Browsing: Cross River State

Briefing newsmen on Thursday in Calabar, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Hafiz Inuwa, said the deceased was killed by the eight suspects while he was on a visit with his family to his in-laws in Uyanga village in Akamkpa.

Udoh, a Senior Registrar in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, was kidnapped on Monday in Calabar.

Rear Admiral Victor Adedipe, the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command, made the appeal when members of the House of Representatives Committee on Navy paid an oversight visit to headquarters of the Command on Tuesday in Calabar, Cross River State.

The NMA state Chairman, Dr. Effiong Mkpanam, and the Secretary, Dr. Ikechukwu Ukweh, said in a communiqué on Tuesday in Calabar that the incessant kidnap of its members was no longer acceptable.

This followed the kidnap and non release of one its members, Dr. Usang Ekanem, who was abducted on December 26, 2017 by gunmen.

Akpagu, who was honored with the title: Utsu Ute-Kushu 1 of Bebuagbong Clan, was decorated during a reception ceremony organized in his honour by the community on January 1, 2018.

Ayade made the call on Thursday in Calabar at the grand finale of the 2017 Calabar carnival, which has the theme: “Migration.”

They told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Calabar that the current situation was badly affecting this year’s Christmas celebration in the city.

Rear Admiral Victor Adedipe, the Flag Officer Commanding, ENC, disclosed this to newsmen while decorating two senior officers.

The agency’s Public Relations Officer in the state, Kenneth Odili, made the disclosure in a statement made available to journalists in Calabar.

Inuwa said the suspects were arrested by a team of policemen attached to the Operation Skolombo Special Task Force set up by the State Government to mop up street urchins and other criminals in Calabar.

Duke said this at a keynote address at the Annual Distinguished Lecture of the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers organised in honour of Rev. Ette Ette, a veteran Civil Engineer, on Tuesday in Abuja.

Ikpeme said that the second edition of the contest, which is billed for December 27 in Calabar, will feature 32 beauty queens from Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia South Africa, Sudan and others.

Dokpesi paid a courtesy visit to the Governor on Monday in Calabar, assuring him of his resolve to reposition the PDP, if voted as chairman.

Ekweremadu stated this at a two-day retreat by the Southern Senators Forum in Calabar, Cross River State on Friday, and dismissed the fear in certain quarters that restructuring would cause the break-up of the country.

The lawmaker made this known at the two-day Southern Senators’ Retreat in Calabar, Cross River State on Friday.

The governor made the call at the opening of the Southern Senators Forum on Friday in Calabar.

Speaking in Calabar, Cross River State at the retreat held by the Southern Senators’ Forum, Saraki said “we must always put Nigeria first” in the ongoing debate about restructuring of the country and other similar agitations.

Obasanjo gave the advice on Saturday in Calabar, Cross River State at the public presentation of a book: “Stepping Forward with Uti J.D. Agba and Mathias Okoi-Uyouyo.”

Dr Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the team leader and Senior Technical Adviser on Disaster Risk Management, Office of the Vice-President, made this known in Calabar while speaking with journalists after inspecting some disaster sites across the state.