By CrossRiverWatch Admin Usani Uguru Usani, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has said that the current economic crunch, notwithstanding, Nigerians would have been crawling to eat from the waste bins, if the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had continued in office. With Vice President Osinbajo’s recent visit to the Niger Delta region, will it be appropriate
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chairman of the association, Mr. Okosin Bassey, made the claim in a statement he issued in Calabar on Wednesday. The Association of Cross River State Local Government Pensioners has lost 28 members from June, 2016 till date, due to non-payment of their pension entitlements. The Chairman of the association, Mr. Okosin
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Nigeria’s secret police, the Directorate of State Services DSS, has detained five of its personnel over their involvement in the invasion and brutalization of teachers at the Federal Government Girls College in Calabar February 2nd. CrossRiverWatch gathered that the five operatives, including the Aunty of the student who triggered the ugly incident,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Retired Nurses In Obudu Pay N20,000 Bribe To Get Their Pension Following the commitment of the state government to pay pensioners this year, retired nurses in Obudu LGA have been asked to submit their documents with a sum of twenty thousand naira which the collector claims is for his transport from Obudu
By Ogar Monday Staff of the Federal Government Girls Secondary School Calabar has protested the alleged invasion of their school by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS). The teachers who were joined by members of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, FGGC Wing and the Nigeria
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that highway projects have been prioritized in the 2017 budget to achieve maximum progress. Fashola told the Senate Committee on Works that highway projects are categorized into six (Priorities I-VI.), with the Calabar-Itu road in Priority 1 and the Ikot Ekpene-Mbok-Ikom
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Political naming ceremonies are usually happy occasions. In the days of yore when the Nigerian military hierarchy created or ‘dashed’ those who lobbied most local government areas and states, such gestures brought the beneficiaries a sense of belonging despite the gapping national (in)cohesiveness. Nothing signposts the feeling of joy and the ecstasy
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The spiritual leader of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Olumba Olumba Obu, has said that by the tension Trumps young administration has created around the world, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has provoked God and will soon earn the wrath of God. He said also that