By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Paramount Ruler of Boki, HRM Otu Fredaline Enka Akando and the Executive Chairman of the local government area, Chief Abubakar Ewa have expressed worries about the communal crisis between Boje and Nsadop villages in the area. The duo spoke in an emergency meeting recently with Chiefs of the area which held in
By CrosRiverWatch Admin The federal government has granted provisional approval to Arthur Javis University of Science and Technology in Akpabuyo, Cross State. The approval was granted, Wednesday, during a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, which held at the council chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Minister of State for Education, Anthony Onwuka,
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel Akpong as the new General Manager of the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation publishers of Nigerian Chronicle. Mr. Akpong who was the Acting General Manager of the Corporation takes over from Barr. Gilbert Agbor who has now
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The Member Representing Ogoja State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Peter Odey has described gangstarism as “old school” and urged students of Ogoja extraction to desist from it as he is not aware of anyone that it has helped. Hon. Odey stated that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A group, Nigeria Youth Organization, Cross River State Chapter has called on Lafarge Africa, owners and operators of the Mfamosing line 1 and 11 to move their administrative headquarters from Lagos to Calabar where it was formally. This was part of the prayers sought by the group in a letter titled “Protest
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigerian dance sensation, Kaffy has accused the Cross River State Carnival Commission of not paying her after a performance in 2014 which is why she could not pay the dancers she brought. A fellow dancer, Michael Omani had posted a video on his Facebook wall accusing Kaffy of double standards after she
By Ushang Ewa The Cross River State government requested the sum of 650 million Naira to put “finishing touches” to the necessary facilities required for the botched 19th National Sports Festival say sources in Abuja. This comes on the heels of the revocation of the right to host the games by the state as Sports
By CrossRiverWatch Admin An enraged 23 year old, Francis Ekpo penultimate Monday, beheaded his father Francis Ekpo Ene and dumped his remains inside the family’s pit toilet in Ekpri Ikot Ene community of Akpabuyo local government area. Sources say Francis acted under diabolical influence as he was not known as a violent person. Narrating her