By Our Correspondent Below are excerpts of a speech made by Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade to a team of UN REDD consultants in Calabar on the facts and fiction of the superhighway. CrossRiverWatch was there. Onset of conservation: Essentially as a state, it is such a sad thing that people just forget
By Alawa Christiana The Vice Chancellor, University of Calabar, Prof. Zana Akpagu has disclosed that the institution has completed plans with contracts awarded for the building of additional 4 hostels, 3 classroom blocks, 4000 chairs and tables as well as air conditioners for the lecture halls. The VC made the disclosure Tuesday during a thank
By Our Correspondent The International Human Rights Commission (IHRC), Geneva is set to induct the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo as its General Assembly member and Extra-ordinary Congress Delegate, Africa region. According to IHRC, the event which is scheduled to hold in Calabar Thursday, June 23, 2016,
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo As controversy over the non-inclusion of the Lagos-Calabar Rail line project in the 2016 Appropriation Bill rages, the All Progressives Congress (APC) South-south zone has punched yet another hole on the bill passed recently by the National Assembly. The party accused the Senate Appropriation Committee and its counterpart in the House of
By Our Correspondent Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari today flagged off her pet project tagged, “Project Future Assured” at Ikom Township Stadium, Cross River State. Flagging off the event, the President’s wife commended Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade for providing an enabling environment for the maternal new born and child health
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari Monday, visited Cross River State to flag off the 2016 edition of the Maternal New Born and Child Health Week as well as the launching of the Mediatrix foundation, a pet project of the Wife of Cross River Governor, Linda Ayade. Aisha
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has found over N675.1m in the bank accounts of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Cross River State, Mrs. Gesila Khan and other Independent National Electoral Commission officials in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Delta states. According to the anti-graft agency, the money was received and shared by
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Federal Ministry of Environment has insisted that work will not continue on the 260km Super Highway from Calabar to Obudu until the Cross River State government is able to complete the Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA. Since the commencement of work on the project which is one of Governor Ayade’s signature projects,