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BY PATRICIA OGBECHE The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Senator Professor Stephen Odey, on October 22, 2025, represented His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, at the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) National Conference held at The Dome, Calabar Municipal. The national conference, with the theme “Communication and […]

BY PATRICIA OGBECHE The Cross River State Government has continued its statewide sanitization of the education sector with the closure of several unapproved schools operating without the required Authority to Operate (ATO) across the state. The enforcement exercise was carried out by the Ministry of Education Taskforce on the Closure of Illegal Schools, in line […]

BY PATRICIA OGBECHE The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Senator (Prof.) Stephen Odey on Tuesday 21, October 2025 represented the Governor of Cross River State, His Excellency, Senator Bassey Edet Otu, at the True Elites Group Training Program on Technology and Artificial Intelligence, held in partnership with the Cross River State Government through the […]

BY PATRICIA OGBECHE The Cross River State Government has intensified its ongoing effort to sanitize the education sector with the closure of 33 additional illegal and unapproved schools operating across various Local Government Areas of the state. The enforcement exercise, spearheaded by the State Ministry of Education’s Task Force on Illegal Schools, is part of […]

The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Senator Professor Stephen Odey, has reaffirmed his commitment to strengthening collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Supervisors for Education across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state. He made this known on Tuesday when he received the Supervisors on a courtesy visit to the Ministry of […]

By Patricia Ogbeche The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Senator (Prof.) Stephen Odey, has reaffirmed his commitment to strengthening collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Supervisors of Education across the 18 local government areas of the state. The Commissioner made this known when he received Supervisors of Education on a courtesy visit to […]

The Cross River State Government has commenced an enforcement exercise to shut down all illegal and unapproved schools operating across the state. The Taskforce, inaugurated earlier this month by the Commissioner for Education, Senator Professor Stephen Odey, following the approval of the State Executive Council, began full-scale operations in the Calabar, Ikom, and Ogoja Educational […]

October 20, 2025 The Cross River State Ministry of Education has commenced an enforcement exercise to shut down all illegal and unapproved schools operating across the state. The Taskforce, which was inaugurated earlier this month by the Commissioner for Education, Senator Professor Stephen Odey, began full-scale operations in the Calabar, Ikom, and Ogoja Educational Zones. […]

By Patricia Ogbeche The Cross River State Ministry of Education has commenced the closure of illegal schools across the state, in line with the new reforms introduced in the education sector and following the inauguration of the Taskforce on Illegal Schools earlier this month, on October 8, 2025. The Taskforce team began enforcement in Calabar […]