The Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Janet Ekpenyong has disclosed that the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade is commited towards achieving an Open Defecation Free State in the nearest possible future through the provision of basic infrastructure across the state. The DG made the disclosure at the conference hall…
As part of efforts to reduce the spread of the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), particularly the mother-to-child transmission of the virus, the Ogun State Government has said that it will continue to promote integration and strengthen referral linkages, between antenatal care, family planning, sexual and reproductive health services….
The Federal Government has proposed salary cuts for workers as a way of reducing the high cost of governance in the country. The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said the FG was working to reduce the high cost of governance by doing away with unnecessary expenditures. Disclosing this at the policy dialogue on corruption and…
A popular Calabar-based Pastor, Prophet Goodheart Val Aloysius has challenged the General Overseer of The Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry, Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, popularly known as Odumeje, for a show of power. The self-acclaimed prophet and General Overseer of Father’s House International Church, Calabar, Cross River State made this statement four days…
Ahead of the November 6th 2021 governorship in Anambra state, the African Democratic Congress, ADC has pegged its nomination form for N10 million while the expression of interest form is sold at N2 million, totalling N12 million per contestant. The National Chairman of the party, Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu, who disclosed this in a media…
Following the incessant kidnappings and killings of Students in schools in some parts of the country by bandits and other terrorist groups, the leadership of the National Association Nigerian Students (NANS), on Tuesday, rise in unity to demand that leaders and leadership of Nigeria irrespective of political parties should come together and solve the rising…
The Cross River State Government in collaboration with the Apostolic Church of Nigeria, have commissioned a newly built Primary Healthcare Centre in Essien Street, Calabar South Local Government Area to meet the health needs of the people. Performing the exercise, the Director General of the Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Janet Ekpenyong…
A new investigation by BBC Africa Eye into pensions in Nigeria has uncovered an unfair and corrupt system that leaves some elderly people sick and penniless, with government workers soliciting extra payments before paying out pensions, people arbitrarily being declared ‘dead’ and having to prove they are alive before their pension is reinstated, and politicians…
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the 2021 Press Freedom Day, governments at all levels have been urged to remain committed to Press freedom at all times. This is contained in a statement by the Cross River State Chairman of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Comrade Umo Bassey Edet…
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Cross River State has commended the leader of the party in the state and Honourable Minister of State, Power, Goddy Jedy Agba, OFR, for facilitating grant for 200 women from the state. In a statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Mr. Bassey Ita, the party said…