By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Wednesday finally visited the victims of the Calabar Viewing Center tragedy of April 20, 2017 which left 8 people dead. The visit came 19 days after the incident and 18 days after he promised to cut short his trip to Geneva, Switzerland
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) has just suspended the forthcoming Local Government elections in the State. CROSIEC in a public notice dated 4th May, 2017 obtained by CrossRiverWatch and signed by its Chairman, Dr. Mike Ushie said the suspension is “due to the ongoing INEC Continues Voters Registration (CVR)
By Archibong Jeremiah The Senator representing Cross River State Central Senatorial district in the red chambers of the National Assembly, Senator John Owan Eno will on Saturday finally dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Sources close to the Senator confirmed the defection to our correspondent saying the official
By Ushang Ewa National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Hilliard Eta has said the smooth conduct of the local government primary elections in Cross River State has clearly demonstrated the change mantra by upholding and instilling the tenets of internal democracy. Eta disclosed this Wednesday in a statement signed and issued by his
Every university is established on the background of sustainable development and steady growth not only in infrastructure but also in the quality of staff, teaching, programs etc. run by the institution. A steady curricula expansion ordinarily ought to have been a consistent practice in Nigerian Universities but because of impunity, corruption and lack of focus
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Reports available to CrossRiverWatch have revealed that the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade has indefinitely suspended the pay rolling/ payment of salaries to 40 newly employed law officers at the Ministry of Justice, Calabar thereby subjecting the affected lawyers to miserable hardship. This was contained in a letter dated
By Jeremiah Archibong and Jonathan Ugbal Former Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi has said the decision of Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade to borrow for the proposed 260kilometers superhighway is a misplaced priority due. Obi stated this Monday in Lagos while delivering a speech on the Nigerian economy on ‘The Platform’ where he
By Jonathan Ugbal The wife of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River, Dr. Linda Ayade Saturday in Obudu concluded the official inauguration of the Cross River Women Emancipation Initiative (CROWEI), a development initiative in the 18 local government areas of Cross River State. Dr. Linda had launched the initiative at the state level several weeks