By Judex Okoro, Daily Sun Newspaper The Government of Cross River State has stated that it has not lost out of any World Bank’s State Fiscal, Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) grant. The SFTAS is a World Bank programme that runs for four years from 2018 to 2021. The programme is intended to enthrone good governance
By Jonathan Ugbal The three civil servants arrested on Monday in Calabar for allegedly leaking documents which showed the payment schedule of NGN250 million withdrawn from each of the local government areas in Cross River state for the procurement of aircrafts and the construction of the Obudu international cargo airport are still in police custody.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The bayside community in Calabar south local government area of Cross River State hopes to change the negative perception associated with it says Tony Ikpeme, Coordinator of the Baysiders. Baysiders is a development association with membership drawn from people who lived or still reside in the Bayside area which has been associated
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigeria 11 April 2020, Cross River State: As of 09 April 2020, 288 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Nigeria, 51 persons discharged, and seven deaths recorded. As of 31 March 2020, 57,809 Cameroonian refugees have been registered in Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Cross River, Imo and Taraba States. Five cases of COVID-19 have
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The 36 State Governors in Nigeria have recommended a national lockdown over the next two weeks to further curb the spread of Coronavirus. According to Sahara Reporters the decision was reached at a meeting of the Governors on Wednesday. Chairman of the forum, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, in a statement said
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Ben Ayade, Governor of Cross River State and also a professor of Microbiology stirred controversy recently when he said the practice of social distancing might be ineffective to control the spread of coronavirus. “Social distancing presupposes that things are so equal, that you stay in an isolated room, it is completely wrong because in
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has written to the National Human Rights Commission asking it to investigate the unlawful killings of at least 21 Nigerians by armed security personnel enforcing the COVID-19 lockdown. Falana in his letter on Thursday said apart from the killing of 18 people in four states, he
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Determined to check any outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic at the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Cross River State, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is setting up an isolation centre at the Nigeria-Cameroun border. The centre, according to the Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA),