The remains of Victor Achima Owan, a Catholic priest ordained for the Catholic Diocese of Ogoja as well as brother of Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, John Owan Enoh, will be buried on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Ogoja, Cross River State. Information made available by the Catholic Diocese of Ogoja, revealed that on…
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By Ibrahim Haruna There are moments in public life when ambition ceases to be aspiration and metastasizes into appetite — when the hunger for advantage grows so swollen it begins to consume memory, moderation, and moral proportion. In the lingering oil wells controversy between Cross River State and Akwa Ibom, the posture adopted by former…
Cross River State governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has paid a glowing tribute to former senator, Florence Ita-Giwa, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, describing her as “a lighthouse upon our political shore and a matriarch whose courage has shaped the destiny of our people.” In a richly worded felicitation release by his Chief Press…
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The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Stephen Odey, has declared that the closure of unapproved schools in the state, will continue and that the enforcement exercise will touch all parts of the state. Additionally, any school operating without an Authority to Operate, ATO, or lacking a safe and conducive learning environment, will face immediate…
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The Cross River State Police Command says it has arrested one Sunday Ben Reuben, a native of Nsit Ibom, Akwa Ibom State as preliminary investigations into the recent discovery of several badly kept corpses on February 13th, 2026, in a local embankment hall in Isong Inyang community, Akamkpa LGA, continue. Eitokpah Sunday, an Assistant Superintendent…
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In law, science, geology and maritime governance, evidence is the end of arguments. The ongoing national verification of oil well coordinates by federal agencies has been misconstrued in some quarters as an “overreach” against settled judicial decisions. This framing is inaccurate. Cross River State’s oil-producing status does not depend on overturning any Supreme Court judgment….
