Year: 2018

The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission, Rev, Uja Tor Uja has promised to join forces with the Knight of St. Mulumba to promote Pilgrimage to Uganda. He stated this recently in Abuja while playing host to the national Executive members of the order of the Knights of St. Mulumba, Nigeria. In the words of the NCPC boss, “I believe that this Pilgrimage to Uganda is a blessing to Africa,” affirming that a team from the Commission would be sent to Uganda from this year and next May…

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As part of ways to steam the tide of cultism and drug addiction ravaging the lives of youths, the founder and CEO of Santuscom Agro Hub, Chief Paul Santus Ofana has urged youths to embrace the idea of cooperatives, saying it is more lucrative than cultism. Chief Santus, stated this on Saturday, while delivering his speech as guest speaker titled “Agriculture Value Chain” at the first Yala Economic Summit in Okuku, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. The Yala Economic Summit was organized by Project 1000, a solution…

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A solution driven citizens forum, Project 1000, comprising Yala urban professional youths converged Saturday to proffer pragmatic solutions to the dwindling economic activities in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. The event, which holds at the auditorium of Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) Okuku Campus is tagged, 1st Yala Economic Summit. Economic activities in the Local Government Area has been on a consistent decrease for over two decades, hence the need for a summit to exray reasons behind this and proffer solutions. According to Think Tank…

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Ahead of 2019 general elections, a former senate president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Michael Sunday Emaluji, on Saturday formally declares to contest Cross State House of Assembly seat to represent Yala 1 constituency. Emaluji, who made the declaration in Okuku, the economic hub of Yala Local Government Area, while addressing Okuku Okada Union, women groups and other associations, promised to return power back to the people through effective representation. The microbiology graduate of University of Jos, revealed that he will run under the platform of…

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…partners C’River Govt, Project 1000 to mobilize students for PVC collection Following the expiration of the two weeks deadline on August 31, 2018, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the newly crowned beauty queen of Yala nation, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, Miss Ogbaji Gloria Ebika, Friday, called for another extension over constraints youth and aged face. Ebika made the call at a Permanent Voter Card registration and collection centre located at the Okpoma, Yala LGA headquarters, where she mobilised tonnes of students from the Cross…

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…as Yala PDP elders back re-election bid As political activities gather momentum across the country, Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Dr Rose Oko, has called on support groups in the district to unite for her re-election victory. Oko made the call when she played host to various support groups including Yala LGA PDP Elders, who visited her at her Okuku residence during the Yala New Yam Festival in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. The groups are Voice of Okpoma, Okpoma Super 11, Elite Group, Democratic…

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…appreciates indigenes for peaceful celebrations As Yala people in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State hold New Yam Festrival to mark another time of harvest and fruitfulness of their labour and thanking God for a peaceful harvest, the Senator representing Cross River North, Dr Rose Oko, has lauded farmers and youth for being productive as she celebrates with them. Oko who was at the occasion that took place at Okuku, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, described the farmers as great and youth energetic said the…

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A frontline chieftain of the Social Democratic Party, SDP and former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice under Governor Donald Duke administration in Cross River State, Eyo Ekpo, has said his focus if elected in 2019 will be good governance. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, after picking his nomination form, at the Social Democratic Party, SDP, headquarters said his mission is about service to humanity and assured that their will would certainly prevail. According to his statement, “I am here to pick the official nomination form to contest the number…

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Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has donated a vehicle and an office building to the Police Service Commission (PSC) to ease its operations in the state. The governor made the donation when the newly constituted board members of the commission paid him a familiarisation visit. In the same vein, renown business Tyson, Chief Arthur Eye donated the sum of N20 million to support the development project of the new board of the PSC during their visit to his country home in Enugu. In what looks like a determination to bequeath…

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…Threatens To Drag AGF Before ICC, UN A human interest organisation, Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC), has expressed concern over the failure of the Federal Government to designate the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) (popularly known as Shiites) as a terrorist organization. The group was particularly worried that the government failed to act despite repeated demands from stakeholders. According to SHAC, the bias on the part of the government has placed IMN in a position of power to attempt re-write history. The Executive Director of SHAC, Dr. Paul Gyado, told…

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