By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party says it will go into the next season of electioneering campaigning on the basis of verifiable projects and successes and not propaganda. The Chairman of the party in the State, Venatius Ikem Esq made this known last weekend while welcoming 2,193 defectors
there have been at least four interventions on the bridge with the first started by the late Commissioner of Police, Mr. Daniel Anyogo and the most recent by the Commissioner for Education in Cross River, Dr. Stephen Odey
By Jonathan Ugbal Pa Francis Ingwubel Akpo, the father of Dr. Linda Ayade, wife of the immediate past Governor of Cross River State, Senator Benedict Ayade has died aged 83. Pa Akpo, a retired teacher and administrator passed on in the late hours of Good Friday, March 29, 2024 in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin In the first six months after taking office, 13 new state governors collectively borrowed N226.8bn from Domestic and external financiers. This emerged as findings by Sunday PUNCH showed that 16 state governors also increased the debt profile of their states by N509.3bn with domestic and external debt of N243.95bn and $298.5m (N265.37bn),
By Jonathan Ugbal The Senator representing Cross River North in the 10th National Assembly, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe on Sunday said he will do more than what he has been celebrated for in the past. The third-term lawmaker made this known on the sidelines of his thanksgiving ceremony at Ogoja where he lamented the quality of
By Jonathan Ugbal The Catholic Bishop of Ogoja Diocese, Most Revd. Dr. Donatus Akpan says God gave the Senator representing Cross River North district, Jarigbe Agom, his position to test the stuff he is made of. The Clergyman said this on Sunday morning during the thanksgiving ceremony of the lawmaker for his victory at the
The multi-hectares of land donated by neighboring Obeagu Awkunanaw and Amechi Uwani communities to the old Anambra State for the building of the main campus of then Anambra State University of Science and Technology, ASUTECH, have become a source of controversy between the donors and the state following the conversion of the land to private
By Patrick Obia A High Court sitting in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State has sentenced a man in his 40s, Mr. Ernest Odong Oyira, to 14 years imprisonment after being found guilty of rape. The 10-year-old victim (name withheld) is the perpetrator’s niece and was 8 years old when she got raped.