By Jonathan Ugbal The Director General of the Cross River State Primary Health Care Development Agency (CRSPHCDA) Dr. Betta Edu says there is an urgent need to step up the fight against malnutrition because it affects the overall health of both the individual, the immediate community and the country at large. Edu made this known
By Bassey Inyang Four diesel fired electricity generating sets belonging to Mirage Hotels in Calabar, where the former Minister for Culture and Tourism, Chief Edem Duke, is the major shareholder, were carted away on Monday by Sypet Oil and Chemical Limited, following a judgment debt valued at N52 million. Counsel to Sypet Oil, Eric Utang, told
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Barrister Mary Ekpere, counsel to the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari has called the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs Pastor Usani Usani a blatant liar for claiming he influenced the appointment of Dr. Bassey Ejue as the Provost of the Federal College of Education, Obudu. Ekpere, the estranged wife to
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the recruitment of 1,000 Teachers into the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and about 41 more into the Cross River State Water Board Limited (CRSWBL). Governor Ayade had shortly after assumption of office lifted the over 2 decade’s embargo
By Jonathan Ugbal and Inyali Peter Residents of Ikot Anwatim community in Cross River’s capital city of Calabar have petitioned their village head, Ntufam Patrick Offiong to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) calling on the distribution outfit to investigate the monarch who alongside his cronies, allegedly N10,000 from over 300 compounds amounting to
By Jonathan Ugbal A Cross Riverian, Bright Eworo who graduated with a first class degree honors in Kazan National Research Technological University in Russia is currently facing a race against time to raise 12,000 Dollars for his Masters Degree program. Eworo who hails from Abi told CrossRiverWatch in a telephone interview that he was a
By Ogar Monday: House of Assembly Correspondent The revenue drive of the Commercial Transport Regulatory Agency (CTRA) and the Department of Public Transport (DOPT) is not their core mandate says the Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, John Gaul Lebo. Lebo stated this when he hosted a delegation of the Unified Taxi Drivers
By Ogar Monday Youths in Adim community in Biase local government area of Central Cross River State are currently extorting motorists plying the Adim section of the Calabar-Ikom-Katsina Ala highway in the name of maintaining the bad portion CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. Motorists plying the route are made to pay between N100 and N1,000 depending on