By Ushang Ewa Ahead of the 2016 Carnival Calabar, the newly introduced Street Party touted to be the ‘party before the party’ failed to hold Tuesday, in Calabar with organizers yet to explain if the event has been shifted or out rightly cancelled. The street party which was supposed to begin soon after the Bikers
By Jonathan Ugbal The 2nd edition of the Calabar Bikers Parade did not hold as planned following a failure in the engine of Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade’s bike with former Governor Donald Duke stealing the show with a Batman styled bike. The Bikers parade powered by the Metallic bikers club was scheduled for 2:00PM
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Hon. Nkoyo Toyo, Coordinator, N-power Verification Program in Cross River, on Tuesday said more than 3,500 participants have been verified in the state. Toyo, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar, said 4,535 slots were allotted to the state. “Cross River has 4,535 slots
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), says it has so far distributed over 53,000 condoms through its Wise-up Cross River State campaign at Calabar Christmas Village. Mr. Olamide Onifade, Head, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, UNFPA, Wise-up Cross River State, disclosed this in a release he issued and made available to the News
By Emma Una Non dredging of the channel of the Calabar Port, Cross River State, 10 years after it was privatized, is a critical limiting factor for the non-utilization of the full potentials of the port as bigger vessels cannot berth there, Group General Manager of ECM Terminals, Mr. Dayo Balogun, operators of the port,
By Emma Una Cross River State Police Command has drafted 8,000 policemen to provide security during the 2016 annual Calabar Carnival culminating on 29 December. Mr. Ozi Jimoh, the state Commissioner of Police, who spoke over the weekend in his office, said that policemen from all the units and divisions in the state would be
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade says the Calabar Cultural Carnival is the beginning of the unification of Nigeria as a country and continental Africa. Ayade stated this moments ago while flagging off the 2016 edition of the Calabar Cultural Carnival which drew cultural troupes and dance groups from
By Our Correspondent The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Obi Ozeh has told CrossRiverWatch that there was no incident of armed robbery at the Calabar carnival village as reported by some national dailies. The Commissioner explained that what happened at the village on Monday night was a case of crowd control which led