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Investigation: After Budgeting N42 Billion, Cross River Resorts To Obscure Company For Spaghetti Flyover, Calabar-Odukpani Dual Carriageway 

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”

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CALABAR: Becoming Self Reliant Boosts Spirituality, Clergy Tells Church Members

By Maxwell Effiong And Emmanuel Eni Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, have been charged to embrace entrepreneurial development for easy spiritual reliance. This was the central theme of the multi-stake career fair, organised by the church in Calabar, where thousands of young men and women were urged to be self

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Conflicting Court Orders: Cross River CJ Summon Judges, Warn Against Conflicting Ex-Parte Orders

By Patrick Obia The Chief Judge of the High Court of Cross River State, Justice Akon Ikpeme has advised the body of Judges in the Court to be wary about the ex parte motions they grant. This is contained in a statement issued by the Chief Registrar of the Court, Eden Okokon Esq which also

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Anxiety As Governor Ayade Fails To Pay Civil Servants, Appointees August Salary

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

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Cross River PDP: Former Acting Governor, Frank Adah Withdraws From Chairmanship Race

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Admin The speaker of the eight assembly of Cross River State and one time acting Governor, Frank Adah has withdrawn from the Chairmanship race of the People’s Democratic Party in the State.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

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Beyond The Surface: What Every Investigative Reporter Needs To Know BY CITIZEN AGBA JALINGO

Being a presentation at the one-day workshop on Data Journalism for the extractive sector organised by Policy Alert. Due to diverse interpretation, to better understand what investigative reporting is, it may be best to start by explaining what it is not. It is vaguely said that all reporting is investigative. After all, journalists routinely dig

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BREAKING: Thunder Strikes Magistrate Court In Ikom

By CrossRiverWatch Admin Judicial officers, lawyers, and practitioners in the judiciary are currently in shock after thunder struck Court 3 of the Chief Magistrate Court in the Ikom Magisterial district of Cross River State. Ikom is a commercial town in central Cross River and is located nearly 205 kilometres north of the southern port city

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Open Governance: Investigative Journos Get Training On Reporting Extractive Industries

By CrossRiverWatch Admin In what seems a paradigm shift from existing norms, over a dozen journalists were on Friday in Calabar, trained on reporting in depth the extractive industries in Cross River State in a bid to promote contract transparency, beneficial ownership, accountability, and overall transparency in the sector. The training, which had physical and

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