By Akanu Odion PhD. In an age when public office is too often confused with personal grandeur, when the clangor of self-advertisement drowns the quiet music of service, the political persona of Eteng J. Williams, senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial District in Nigeria’s senate, stands as a deliberate contradiction. Williams represents a school of…
Read More “With Eteng Williams, Humility Is Not Weakness!” »
Alphonsus Eba, embattled Chairman of the All Peoples Congress, APC, in Cross River State, has come clear that he wants peace, love, unity and growth to reign in the party in Cross River State, and subsequently announced that he has set aside his legal pursuit, challenging his ousting as Chairman of the party in the…
Read More “Embattled C’River APC Chairman Throws In Towel, Drums Up Support For Tinubu, Otu” »
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES Motions and Petitions (Total – 6): * Motion for the rehabilitation of Obudu Dam Resort (contract awarded, funding in progress) * Co-sponsored motion on the potential loss of Cross River territory to Cameroon * Petition on behalf of students unjustly withdrawn from the University of Calabar (UNICAL) * Co-sponsored motion on demarcation and…
Oden Ewa, the Cross River State Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, has doled out a N100 million youth grant for each of the six local council areas of Cross River Central Senatorial District, as a direct intervening approach that will help stimulate the suppressed entrepreneurial spirit of youths in the Senatorial district. Ewa…
Read More “C’River Commissioner Doles Out N600m Grant, Sells APC To C’River Youths ” »
Executive Chairman of the Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Fidelia Okpo Ene, has directed that queries be issued to the teachers and the head teachers in some schools in the state, who were absent at their duty posts when she embarked on an unscheduled visit to some schools in Cross River’s Southern…
Read More “CR-SUBEB Chairman Visit Schools, Okay Issuance Of Queries For Absent Teachers” »
Students of Obudu/Bekwarra/Obanliku Federal Constituency, Cross River State, who travelled home for the Christmas and New Year holidays, have great cause to smile as their representative in Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Peter Akpanke, has approved the provision of free transportation for students of tertiary institutions within the constituency traveling to Calabar. Sources within his media…
Read More “House of Reps Member Approves Free Transportation For Students Travelling To Calabar ” »
