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
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the recruitment of 1,000 Teachers into the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and about 41 more into the Cross River State Water Board Limited (CRSWBL). Governor Ayade had shortly after assumption of office lifted the over 2 decade’s embargo
By Jonathan Ugbal and Inyali Peter Residents of Ikot Anwatim community in Cross River’s capital city of Calabar have petitioned their village head, Ntufam Patrick Offiong to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) calling on the distribution outfit to investigate the monarch who alongside his cronies, allegedly N10,000 from over 300 compounds amounting to
By Ogar Monday: House of Assembly Correspondent The revenue drive of the Commercial Transport Regulatory Agency (CTRA) and the Department of Public Transport (DOPT) is not their core mandate says the Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, John Gaul Lebo. Lebo stated this when he hosted a delegation of the Unified Taxi Drivers