By CrossRiverWatch Admin At least 59 commercial sex workers which included 43 girls and 16 men have been arrested by the Department of State Security (DSS) in Calabar. Ilupeju Adebayo, Director of DSS in Cross River, who briefed reporters today Saturday in Calabar, said the girls were rounded up at 2:15 a.m Saturday morning at
By Our Correspondent Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state has written to three villages in Obudu, Atiekpe, Ikwomikwu and Okambi, all neighbouring his Kakum village, appealing for their cooperation towards the commencement and speedy completion of work at a new airport the governor plans to build in Obudu. According to a letter to Clan
By David Nsa The outgoing Cross River State Commissioner for Youth and Sport, Mr. Asu Okang has called on his successor (if he’s not retained) to leverage on opportunities the office provides. He gave the advice in a press briefing in his office where he said that, “I will advice my successor to leverage on
By Efa Sunday Some aggrieved members of the Cross River State Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) have faulted the outcome of the 25th and 26th of April, 2019 election that produced Comrade Ben Ukpepi as its Chairman. Summarizing the hiccups into 7-point addressed to the National President and dated 29th of April, 2019, made
By Efa Sunday and Deborah Obot Workers in Cross River State have protested the payment of May salaries on the first day of the month by Governor Ben Ayade. Despite the state receiving the least revenue allocation from the federation account and being third most indebted State in the country, Ayade has made a habit
By Margaret John The erstwhile Senator representing Cross River State, Central Senatorial District, Senator John Owan Enoh, has been revealed to have spent over 300 million naira for constituency projects in 2018. This was made public via a tracking site, ‘tracka’ which helps in tracking constituency projects across the country. According to the site, Owan
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Government has offered employment to 168 people who won the President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Honours Award. The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, announced this at the award ceremony which held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Professor Osinbajo directed that the recipients of the awards be employed immediately
May 29, 2015. I was at the Calabar International Conference Center CICC. There was also a mammoth crowd. The place, though still under construction, was hurriedly opened for the inauguration of the new Governor, Senator Ben Ayade. I got there early with the CrossRiverWatch team. I saw the entry of the outgoing governor Imoke. He