The body of Nigeria’s former Senate President, Joseph Wayas, arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Wednesday, three years after his death in London. The remains were transported from Heathrow Airport in London via British Airways flight 083 and were received by Senator Jarigbe Agom, House of Representatives member Peter Akpanke, family members, Read More…
Sen. Sandy Onor, PDP governorship candidate in Cross River, has vowed to take the state back to the world tourism calendar if elected in 2023. Onor made the pledge during the Annual Obudu New Yam Festival in Begiaba community, Obudu Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. He commended the leadership of former governors, Read More…
By Ndifreke Okpon The 2023 political process began in earnest on Friday, 25 February 2022 with the signing into law of the amended Electoral Act by Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari. The newly amended act is revolutionary because it allows for more independence by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). For instance, on the issue of Read More…
Sugar Ray is about 20 years old, a venerable age for a drill monkey whose life got off to a tragic start: clinging to his mother’s chest as a baby, he lost her and his left hind leg to a hunter’s machete blow. Maimed and orphaned, he would likely have died had he not been Read More…
Police barricade C’ River Assembly gate Judgement will be delivered on Friday at a Federal High Court, Abuja, in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River. The PDP, through its counsel Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, had filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021 before Justice Taiwo Taiwo to seek Read More…
In picture above: Montage L-R: Gubernatorial Aspirants – Asuquo Ekpenyong, Prince Bassey Otu, Arthur-Jarvis Archibong, Sen. Gershom Bassey, Prof. Sandy Onor By Efiom Okpo The political dynamic in Cross River State is, to say the least, now becoming difficult to understand. Ordinarily, it would be easy to predict the political climate in the State but Read More…
