TOPIC Achieving Governance Agenda For An Inclusive Nigeria And Climate Change. INTRODUCTION Governance is the process of interaction through the laws, norms, power, or language of an organized society over a social system which includes family, tribe, formal or informal organization, territory, or across territories. Governance is delivered by the government of a state, or
By Patrick Obia Some traders at the Ika Ika Oqua (Marian) market of Calabar Municipal Local Government Area, Cross River State are currently counting losses as shops and goods worth millions of Naira have been razed down by fire. The fire, according to eyewitnesses, started in the early hours of Saturday 21 January 2023 at
By Patrick Obia The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has flagged off its three-year forest conservation program in eight communities in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Southern Cross River State. The program which is all about securing important forest resources for nature conservation, eco-tourism, sustainable natural forest resource management as well as maximizing forest potential and
By Our Reporter Policy Alert, a non-governmental organization working to promote economic and ecological justice in the Niger Delta, has announced that the US Consul General (Nigeria) Will Stevens will attend the first in a series of OpenGov Town Halls this Friday in Asaba, Delta State. The event is being organized under the auspices of
By Archibong Jeremiah Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has appointed Commissioners for the Ministries of Finance and Agriculture and Natural Resources after the CrossRiverWatch investigation exposing the soya beans farm project contract award scandal. The two ministries had stayed without Commissioners for months before the CrossRiverWatch investigation revealed that the contract envisaged to
By Patrick Obia and Etido Okon A family of seven has called on the government and well-meaning individuals to come to their aid after fire razed down their apartment in Calabar, Cross River State capital. Mr. Etim Effiong made the appeal while narrating the unexplainable outbreak. The advanced-in-age watchman in a construction vicinity at Atimbo
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Missing six years old girl, Esther Richard Okon has been found on the street of Calabar metropolis. She was found around Essien Town Junction yesterday, January 16, 2023, by 10 pm. She was rescued by a good Samaritan who reported the case to Hit 95.9FM, Calabar, and Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BRCI).
By Ogar Monday The palace of the Obong of Calabar has debunked the news making rounds that His Eminence, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, was dethroned by the Supreme court. The place made this known in a press statement made available to CrossRiverWatch and signed by HRH Etubom Bassey Duke, Chairman of Etuboms’ Traditional