By Our Reporter The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), has expressed concern over the blockage of its Calabar office resulting from construction works at a site in Diamond Hill allegedly grabbed by Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade to build his private residence. The site is located behind the Hope Waddel institute and the former
By Jonathan Ugbal A 6 weeks old baby, Akpong Nolan Kishati-Unimye currently needs USD10,000 or its Naira equivalent of NGN3,152,500 (Thursday official rate at NGN315.25) and NGN3,680,000 at the parallel market NGN368 per dollar). Little Nolan, male was diagnosed of “Transposition of great arteries,” a life threatening heart disease commonly reffered to as TGA after
By Ushang Ewa No fewer than 150 people are currently in detention at various holding cells in Calabar, the Cross River State capital following a massive search and arrest streak by security agencies lasting 5 days now findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal. The raids began Saturday, a source in ‘Operation Skolombo’ said and has since continued
By Jonathan Ugbal The Enyimba international football club of Aba Wednesday in Calabar, the Cross River State capital beat El-Kanemi warriors 4-0 in week 26 of the Nigeria Professional Football League. This is the highest win margin recorded in the season for the seven time league champions who currently play home games at the U.J
By Ushang Ewa The design for the completion of the Oron-Calabar axis (section 5) of the East-West road has commenced by the contractors handling the project. Vanguard reports that the contractors; Amana Consortium Limited and Etteh Aro and partners met with traditional rulers in Oron and Calabar to solicit their support during the execution of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Following the approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the 260km Cross River Superhighway, Governor Ben Ayade has directed that all contractors handling the project should return to site within the next one week. Work on the Superhighway has been stalled following the inability of the state government to get the nod
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Ministry of Environment minutes ago handed the final copy of the approved Environmental Impact Assessment report to the Cross River State government, signaling what the governor said will be immediate return to site to commence work. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Bukar Hassan, handed the approved EIA report
“I have since found out that public service is boring, lethargic, dull, retrogressive and pathogically corrupt.” -Chief Okoi Obono Obla, Special Assistant, Prosecution to President Buhari. Chief Okoi Obono Obla is one man I regard till today as the greatest contemporary activist from Cross River state. He is one of the pillars behind the success