By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and the Office of the National Women’s Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, headed by Dr. Betta Edu, during the weekend hosted about 700 APC female aspirants for different offices in the
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report The Cross River State Government has begun the Second Outbreak Response, OBR2, vaccination exercise aimed at keeping the State polio count at zero. The Government said it has also set up a Rapid Response Team across major borders in the State to optimize poliomyelitis vaccination and other childhood
By Sylvia Akpan and Mary Bassey Listen To The Report Barrister Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner in charge of information and voter’s education in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said the data from the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration, CVR of the commission shows that the youths have the potential to determine the 2023
By Sylvia Akpan and Mary Bassey Listen To The Report Stakeholders in the media have identified consistent training of citizen journalists and other media practitioners as the panacea for political misinformation which has often led to violence during electioneering periods. This was the focus of discussion at an event to mark the fourth anniversary of
By Patrick Obia and Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report Gubernatorial aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State have reacted differently to the meetings that reportedly produced a consensus candidate and aspirant respectively. Former lawmaker, Senator Bassey Otu emerged as APC consensus candidate in a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN says the reconstruction of the vandalized transmission tower number 104 on the Odukpani-Ikot Ekpene 330kV double-circuit transmission line in Oku Iboku, after the Itu Bridge, has reached 70 percent completion. The tower was vandalized on April 8, 2022 leaving Calabar, the Cross
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report The Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC says Cross River State has recorded two confirmed cases of Monkeypox in 2022. This was contained in the periodic epidemiology report of the NCDC released earlier this month. Other States that have recorded confirmed cases in 2022 include Adamawa (three), Lagos
Listen To The Article The Cross River State Traditional Rulers Law which is readily online and can be accessed by anyone that has data on the phone, in Section 30 sub 3, clearly forbids monarchs in our State from participating actively in a political activity. They all know the law. Prof. Itam attended an elders