By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River born lawyer, civil rights campaigner, and politician, Barrister Obono Obla has commended the governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade for having the courage to discipline civil servants who came late on his first day of resumption of work as governor of the state. Barrister Obla, a long time
By Our Correspondent Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has ordered that the one month backlog of salary owed civil servants for the month of May be paid on or before Tuesday, June 9th, 2015. It will be recalled that the Imoke administration owed civil servants for upward of five months but the former
Monday Ogar The Director of Welfare, Students´ Union Government, SUG, University of Calabar has held a medical outreach as part of activities to mark the SUG Health Week. The health week which according to Alawa John Adie, the SUG Director of Welfare, is a program meant to help students come to terms with their health
As the 7th Assembly winds up, an enigma wraps up an endearing three-term sojourn in the Senate of the National Assembly. This, indeed, is a time of reckoning and stock taking. For me, my Senator with whom l share the Nkpanjen and Ekpache ancestry as well as a common profession, did well in the 12
By Our Correspondent Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has called on the business community in the country to take full advantage of the economic revolution that is about to sweep the entire landscape of the state and key into the signature projects earmarked by his administration. Ayade made the call during the investiture
By CrossRiverWatch admin Paramount Ruler of Bakassi and Chairman, Cross River State Traditional Rulers Council, HRM Etinyin Etim Okon Edet, has sworn that any journalist or media organization that associated his revered name with a publication purporting that he spoke on the feud between two former governors of the state, Donald Duke and Liyel Imoke,
Twelve years ago this month, the 5th Senate was inaugurated with Senator Adolphus Wabara as Senate President and I was sworn in as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after my election to represent the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State. I was assigned Committees and made Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid
By Our Correspondent In continuation of his philanthropy which began long before his foray into politics, Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade, today in Calabar donated ten brand new 32-seater Coaster buses to the Central and Southern Senatorial Zones of the state. Ayade said the buses, which are a personal donation, were meant to