Abbey Ukpukpen, a former beauty queen and widow of late Hon. Stephen Ukpukpen, emerged yesterday in a PDP primary election at the Senator Liyel Imoke Civic Center, Obudu, to represent the party in the August 11 bye-election to fill the vacancy created by the demise of her husband who represented Obudu state constituency in the
There is no doubt that the recent visit of the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to commission the ultramodern automated rice seedlings and seed factory built by the Cross River State government has put some spotlight on the development initiatives of the Ayade’s administration. In the light of this, our intention is to seize the
The story of the Cross River State Rice City project can be likened to that of a budding pregnancy. At first, it bears symptoms of an onset of fever and progresses further into physiognomic changes in the carrier of the fetus with manifest signs like vomiting, nausea as well as skin changes. At that embryonic
The Cross River State Government in partnership with a South African company is setting up a state-of-the-art integrated animal feed mill, poultry breeding and frozen chicken for export facility that is planned to be one of the largest south of Nigeria in Obubra Local Government Areas of the state. The facility is to be complemented
By CrossRiverWatch Admin On Sunday 24th July, 2018, I read an article with the above title written by one Venatius Ikem ahead of the visit of the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday 26th of June, 2018 to Cross River State to commission the Cross River State Rice Seed and Seedling Factory
As our governor prepares for the visit of Mr. President and more Industries are hastily built and thousands are hastily employed, even if only on Radio, I recall our days in school, primary and secondary. Each time an Inspector of schools is expected, or a Commissioner or some senior official of the Ministry of Education,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The emergence of attacks by the Fulani Nomads is not strange to me and should not be to the Bette, Igede, and Ukel (Bekwara) people of both Cross River and the Tiv communities in Benue State. An attempt to trace the origin, exodus and settlement of the Bette Agba kindred as part
At its seventeenth special session, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Political Declaration and Global Program of Action against dangerous drugs. Nothing less was expected from a session devoted to the question of worldwide action and cooperation against illicit drugs. Issues in supply, demand, trafficking and distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic