By Aplefe Ojong The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Benedict Ayade has written to the State House of Assembly requesting for the revision of the 2015 Appropriation Law. A letter dated September 3, 2015 and addressed to the Speaker of the House, indicates that the governor is requesting for a revision of the 2015
By Our Correspondent The Organized Private Sector, OPS in Cross River State, made up of The Calabar Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria, (MAN), National Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (NASME) and the National association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) is requesting the Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade-led administration to come up with
By CrossRiverWatch admin An extensive utilization of the Freedom of Information Law by Cross River born civil rights activist and APC Chieftain, Barrister Okoi Obono Obla is unearthing numerous details about how the finances of the state have been managed by the immediate past administration of Liyel Imoke. It will be recalled that the Cross
By Our Correspondent The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has disclosed that plans are on- going for the establishment of a state micro-finance bank and an Enterprise Academy in Cross River. Hon. Lebo who made the disclosure recently, when a delegation of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s
By CrossRiverWatch admin FBN Capital Limited has announced the successful conclusion of the Series 1 Bond Issuance offer for the Cross River State Government, under its N40 billion bond issuance program. The 7-year tenured Bonds with maturity due in 2022 were issued via a Book Building process by FBN Capital Limited, following its appointment as
By Ushang Ewa In a bid to keep the city of Calabar clean and green, the Calabar Urban Development Authority (CUDA) carried out what CrossRiverWatch gathered is tagged ‘Operation keep Calabar green’ by driving away street sellers with our reporter witnessing scenes of selective implementation of the directive. The exercise which had much focus on
The University of Calabar is one academic environment that was known all over Nigeria for notoriety. It was a breeding ground of cultists and cultism, academic dropouts and half baked graduates. Academic excellence was not in the agenda. Massive academic corruption from every angle, high scale rackets in examination scores, upgrading, and outright sorting from
INTRODUCTION The ceding of Bakassi Peninsula by Nigeria to Cameroun on October 9, 2012 following the International Court of Justice judgment in 2002 and the loss of the oil wells to Akwa Ibom State through the Nigerian Supreme Court judgment of 2012 are two events that mark a turning point for Cross River State. These