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76 Oil Wells: Bakassi Youths Protest In Calabar

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Bakassi youths took to the streets and marched to the Cross River State House of Assembly on Tuesday to demand the return of the 76 oil wells handed to Akwa Ibom State by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 after a Supreme Court judgment. The youths led by Kingsley Asuquo carried placards

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Budget Transparency Network Tags Cross River 2019 Budget, A Joke

By Patrick Obia As reactions continue to trail the Cross River State 2019 budget christened “Qabalistic Densification”, the Executive Secretary of Budget, Transparency and Accountability Network, Kingsley Eworo, has described the budget as “a joke”. Mr. Eworo featured as a guest on Hit95.9 FM interactive regular Sunday program “The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo”, where he

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JUST IN: Ayade Meet HOLGA’s As Allocations Hit LG Accounts Directly

By Jonathan Ugbal Information reaching CrossRiverWatch suggests that the federal government has paid allocations for the month of June 2019 directly into the accounts of the 18 local government areas of the State. The accounts are said to have been almost empty for over a decade following the establishment of the Joint State and Local

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New Minimum Wage: Ayade Reaffirms Commitment To Implementation

By Nakanda Iyadim Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has again expressed his willingness to implement the new N30,000 minimum wage. Ayade restated his commitment to the implementation of the new minimum wage when the new leadership of the State Executive Council of Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC), led by its Chairman, Comrade Ben Ukpepi

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Ayade And The Media: Understanding The Issues BY AGBA JALINGO

No beating about the bush. Let me begin by showing you this internal memo. Read it. TO ALL CONCERNED His Excellency, the Digital Governor has directed that henceforth, only the underlisted persons should be part of his itinerary: Channels reporter and camera man; AIT reporter and camera man; Ashie Osor (Chronicles), Daniel Williams, Nakanda, Sunny

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Governor Ben Ayade, The Emergence Of A New Despot BY ELIAS OZIKPU

I read without an atom of surprise the news about Governor Ben Ayade’s repression against correspondents of the underlisted media organisations at the Government House in Cross River State: CrossRiverWatch, Hit FM, FAD FM and Sparkling FM. It is the sort of action I have long expected from the governor. It has never been a

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Obudu Born High Court Judge Who Ordered Diezani Arrest, Sacked Sheriff Is Dead

By Jonathan Ugbal Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court reputed to have ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Nigeria’s secret police, the SSS and other security agencies to arrest former petroleum minister within 72 hours has died. Ashi died on Friday at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja due

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Ogoja University Of Technology: Northern Cross River Youth Council Leaders Write Ayade

RE: HOUSE BILL 1293, A BILL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY OGOJA 2019. Your Excellency, We write on behalf of the entire Youths and people of Northern Cross River State Senatorial district. First to congratulate you on your well deserved victory in the March 9, 2019 Governorship elections and your subsequent inauguration

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