By CrossRiverWatch Admin It was simply a comedy show and not a budget proposal presentation. To see my former VC, now deputy governor of Cross River state and the state House of Assembly members sit to listen to a clown present that crap is the height of absurdity. A budget proposal is an estimate based
By CrossRiverWatch Admin It was Charlena Johnson in her No Cross No Crown that said that: “We shouldn’t be ordinary; we should challenge ourselves and not just think inside the box. We should dare to be different and get out of the box.” Whether or not, Governor Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade of Cross River State read
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Being an address presented by the author at the Cross River State Young and Emerging Leaders Forum held in Calabar on November 29, 2017. The chairman, distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a pleasure to be here with you today and I thank the organizers for inviting me to speak on this
Being An Open Letter To The President Of The Senate Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria Your Excellency, In what can only be described as a most perplexing trend, it seems to have become quite fashionable of late for all manner of persons to have become desperately fixated on the issue of tenure of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin One reason why services are poorly delivered today in Nigeria is because government is given the responsibility to do everything. Democracy was not really designed to work this way. I read that fire service had no water and or petrol to tackle the fire in Watt market yesterday. Part of it is
By CrossRiverWatch Admin I have said repeatedly that whether governor Ayade performs or not, getting him out of office in 2019 is not going to be done by people who themselves are not good at anything other than abusing. I make this assertion with due respect to all the men and women of courage out
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Good health and well-being is an integral part of human existence, especially the specie of human creature that is vested with the responsibility of procreation. Goals three and five of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals strongly advocate for “Good Health and Well-being” and the “Empowerment of all women and girls across
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Short Memories Many citizens and well wishers including myself are appalled by the events that are unfolding at such a quick pace in a state once celebrated as a beacon of stability. Personally, I have followed the local politics since my one-year stint as a Youth Corper, and can claim with certain