By Archibong Jeremiah Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) with support from the Human Security Division (HSD) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has concluded a one day South-South Zonal consultation on the draft National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria.
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has called on the Federal Government to review its mode of wealth sharing pointing out the need for the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC to step up from just wealth distribution to helping in its creation. “We are particularly grateful that
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade Wednesday failed to distribute the vehicles procured by the state for security agencies and the newly created Green Police. CrossRiverWatch had earlier reported that the distribution was scheduled for Wednesday, with the governor unusually arriving the office at about 2:00PM sparking rumors that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Members of the Bakassi Strike Force BSF, a militant group in Cross River state have indicated their unreserved willingness to lay down their arms and embrace amnesty. Leader of the group, Benjamin Ene, also known as ‘Humble Lion or G1’ has contacted the Cross River State command of the Department of State
By CrossRiverWatch Admin All is now set for the inauguration of Cross River state born Justice Walter Onnoghen as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CrossRiverWatch has learnt. The inauguration willl be done by President Muhammadu Buhari today, (Thursday) at 2pm inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Watchers had express worry that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba, SAN has resumed office in Port Harcourt with a promise that things will be done differently by the Management and Board of the Commission. Egba who spoke at his resumption yesterday said the battered image of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The travails of the Cross River state Attorney General, Mr. Joe Oshie Abang, may not be coming to an end soon as a scheduled disciplinary hearing by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC over allegations of professional misconduct against the AG has been rescheduled from the initial Thursday 27th October, 2016 to
By CrossRiverWatch Admin During recessions, the public gets frightened and holds back on spending, resulting in more layoffs, which in turn produces less spending in a vicious circle of economic decline”. The above quote from one of British most influential economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), was a warning about the danger