Universities Ranking: CRUTECH Aims For The Zenith

The Proposed CRUTECH Alumni Centre

The Alumni association of the Cross River University of Technology is in consultation with stakeholders in the education sector home and abroad to ensure the varsity tops the next rankings says the president Eyam Abeng at the body’s launching for a new centre held last week Saturday in Calabar.
Abeng posited that there was need for the body to assist the institution’s management in ensuring quality education is been delivered hence the need for the Alumni’s decision to network as well as build the maiden alumni building.
“The establishment of the alumni centre represents a vital part of the National executive council’s (christened The Consolidation Team) commitment to providing a platform for members and our future alumni” Abeng said, adding that, “I believe this alumni center will assist our alma mater become one of the very best universities in Nigeria in terms of research, technology transfer and technoppreneurship (sic)”.
He further disclosed the bill of quantity for the structure to be 400 million Naira which he said will comprise of a 500 sitter capacity auditorium, ICT centre of 50 computer systems, guest house, and indoor sport facilities among others.

Cross River Beauty Queen Calls For Vernacular Training

Magdalene Asuquo Ekpe 2016 Miss
The need for cross Riverians and Nigerians at large to speak and understand their native vernacular is important for the sustenance of the African culture says the beauty queen Asuquo Ekpe at her birthday bash last week.
Born, Magdalene Asuquo Ekpe, the 2016 Qua/Ejagham Nation beauty queen posited that communicating in borrowed languages has not really helped matters and called on all Qua and Ejagham nationals to learn how to communicate I their native vernacular.
Also, she called on the state government to bring back news in Ejagham and advised youths to humble themselves so they can accomplish their dreams.

Qua/Ejagham Nation

Garment Factory: EFCC Quiz Ayade’s Accountant General, Commerce Commissioner

Peter Akam Egba, CRS Commerce and Industry Commissioner

Information reaching CrossRiverWatch suggests that the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Peter Egba and Accountant General, Joseph Adie of Cross River State spent the chunk of the week answering the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives on issues concerning the Cross River Garment Factory.
It is still unclear exactly when the duo were picked up but reliable sources informed CrossRiverWatch that Peter Egba returned on Wednesday while the Accountant General is still in the EFCC’s South-South zonal office in Port Harcourt.
The source also said their arrest was in response to a petition by several Cross Riverians who queried the set-up of the Garment Factory, one of Governor Ben Ayade’s signature projects.
It is alleged that there is no clear definition as to the ownership and financing of the project with allegations rife that the commissioner had cooked books and documents for it to pass as credible.

Cross River State Garment Factory Ltd About To Be Commissioned

By Eyo Nse, This is the about to be commissioned Cross River State Garment Factory Ltd., in a state that receives N700 million as allocation from the federal government. Few weeks ago, Brainnews NG revealed how Governor Ben Ayade signed an MOU with a UAE Firm for the building of a power plant in Cross River. Ben Ayade has been rated as one of the best governor Cross River State has ever voted into office. When infrastructural development is mention in Cross River, Former Gov. Donald Duke and Ben Ayade can’t never be forgotten. See photos from the factory below:

Cross River State Garment Factory Ltd About To Be Commissioned

Suspected Robbers Attack Olumba Olumba’s Virgins In Calabar

                                                                     Olumba Olumba Obu anointing some of the ‘virgins                                                                                      Three female priests were attacked, stabbed and dispossessed of their money and other valuables last Monday on their way to morning worship in Calabar.

The priests, aged between 20 and 25, are members of the ‘144,000 Virgins Body’ of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, BCS led by Olumba Olumba Obu.

The incident occurred in the neighbourhood of Mbukpa/Ambo as they left their ‘Virgins abode’ for 5am devotion at the BCS World headquarters at 34 Ambo Street CrossRiverWatch gathered.

Cross River Government To Offer Free Surgery To 80 Patients On World Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) Day

                                                      Dr. Inyang Asibong, Cross River State Commissioner for Health

The Cross River Government has promised to offer free surgery to more than 80 patients suffering from Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) as the World marks the VVF Day on May 23rd.

Dr. Inyang Asibong, the state Commissioner for Health, disclosed this on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Asibong said that the gesture was to mark the event and to also encourage VVF patients to come out for treatment.

According to her, experts in VVF treatment would be on ground to perform medical test and carry out the surgery on the patients.

She said that the treatment would commence on May 23rd and end on May 31st.

Normalcy Returns To Ugep After Mob Violence Over Death Of Former Councilor

Obol Ofem Ubana – Obol Lopon of Ugep

Violence broke out in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government, May 17, 2016 following the killing of a businessman in the community.

A CrossRiverWatch reporter account that at about 6am, 17th May 2016, a former councillor in Ikpakapit Ward in Ugep, Hon. Larry, who now deals in building materials was called by unknown persons to come to his shop and get some bags of cement they had brought for him to buy.

CrossRiverWatch gathered that when he got there, he was shot by the unknown gunmen and he died on the spot. Two suspects of Igbo extraction, who are fellow businessmen, were caught by community youths and taken to the Palace of the Obol Lopon of Ugep.

But some aggressive Ugep youths who claimed that the deceased was killed by some rival Igbo businessmen started destroying their shops, homes and vehicles in a mob violence that destroyed several properties worth millions of Naira.