By Margaret John The erstwhile Senator representing Cross River State, Central Senatorial District, Senator John Owan Enoh, has been revealed to have spent over 300 million naira for constituency projects in 2018. This was made public via a tracking site, ‘tracka’ which helps in tracking constituency projects across the country. According to the site, Owan
By Patrick Obia The College of Heath Technology Calabar, on Tuesday, 30th April 2019, matriculated a total of seven hundred and thirty three students (733) into the College and decries inadequate accommodation. The 12th matriculation ceremony took place in the College premises along Mary Slessor Avenue, Calabar, Cross River State. In her address, the Provost
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Government has offered employment to 168 people who won the President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Honours Award. The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, announced this at the award ceremony which held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Professor Osinbajo directed that the recipients of the awards be employed immediately
By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent In readiness to when Nigeria will embrace the use of electric cars, Cross River Government is aligning with a Slovak firm, Sirieco Company Limited to establish electric car assembling plant in the State. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Groidis Peter disclosed this recently after being led by
May 29, 2015. I was at the Calabar International Conference Center CICC. There was also a mammoth crowd. The place, though still under construction, was hurriedly opened for the inauguration of the new Governor, Senator Ben Ayade. I got there early with the CrossRiverWatch team. I saw the entry of the outgoing governor Imoke. He
By Ilam Patricia Prof. Emmanuel Unimke Ingwu, has been appointed the Acting Vice Chancellor of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) a while ago, by the Governing Council of the school. In a telephone chat with CrossRiverWatch, Prof. Ingwu, confirmed that: “Yes! I have been appointed VC today by the Governing Council of the school.”
Sen. Ben Ayade, the Governor of Cross River State is one outstanding Governor in Nigeria, with revolutionary ideas in industrialization and agricultural development. The Governor’s industrialization drive has set the State on a fast track of transformation from a third world sub-national entity to a first world. One of the key areas of his investment
His overly ambitious “super highway” is superfluous, anti-people, a misplaced priority and a fraudulent adventure. It is a deliberate ploy to enrich himself and his cohorts at the State Assembly where all 25 seats are occupied by the PDP. Cross River State sits precariously on the periphery of safety under incumbent Governor Ben Ayade. Ayade’s