By CrossRiverWatch Admin The year 2019 is coming to an end and the N1.043 trillion “Budget of Qabalistic Densification” in Cross River State has not witnessed up to 10 per cent implementation. Last week, Governor Ben Ayade presented the “Budget of Olimpotic Meristemasis” for 2020 which is N100 billion higher than that of last year
Being text of the welcome address presented by the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Eteng Jonah Williams (PDP Yakurr II) at the presentation of the 2020 budget estimates. Your Excellency, I wish to very warmly welcome you to the hallowed Chamber of the Cross River State House of Assembly. I recall
For us in Cross River, it is yet another fiscal year, another budget and another tongue twisting confusion. Again as usual, the people would spend more time taking about, and trying to analyze the strange appellation of budget proposal presented to the House of Assembly. Definitely, the analyses would not dwell on its grave implications
I am pleased to be invited to this unique occasion as Special Guest of Honour. We gather at this auspicious moment to celebrate our children. We gather to celebrate an assured future leadership. We celebrate brains and academic excellence. Let me begin by congratulating Lafarge Africa for successfully completing the 6th edition of this Literacy
When I think of this course, I imagine 1,000 McDonald’s double cheeseburgers in America; 76 premier league tickets in England; two pet kangaroos in Australia; and 5,000sqm of land in Nigeria. All of these can be bought with 2,200 American dollars, the same amount required to take a Public Narrative course at Harvard Kennedy School’s
Exactly twenty years after Nigeria supposedly got rid of men in camouflage, the country’s democracy is experiencing a nosedive in ways that words alone cannot adequately capture. Ironically, members of the judiciary appear to be aiding the attack against Nigeria’s democracy. An example is the recent ruling in Agba Jalingo’s case in Calabar, where the
His style of journalism has always stirred my mind. Before he got arrested by the Police in August this year, I was an ardent reader of his regular posts that served as reminders of the number of days that are left for Senator Ben Ayade to serve as Governor of Cross River State. Those posts
It’s interesting to find that media institutions appear salutary of those in Government more than hold a position of dispassionate role-play, at least in my recent estimation. While it is important to be patriots in a skewed globalised order, of importance is to stand firm and fight where one’s oxen are repeatedly gored and death