By CrossRiverWatch Admin None of Nigeria’s 36 States could fully fund their 2019 budget with funds they received from both the federation account and internally generated revenues. In most cases, the funds couldn’t pay up to 50 per cent of their expenditures, writes Chineme Okafor and published by This Day Newspaper. A new quarterly report
News reports in 2019 quoted the CG of Prisons, Jafaru, while defending the budget of his department before the NASS as saying that the federal government spends N17 billion annually on feeding 73,786 convicts and awaiting trial inmates in prisons nationwide. Now I’m wondering if this is what N17 billion can buy? See our meal
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Government is building a market for roadside traders around Watt Market in Calabar, it was learnt. Commissioner for Environment Mfon Bassey, who supervised work at the site adjacent Red Cross office in Calabar yesterday, reiterated the government’s readiness to relocate roadside traders. Bassey said the demand for a new
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A piece of land belonging to the Nigerian Navy and meant for the construction of a Navy Hotel has become a cause of friction between the Navy and Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State. The land which originally housed the Navy officers mess was being prepared for construction when the State
By CrossRiverWatch Admin After a harrowing 179 days in Calabar Correctional Centre, detained journalist, Agba Jalingo on Wednesday relived his experiences in the facility, describing his incarceration as a huge lesson. Jalingo, who arrived the domestic wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos two days after his release, said he went on a six-
It is usually difficult to find the right words to properly convey your depth of gratitude when you feel overwhelmed by public support and love. But, I am simply coming back to say THANK YOU to everyone of you who asked for my release from incaceration. I mean everyone of YOU. Matter-of-factly, if you didn’t
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Epidemic looms in Cross River State Government House as cleaners down tools to protest non-payment of ten months salary. The Governor’s office reportedly stank as cleaners assigned to empty bins were nowhere to be found on Tuesday morning. According to reports, overfilled toilets left unattended for several weeks within the complex have
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Government has ruled out refunding the N20 billion the Governor Ben Ayade administration is spending on the Tinapa-Odukpani junction dual carriage and the Odukpani junction spaghetti flyover in Cross River State. The State has in the past two years struggled to fix the 16.7 kilometre dual carriage and the flyover