By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River state governor, Senator Ben Ayade has explained why he is not interested in expanding and upgrading the Bebi Airstrip near the Obudu Ranch Resort to an international passenger and cargo airport, saying the strip is nestled in a magnetic mountain with high accidents rate. The governor disclosed this while hosting
By Jonathan Ugbal Four billion Naira has been earmarked for the food bank program of Governor Ben Ayade’s administration in Cross River State the 2019 chart of accounts reveal. The figure is N1.5 billion lesser than the N5.5 billion earmarked for the scheme in 2018. The food bank is a scheme designed to provide food
By Jonathan Ugbal As CrossRiverWatch combs through the almost 800 page N1.043 trillion 2019 budget of Qabalistic Densification of the Cross River State government, more details have emerged on the spending with nine billion earmarked for “Diesel Generators Power Supply at Homes in 18 LGAs”. It is unclear where these homes are located and who
By Jonathan Ugbal The Chairman of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) in Bayelsa State, Mr. Ezekiel Ogbianko has said that the panacea to poverty and unemployment in the Niger Delta region lies in Governors emulating the strides made in the agro sector by their colleague in Cross River, Senator Ben Ayade. Ogbianko made
By Jonathan Ugbal The Department of Public Transportation in Cross River State has been appropriated the sum of N392,977,651.40K in the 2019 budget of Qabalistic Densification. This is despite claims that the department which is largely viewed as a cash cow generated N13,762,300 as revenue between January and October 2018 according to the chart of
By Ushang Ewa The Cross River State government has written a firm based in the United States of America to discuss terms over it’s interest to “acquire and gain assets of Tinapa,” a document obtained by CrossRiverWatch reveals. The letter with reference number “GO/S/17/VOL.1/149” dated June 26, 2019 was a reply to an expression of
By Jonathan Ugbal The leader of the enforcement team from the Department of Public Transport (DOPT)which allegedly caused the death of Mr. Michael Eyo Essien, a hawker at Watt Market in Calabar is currently in Police Custody says the acting Director General of the DOPT, Mr. Godwin Nyiam. “I have brought the driver and leader
By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent Moved by Governor Ben Ayade’s rice value chain revolution in Cross River State, the Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Professor Nelson Brambaifa has disclosed plans to key into the project and expand it to other States within the region. Brambaifa