By Laureta Akpan Video tapes have emerged showing the state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke endorsing the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma Egba, SAN for a third term in office during the 2011 campaigns. In the video tapes of the 2011 campaigns in Yakurr and Abi LGA as well as meetings with stakeholders, the governor is seen
By Elijah Ugani The Students’ Union Government (SUG), of the Federal College of Education, FCE Obudu have finally elected a new Executive after seven years of ban by the then Governing Council headed by Chief Linus Okom, (Ada Bekwarra) in 2007. The ban followed the riot that erupted then in the school and was blamed
By Sylvia Etta After the long lull in government activities in the state due to the temporary relocation of the state government to Abuja following the rancor that followed the PDP Ward Congresses, the State governor, Liyel Imoke finally arrived Calabar this evening amidst cheers from PDP supporters at the airport. CrossRiverWatch was at the
By: Aplefe Ojong Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University, Calabar Branch have elected a new Executive headed by Dr. Tony E. Eyang to pilot the affairs of the Union for the next two years. A free and fair elections held at the Chinua Achebe New Art Theatre, UNICAL, recently, saw Dr.
By Aplefe Ojong The Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, is to donate a total sum of N5 million in the next five years to the newly launched Endowment Fund of the Cross River State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). Senator Ndoma-Egba who was represented at the Endowment Fund Launch/Lecture held at the
By Aplefe Ojong/Raymond Ekemini There are indications that the Governing Council of the University of Calabar is preparing to have a five days meeting to discuss and take decisions on vital issues. CrossRiverWatch investigation revealed that the meeting which will begin on Monday November 17, 2014 will be rounded up on Friday, November 21, 2014.
By Aplefe Ojong The Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Barrister Efiok Cobham, has said that journalists in Nigeria do not have what it takes to earn public trust and sympathy. Cobham who made his position known during the Endowment Fund Launch of the Cross River State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),
Former Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa in this chat with journalists analyzed the political situation in Cross River and described it as a Gestapo situation where elders are being disrespected but explained why she remained in the PDP. Excerpt: Why I remain in PDP…..