By Yemi Sodeeq, The Informant247 Belawu Obalowu, 63, has been participating in Nigerian elections for over two decades. Just like every other time in the past, she was eager to vote for the candidates of her choice on February 25. Not aware of the issues ahead, she went to her Polling Unit 016 (Ode Oyan) of Ajikobi
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Government has commissioned a newly built health center in Assiga Community, Yakurr Local Government of the State. In ensuring that no community is left out of the giant stride of Governor Ben Ayade-led administration, the government through the Director-General of the Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Mrs. Abasioffiong Offiong
By Ogar Monday Claim: The APC Women Leader, Dr. Betta in a recent interview, claimed that the Labour Party has no governorship candidate in Cross River State, and that her party, the APC had won all House Representatives seat in the State except in the Northern Senatorial District. Verdict: Misleading. The Labour Party’s governorship candidate
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State deputy governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Prince Agbor Onyi, and 3 others have been kidnapped. The incident happened yesterday along the Calabar-Ugep highway. It was not clear if the kidnappers have contacted their family and made any demands. The Police are yet to comment on
After Nigeria unjustly used a portion of our State, Bakassi to play father-Christmas on the altar of international politics and nefariously ceded it to Cameroon over a cup of tea in a foreign land, the human beings living in what is now called Bakassi LGA in Cross River State, are still treated like SHIT! Yes,
By Patrick Obia About 15 years after Nigeria finally ceded Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, Nigerians left behind in the area have continued to face neglect from the Nigerian government. Their abandonment becomes more apparent during the just-conducted presidential and national assembly elections. Out of the 70 polling units in the area, voting took place in
This feeling has broken the hearts of several former governors. A litany of them who used their enormous power of incumbency to install successors in the hope that their tracks will be covered have only had to bite their fingers down the line and face the embarrassing repudiation of such prior commitments, once there is
By Patrick Obia Former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke has endorsed the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Sandy Onor as the governor of the State. In a recorded two minutes, fifty seconds broadcast video made available to the public, Duke called on Cross Riverians to come out en mass