By Bassey Inyang Barring any last minute change, all is set for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie Oyegun, to receive defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Calabar, Cross River State, into the APC. It was gathered from reliable sources within the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade yesterday announced he was abolishing all forms of taxation for low income earners in the state. Ayade who disclosed this during a media parley in Calabar, said a bill to this effect is before the state House of Assembly. The governor maintained that the poor
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Quarry operators carrying out activities within Cross River State must fulfil their obligations to the government as business operators if they are to be patronized by the current administration says Governor Benedict Ayade. The governor made this known to the operators in a meeting with them in his office
By Jonathan Ugbal, Government House Correspondent Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade, today undertook unscheduled visits to some ministries to find out if civil servants comply with their official responsibilities. The governor, who was accompanied by his Deputy, Prof Ivara Esu, Secretary to the State Government , Mrs. Tina Agbor, and Acting Head of
By Archibong Jeremiah, House Of Assembly Correspondent The member representing Ogoja State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA Hon. Peter Odey has felicitated with the management and staff of CrossRiverWatch on its 3rd Year Anniversary coming up on August, 27th 2015. Hon. Peter commended CrossRiverWatch saying “it has built a great
By CrossRiverWatch admin The Wife of the Governor of Cross River State, Dr. Linda Ayade has dissociated herself from some facebook I.Ds purportedly belonging to her, which have been asking unsuspecting job seekers to pay sums of money for prospective employment in some federal agencies. In a statement today by her Special Assistant on Media
By Bassey Inyang The Senator Representing Cross River South Senatorial District, Mr. Gershom Bassey, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw its lead counsel from the national and state House of Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal, Mr. Eni Okoi, and replace him with another lawyer. The Senator, who was the senatorial candidate
Bassey Inyang The wife of Nigeria’s President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has donated nutritional supplements, Frisomum Gold milk, to at least 3,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers in Calabar, Cross River State. At the event which took place at the state APC secretariat in Calabar at the weekend, Mrs. Buhari said the product, which is a