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Meet The Mentally Deranged Panel Beater Who Clean Gutters In Calabar With Bare Hands

A mentally unwell man, just named Ukeme, has been going about significant streets in Calabar, Cross River State removing wastes from rain gutters and walkways...

Workers Grieve Over Unpaid Gratuities As South African Company Buy-Off Dangote Flour Mills

Workers of Dangote Flour Mills Plc in Calabar, Cross River State, have begun an uncertain strike to protest the non-payment of their gratuities observing...

22 Year-Old Newspaper Vendor Beaten To Death Calabar

A 22 year-old young man who sells newspaper in Calabar, Cross River State, Innocent Monday-Francis, was on Thursday killed after a little disagreement...

At Least 56, 000 People are Living With HIV/AIDS in Cross River State

From the office of the Director-General of the Cross River StateAgency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (SACA), Mrs Irene Aniyom, information says that at least 56,350 persons in the state are currently living with the HIV virus. Mrs Aniyom made the announcement during an interview with journalists in Calabar on Tuesday. According to her, “Today in the state, we have...

Supreme Court Gives 76 Oil Wells to A’Ibom, Dismisses Cross River’s Suit

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave 76 oil wells in contention between Cross River and Akwa Ibom states to the latter by a unanimous decision. It also dismissed an application filed by Cross River State last Friday to stop the judgment. Cross River had gone to the Supreme Court claiming ownership of the wells. It also joined the Federal Government as a defendant in the suit. The...

Cross River State plans new housing policy

Poised to make accommodation available for all in the next few years, Cross State government is putting in place a new housing policy. Briefing reporters...

River state community disowns monarch for allegedly selling cemetery

Ekorinim Community in Calabar Municipal Local Government Area of Cross River State, has disowned the Village Head of Ekpo Abasi Royal Council clan, Mr....

30 dead, 4 policemen beheaded in Cross River communal clash

30 people were allegedly killed while four police officers and the village head of Ntan Obu Ukpe in Eniong in Odukpani local government area of Cross River...

Fake doctor who worked for over a year arrested in Cross River State

The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a fake medical doctor, who worked with the name, Dr. Collins Okafor, at the General Hospital in Calabar,...

81-year-old HIV patient, released from prison in Cross River

The Chief Judge of Cross River State, Justice Dorothy Iyamba Idem, yesterday set free an 81 year old man, Chief Ata Okon Aqua, who was in prison over robbery...

Affair With Basketmouth And Governor Broke Kate Henshaw’s Marriage

Its no longer news that one of the longest celebrity marriages in Nigeria has came to an end, proving skeptics right that marriages of celebrities always...

Three thugs arrested in River State

Three suspected party thugs were on Saturday arrested while attempting to snatch ballot boxes in Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State. The Independent National Electoral Commission Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mr. Mike Igini, said this while monitoring the National Assembly elections in some parts of the state. This came just as voters trooped...