By Patrick Obia The renovated secretariat of the Cross River State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) was last weekend commissioned by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi. The Chairman, Daniel Obo had told CrossRiverWatch that the NYCN was no longer been taken serious and as part of
By Patrick Obia The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) on Wednesday, became the first tertiary medical institution in South South Nigeria to perform an open heart surgery. The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Ikpeme Ikpeme, disclosed this in an appreciation letter to staff which said the patient was safely wheeled out of Intensive Care
By Jonathan Ugbal There is currently disquiet in the cabinet of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State after details emerged that a commissioner has impregnated the wife of a Senior Special Adviser (SA). The commissioner is from central Cross River while the Special Adviser is from northern Cross River. The Special Adviser’s wife is
By Jonathan Ugbal and Sylvia Akpan The Aero Cally flight N2176 from Calabar to Abuja on Tuesday was delayed for about 40 minutes due to a video shoot for the advert of the proposed airline floated by the Cross River State government, CallyAir. Aero Cally is a contraption of Aero Contractors, an existing airline and
By Patrick Obia Dozens of aggrieved civil servants in Cross River, on Wednesday, shutdown the new secretariat complex in Calabar to protest the non-payment of their salaries for a period of three years. They bore placards with different inscriptions, chanting songs, demanding the sack of the Head of Service (HOS), Mrs. Geraldine Akpet-Ekanem for alleged
By Patrick Obia and Emmanuel Eni For the past three years, the Cross River State Government has budgeted a total of N42 billion for the construction of spaghetti flyover and rehabilitation and dualisation of the Calabar-Odukpani Highway, the major road between Cross River and other States. The State’s 2018 budget, named “Budget of Kinetic Crystallization”
By Our Reporter There is palpable anxiety and grumbling among many aides of the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade as many of them are yet to get August salary. The payment of salaries which has since shifted from end of the month to the end of the first week of every new month
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The speaker of the eight assembly of Cross River State and one time acting Governor, Frank Adah has withdrawn from the Chairmanship race of the People’s Democratic Party in the State. The congress to select the State executive was billed for March 28, 2020 but suffered several postponements. It is now slated