By CrossRiverWatch Admin AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY THE WIFE OF THE GOVERNOR OF CROSS RIVER STATE, DR. LINDA AYADE AT THE 2016 NATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE OF THE COMMITTEE OF WIVES OF LAGOS STATE OFFICIALS HELD AT THE EKO HOTEL AND SUITES LAGOS STATE. PROTOCOL It is a pleasure to be here to speak to all
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Some media aides of the Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade are presently not happy as a result of events that played out in a closed door parley with the governor yesterday. A source who was at the meeting which was not open to journalists, told CrossRiverWatch that the meeting lasted
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Sources in Government House Calabar have confirmed to CrossRiverWatch that the governor, Senator Ben Ayade will today, Friday, present the 2017 appropriation bill to the House of Assembly. This comes on the heels of a revised 2016 budget which was unceremoniously tabled to the Assembly. Text messages were sent
By CrossRiverWatch Admin No fewer than 3 have been killed following renewed gangsters rivalries in the Ekpo Abasi area of Calabar South. It is unclear what the current fight is about with gangster activities spiking shortly after the commencement of degree examinations in the state owned Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH. On Sunday, an
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Yesterday, I wrote in my piece on this platform, Our Tenured god etc, where I posited that rather than appointing useless money sharing behemoths in the name of boards of non existing government agencies , government should rather be employing fresh hands into the civil service to enhance and regenerate it for
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Facts are beginning to emerge why indigenes of Obudu local government area of northern Cross River Tuesday, came out en masse for a rally to ensure the growth and development of the area. CrossRiverWatch gathered that appointees of the Governor, Senator Ben Ayade were the first to throw up the idea of
By Ogar Monday The Cross River State Chapter Chairman, Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (CRS-NIS), Dr. Gertrude Nnanjar Njar, has revealed that her body had put in over 10 million naira in the super-highway project, money which she said they are yet to recover. The Chairman barred her mind recently while speaking on a radio program
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The member representing Akpabuyo State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly Hon. Elizabeth Ironbar has said that the time has come for the physically challenged in Cross River State to stop being discriminated against; they should enjoy their rights like all other persons. Hon. Ironbar