Students of various Schools across Ugep, Yakurr LGA came out in mass today to support their 'gallant' marchers in the nationwide celebration of Children's day. See pictures.
UGEP New Yam festival (LEBOKU New Yam Festival) is held every year in the month of August, to honour the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the land. Nobody eats new yam until same had first been offered to these powers. New yam festival celebration differs in name and structure from one community to another. It takes the coloration of the very community it is celebrated at any given time. It is not surprising neither is it out of place because Cross River is a melting pot of culture and languages. This, merely lends credence to the fact that many communities in the state speak different dialects, hence the diverse culture. “Umor Otutu” Ugep, with an approximate landmass of 141/2 square kilometers, accommodating a sizeable, number of 148 villages and a population of about 205,823, before the 21 century. ‘Umor Otutu” christened Ugep by the early demographers and anthropologists like G.I. Jones Pitchard among others, is the largest native town east of the ...
The Chief of Air Staff, (CAS) Vice Admiral Sadique Abubakar has said the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will soon launch an operation in the South-South part of the country to protect its Oil and Gas infrastructure including the people of the region against activities of vandals. Abubakar stated this yesterday in Abuja while addressing Officers and Airmen shortly after the force quarterly route march at the Mogadishu cantonment Abuja. He said the main focus of NAF at the moment is to protect the territorial integrity of Nigeria in the South south and to ensure that oil and gas infrastructure are not destroyed by any group or group of individuals, adding that challenges in the northeast has been substantially addressed. The Air Chief said Officers and Airmen must be in the best of forms in terms of health and physical wellbeing to be able to address these challenges the Nigeria state is currently facing. He said “The challenges of today require a very sound mind in a sound body and t...
All batch B corps members are to make a compulsory payment of N1,500 to the office of the CLO starting from Thursday, 11th August 2016. The payment will serve as cost registration for NYSC Foundation as well as Cross Kopga magazine which will be given to corps members during the passing out ceremony. N500 goes for NYSC Foundation will N1000 will go for the annually published magazine. - From the office of the LI.
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