By Our Reporter Officers of the Nigeria Police Force in the Divisional Headquarters, Obudu live and operate in dilapidated barracks and offices unfit for human habitation CrossRiverWatch investigations reveal. The station and barracks located opposite the local government council secretariat along Ranch road has been operational since 1979 and has since remained so without structural
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Government, Tuesday in Obudu local government commissioned a 3 megawatt diesel fired electricity generating plant in Obudu launching a ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ initiative to supply electricity to about 3,000 consumers. The governor, Senator Ben Ayade, represented by his deputy, Professor Ivara Esu while commissioning
By Ogar Monday, House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly was Tuesday forced to postpone its plenary due to power outage, just as the House was deliberating on the proposed Grazing Reserve Bill at the National Assembly. The power failure occurred while members were deliberating on the item “Matters of Urgent
By CrossRiverWatch admin “Our target is to create 500 to 1,000 jobs in the first 100 days. We will sanction errant civil servants who fail to be in their offices by 8.10 a.m.”… Ben Ayade (June 1, 2015) Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade, will like his counterparts elected in the 2015 general elections, across the
By CrossRiverWatch admin A former Deputy Director and Head of Voter Education of INEC in Cross River State, Edem Okon Effanga who was arrested last month by the EFCC for allegedly collecting N241,127,000 bribe from the N23.3Billion Diezani election bribe scandal is an elder in the Apostolic Church in Calabar. Mr. Effanga’s branch of the
By CrossRiverWatch admin The former Spokesperson of the Department of State Security DSS, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, has eulogized Nelly Abi and Obiom Enagu Ogar who got wedded yesterday at the Holy Family Catholic Church, Life Camp, Abuja. She described the couples as two young people who are focused and have a lot to contribute towards
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Cross River State government has debunked reports in some sections of the media that there is an impending outbreak of Diarrhoea disease in the State Capital Calabar, due to piles of rubbish littering the streets. The news which has been lingering in the press since early in the week has created
By CrossRiverWatch admin Uncharacteristic of what used to be known of Calabar as the cleanest city in the country, the Cross River State capital is now in the news for the wrong reasons. In this eye witness report by Channels Television, some residents say the capital may lose it’s status as Nigeria’s cleanest and greenest