By CrossRiverWatch Admin Follow @crossriverwatch The Government and the good people of Cross River State as has become the norm right from the administration of Mr. Donald Duke, closed the year 2017 with the largest, colorful, thrilling, and most famous street party in Africa, the Carnival Calabar. Last year’s edition of the Carnival Calabar has
By CrossRiverWatch Admin On the 17th of January, 2017, the governor of Cross River State, Prof. Benedict Ayade, made what not a few Cross Riverians viewed as a shocking and bold statement. In that statement, governor Ayade, through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, damning every seemingly economic unevenness, courageously said that businesses earning
By CrossRiverWatch Admin One day I will break down the economic benefits of a WELL RUN Carnival Calabar and festivals with multiple corporate sponsors. When I ran the youth development zone program within the festival we attracted sponsorship from corporate bodies to run our overheads and still contributed to the general purse. Remember all those
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigerian minister of information, culture and tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said recently while flagging off the 3rd Carnival Calabar dry run in Calabar the Cross River State capital: “I also want to take this opportunity to appeal to the world to see this street party beyond dancing and beyond the costumes.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Bakor Nation is today largely misunderstood and appropriated to identify and typify the Ejagham sub-groups of Ikom Local Government Area Constituency II communities and clans, as well as all of Ogoja Local Government Area’s communities and clans besides the Mbube grouping. However, some three to four decades ago or so, the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin You say it… “Our rice and other agricultural produce if properly utilized will boost our economy; we need to encourage the farmers in the rural areas in particular to commercialize their farm produce and encourage more access roads which agriculture will hardly thrive without. “We need to empower our people to utilize
By CrossRiverWatch Admin I used the word cultism only for the caption. They are gangstas and that is how I will call them throughout. Elsewhere, the Italian government is mopping up members of two Nigerian criminal gangs, the Vikings and their rival Black Axe confraternity, operating drug and prostitution rings in the Sicilian capital, Palermo.
Being an open letter to the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osibanjo. Dear Mr. Vice President, I commend the good work of your administration since assumption of office. Your passion to revive our economy is without a doubt especially with your various initiatives like the N-Power, SME and Enterprise development