By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Government has described as bizarre, jaundiced and uniformed, Times Magazine’s publication on Agba Jalingo’s treason trial. A statement issued in Calabar, expressed disappointment at Times Magazine’s mischief and idiocy. “It beats the imagination as to why an international news medium of Times Magazine’s standing feeds its readers with
By Ovatitomi Ibingha The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Calabar Branch, Cross River State has condemned in strong terms the purported inauguration of new members of the State Judicial Service Commission by the Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade represented by his deputy Ivara Esu. The body in a press statement jointly signed by it Chairman and Secretary,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In marking the 2019 day of “Ending Impunity Against Journalists” a former Presidential candidate has knocked the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade over the incarceration of Citizen Agba Jalingo. Victor Okhai, a renowned journalist faulted the Cross River State Government for violating the rights of Jalingo over an investigation of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin More than a year after he was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains at the top of a list of the most serious threats to press freedom. The list — released each month by the One Free Press Coalition, which was created by a dozen news
When I think of this course, I imagine 1,000 McDonald’s double cheeseburgers in America; 76 premier league tickets in England; two pet kangaroos in Australia; and 5,000sqm of land in Nigeria. All of these can be bought with 2,200 American dollars, the same amount required to take a Public Narrative course at Harvard Kennedy School’s
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian Governors, as custodians of the people’s mandate at the State level, have so much expectations placed on their shoulders. These range from policy formulations to execution of sustainable projects targeted at improving the lives of citizens. Admittedly, governance is a daunting task, especially in the face of lean resources. But even
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State House of Assembly has recently permitted the State Governor Sen. Ben Ayade to borrow N1,519,884,078.86 (one billion, five hundred and nineteen million, eight hundred and eighty-four thousand, seventy-eight naira and eighty-six kobo) only. Ayade who wrote to the Assembly said the loan “is to enable Government meet its
By Archibong Jeremiah Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the US President, Donald Trump asking him to exercise his constitutional powers “pursuant to the Presidential Proclamations 7750 and 8697 to instruct the US Secretary of State and US Ambassador in Nigeria to temporarily ban Nigerian State Governors and other