By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that Kogi and Cross River States have the lowest figures of samples tested since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in the country in February, 2020. According to SaharaReporters, the two States are yet to record any positive COVID-19 case. While Kogi has only
By Patrick Obia All is set to lay late Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Obudu Police Division, Mr. Amawu Gabriel who was allegedly shot dead in what was later termed “accidental discharge” by the then Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nkereuwem Akpan. The burial arrangements see the opening of mourning house on Wednesday 27th May, 2020
By Patrick Obia A lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication, University of Calabar, Mr. Inyali Peter has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of stealing more than what was added as minimum wage from lecturers salaries through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS. The journalist who is also an aid to Ben
You probably have seen the post written by Prince Charles Ekanem IV titled “still on the Commissioner for Finance”. The sentiment is obvious. His claims are bogus. According to Mr. Charles, Cross River State Government spend a whopping N1.3B in contract sum to develop her SIFMIS platform. His claim reminded me of former Lagos State Governor,
By Jonathan Ugbal Following weeks of a media face-off between the federal government and the Cross River state government, a seven-man team from the federal ministry of health has arrived Calabar, the state’s capital for an assessment of the level of preparedness as the world battles the SARS – CoV-2 pandemic. Cross River and Kogi
John Alechenu of Punch Newspaper examines the recent Peoples Democratic Party ward and Local Government congresses held nationwide and posits that a lot of work is still required to return the party to winning ways. Since its defeat at the presidential election in 2015, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party has struggled to find its feet
By Eyo Charles, Daily Trust Farmers in the hinterlands of Cross River State have received agricultural inputs from a Japanese agricultural support group, the Sasakawa Africa Association. The trainings and supports are to bolster their farm yields and enable them to produce in larger quantities so that they can become agro allied entrepreneurs. The Sasakawa
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The recent poverty index report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that about 82.9 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty. This figure represents 40.1 per cent of the nation’s total population estimated at about 200 million. This is contained in its “2019 Poverty and Inequality” report using the Nigerian Living