Month: September 2012
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Cross River State Assembly Worst in the Country – Obono Obla

The House is surely a waste pipe, a drain on the economy of the State. Recently media Report reveals that the Cross River State House of Assembly may have expended well over N546m from the total of N1.7b that was appropriated for the State Legislature in the 2012 Appropriation Law on the salaries and emoluments

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NIGERIA @ 52: Pathways to Sustainable Democracy and Rebirth – Mike Igini

by Mike Igini Esq. Resident Electoral Commissioner Cross River State. It sounds strange biologically and indeed laughable, if not unfortunate, to speak of rebirth of a country at 52 still gappling with the intricacies of how to even leave together; but democracy and the rule of law is not a finished product that is graffated

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Police, FRSC stop Save Bakassi Rally in C-River

processions hold in Calabar, Abuja, Abeokuta, South Africa by crossriverwatch admin The Cross River State Police Command and the Sector Command of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, on Saturday stopped members of the National Association of Seadogs from its planned advocacy rally over the federal government refusal to commence the process of appeal against the

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For Bakassi: Seadogs Take to The Streets in Abuja/Calabar

The Abuja and Calabar chapters of the National Association of Seadogs (Pirates Confraternity) today made real their promise to protest the lackadaisical attitude of the federal government to the call by most sections of the country for the appeal of the International Court of Justice judgment that ceded the Peninsular to Cameroon ten years ago.

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C’River Assembly Spends N546m To Pass 7 Bills

by crossriverwatch admin The Cross River State House of Assembly may have expended well over N546m from the total of N1.7b that was appropriated for the State Legislature in the 2012 Appropriation Act on the salaries and emoluments of its twenty five members within the last legislative session. The House within the same period passed

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Call Your Aide, Council Chair to Order: Youths Tell Imoke

by crossriverwatch admin Protesting Youths of Efut nation in Cross River State have appealed to Governor Liyel Imoke to call to order his Special Adviser on Chieftaincy Affairs, John Eyikwaje and the Chairman of Calabar South Local Government Area of the state Hon. Ekeng Henshaw for allegedly promoting crisis in the traditional institution of the

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Bakassi: Seadogs to March on Abuja Tomorrow

by crossriverwatch admin Abuja chapter of National Association of Seadogs (Pirates Confraternity) has said it will embark on a peaceful protest tomorrow in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to raise awareness on the current plight of indigenes of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula. President of NAS, Abuja Chapter, Chief Ogbuehi Dike, said in a statement, yesterday,

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France Armed Cameroon to Fight Nigeria Over Bakassi – Wikileaks

by crossriverwatch admin Wikileaks reveals that former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen Theophilus Y. Danjuma told the former American Ambassador to Nigeria, Howard Franklin Jeter that the Nigeria’s acquisition of military hardware at the heat of its dispute with Cameron over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula were in response to the arming of Cameroon by France, according

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