By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday ratified the presidential approval for the Lagos – Calabar coastal rail project to link most of Nigeria’s coastal cities by rail within six years. The FEC also approved USD11.17 billion for the project, the Cable Newspapers quotes Lai Mohammed, the country’s infromation and culture minister
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard News Nigeria Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River, Barrister Efiok Cobham has asserted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State inherited a bad omen, describing the ruling party as a strange entity that bought a wrong player in the person of Sen. Ben Ayade, Governor of the State.
By Vanguard News Nigeria Senator Bukola Saraki, Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Reconciliation Committee and immediate past Senate President; Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, former Senate President and Sen. Liyel Imoke, former Governor of Cross Rivers, among others, on Tuesday, stormed Ibadan, Oyo State, for a brief closed-door meeting with Governor Seyi Makinde. The closed-door
Senator Ben Ayade will vacate the office of Governor in the next 1 year, 10 months. Despite his impressive performance in industrialization and expansion of Government to accomodate more unemployed youths and adults, his recent political moves has created so much blank lines behind his political history. Can anyone truly trust Ayade to stand, fight
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The last may not have been heard about the December 5, 2020 senatorial by-election in northern Cross River as federal lawmaker, Jarigbe Agom has said he was informed by the then Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Lanre Jimoh that he was robbed of his mandate. Mr. Jimoh passed away not long after the
It was one of America’s foremost President J. F. Kennedy who said that ; “The hottest place in hell, should be reserved for those who keep quiet in times of moral crises,” as to sit on the fence when one should be speaking against dictatorship, is to be somewhat, an accomplice. Recent happenings in the
By Ushang Ewa The Calabar division that of the Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeals filed by two out of the three parties over the ruling of the Elections Petition Tribunal of the December 5, 2020 senatorial by-election in northern Cross River. The Court allowed appeal number CA/C/NAEA/SEN/169/2021 filed by Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe. This
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade was absent at the unity rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to welcome hundreds of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members whom had defected to the APC with him in Obudu. Mr. Ayade was railroaded into the APC a few weeks ago, after a lengthy battle with