State House of Assembly, has landed in police net for allegedly raping his wife’s 19-year-old niece, living with his family. Uguge, who represented Ogoja State Constituency between 2007…

Razaq Bamidele The Cross River Community has described the establishment of the Teachers Continuous Training Institute (TCTI), in Biase, by the Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, as a praise-worthy venture. The commendation came…

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has removed the paramount ruler of Calabar South Council, Prof. Itam Hogan Itam, for attending the meeting of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Governor Ayade, who was decamped from the PDP last…

Twenty members of the Cross River State House of Assembly were on Monday sacked by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The court, in a judgement by the presiding judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, ruled their defection from the Peoples…

The National Judicial Council (NJC), on Wednesday, issued warning letters to Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Justice M. M. Ladan of the High Court of Kaduna State. The NJC,…

Governor Ben Ayade  of Cross River State, on Thursday, vowed that his government was all out to fight illegal wood loggers in the state whose nefarious activities, he lamented, have led to progressive depletion of Cross River forest…

A chieftain of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State, Ambassador Ojong Agbor, has decried the continuous media blackmail against the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, by one of those seeking to contest the 2023…

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, on Monday, commiserated with the widow of late Brig.-Gen. Anthony Ukpo (rtd), Mrs. Salome Ufoma Ukpo and their children. Governor Ayade, who was at the Calabar residence of the late former Military…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has carried out a major shake-up in its operations. The aim, it was said, was to re-strategise and reposition for the challenges and tasks ahead 2023. In a statement in Abuja by…

While the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) prepares for its national convention where new officers would be elected, there are strong indications that the party might have zoned its presidential candidate to the North while the…