Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba Wednesday offered some solutions to communal conflicts saying such crisis could largely be resolved by taking development to the people. He gave the advice in an interview with journalists at the flag off of his constituency visit to Cross River Central Senatorial... Read more

From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Prof. Okon Edet Uya, a Professor of African and African-American-American History and one time Nigerian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina is dead. Uya, formerly Chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON) in the regime of President Ibrahim Babangida died Thursday afternoon at the... Read more

By Emeka Eugene Maduewesi, Esq., LL.M I can write a bestseller about my father and all his many outstanding qualities. However, as the Bible says, there is a time for everything. This is not the time to write a book. My father was an extraordinary man, physically and spiritually... Read more

Diana-Okon-Effiong, Calabar, Bishop Emmah Isong, Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) Cross River Chapter says Nigerians are by no means traumatised by the Abuja bomb blast which claims many lives Monday. Isong who is also National Patron Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) stated this Monday in an interview with our... Read more

  The Cross River House of Assembly has urged its Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources to inter-face with relevant stakeholders to discuss issues of timber exploitation and importation in the State. The House made the resolution on Friday following a motion by the member representing Calabar Municipality State... Read more

The Delta State Government has denied paying ransom to the abductors of Ebikeme Clark, son of Chief E.K. Clark to secure his recent release. In a statement made available to Africanewscircle.com, the Secretary to the Delta State Government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macaulay said the speculation of ransom to secure the... Read more

A huge burden has been lifted at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, as students who have been experiencing accommodation difficulties on campus now have access to a 696-bed, modern hostel built and delivered by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The commissioning and handing over of the hostel turned... Read more

A landmark achievement for Nigeria’s agriculture was marked when bread made from 100 per cent Nigerian wheat was launched. The bread made from better adaptable breeds of wheat that produce more than twice per hectare of what was tried in the ’80s signaled a major break in Nigeria’s agricultural... Read more

  From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Asaba Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has called on the Federal Government to rename the second bridge to be constructed across the river Niger, ‘Asaba/Onitsha Bridge’. The Governor who made the call at Onitsha Monday during the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of... Read more