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C’River Govt Reaffirms Commitment to Okpambe Fishing Festival

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From Ene Asuquo, Calabar

The Cross River State Government has reiterated its commitment to promoting the Okpambe Fishing Festival as a state event.The Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Abubakar Ewa, stated this recently during the Yala New Yam Festival, held in Yala-Obubra, Obubra Local Government Area.

Ewa expressed gratitude for the warm reception and admired the rich cultural heritage and agricultural potentials of the people.
He maintained that the Okpambe Fishing Festival has the potential to showcase Cross River as a premier tourism destination that will be at par with other fishing festivals in the continent, contribute to food security, and promote foreign and cultural exchange earnings.
He said the festival would also create employment opportunities, empower the local fishermen, attract infrastructural development, and promote the rich cultural heritage of the Yala and Obubra people.The Commissioner praised the Obubra people for the promotion and preservation of some of the notable sites in the LGA, including the Okum/Eminyi Lake, the Onyen Cave, the Ogurude Island, the Wonder Stone, the various beaches, and others, expressing the government’s readiness to develop and promote them.He called on the leaders and people of Obubra to leverage Governor Otu’s commitment to the sector and the popularity of the Okpambe Fishing Festival to diversify and make tourism the mainstay of the economy of the LGA.The tourism boss, however, frowns at the incessant communal clashes bedeviling the LGA, noting that investors would not invest in areas known for conflicts. He therefore called on the Leaders and people of Obubra to tow the path of peaceful coexistence, unity, and love and join hands with the government to promote the festival and sites.He further pledged the government’s readiness to develop the Okpambe to compete with notable fishing festivals such as Arugungu fishing festivalWhile welcoming the commissioner and his entourage to Yala-Obubra, the Town Council Chairman, Mr. Patrick Oba Enem, lauded the state government for recognizing and promoting the local fishing heritage of the Yala-Obubra people, expressing gratitude to the Commissioner for gracing this year’s New Yam Festival.

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Customs Intercept Contraband Worth N510.92m in Two Conths

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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit Zone C, says it intercepted contrabands with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N510.92 million between July 15th and September 15th, 2024.The zone covers the six states in the South-South geopolitical zone and the five states in the Southeast geopolitical zone.

This is contained in a statement signed by Jerry Attah, Public Relations Officer, NCS, Zone C, and made available to journalists on Wednesday.
According to the statement, Comptroller Michael Ugbagu, NCS, Zone C, gave the statistics while showcasing the seized contraband to relevant regulatory agencies at the Government Warehouse in Edo.Ugbagu said that the zone also recovered the sum of N25.
57 million from demand notices raised based on some infractions noticed, making a cumulative sum of N536.49 million recorded within the months under review.“The DPV was derived from our seized goods, which include 49,699 sachets of various brands of tramadol and 3,350 bottles of various cough syrups with codeine without an NAFDAC number.“1,015 sacks of dry donkey meat and skin, 75 jumbo bales of second-hand clothing, 463 cartons of foreign spaghetti, 269 pieces of used pneumatic tires, and 56 cartons of smuggled foreign tomato paste.“More worrisome is the interception of 49,699 sachets of various brands of tramadol and 3,350 bottles of various cough syrups with codeine without NAFDAC registration numbers.”He noted that the cough syrup with codeine and tramadol without NAFDAC registration numbers, if not intercepted, could have had adverse effects on youths.He added that the items were mostly intercepted along the Ewu-Okada/Benin expressways based on credible intelligence. (NAN)

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APC Forum Decries Deplorable Condition of Federal Roads

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The Forum of Stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has decried the deplorable condition of some federal roads in Nigeria. Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, the North-Central Chairman of the forum, said this in an interaction with newsmen on Wednesday in Jos. Zazzaga described some of the federal roads as ”death traps”, particularly those within the north-central region.

He said that some of the deplorable roads in the region include Jos-Akwanga, Makurdi-Oturkpo-Otukpa, Makurdi-Ankpa, and Jos-Saminaka.
Other roads that needed urgent attention, he said, included Suleja-Minna, Ejule-Otukpa, Ganawuri-Manchok, Lokoja-Abuja, Lapai-Agaie-Bida, Birnin-Gwari-Bokani-Mokwa, Minna-Zungeru-Tegina-Kontagora.
”Currently, the north-central region has the most deplorable roads and highways in the country. ”These deplorable roads have brought severe hardship on the people and lost lives and property through preventable road traffic crashes. ”We call on President Bola Tinubu to intervene and ensure the rehabilitation of these roads because good roads are vital enablers of development,” he said. The chairman also called on governors of states within the region to reconstruct the dilapidated roads and seek refunds from the federal government. ”Though these are largely federal roads, they are located within states, and the beneficiaries are the people of these states. ”So we call on state governments to reconstruct these roads and seek refunds from the federal government,” he added. (NAN

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Yuan Strengthens 7. 087 Against Dollar

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The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 160 pips to 7.087 against the dollar on Wednesday.This is according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.In China’s spot foreigners exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two per cent from the central parity rate each trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.
(Xinhua/NAN)

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