By CrossRiverWatch admin The ground breaking ceremony for the 240km Super Highway from Calabar to Obudu up to Kastsina Ala, which was earlier scheduled to be done by President Buhari on September 21 will now hold on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. The event was cancelled due to concerns about the Environmental Impact Assessment of the
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Cross River State Chairman of the All Progressives Party, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani has just been announced as the Cross River state ministerial nominee on the floor of the Senate. Details later.
By CrossRiverWatch admin General Anthony Ukpo rtd, an indigene of Yala in northern Cross River state and former Military Administrator of old Rivers State, has been named among the persons to return monies that were allegedly collected from the government of Rivers State under the administration of Governor Rotimi Amaechi, for projects that were not
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal yesterday also affirmed the election of the Member representing Obudu/Obanlikwu/Bekwara Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon.Legor Idagbo. In the judgement delivered by its Chairman, Justice I.W. Jawuro, the Tribunal ruled that the Labor party candidate, Dr. Godwin Amanke had failed to discharge the
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal yesterday dismissed all the cases it had at its disposal calling them “mere academic exercise” giving victory to all the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in the tribunal. The cases were between Dr Alex Egobona of Labor Party (LP) and Mr. Bassey Ewa of PDP,
By Our Correspondent A former Nigerian ambassador to Ethiopia and Member of the immediate past House of Representatives, Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo has been appointed Lead Special Advisor to Governor Ben Ayade on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A statement by the Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Christian Ita, in
By Archibong Jeremiah/Monday Ogar The University of Calabar, UNICAL has been shut down for two weeks by the school management after a protest by the students this morning disrupted academic and other activities on campus and its environs. The students took to the streets to protest the bad state of facilities in the school hostels
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Commercial Transport Regulatory Agency (CTRA) has accused the various transport unions which are Franchisees of government of being responsible for the chaos and ‘insanity’ in the transport sector of the State. The franchisees include the Association of Urban Taxi (AUT), Calabar Urban Taxi (CUT), JOFINO, Eburutu Lines and