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Police Under Pressure to Abandon Certificate Forgery Investigation Against Cross River Commissioner For Information

by crossriverwatch admin CrossRiverWatch has reliably gathered that the Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Police is under undue pressure from powerful sources in the State Government to abandon the ongoing certificate forgery investigation against the State Commissioner for Information, Chief. Akin Rickett. The State Criminal Investigation Department SCID, Diamond Hill had in March,

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National Pension Commission Opens Zonal Office in Calabar

by crossriverwatch admin The National Pension Commission today, Friday commissioned its’ South South Zonal office in Diamond Hill, Calabar. The Acting Director General of the Commission, Ms. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu said the Commission thought it expedient to establish zonal offices in all the six geopolitical zones of the country as way of decentralizing it activities to

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NDLEA Arrest 30 Drug Pushers in Calabar South

by crossriverwatch admin In a bid to clean up notorious hide outs in Calabar South, the Cross River State command of the National Drug law Enforcement Agency on Friday announced the success of their Thursday raids in parts of Calabar South Local Government with the arrest of thirty narcotic drug peddlers in a special operation

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Five Arrested Over Multi Million Naira Fraud in Cross River Internal Revenue Service

by crossriverwatch admin Five staff of the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service have been arrested for allegedly cloning official receipts of the agency with which they gave to politicians to obtain tax clearance certificates to contest the 2013 local government elections in the state. Mr. Emmanuel Chris Ogar, the Chairman of the State Internal

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Cross River No Longer Civil Service State- Imoke

by crossriverwatch admin The era when Cross River was referred to as a civil service state is over as government has put in place necessary machinery to drive its economy and create wealth. Governor Liyel Imoke disclosed this during a welcome cocktail preceding the 2013 edition of the Africa CEO Roundtable and Conference on Corporate

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Calabar 2013 Not All Comers Affair – AFN President

by crossriverwatch admin Athletics Federation of Nigeria President, Mr Solomon Ogba said in Calabar on Tuesday where the National Athletics Championship is taking place that the 2013 championship will be remarkably different from the past events as the standard will be raised to allow only athletes who have known time record to participate. He said

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Jonathan in Calabar, Says Nigeria’s Economy is One of The Fastest Growing in The World

by crossriverwatch admin With an annual double digit growth rate of 30%, Nigeria’s economy ranks amongst the fastest growing in the world and that accounts for government’s aim of attaining a 4,000 Dollars Gross Domestic Product, GDP in the next ten years. President Goodluck Jonathan made this declaration on today in Calabar while performing the

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Cross River Assembly Chief Whip Denies Punching Police Woman, Absconds Oversea

by crossriverwatch admin Hon. Uduak Eyo Akiba, Chief Whip of the Cross River State House of Assembly who represents Calabar Municipality state constituency has denied assaulting a female police corporal at the weekend. In a telephone chat with CrossRiverWatch yesterday before absconding abroad, Hon Akiba said it was not true that she punched and slapped

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