By Our Correspondent Cross River State has again recorded another first following the maiden ride of its ultra-modern monorail which took off yesterday from Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort to the Calabar International Convention Center (CICC) at the Summit Hills and back to Tinapa. This feat is one in a series of pioneering achievements which
By CrossRiverWatch admin Scores of youths and indigenes of Yakurr LGA yesterday protested what they described as the attempt by the Senator Ben Ayade government to downgrade the Institute of Technology and Management, ITM in Ugep from a Diploma awarding institution affiliated to the Highbury College in Portsmouth England to a technical school. The youths
By Our Correspondent Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, has called on the Federal Government and the international community to support the anti-deforestation efforts of the state government to preserve and manage its rich forest resource rather than work against the construction of the superhighway by his administration. Ayade who made the call while
By Utang Bassey The atmosphere in Calabar South local government area of Cross River State is growing tense following the shooting of 3 people within 3 days in what some fear may trigger a new gangster war in the council area. Findings by CrossRiverWatch reveal it began Friday last week around the Pinn Margaret secondary
By CrossRiverWatch admin Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has begun issuing letters of appointment to Commissioners and other aides over six months after announcing their appointments. Sources in Government House say the appointees got a message last week directing them to proceed to the governor’s office and obtain their appointment letters. According to the
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The government of Cross River State has directed the Onyadama and Enyima communities of Obubra and Yakurr local government areas to evacuate the disputed land between the two communities which led to a communal crisis recently. “Nobody from Onyadama or Enyima goes into that land until the Boundary Commission
By Our Correspondent Given the ugly dimension corruption has assumed in the country, the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Hon. John Gaul Lebo has called for concerted efforts to fight the scourge. Hon Lebo who made the call recently at the Law Week 2016, organized by the Faculty of Law University
By Frank Edima The erstwhile governor of Cross River State and Founder of The Bridge Leadership Foundation (TBLF) Senator Liyel Imoke has express displeasure that the State is being regarded as a civil servants State. Senator Imoke barred his mind while speaking at the grand finale of the Graduate Employability Training (GET) program at Jorany