By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Barring any last-minute change, Senator Sandy Onoh, the guber candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State for the March 2023 polls will pick academic entrepreneur, Sir Arthur Jarvis Archibong as his deputy. Different sources within the party told CrossRiverWatch that Senator Onoh communicated his
By Sylvia Akpan Listen To The Report Hon. Robinson Uwak, former Akwa Ibom House of Representatives member, accused by his estranged wife, Mrs. Kezia Uwak of attempted murder has threatened to sue CrossRiverWatch over the report. His lawyer, Nureini Jimoh, SAN, wrote to CrossRiverWatch and demanded 2 million naira compensation for alleged defamation. He threatened
By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report Justice Bassey Ebuta of the High Court of Cross River State on Thursday failed to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to determine whether the collection of fees and levies from pupils in basic education classes at public-owned institutions in the State is wrong as enshrined in the
By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN Listen To The Report The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N964 million for the provision of satellite-based education system equipment in three primary schools in each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, revealed this at
By Ogar Monday List To The Report As the activities of illegal forest loggers continue unabated in Cross River State, data by the Global Forest Watch, an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time, shows that last year, Cross River State lost 11,800 hectares. Further analysis of the data showed that Akamkpa
By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report The Niger Delta States in Nigeria have failed to attract any Foreign Direct Investment, FDI in the first quarter of 2022, says the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS. The States are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers. Also, 23 other States failed
By Great Ozozoyin, DailyPost Listen To The Report The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has lamented the alleged refusal of Taraba, Zamfara, Cross River, and Abia states to implement the approved national minimum wage of N30,000. This was lucidly demonstrated today at the ongoing 110 Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, when the
By Patrick Obia Listen To The Report The Chairman of National Youth Council of Nigeria, Cross River State chapter, Dan Obo has resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Dan made his decision known in a letter addressed to his Ward Chairman of PDP, Obubra Urban, disclosing that as an advocate of back-to-south