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CRUTECH Students Protest Extortion and Insecurity

Deputy Governor Booed! Story by crossriverwatch admin Students of the Cross River State University of Technology took to the streets in Calabar early today morning bearing green branches and leaves to protest what they described as extortion by the authorities of the institution and general insecurity on the school campus. The protest organized under the

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Imoke Denies Senatorial Ambition

Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke has denied speculations making rounds that he is nursing a dream to represent Cross River Central Senatorial District in the Senate after his second tenure as Governor of Cross River State. Crossriverwatch had reported exclusively yesterday that the Governor was intending to scheme out the incumbent Senate Leader,

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Boki LG Chairman Faces Impeachment Over N15m Misappropriation

Money Used for Imoke’s Election – Chairman story by crossriverwatch admin The crisis of confidence that have prevailed in Boki for almost one year now have snowballed into an impeachment threat on the Executive Chairman of Boki LGA Mr. Jonas Obi-Otu by the Councilors. Cross River Watch reliably learnt that the Boki Council Chairman has

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Calabar: Armed Security Men Seal up Bedwell Motor Parts Market.

story by crossriverwatch.com Officials of the Cross River State Board of Internal Revenue (CRSBIR) accompanied by over fifty armed security men drawn from the Mobile Police Unit, the Army and the traffic enforcers from the Department of Public Transport DOPT, in the Governor’s office, today took over and sealed the vehicle spare parts market at

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Gesh: To Be or Not To Be…

story by crossriverwatch admin. To some followers of Cross River State politics, the race for the 2015 governorship seat in the state has already been decided; regardless of Governor Imoke’s recent statement that his successor will come from Cross River North Senatorial District. This position is anchored on the permutations of a so-called “Lagos Accord”

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Calabar Residents Accuse DOPT of Extortion, Harrassment

story by crossriverwatch admin Residents of Calabar the Cross River State Capital have accused traffic enforcers from the Department of Public Transportation DOPT, of arbitrary extortion and harassment. They also complained that even the levy imposed as parking fee on some designated parking lanes in town are too high. Some of the residents who spoke

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Senator Ayade Will Fail in His Bid to Undo Me – Vena Ikem

Venatius Ikem became a politician at a young age in life. Just after graduating from the university of Jos, he became the Obudu Local Government Chairman under the defunct Social Democratic Party SDP, only at 26 years of age. Since then he has had a bag of mixed fortunes in his meteoric rise in the

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Breaking News: Eight C’River Legislators on Their Way to Sri Lanka

story by crossriverwatch admin Eight members of the Cross River State House of Assembly and the Clerk of the House are on their way to Colombo, Sri Lanka to attend the 58th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association CPA, scheduled to hold from September 7 to 15, 2012. Crossriverwatch reliable gathered that the lawmakers

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