By CrossRiverWatch admin The newly appointed Chairman of the Cross River State Sports Commission, Hon. Orok Duke has blamed the close to two years delay in hosting the National Sports Festival on shylock contractors who collected monies and failed to deliver on the event venues on schedule. The festival dubbed “Paradise Games” which was supposed
By CrossRiverWatch admin There was drama today at the Calabar office of the Cross River State Water Board Limited as staff working for one of its contractors locked the premises of water board in protest against their unpaid salary arrears. Contract staff working for Techvibe, an IT company that is managing the Water Board, told
By CrossRiverWatch admin Former Cross River State Deputy Governor, Dr. Mathias Offoboche was finally laid to rest in his hometown in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State.
By Aplefe Ojong The National Leadership of the Nigerian Labor Congress, (NLC) has been called upon to urgently call the Cross River NLC to order to avert division of the labor movement in the state. Mr. Godwin Ayendi, State President of National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), made the call while reacting to the
By Our Correspondent The late former Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Dr. Mathias Offoboche began his final journey home yesterday in Calabar.
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation has commenced the Public Hearing stage of the 2016 budget proposal presented by the Governor, Senator Ben Ayade to the House. The public hearing is compulsory for all MDA’s, who must attend alongside their Permanent Secretaries, Directors of Budget, Account,
By Our Correspondent The Speaker of Cross River House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has said that the Country’s Constitution is one of the undoing of State Legislatures. Hon Lebo who was at the just concluded one day Consultative Meeting of House of Representatives Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs and Conference of Speakers held in
By Ikwen Atuaka A fuel station in Obudu has been reportedly razed to the ground with the Fire Service reportedly not taking action despite being located less than a minute drive away. The outbreak according to eyewitness accounts began in the early hours of Sunday when a tanker was discharging petroleum products into the underground