I’ve never benefited from the Government financially. Most people think Cross River and Donald Duke funded my film, The Amazing Grace. It’s wrong. The budget was 400,000 GBP ($800,000 then) of which the majority were foreign investments. What I got from Cross River State Government was the location to build my sets and accommodation for
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our newsroom can exclusively report that the office of the Special Adviser Technical (COS) according to the 2019 budget of Cross River State is expected to spend N334,693,780,685.32. In 2018 N429,193,780,685.32 was approved and spent by the office. Dualization of Calabar-Odukpani inclusive of Odukpani-Spagheti flyover in 2018 cost the State N18,000,000,000.00 while
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A crisis appears on the horizon as the Cross River House of Assembly is about beginning work on a bill seeking the establishment of Land Use and Allocation Management Commission (LUAC) to do away with the Land Use Act 1978 which it considers defective. Also, the legislative chamber is to review the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Press Release Deteriorating Health Condition Of Mr. Agba Jalingo And The Need To Redeploy CP, Austin Agbonlahor. The Association of Cross River Online Journalists – ACROJ, notes with dismay the continuous unlawful detention of the Publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Mr. Agba Jalingo for about eight (8) days now and counting. As the world
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Policy Alert has called on the Nigerian Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, a journalist and transparency activist who was arrested last week by the Police on the alleged orders of the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, for asking questions on the spending of N500m of a State owned microfinance bank.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called on the Police to immediately release Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch. According to the NGO, “From 22 to 30 August, it is 8 days since operatives allegedly of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) seized Mr. Agba Jalingo, Editor in Chief and Publisher
By Patrick Obia The Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) Comrade Darlington Edem, has alleged that there are plans by the Government of Cross River State to gage the media in the State, following the recent arrest and detention of four Journalists in Calabar. Mr. Darlington stated this while speaking as a guest
As the generation of exceptional leaders in no particular order, in the persons of Pa Anthony Enahoro that led the second and most successful motion for Nigerian bloodless independence from Britain; to the legendary Obafemi Awolowo, a man with moving foresight that built the first television station in Africa with proceeds from southwest cocoa estate