By Jonathan Ugbal Legal practitioners engaged by the Cross River State ministry of justice are currently protesting at the Governor’s office in Calabar over non payment of salaries. The protest is one in a series of many that plagued the State after the delisting of nearly 3,000 workers from the payroll by the current administration.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River has sacked his Special Adviser on forest security, Thomas Obi Tawo a.k.a ‘General Iron.’ “The State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade has approved the sack, with immediate effect of Mr. Thomas Obi Tawo, aka General Iron, the Special Adviser on Forest Security,” read a statement signed by
It is no longer news. CP Sikiru Akande has been redeployed from Cross River State. He has been asked to resume at the force headquarters in Abuja while CP Alhassan Aminu, is to take over from him. From the day he was announced as CP of Cross River State, almost every commentator in the State
By Jonathan Ugbal The long squabble between the Cross River State Government and the Nigerian Navy over lands in two choice locations in Calabar may have been settled on Thursday when the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo visited Governor Ben Ayade and disclosed that the Navy is set to establish an
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday ratified the presidential approval for the Lagos – Calabar coastal rail project to link most of Nigeria’s coastal cities by rail within six years. The FEC also approved USD11.17 billion for the project, the Cable Newspapers quotes Lai Mohammed, the country’s infromation and culture minister
Maybe we should start from the meaning of Achievement. What does it mean? Different dictionaries give different definitions but I took two, while the reader can add more. a. A thing done successfully with effort, skill, or courage. b. The act of achieving; attainment or accomplishment, like the achievement of one’s object. In the first
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The British Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday published the story of a medical student in the University of Calabar who saw the corpse of his missing friend in the laboratory after he went missing. Enya Egbe, 26, is said to have gathered with colleagues to dissect a cadaver only to scream and run
By Ike Uchechukwu, Vanguard News Nigeria Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River, Barrister Efiok Cobham has asserted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State inherited a bad omen, describing the ruling party as a strange entity that bought a wrong player in the person of Sen. Ben Ayade, Governor of the State.