His election came with lots of expectations, given his background and profile, as a former Senator of the Federal Republic, a grassroots man and an erudite professor. Born as Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade not long ago in 1968, he had become one of the youngest serving Governors at the time of his inauguration in May 2015.
played in the illegal arrest and detention of Agba Jalingo; Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has come up to buttress many of our insinuation and perception. Ayade has correctly shown that he is just the complainant, but Jalingo’s is a sinner against both the State and the Federal Government. Ben Ayade, with his
I was driving home from work late evening yesterday, got a call from a friend who directed me to watch Channels TV, saying that Ayade was on TV about Agba Jalingo. I quickly linked myself to the program on my DSTV now app. I must say that Gov. Ayade is the most appalling Professor and
My persecution began on October 21st 2016 when my car was confiscated by the order of an Cross River State Mobile Court. The Federal Road Safety in conspiracy with the Cross River State Government became an extortionist organ with Mobile Court’s set everywhere in Cross River State to generate money for the Government. I had
Perhaps one of the most horrifying news in today’s Nigeria, besides the barbaric decimation of innocent citizens by overly coddled terrorist organisations running amok across the country, is the continuous incarceration of journalist, Agba Jalingo. Agba remains in captivity solely on the executive order of Governor Ben Ayade for rightly demanding that the governor comes
Three days ago, I filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Calabar, challenging the action of the Governor of Cross River State in creating the ministries of Aviation, Foreign Affairs and Solid Minerals. The Governor and the State Government will certainly be served with the Court process this week. So, ordinarily, every discussion on
For living up to the responsibility of his vocation and professional calling and for also daring to report the sleaze observed in the Five Hundred Million (N500, 000,000.00) Naira appropriated and approved for Cross River Micro Finance Bank, Agba Jalingo was hounded like a common criminal from his home in Lagos in the middle of
On Wednesday, First of January, 2020 the crème de la crème in the political chess board of Cross River State, led by His Excellency, Sir (Prof.) Benedict Ayade, converged on the palatial hillside residence of the immediate past Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, CON, to pay him the annual traditional homage to