By Patrick Obia About 15 years after Nigeria finally ceded Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, Nigerians left behind in the area have continued to face neglect from the Nigerian government. Their abandonment becomes more apparent during the just-conducted presidential and national assembly elections. Out of the 70 polling units in the area, voting took place in
By Patrick Obia Former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke has endorsed the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Sandy Onor as the governor of the State. In a recorded two minutes, fifty seconds broadcast video made available to the public, Duke called on Cross Riverians to come out en mass
By Jonathan Ugbal The People’s Democratic Party, PDP in northern Cross River State commended her members and voters for their support which led to the party winning all three National Assembly seats during the February 25th general elections. Party faithful as well as supporters of the Senator, Jarigbe Agom, and the two House of Representatives
Opportunity Statement In February 2017, the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and Cross River State launched a waste-to-wealth program in Calabar. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, laid the foundation for a plant to process waste-to-wealth at the Idundu Industrial Layout in Calabar. The project was also targeted at the production
By Patrick Obia The Senatorial candidate for Cross River Central Senatorial District under the Action Alliance (AA), Roland Bassey has congratulated the winner – Eteng Williams and other senatorial districts winners for the just concluded national assembly election. In a congratulatory message signed and made available to CrossRiverWatch Roland thanked his party for giving him
By CrossRiverWatch Admin As the governorship polls draws near in Cross River State, a coalition made up of groups who were behind Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, have now declared their support for the governorship ambition of Senator Sandy Onor. Onor, who is the Senator representing the Central Senatorial District is flying
By Adefemola Akintade, Peoples Gazette The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and State Assembly elections till March 18. The exercise was previously scheduled to hold on March 11, but INEC, citing a logistics crisis stemming from BVAS configuration and transportation, said the election could not hold again as scheduled following a meeting of its
By Jonathan Ugbal The Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Jarigbe Agom has said a photograph of him presenting his certificate of return to a former Governor in the State, Liyel Imoke while the incumbent, Benedict Ayade watches on is a computer-generated image. “It is photoshop! Jonathan quote me, it is photoshop and I