By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Government has dismissed a newspaper report which puts the state’s total debt profile at N400 Billion as fiction. The government also described the report which claims the state is the most indebted in the country as misleading and false. A statement issued in Calabar on Monday and signed
By Ugani Elijah Obudu Local Government Council in Cross River State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with the Cross River State Government’s SmartGov in a deal facilitated by the Growth and Employment in States, GEMS3 on improved approach to revenue collection using the Point of Sale (POS) machine within the council’s jurisdiction. The
By Archibong Jeremiah The Director General of Cross River State Signage and Advertisement Agency, CRISSAA Mr. Godwin Iyala has disclosed that his agency came about as a result of difficulties involved in regulating the advertisement business in the state especially outdoor advertisement. He made this known in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch recently in his
By Sylvia Etta Cross River State in 2007, when former governor, Mr. Donald Duke was leaving had accrued a total debt of 80 Billion Naira which was largely borrowed to finance the construction of Obudu Cattle ranch and the Tinapa Resort which has now failed and has been taken over by the Asset Management Company
By Our Correspondent Cross River State Government, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday launched and disbursed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund (MSMEDF) to 700 enterprises in the state. The disbursement exercise which was carried out in Calabar, the state capital, through the Cross River State Micro-finance and Enterprise
By Jonathan Ugbal The consumer of any product is obviously an angel to the producer. The practicality of the above is the reality been faced by business operators in the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH where the industrial action embarked upon by the branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has affected
By Edima Frank Customers of a micro-finance bank in Bakassi known as Ayi-Riwo Thrift Savings and Loans, MPCS limited have been thrown into confusion as they are unable to get back the principal amount they saved, talked less of the accruing interests. CrossRiverWatch gathered from some of the aggrieved customers of the micro-finance bank that
By Archibong Jeremiah The General Manager, Chris Parkes Marketing Solutions, CPMS Africa, Cross River State Branch, concessionaire to the Cross River State Signage and Advertising Agency, CRISSAA, Mr. Ebenezer Maduako has promised that no business will be over charged or over taxed beyond normal rates. Ebenezer made this known in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch