By Our Correspondent Cross River governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the reappointments of Mr Emmanuel E. Asikpo-Okon and Mr. Christian Ita, as the State Chief of Protocol and Chief Press Secretary and Senior Special Assistant on Media. The two appointments take effect immediately a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Dr.
27th June, 2019 Governor Ayade Must Explain N12 Billion Security Vote, Contingencies And Landscaping Of Governor’s Office The African Action Congress AAC, is calling on Governor Ben Ayade to come clean on some suspicious items in his secretive 2019 budget of Qabalistic Densification. These items include the N7 Billion earmarked for security vote; the N4
By Ushang Ewa The Cross River State government has written a firm based in the United States of America to discuss terms over it’s interest to “acquire and gain assets of Tinapa,” a document obtained by CrossRiverWatch reveals. The letter with reference number “GO/S/17/VOL.1/149” dated June 26, 2019 was a reply to an expression of
By Margaret John, House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly has began in earnest, kicking off with a tour to the Ayade Industrial Park. The tour took place after a brief plenary session on Tuesday, where a majority of the House went to oversee the various State projects. Among the sites
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government has budgeted five billion Naira to spend on “contingencies,” and “landscaping of Governors office” in Calabar. Of the sum, Governor Ben Ayade has four billion Naira to spend for “contigencies.” The budget subhead is tagged “His Excellency Contingencies” and falls under the recurrent expenditure of the office
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River State Government 2019 budget estimates provide a total of NGN1,420,000,000 (one billion, four hundred and twenty million Naira) for Governor Ben Ayade’s travel and transport for the 2019 financial year. Of this figure, his local travel and transport is expected to gulp NGN800,000,000 (eight hundred million) while NGN620,000,000 was
By David Nsa Mrs. Mary Michael Eyo, the wife to Mr. Michael Eyo, who was allegedly killed on Friday by officials of the Cross River State Department Of Public Transportation (CRS-DOPT), in Calabar has called on the State Government to come to her aid. Mrs. Michael made this known in an interview with CrossRiverWatch, in
By Jonathan Ugbal The Police command in Cross River has arrested two suspects in connection to the death of a hawker simply identified as Michael who was killed in a confrontation with officials of the State’s Department of Public Transportation DOPT, in Calabar on Friday. The command’s public relations officer, Mrs. Irene Ugbo, a Deputy