By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent, Efa Sunday, Deborah Obot, Patricia Illam and Lucky Edet Cross Riverians on Monday joined millions of Nigeria to celebrate the 58th independence anniversary of the country with mixed feelings greeting the celebration. As expected, the state government organised a parade at the U.J Esuene stadium with the Deputy Governor,
By Margaret John and Laura Ella A civil rights activist, Comrade Ben Usang has blamed the poor developmental indices in Cross River on the lack of insight of leaders to project the state’s issues on the national scale as well as corruption. Usang stated this Sunday in Calabar on a radio program monitored by CrossRiverWatch
By Margaret John and Patrick Obia A former attorney general of Cross River State and a gubernatorial aspirant of the Social Democratic Party, Mr. Eyo Ekpo has said that the state will not achieve its full potential until Nigeria as a country stops being a federation only in nomenclature. Ekpo made the assertion while speaking
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent At least 65.5 percent of women in Cross River State have experienced some form of physical violence since age 15 says the Canadian charity organisation, CUSO International. The organisation’s gender expert attached to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Jacque Karungi disclosed this while making a presentation at a one
By Jonathan Ugbal The National Vice Chairman South-South of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hilliard Etta on Sunday explained that the shift in the date of the gubernatorial primaries in Cross River State was due to the late arrival of materials and not its hijack as claimed in some quarters. Briefing journalists in Calabar, Etta
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Sunday polled 1,937 votes to emerge the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 gubernatorial elections. Announcing the results at the U.J Esuene Stadium, the Chairman of the PDP’s electoral committee, Honorable Olorogun Tebite and former member of the
By Efa Sunday The Peoples’ Democratic Party through it’s National Working Committee has ordered the withdrawal of the clearance certificate issued to one of it’s gubernatorial aspirant in Cross River state and pioneer National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Emmanuel Ibeshi The withdrawal order was made through a memo issued on Friday and signed
By Sunday Efa The Cross River Coordinator of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Godwin Odey has said that only 300, 000 out of the over 4.2 million residents in the State have registered for the compulsory National Identity Number. According to him, “This means that only 7 percent of the population has been