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News Nigeria Cross River: Nigeria: Govt Orders N3 Billion Rice Seedlings From Cross River

Published on: Friday 07 June 2019
Nigeria: Govt Orders N3 Billion Rice Seedlings From Cross River
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201906070440.html

The industrialisation effort of Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has started yielding fruits as the federal government through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), has placed a N3 billion order for the state to supply rice seedlings to all the states in the southern part of the country.

News Nigeria Cross River: Nigeria: Imoke Lauds Cross River Govt Over Nigeria's First Vitamised Rice Mill

Published on: Monday 10 June 2019
Nigeria: Imoke Lauds Cross River Govt Over Nigeria's First Vitamised Rice Mill
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201906110495.html

The immediate past governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has lauded the industrialisation strides of his successor, Governor Ben Ayade, describing the establishment of the Africa's first vitaminised rice mill in Ogoja as a phenomenal project.

News Nigeria Cross River: Nigeria not standing well at the moment — PANDEF

Published on: Thursday 13 June 2019
Nigeria not standing well at the moment — PANDEF
News source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/06/nigeria-not-standing-well-at-the-moment-pandef-2/

Nigerian News - CALABAR—The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has again said  that Nigeria as a country was not “standing well” at the moment,  stressing that the people need restructuring for growth and even development across board.

News Nigeria Cross River: Nigeria as open defecation capital of the world

Published on: Wednesday 29 May 2019
Nigeria as open defecation capital of the world
News source: https://punchng.com/nigeria-as-open-defecation-capital-of-the-world/

Today, the only little difference is that 10 out of Nigeria’s 774 LGAs have attained open defecation free status. Cross River State is the only state in Nigeria with three ODF LGAs – Obanliku ...

News Nigeria Cross River: What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes

Published on: Thursday 30 May 2019
What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes
News source: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/what-is-magic-without-ape-parts-inside-the-illicit-trade-devastating-nigerias-apes/

OHOFIA, Nigeria — The fading sunlight, half-coned and yellow, turns the evening murky. The crowing of roosters mingles with the rattling of motorbikes as farmers make their way home from the field, halting to exchange pleasantries with neighbors. Sunday Akpa, gun slung across his shoulder, is readying for the night’s hunting. He closely inspects the […]

News Nigeria Cross River: Cross River: Pay us for losing 76 oil wells, Bakassi to Cameroon – Gov. Ayade tells Buhari govt

Published on: Wednesday 29 May 2019
Cross River: Pay us for losing 76 oil wells, Bakassi to Cameroon – Gov. Ayade tells Buhari govt
News source: https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/29/cross-river-pay-us-losing-76-oil-wells-bakassi-cameroon-gov-ayade-tells-buhari-govt/

Ben Ayade of Cross River State has called on the Federal Government ... The News Agency of Nigeria reports that among dignitaries in attendance at the event were former governors Donald Duke ...

News Nigeria Cross River: Nigeria's Remaining Forest Threatened As Govt Plans New Policy

Published on: Sunday 26 May 2019
Nigeria's Remaining Forest Threatened As Govt Plans New Policy
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201905270069.html

Following recent invasion of Cross River state's reserved and other areas by unknown timber merchants, a greater part of Nigeria's remaining tropical rain-forest reserve is being threatened. ...

News Nigeria Cross River: Cameroon – Anglophone Crisis: Ayah Paul Abine’s Nephew Dies In Refugee Settlement In Nigeria

Published on: Saturday 18 May 2019
News source: http://www.cameroon-info.net/article/cameroon-anglophone-crisis-ayah-paul-abines-nephew-dies-in-refugee-settlement-in-nigeria-342900.html

Etonong George Ayah is said to have died on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at the Adagom settlement, Ogoja Local Government Area, Cross River State in Nigeria leaving behind a big family to mourn him. Ayah ...

News Nigeria Cross River: Supreme Court rejects Cross River’s suit against Onnoghen’s suspension, trial

Published on: Friday 17 May 2019
News source: https://thenationonlineng.net/supreme-court-rejects-cross-rivers-suit-against-onnoghens-suspension-trial/

The Supreme Court has rejected a suit by the home state of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen – Cross River State – faulting his suspension from office by ...

News Nigeria Cross River: Nigeria: Defection - Court Dismisses Suit Seeking to Remove Saraki, Dogara, Others

Published on: Friday 17 May 2019
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201905180185.html

dismissed the suit filed by the Cross River State Government challenging the suspension and trial of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, for being incompetent. ...

News Nigeria Cross River: Onnoghen: Odili disagrees as S-Court strikes out Cross River’s suit

Published on: Friday 17 May 2019
News source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/05/onnoghen-odili-disagrees-as-s-court-strikes-out-cross-rivers-suit/

ABUJA-Justice Mary Odili, on Friday, disagreed with six other Justices of the Supreme Court that a suit Cross River State filed to challenge the removal of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, ...