By Margaret John, House of Assembly Correspondent The new Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jones Williams has promised Cross Riverians that, the 9th Assembly under his watch will ensure that the lingering Local Government elections will be conducted. He also promised that his leadership will train and retrain Honorable
By Aplefe Ojong Mr. Tim Johnson, the Provincial Secretary of the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP), has confirmed to CrossRiverWatch that Yakurr born Obasesam Okoi, whom the party Secretary referred to as ‘Sam Okoi’ has been officially nominated as the NDP Candidate to represent Springfield-Richot Constituency in the forthcoming election in Manitoba, Canada. In a
By Emma Unah Mr Austin Agbonlahon, the Cross River State Commissioner of Police says he cannot confirm if ace broadcaster, Mr Petex Etim is still alive or not. Speaking with journalists on today, Monday at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press Center in Calabar during an interaction, the Police Commissioner said investigations are still on to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin President Muhammadu Buhari has finally accepted the retirement letter of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Onnoghen has been enmeshed in a false asset declaration scandal since January 2019, as upon resuming office as CJN, failed to declare a domiciliary US dollar account, a domiciliary euro account, a domiciliary (pound sterling)
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state has assured Cross Riverians that, after his eight years as governor of the state, ‘even if you are a son of the devil’, you will agree that he has done well. Ayade gave this assurance while talking to news men recently at the Rice Seedling
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The industrialization effort of Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has started yielding fruits as the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has placed a N3 billion order for the State to supply rice seedlings to all the States in
By Usen Edem It appears Cross Riverians are displeased with Governor Ayade’s latest sojourn in Europe, where he was photographed at the NIMASA exhibition stand at the just concluded shipping trade fair in Oslo, Norway. The governor was booed in church earlier today, live on AIT, during the burial service of late Temitope Ita Ekpenyong,
By Our Reporter The spokesman for the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit NFIU, Mr Sani Tukur, confirmed on Thursday that the NFIU directive to financial institutions to dishonor cheques emanating from State governors on behalf of local government councils from 1st June 2019, had recorded 100 per cent compliance; but the Cross River state governor, Senator