A short piece published in ThisDay newspaper today with the caption: “How Ayade Stings Civil Servants”, is a classic in falsehood. Cross River State civil servants have never had it so good as they do under the administration of Governor Ben Ayade. For instance, while many states with even bigger allocation from the federation account
Creative and entertainment industry in Nigeria has become a key driver of growth, analysts have posited. The creative economy – which includes, the film industry, the music industry, the culture industry, visual arts industry, the fashion industry and many others – is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy,
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals are a proposed set of targets relating to future international development. They are to replace the Millennium Development Goals once those expire at the end of 2015. The SDGs were first formally discussed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro
The minority people of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria are today found in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers and Bayelsa States. The regional system that was abolished on the 27th May 1967, when the then Federal Military Government under the leadership of General Yakubu Gowon created 12 States to effectively end regionalism introduced by
AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY SENATOR BEN AYADE, GOVERNOR OF CROSS RIVER STATE ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S 55TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION HELD ON 1ST OCTOBER, 2015 IN CALABAR Fellow Cross Riverians, Today offers us another opportunity to celebrate our nation’s Independence from her Colonial Masters. It is therefore with much delight and honour that I
This write up was prompted as a comment to a post from one of my Facebook friends this morning to the effect that Cross River State is not an oil producing state. Of a truth, Cross River State is not an oil producing state but that doesn’t mean that the state is not an oil
Experts posit that the solid minerals sector has the greatest potentials for investors as Nigeria seeks to diversify from the mono-sector to a multi-sector economy. The sector presents bigger opportunities and greater return on investment as it is still largely unexplored and unexploited. Cross River State is blessed with various solid minerals in abundant quantities
Okuni, a village barely 13 km to Ikom shares boundary with some villages in Akampka Local government. This sounds like a surprise? Yes. Why then do one need to go through Apiapum Ugep, Adim Akpet to get to Akampka? It is within this context you can now understand Ben Ayade’s Super Highway that would shorten