by crossriverwatch admin Over eight hundred thousand children were administered immunization, folic acid along with worm medicines while one hundred and seventy seven women were administered the anti tetanus vaccines during the one week Maternal Newborn and Child Week in Cross River State. Mrs. Patricia Ebam, the State Immunization Officer who gave the figures to
by crossriverwatch admin Senator Liyel Imoke, the Cross River State governor Wednesday in the state capital Calabar declared that passion and doggedness have been the state’s driving forces in developing sports despite mounting challenges such as lack of funds, infrastructure and equipment. Senator Imoke stated this while declaring open the 4th Cross River State Primary/Secondary
by crosssriverwatch admin The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI , is not a witch hunting instrument or a self seeking exercise but a voluntary process through which verifiable data is validated and published for use by policy makers and the public towards improving the country’s macroeconomics environment and strengthening public expenditure management and implementing
by crossriverwatch admin A 21 year old boy, Samuel Eyo Nsa has stabbed his 78-year old father, Chief Eyo Nsa to death at Eseko village, Creek Town in Odukpani Local Government Area of the State for allegedly refusing to defend him after he was caught stealing a neighbor’s goat. The incident happened on Children’s Day,
by crossriverwatch admin Some political office holders who are still enjoying salaries from their former Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Cross River State will soon be identified and sanctioned, crossriverwatch can authoritatively report. Chairman of the State Civil Service Commission, Sir Brian Ekpong stated this in Calabar when the Commission interfaced with the Chairman
by NAN The Cross River Government has won $1 million prize instituted by Bill Gates Foundation for polio Immunization in Africa, Commissioner for Local Government Affairs Peter Ojie has said. Ojie told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar that the state emerged the best in polio immunization in the South South
by crossriverwatch admin A sixteen year old girl, Miss Agnes Igben and her mum have been banished from Bedia Village in Obudu Local Government for conspiring to bury Agnes’ new born baby alive. Crossriverwatch gathered that Agnes who suddenly became pregnant nine months ago, until she was delivered of her baby girl at home by
by crossriverwatch admin Two weeks after a Chinese trade delegation from Changchun City, China had made known its intention to establish a truck manufacturing plant in Calabar, another Chambers from the world’s second largest economy have arrived the state with more business fortunes. A delegation from Lianonig Chambers of Commerce, China led by its Managing