By Jonathan Ugbal Cross River born broadcaster, Wofai Samuel has been unveiled as the host of the 2016 edition of the West African Power Industry Awards holding at Lagos from November 23 – 24, 2016. The awards which seeks to reward players in the West African power sector is expected to draw over 200 professionals
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Government just released a complete list of the 200,000 graduates that have been employed under phase one of the government’s N-Power program. The list of selected/shortlisted candidates in various States of Nigeria and the FCT is now available on the Npower program website. Successful candidates have also been deployed in
By Elijah Ugani The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has concluded a one day seminar for reporters drawn from the print, electronic and online media in preparation for the “Wise-Up Campaign” scheduled to hold from December 1st to 31st 2016. The event was held at the conference room of the UNFPA office with 20 reporters
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Seven host communities to Lafarge-Holcim cement company in Akamkpa local government of Cross River State have again threatened to shut down the company operations. The host communities are at daggers drawn with the company over alleged neglect of the people and non implementation of the 80% local content policy. Over 500 youths
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State government has vowed that it will deal decisively with trouble makers and that there will no longer be ‘Mr. Nice guy’ in resolving the unending communal war between Ediba and Usumutong in Abi local government area of the state. Ten youths were reportedly killed in renewed hostilities between
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Efforts by the Governor Ben Ayade-led administration in Cross River to bring more beauty to Calabar has taken a new dimension with the state government taking the burden of repairing broken fences, replacing old and leaking roofs and painting of private houses along the approach to the city center around Mile 8.
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By CrossRiverWatch Admin Arguably, the first Nollywood film made entirely in Bette Language of Obudu LGA in Northern Cross River State is set to debut in the market. Bette is one of the major sub-dialectal groups of the Bantu stock and a sub-group of Ekoi spoken with little variants in 5 political wards in the