By Patrick Obia Weeks after CrossRiverWatch investigation revealed that after budgeting ₦42 billion, Cross River Government resorted to an obscure company for the construction of spaghetti flyover, rehabilitation and dualization of Calabar-Odukpani highway, the State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has inspected the site. Governor Ayade visited the site a day before presenting the State’s 2022
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State Chapter of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has called on the organized labour to suspend its indefinite strike which has grounded the State for more than a fortnight. The NYCN also lent its voice to the politicking ahead of the 2023 general elections, the dilemma of the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The leadership of the ninth Assembly of Cross River State on Wednesday visited the immediate family of two term lawmaker, Elizabeth Ironbar (PDP, Akpabuyo) to commiserate with them over her passing. Led by the Speaker, Eteng Williams (PDP, Yakurr II), the lawmakers described Ironbar’s passing as “light” that has gone of in Akpabuyo.
By Patrick Obia “Reject any activity – cult, yahoo-yahoo and other unlawful associations that will take you out of your dreams,” said the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), Professor Augustine Angba, Wednesday at the 19th matriculation ceremony of the varsity in Calabar. “Refuse to listen to those staff and students
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard Former members of Bakassi Strike Force, BSF, numbering about 150 in the early hours of Monday blocked the entrance to the Cross River Governor’s office in protest of unpaid allowances and the government’s inability to fulfil the MoU it signed with them since 2018. Vanguard gathered that it took the intervention
By Bankole Abe, ICIR In an attempt to appease the Ogoni people of Rivers State for long years of deprivation, injustice and neglect, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration is prepared to give a posthumous pardon to late activist and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others hanged by late dictator, Sani Abacha. The
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A truck conveying products from the LaFarge HolCim plant in Mfamosing has crushed a family four in Akansoko junction of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of southern Cross River State. The event happened this evening. The family was atop a motorcycle. “A man, his wife and two children were crushed to death by
By Ushang Ewa Ahead of the planned meeting between medical interns and the management of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) slated for noon today, the premises is currently surrounded by security personnel. The interns are owed nearly half a billion Naira for their salaries spanning a period of 11 months. Several meetings and