By CrossRiverWatch admin The political base of the PDP candidate for the Obudu/Obanlikwu/Bekwara Federal Constituency, Barrister Legor Idagbo, swelled yesterday with the decision of former spokesman of the ruling PDP, Barrister Venatius Ikem to join forces with the Bekwara born politician in Saturday’s election. The joining of forces by the duo is perceived by many
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Government has dismissed a newspaper report which puts the state’s total debt profile at N400 Billion as fiction. The government also described the report which claims the state is the most indebted in the country as misleading and false. A statement issued in Calabar on Monday and signed
By Our Correspondent Hausa community resident in Cross River State, yesterday declared their support for all the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidates including Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections. The position of the group was made known during an interactive town hall meeting with Governor Liyel Imoke, PDP candidates
By Archibong Jeremiah Members of Partnership Opportunities for Women Empowerment Realization, POWER, through Political Advancement for Women, PPA4W have given financial support to some 17 female candidates contesting in the forthcoming general election in the state. The support which cuts across all political parties and offices both at state and national level ranges from fifty
By Raymond Ekemini As part of the preparations to welcome to fresh students admitted for the 210/2015 academic session of the University of Calabar, the office of the Students Union Director of Welfare, Comrade Alawa John has fumigated the entire hostels in the institution. The fumigation exercise came as a result of the recent complaints
By Aplefe Ojong CrossRiverWatch has authoritatively gathered that the Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives for Calabar South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi Federal Constituency who was recently released by his captors was seriously brutalized by the kidnappers. A CrossRiverWatch source who paid a visit to his Ekorinim home reports that Hon. Edem was inflicted with several injuries
By Aplefe Ojong The dust raised by the memo issued by the Director General, of Cross River State Bureau of Public Private Partnership, Francis Ntamu requesting key stakeholders to a meeting with the bureau and the prospective investor interested in the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, publishers of the Nigerian and Weekend Chronicle today Tuesday,
By Aplefe Ojong The kidnapped Labour Party, LP candidate for the Calabar South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi Federal Constituency, in the forthcoming election Hon. Dominic Aqua Edem, who was kidnapped by last week by unknown gunmen has finally been released by his captors, CrossRiverWatch can now authoritatively inform you. Personal Assistant to the released Akpabuyo born politician, Maxwell, when