By Our Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade says the proposed Calas Vegas city to be located at Twins Island in the state is a heritage of legendary Scottish missionary, Mary Slessor. Ayade disclosed this in an interview with government house correspondents shortly after a tour and inspection of the Twins island where
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent A South Korean firm, Kingline Integrated Power Development Limited Tuesday, approached the Cross River State government for land acquisition to build a 550 MegaWatts, MW gas fired power plant in the state. This comes on the heels of several Memorandum of Understandings and Expression of Interest from several companies
By Jonathan Ugbal and Ashie Osor The Cross River State government says it has obtained exploration licences for mineral resources from the federal government. The licences includes quarry lease for granite, exploration licence for limestone, clay and shale as well as reconnaissance permit. “Today, we thank the federal government for understanding that states should have
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly has reviewed downward the Cross River State’s 2016 budget from an initial sum of N303,100, 000 (Three hundred billion, one hundred million naira) to the sum of N259,155,419,195 (Two hundred and fifty nine billion, one hundred and fifty five million, four
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has performed the ground breaking ceremony for a Post Service Housing estate for its retired officers and civilians at Adiabo, Calabar. Ayade, Thursday, in the company of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai for the ceremony, called on the need
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Residents of Calabar South Local Government Area, Cross River State otherwise referred to as the most notorious neighborhood in the State have in the past one week been witnessing another gang war leading to loss of lives and properties. The area had been in peace for about 3-4 months preceded by about
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By Inyali Peter The solution to the current economic crisis facing the country can be mitigated at all levels if youths take advantage of opportunities in Agriculture says Odey Ochicha, the Cross River State All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 general elections. Ochicha in a reaction to the reported rise in crime