By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade Wednesday promised to build a Governor’s lodge in Ikom local government area and kicked off the governor’s cup in the first event of his 5 day tour of the central and northern senatorial districts in the state Ayade also promised to further add
By Jonathan Ugbal The state owned Rovers football club of Calabar will henceforth play its home matches in the newly constructed Ikom township stadium says Cross River Sports Commissioner, Asu Okang. Asu disclosed this in an interview with AIT’s Rasheed Olanrewaju Wednesday in Ikom where he also explained the reason behind the newly launched “Thumps
By Ada Andor (photo credit: Godwin Apple) A maid working for a senior lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River State has been seriously brutalized by the wife of the lecturer and the little girl is presently receiving treatment at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Obudu. CrossRiverWatch gathered that on the night
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Leader of the 7th Senate and Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba has dissociated himself from the multiple facebook IDs bearing his name. CrossRiverWatch findings indicate that over 12 facebook identities have been cloned with the former Senate Leader’s name and pictures apparently
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Bakassi Strike Force, a militant group in the Niger Delta, on Tuesday expressed a desire to lay down arms if the concerns of Bakassi returnees are addressed under a scheme midwifed by international mediators. A leader of BSF, Simple Benjamin, aka “Humble Lion G1” in a telephone interview on Tuesday told
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Paramount Ruler of Boki, HRM Otu Fredaline Enka Akando and the Executive Chairman of the local government area, Chief Abubakar Ewa have expressed worries about the communal crisis between Boje and Nsadop villages in the area. The duo spoke in an emergency meeting recently with Chiefs of the area which held in
By CrosRiverWatch Admin The federal government has granted provisional approval to Arthur Javis University of Science and Technology in Akpabuyo, Cross State. The approval was granted, Wednesday, during a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, which held at the council chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Minister of State for Education, Anthony Onwuka,
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel Akpong as the new General Manager of the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation publishers of Nigerian Chronicle. Mr. Akpong who was the Acting General Manager of the Corporation takes over from Barr. Gilbert Agbor who has now