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  Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has urged the 2021'Batch C' Stream 2 Corps members deployed to Cross River to promote national unity and integration during and after their service year. The Director General stated this during the official induction ceremony of corps members at the NYSC permanent orientation camp on Tuesday in Obubra local government area of Cross River. Represented by the Coordinator of NYSC in Cross River, Mr Zemoh Andrew, the DG urged the corps members to use the orientation course to prepare themselves physically and mentally so that they can impact positively to the programme and development of their fatherland. He charged them to maintain a high level of commitment and discipline and to also be security conscious at all times. The DG, while encouraging the corps members to observed all COVID-19 protocols on camp, advised them to take the vaccine and stay protected against the virus. High point of the event was...

  Cross River State is poised to deliver a basket of health care services to women and children under an integrated package of highly cost-effective MNCH interventions. Pregnant women and children are set to benefit from the various forms of health interventions which includes nutritional supplementation of Vitamin A, delivery kits, vaccination, distribution of long lasting insecticide treated nets, deworming, screening for malnutrition in the State to help reduce the prevalence of malnutrition, malaria, vaccines preventable diseases among other common causes of maternal and child mortality. The state also flagged off its massive Covid-19 vaccination campaign for person over 18 years of age. The flagging off exercise which was done by the State's Health Commissioner, Dr Betta Edu on behalf of the State Governor, Sen (Prof) Ben Ayade, targets over 900,000 children and 300,000 pregnant women across the State. The event which took place in Odukpani LGA also marked the commencement of ...

    Prof. Florence Banku Obi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar, on Monday in Calabar promised to forge robust partnership with the British High Commission to harness Cross River’s rich forest potentialities.. Obi gave the assurance when a team from the British High Commission led by the Deputy Commissioner, Mrs Gill Atkinson, paid her a courtesy visit. She expressed hope that the partnership would provide more opportunities for collaboration with employees of the Forestry Division of the institution and with other relevant stakeholders. According to her, the collaboration will attract proficient input from the academia and result in better focus and sponsorship as well as create more environmental awareness. The vice-chancellor stated that the deep awareness of the potentialities of the environment would check the menace of indiscriminate logging and other anti-climate activities. Earlier, Atkinson noted that Cross River is a border community blessed with rich veget...

  With  the rising cases of maternal and child Mortality and the need to curb the spread and mutation of the covid-19 virus while pushing for herd immunity,  the Cross River State Government with support from National Primary Healthcare Development Agency and partners has lunched the 2021 Second Round of the "Maternal New Born and Child Health week and the Covid-19 Mass vaccination in the state to summount preventable deaths challenges with the introduction of nutrient suppliments as a remedy for these preventable deaths. Flagging off the exercise in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State,the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Betta Edu said, an estimate of 300,000 pregnant women and 900,000 children under the ages of 5 will benefit from this week long event which will also run concurrently with "Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Exercise" targeting eligible adults from the ages of 18 and above. She said, the government under the leadership of Senator Prof Ben Ayade ...

The Nigeria Orthopaedic Association whose objective is to promote, develop and project the Science, Art and Practice of Orthopaedic and Allied Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation in Nigeria with regards to clinical services is holding her 44th Annual General Meeting and Conference in CRS after 21years.  Declaring the event open with the Theme; 'Burden Of Geriatric Trauma', His Excellency Sen. Prof. Ben Ayade has charged the Association to come together and think out of the box so they can provide solutions to highly invasive traumatic painful surgeries that is the norm in practice. In his words; "I thank the organisers of this event for choosing Calabar the fasted growing City especially in Agro Industrialisation for their 44th Annual Meeting, Orthopaedic Surgeons and Professors remains the World's greatest nightmare as the trauma that comes with their surgical interventions cannot be over emphasized. Why limit yourself to the current practice of today, can this scientif...

  By Itam Offor The Cross River State Appropriation Bill 2022, christened the Budget of "Conjugated Agglutination", has scaled second reading on the flour of the Assembly. The Bill, which has a budget size of N276,279,960,667.35 (Two hundred and seventy-six Billion, Two hundred and seventy  Nine million, Nine hundred and sixty Thousand, six hundred and sixty seven Naira, thirty-five Kobo, was subsequently committed to the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation for indepth study and further legislative process. The Leader of the House, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey (Ogoja) had presented the highlights of the 2022 Budget Estimates and Appropriation Bill which was earlier presented to the House by the State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade on Friday, 29th October 2021. Odey stated that from the estimates, N92,007,302,780.40 representing 33.30% is to be spent on Recurrent Expenditure while N184,272,657,886.95 representing 66.69% is for capital Expenditure. He added that Recurrent Revenue am...

Events in the recent past shows that drug abuse has been on the rise amongst young people in the Country and even in Cross River State. National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have clearly reflected a new zeal in the fight against drug abuse and trafficking in all parts of the Country, in a bid to sustain these efforts and compliment the wonderful efforts of the Agency the CRS Commissioner for Health Dr Betta Edu has declared her willingness and that of the Health Ministry to join in this fight to see how Drug Abuse which is today a societal challenge is curbed. She declared war against drug abuse in the State as the health sector will henceforth collaborate with the Drug Law Enforcement to end drug abuse. Speaking during a courtesy/advocacy visit to help accelerate this war, the Cross River State NDLEA Commander Mrs Edet Anthonia commended the Commissioner's effort and commitment towards giving cross riverians good health care delivery through her numerous achievements and ou...