By Jonathan Ugbal and Christiana Alawa For over three consecutive months, long queues have continuously greeted the Automated Teller Machines ATM’s of different banks in Obudu local government area always creating ugly scenarios amongst other things. There are three new generation banks in the local government with each having just one branch. One of the
By Our Correspondent A public private dialogue PPD/town hall meeting held on Thursday, 2nd April, 2015 in Edimotop, Calabar Municipal LGA between the Cross River State Government represented by the DG, Cross River Geographic Information Agency, CRGIA, Dr. Clement Oshaka and his team and the community Chiefs, clan heads and women leaders of the Proof
By CrossRiverWatch admin It was a day of joy on Tuesday, 17th March in Akpabuyo Local government area on the occasion of the showcase of GEMS3 facilitated tax for service projects and graduation/empowerment of 141 women trained under the supervision of the women development unit of the LGA for the acquisition of various skills. The
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