By Jonathan Ugbal Entries have opened for the second edition of the Young Business Icons Summit and Awards in Calabar CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. This was contained in a statement signed by Emmanuel Etim, the Cross River State Chairman of the Nigerian Youth Chamber of Commerce who alongside CrossRiverWatch Resources organize the event. “(The) 2016 Young
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Members of Calabar Creative Hub (CCH) have urged the British Council to among other things establish a Creative Art Center in State to help discover and nurture creative art talents. The call was made during a one day interactive session in Calabar where the group said the creative arts sector of Cross
By Ogar Monday, House of Assembly Correspondent The Managing Director, Cross River State Water Board Limited, Prof. Godwin Igile has said that the Cross River State Water Board has the capacity to become an “oil well” with the capacity to bring in millions monthly as revenue if its full potentials can be harnessed. Prof. Igile
By Jonathan Ugbal, Ikwen Atuaka and Linus Ogar Every Year, the months of August and September in the northern part of Cross River State comprising five local government areas, Bekwarra, Obanliku, Obudu, Ogoja and Yala local is packed full with festivities as the people celebrate their New Yam festivals to mark the harvest of the
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade flagged off the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrowers Program For Rice Value Chain Friday in Odukpani and disclosed Cross River aims at introducing systems and mechanisms that will make farming pleasurable to Cross Riverians. Ayade who lauded the federal government for
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Government has announced its intention to partner the Dana group of companies in the Calabar Pharmaceutical Company (Calapharm) as well as in aviation to float its own airline, CaliAir. The Governor, Senator Ben Ayade disclosed this to newsmen, Friday at the site of the Calapharm
By Linus Ogar Yala: Two teenage males were stripped naked midweek in Okuku for stealing pregnant goats CrossRiverWatch can authoritatively report. The duo, one named ‘Canter’ who resides along Riverside, Imaje road and the other unnamed, CrossRiverWatch gathered were caught with two pregnant goats in their possession following the cry from a goat owner in
By Bassey Inyang Four diesel fired electricity generating sets belonging to Mirage Hotels in Calabar, where the former Minister for Culture and Tourism, Chief Edem Duke, is the major shareholder, were carted away on Monday by Sypet Oil and Chemical Limited, following a judgment debt valued at N52 million. Counsel to Sypet Oil, Eric Utang, told