By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Police in Abuja have invited the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, Citizen Agba Jalingo. The invitation is in connection with the petition by Mrs. Alami Frank Ayade, wife of Gov. Ben Ayade’s younger brother, Frank Ayade. Recall that on August 19, 2022, unidentified Policemen barricaded Jalingo’s Lagos residence, and held his wife, and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chairman of Cross River State Pollution Control Agency, Barrister Tony Adinye has reportedly led some men of the Green Sheriff, an agency set up by Governor Ben Ayade for environmental policing has manhandled an orange seller, Mrs. Lucy Uket, and her daughter Miracle Uket. According to the video shared online by
By Ogar Monday A report by two non-governmental organizations, We The People and the Rainforest Resources Development Centre (RRDC), have indicted 79 companies and individuals, including Dansa Allied Agro, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, Wilmar International, the Cross River State Government for the continuous depletion of the forest in the State. The 23-page report highlighted
By Patrick Obia The Cross River Movement (TCRM), a non-partisan, non-governmental, and not-for-profit reformative organization is set to engage the five gubernatorial candidates in Cross River as the 2023 general elections muscle up. TCRM in partnership with Africa Leadership Group, Calabar Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture; Cross River Economic Summit Organization, among others,
By Jonathan Ugbal Bigwigs of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State last weekend stormed Obudu to welcome over 700 defectors from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, into the opposition. The event coincided with the Obudu New Yam festival which the State Chairman of the PDP, Venatius Ikem Esq hosted the party’s
By Sylvia Akpan The Young Progressives Party (YPP) Chairman in Cross River, Mr. Anthony Bisong Attah has been reelected as the State Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Chairman. IPAC is the umbrella body of all the existing political parties in Nigeria, it also serves as an advisory body to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
By Yemi Sodeeq, Informant247 Between 2019 and 2021, the Ogun/Osun River Basin Development Authority has released millions of naira to Salta Infrastructure for the rehabilitation of farm settlements and Chayakyagi road to Gbaradogi in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State. But two years down the line, The Informant247 reports that despite the funds, the
By Sylvia Akpan The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has apologized for the Adiabo sub-station fire outbreak. The substation on September 3, 2022, exploded into flames. TCN in a statement through its General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, assured consumers that there will be a restoration of bulk power supply in the affected areas. “The