By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has for the first time explained that the reason behind the decision to present NGN1.3 trillion as estimated spending for the year 2018. He said it was because the investment outlay for the year is more than that. Mr. Ayade disclosed this while
By Magaret Adam An inferno from an unknown source has gutted a section of the popular Marian market Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The fire is said to have began in the early hours of Monday (today), around 1am and affected four lanes of the market, Items destroyed by the fire include clothes, electricals,
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By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent 21 year old Motswanan, Gaseangwe Balopi from Botswana has been crowned as the second Miss Africa beauty queen on climate change. Citizens of Botswana are known as Batswana, with ‘Ba’ meaning ‘the people of’. (The singular is Motswana.) Balopi who pipped 24 others to clinch the coveted crown which includes USD30,000 prize
By Archibong Jeremiah Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is set to hold another crusade in Calabar the Cross River State capital on Thursday February 15, to Saturday 18, 2018. The event which is usually packed is holding at the Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH Calabar campus open field. Making the disclosure at a press conference at
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A petty trader, unnamed on Friday in Calabar threatened task force staff in the ministry of environment that she will prefer being crushed by a truck than allow the task force take her means of livelihood; a business worth about NGN5,000 only. The mild drama happened at the Oando fuelling station along
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government will spend about NGN3 Billion for the 2017 Carnival Calabar and Festivals sources in Government House say. A breakdown of the figure shows that the five competing banks in the Carnival alone will share NGN500 million at NGN100 million apiece as subvention while the Governor’s band also
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The leadership of the Cross River State House of Assembly on Monday gave its support to the inclusion of the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST) in the Constitution. The Speaker, Honorable John Lebo (PDP Abi) stated this when he received Directors of the tribunal in his office in