His style of journalism has always stirred my mind. Before he got arrested by the Police in August this year, I was an ardent reader of his regular posts that served as reminders of the number of days that are left for Senator Ben Ayade to serve as Governor of Cross River State. Those posts
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Last year, according to the Cross River State 2019 budget, chart of account, general administration the State Needs Assessment Agency approved budget was 67,600,000.00. In the current budget for 2019 the Needs Assessment Agency got zero budget allocation. See exclusive document; Also, the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, Calabar maintains the 2018
It’s interesting to find that media institutions appear salutary of those in Government more than hold a position of dispassionate role-play, at least in my recent estimation. While it is important to be patriots in a skewed globalised order, of importance is to stand firm and fight where one’s oxen are repeatedly gored and death
“In the long history of the world; only a few generations have been given the role of defending freedom, in its hour of maximum danger, I do not shrink from that responsibility; I welcome it” – J.F. Kennedy The stakes are really high in Cross River State. Yet, make no mistake about her, Cross River
By Kelvin Ololo The formwe Senator representing Southern Senatorial District and Candidate of All Progressive Congress in the 2019 general election Sen. Prince Bassey Otu has revealed the reason behind his withdrawal of election’s petition against the incumbent Senator. Geshom Bassey. Sen. Otu made this known on a Magazine Programme; “Hit Breakfast Show ” on
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Worried by the continued detention and trial of journalist and human rights activist, Agba Jalingo, in Calabar, Cross River State, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on the State Governor, Ben Ayade, to drop all charges against him and restore his freedom. Similarly, friends, relatives and colleagues of Jalingo staged
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade, who has recently returned to school, University of Calabar, for a Masters degree in law (LLM) is seen in this video leaving school after lectures, in a long convoy of SUVs. The Governor through an aid gave students present at the car park largesse while
By Jonathan Ugbal Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State was on Thursday, absent from the meeting of the Governors of the Niger Delta region with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja. His deputy, Professor Ivara Esu was also absent which means Cross River State was not represented at the meeting where