By Our Correspondent The Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade is set to give out 100 Kia Rio cars, on May 29 on hire purchase to civil servants in the state under a car ownership scheme of the government. The extended dateline for the Car Ownership Scheme ended at noon today. The governor initially
By Ogar Monday The Cross River State Government said it has set for itself the target of producing 500, 000 metric tons of cocoa on a yearly basis to help in economic diversification and add to already depleting federal allocation. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Professor Augustine Eneji made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting
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