By Our Correspondent The Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. John Gaul Lebo has urged the Assembly staff to dissociate themselves from the current NLC strike in the state. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Azogor Ideba and made available to CrossRiverWatch, Hon. John Gaul Lebo equally asks all
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals are a proposed set of targets relating to future international development. They are to replace the Millennium Development Goals once those expire at the end of 2015. The SDGs were first formally discussed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro
By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent Hon. Elucate Ekom Okora, Chairman Cross River State House of Assembly Committee on Judiciary, Public Service Matters, Public Petitions and Conflict Resolution has disclosed to CrossRiverWatch that his committee is currently investigating a petition against the State Surveyor General, Surveyor Eyo Oku. Elucate made this known to our
By Our Correspondent Following the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that officials of the 2015 Hajj exercise should conduct head count to ascertain the number of Nigerian victims in the recent Hajj Stampede, the Cross River State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board says no casualty was recorded among the pilgrims from the state. Head of Islamic
By Ushang Ewa/Ikwen Atuaka Cross Riverians yesterday joined millions of other Nigerians to celebrate the 55th independence anniversary of the country with several events holding across the state to mark the occasion. In the capital city of Calabar, schools from the two local government areas that originally make up the metropolis (Calabar South and Municipal),
By CrossRiverWatch admin As earlier reported by CrossRiverWatch, the organized labor in Cross River State Friday, downed tools with several public sector driven services grounded just as the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) shunned the directive citing communication breakdown in the build up to the industrial action.
The minority people of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria are today found in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers and Bayelsa States. The regional system that was abolished on the 27th May 1967, when the then Federal Military Government under the leadership of General Yakubu Gowon created 12 States to effectively end regionalism introduced by
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Public Service Joint Negotiating Council, JNC comprising the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress, TUC have said that the government of Governor Ayade which came on board with so much promise has not done more than making noise and blaring loud sirens in its first four months in