By CrossRiverWatch Admin Council elections to elect Chairmen and legislators for the 18 local government areas of Cross River State will hold in the second quarter of 2017 says the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC), Dr. Mike Ushie. “I have been saying in different fora on radio and everywhere that elections will
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government Thursday in Calabar inaugurated two Program-for-Results (PforR) committees to access and manage the USD1.5 million made available to the state from the World Bank’s USD500million facility given to the Federal Government. The fund is to execute the Federal Government’s ‘Saving One Million Lives’ (SOML) initiative and
By Ushang Ewa Following a directive by the State Security Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River, Jude Ngaji to security officials to impound vehicles bearing Government license plates after 6:00 PM, findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal that over two dozen appointees and elected officials have been harassed. Government license plates bear green letter coding
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A driver attached to the Cross River State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Calistus Okune, was on Wednesday remanded in the Afokang Prison in Calabar for assaulting two officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps. Okune was alleged to have acted on orders of his boss, Mr. Peter Egba, after the Toyota
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Dear Hon. Commissioner Mike Eraye, I’m sorry I had to use this means to communicate to you. I would have sent a hard copy letter to your ministry if I were in Calabar. Sadly, I have not visited Calabar and felt at ease ever since I was declared wanted by the Attorney
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The perpetual dependence of states in Nigeria on federally allocated revenue has become the bane of development in the nation. Month after month, the 36 states’ Commissioners of Finance line up in Abuja to receive stipends that are barely enough to achieve the developmental dreams of the various states. This has created
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Executive Council Wednesday sitting in its first full session for 2017 approved the sum of NGN3billion for the construction of the Boki East-West road and the Boje bridge CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. The road has been the subject of controversy in succeeding administrations with indigenes forced
By Ushang Ewa At least one life has been lost to the recent communal clash between Kutia and Ukpe communities of Obudu local government area of northern Cross River State. Obudu is about 300 Kilometers north of Calabar, the state capital and has recently seen an upsurge in criminal activities and communal crisis with the