Governor Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade of Cross River State is a very passionate man. He puts all his energy into whatever he desires to do. Off-stage he is a very jovial personality; on stage, he plays the emotional character, almost comedic. Compassion hits his tear glands easily causing torrential drops, often with the vibration of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The woman in the Photo op with Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River shared by his aides during the commissioning of 52 housing units has not been given a house. Findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal that contrary to the earlier reported 400 housing units, only 52 were built. Two of those units are
Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade’s tears hold no tax exemption hope for the low-income earners in the State, writes Bassey Inyang, Cross River State Correspondent of This Day Newspaper. On Thursday, May 21, while inaugurating the Cross River State Anti-Tax Agency, the state governor, Professor Ben Ayade, got into his usual emotional fit, and wept over
A foremost Professor of History, the Pioneer Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, the eminent Prof. Emmanuel Ayandele in the early 1980’s following the endless discordant tunes by the State political class described Cross River State as “an atomistic society perpetually in conflict with itself”. The definition came after the University of Calabar; a
May 29, 2020 The current administration in Cross River state has just 1,095 days left in office before its statutory four year tenure elapses yet Cross Riverians have always been regaled with comical acts from elected and appointed office holders in the past one year; a situation that has placed a people once known for
It all started like a dream which no one knew the interpretation or aftermath. It is the month of March 2019 and the peaceful community of Okambi is recovering from the hustle and bustle of the New Year and just days after the General Elections where the Governor had been generously handed a second term
If education is expensive, ignorance is still more costly… P. B. de La Bruère – 1903 All around continental Africa, most of the countries appear to be in a state of uncertainty as there seems to be some form of identity crisis following the inability to properly define nationalist goals and holistic approaches to achieving
When my mobile telephone rang around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, I knew, before checking it, what news I would receive: the death, at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), of James Kolawole Kwame Crentsil, popularly known as Comrade James Crentsil in and outside Calabar and in and outside the Nigerian Socialist