By Efa Sunday The Cross River State Government has assured Cross Riverians that phase one the Ayade Mega City Project in partnership with Post-Service Housing Development Limited will be completed and habitable by the end of first quarter in 2019. The assurance was given by the Executive Secretary of the State New City Development Board,
By Rose Ofem The Cross River State Government has been accused of not having the political will to cub the protracted communal crisis in the State. The accusation was made by Chief Mba Ukweni, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in an exclusive interview with CrossRiverWatch TV where he stressed that there are many white papers
By Elijah Ugani and Efa Sunday The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State on Entrepreneurship and Job Placement Mr. Joseph Edet has revealed that “about 95% of entrepreneurs in the State are Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSE).” The newly appointed SSA made the disclosure in a media parley with
By Efa Sunday And Patrick Obia The Efut Combined Assembly (ECA) has accused the Cross River State Governor Sen. Ben Ayade of back stabbing. According to the Secretary of the Assembly, Dr. Godwin Bassey who spoke exclusively to CrossRiverWatch TV issuing Staff of Office to Prof. Itam Hogan is going against the norms of the
By Margaret John And Mary Umani Mr. Ekpo Okon, PDP Southern Cross River Senatorial aspirant has denied allegations that he masterminded an attack on his opponent, Senator Gershom Bassey. Speaking to CrossRiverWatch TV over the weekend, Mr. Ekpo described the accusation by his opponent as baseless maintaining that “Gershom is only trying to get public
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Cross River State primary for the Calabar South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi House of Representatives was greeted with chaos Thursday as the election didn’t hold at the venue slated for (Cultural Centre Calabar). The election which was monitored by our reporters didn’t hold after the party faithfuls and other observers had
By Efa Sunday The senator representing Cross River South in the National Assembly, Gershom Bassey has accused a fellow aspirant, Mr. Ekpo Okon of masterminding the attack on him at the Transcorp Hotel on Wednesday. Mr. Bassey made the accusation while addressing journalists at his residence where he alleged that Mr. Okon’s men attacked him
By Sunday Efa The Cross River Coordinator of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Godwin Odey has said that only 300, 000 out of the over 4.2 million residents in the State have registered for the compulsory National Identity Number. According to him, “This means that only 7 percent of the population has been