By Jonathan Ugbal Cross River State paid the second highest bus journey fare within the city in March 2017 reports from the National Bureau of Statistics show. Residents paid an average of NGN209.09 to make Cross River second behind Abuja at NGN262.50 and just in front of Katsina state at NGN196.67. The average fare paid
By Jonathan Ugbal The Special Assistant to Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on students’ affairs, Michael Abuo has criticized his principal for appointing people without providing the required tools to function. Abuo who had called for a cabinet reshuffle in 2016 took to Facebook to vent his frustration with the system of administration in
By Odey Ojeka The two factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the central senatorial district of Cross River State led by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani and the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla have mended fences. The duo announced the reconciliation process at a meeting
By CrossRiverWatch Admin President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Barrister Mary Ekpere as the Director General of the National Women Development Center in Abuja. Barrister Ekpere’s appointment which was announced along side 22 other federal parastatals makes her the 7th Cross Riverian to be appointed by the Buhari administration. The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Ibas,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin His Holiness, Pope Francis has on Sunday April 9, appointed as Bishop of Ogoja Diocese, Rev. Fr. Donatus Edet Akpan. Father Akpan, is presently the parish priest of Holy Rosary Church, Wuse Abuja Archdiocese. A statement from the Secretary General of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Rev. Father Ralph Madu say, the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The multipurpose Indoor Sports Hall of the UJ Esuene stadium in Calabar, awarded by the Imoke administration for the construction of the facility to host the controversial National Sports Festival, collapsed yesterday costing the state $14million (2.2billion Naira). The collapse of the facility has returned to the fore, questions about the propriety
By Aplefe Ojong A ghastly auto accident along the Ikom – Ogoja Highway may have claimed the lives of the occupants. The accident which happened overnight saw the badly damaged vehicle somersault from the road into the nearby bush. A staff of the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA who stopped to check what happened at
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigeria’s Chief Justice (CJN) Walter Onnoghen has dismissed insinuations that there is a gang up by the country’s judicial arm of government against the executive or any arm of government to frustrate its policy especially the anti-graft war. The President, Muhammadu Buhari upon resumption of office in May 2015, promised to tackle