By Our Reporter The Cross River State correspondent of National Mirror Newspaper, Richard Ndoma has charged young journalists to report facts as they are and avoid been opinionated in their reportage in order to excel. Richard who stated this Saturday, at the 7th edition of the CrossRiverWatch capacity building and training workshop for budding journalists
By CrossRiverWatch admin The China-Exim bank has agreed to finance Nigeria’s railway projects linking Lagos to Kano and Lagos to Calabar, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Tuesday. The plan of the federal government to raise a $25 billion Infrastructural Fund from the global community and establish long term bankable projects is gaining traction, Mr. Osinbajo
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Reports reaching CrossRiverWatch indicate that one man has been shot dead and a liquor store razed in what is been viewed as a kicker for a cult war between the two main groups in Obudu local government area. The victim, one Daddy Ishamali, said to be a staff of the Federal College
By CrossRiverWatch admin Some sports fans have reacted to Cross River Government’s postponement of the 19th National Sports Festival (NSF), speculated to hold in April to the last quarter of the year. Cross River, host of the biennial competition, had on Monday said it would be ready to host the event in the last quarter
By CrossRiverWatch admin Mr Oscar Ofuka, Chairman, Cross River Cocoa Technical Management Team, has condemned the recent burning of the Benbege Cocoa Plantation and Settlement in Etung Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that some unidentified youths from the area set the plantation and hundreds of building in
By CrossRiverWatch admin Over one hundred retirees in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital are demanding for the immediate payment of their gratuity which has not been paid for the past five years. The retirees in a peaceful protest to the governor’s office carried placards with inscriptions like; we are demanding for the right payment
By CrossRiverWatch admin Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has again promised that the Calabar garment factory, one of his signature projects will be commissioned by the 1st of April, 2016. The garment factory which was earlier scheduled to be commissioned within the first hundred days in office of Ayade’s administration has seen delays
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent Cross River governor, Ben Ayade has commence talks with the United Kingdom on partnership in requisite skill training and investments in a bid to raise the required capacity needed to construct an alternative economy for the state. Ayade disclosed this in an interview at the site of the Cross