An angry mob on Tuesday morning hacked and set ablaze a suspected kidnapper at 4Mile at Ikot Ansa in Calabar Municipality Local Government Area of Cross River State. The alleged kidnapper who was a member of a notorious gang was according to one RoseMary Uchechi, an eyewitness beaten and burnt …
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Calabar Festival will help Cross Riverians in Diaspora trace roots-Dr Mathew Okiri
The Cross river State Government has concluded plan to help over 2 million Cross Riverians in Diaspora to trace their roots back home through the Calabar Diaspora Festival scheduled to hold during the Carnival period. Speaking at a news conference jointly addressed at the Office of the Special Adviser on …
Read More »Calabar Residents storm PHEDC, protest power blackout, high Bills
Residents and Business owners within the Calabar South area have on Tuesday protested lack of Power Supply and High cost of Electricity bills within the area. The residents numbered over 15th, mostly from the Amika Utuk, Goldie, Etonko and its environs matched and barricaded the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company …
Read More »FOU, Zone ‘A’ Customs impounds contraband valued at N1.59bn
Comptroller Uba Garba Mohammed led Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) with its headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos has intercepted a total of 64 different vehicles worth over N1.3 billion in Lagos and Ogun States between the 1st and 30th November, 2017. This is coming …
Read More »Buhari will Win 2019 Presidency Convincingly, Says Kalu
Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Orji Uzor Kalu, at the weekend in Nsukka, Enugu State declared that President Muhammadu Buhari would not only contest the 2019 election but will also win “convincingly”. Kalu who spoke to journalists after receiving an Honorary Doctorate …
Read More »Nigerians Decry Impunity by SARS, Ask FG, N’Assembly to Scrap It
Apparently fed up with the increasing impunity of officers of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police have gone about their duties, Nigerians from all works of life have begun a social media drive aimed at scraping the unit. The demand to scrap SARS is being championed by …
Read More »Delta Assembly Passes N308.9bn 2018 State Budget
The Delta State House Assembly on Thursday, November 30, 2017 passed into law, the 2018 Budget of N308,888,558,898bn for the State, reflecting an increase from the proposed N298.078bn presented by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to the House on October 29, 2017. The House which was determined to pass the budget into law …
Read More »APC Rejects Results As PDP Clears Akwa Ibom Council Polls
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the result of the December 2 Local Government election in Akwa Ibom as declared by the State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC). AKISIEC had in a statement on Sunday declared that PDP won all the 31 chairmanship seats and 329 councillorship positions in the …
Read More »GOV. Ayade breaks state’s budget record
GOV. BEN Ayade of Cross River has presented a budget of N1.3 trillion for the 2018 fiscal year to the Cross River House of Assembly for deliberation and passage, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The budget is the largest for a single state in Nigeria’s history. Lagos state held the record with its N812 billion budget for 2017. The state …
Read More »Scarcity Looms as IPMAN Threatens Showdown with NNPC
Independent petroleum marketers in Lagos State have threatened to withdraw their services from December 11 over NNPC’s breach of bulk purchase agreement to sell fuel to them at N133.28k per litre. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Lagos State chapter, wednesday said it was set for a showdown with …
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