By Jonathan Ugbal A foremost poet and dramatist, Professor Kalu Uka (emeritus) will today (Saturday) review the bestseller ’There Was A Country’ written by Chinua Achebe. Uka, who authored ‘A Harvest of Ants’ among other dramas that often hit the reader with more poetry than imagined in a drama taught in different institutions before his
By Patrick Obia Sacked workers who have been on the streets of Calabar protesting for four days since Monday over the delisting of their names from the payroll of the Cross River State government have suspended the action to allow for a verification exercise. This resolution was contained in a statement issued Thursday in Calabar
By Patrick Obia No fewer than eleven persons have lost their lives and two critically injured in a ghastly motor accident in Cross River State. The horrible scene which occurred in Mbarakom Community, Akamkpa Local Government Area of the State. According to eyewitness the cause is as a result of brake failure while the vehicle
By Yinka Kolawole, Vanguard Newspaper Cross River and 12 other States in Nigeria may have become technically insolvent as an independent research report indicated they failed fiscal sustainability test. According to the research conducted by BudgIT, a public sector-focused financial information house, the States’ revenues could not fund their recurrent expenditure obligations together with their
By Jonathan Ugbal Civil and public servants who are joined the #payrollprotest on Thursday at the Governor’s office in Calabar, the Cross River State capital called Governor Ben Ayade a ‘scam’. The merriam webster’s dictionary describes scam as a noun which means “a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation.” The workers have been protesting since
By Patrick Obia Documents obtained by CrossRiverWatch suggests that Justice Simon Amobeda of the Calabar division of the Federal High Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the name of Dr. Stephen Odey as the validly nominated candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the October 31 senatorial by-election in
By Kelvin Ololo Niger Delta Activists Forum, Cross River State chapter currently protesting the delisting of about 3, 000 workers from the State payroll, has alleged that, the Government is attempting to intimidate them using security operatives. The allegation was made by the leader of the group, Comrade Paul Adie on day 4 of their
By Kelvin Ololo and Marilyn Uyanah The civil and public servants whose names were delisted from the payroll of the Cross River State government in mid 2019 have taken their protest to the Governor’s office in Calabar. The Governor, Mr. Benedict Ayade had directed that their names be removed claiming that due process was not