By Patrick Obia Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has presented the 2020 financial estimates to the House of Assembly. He is proposing to spend NGN1,100,167,507.09 in the 2020 financial year. There is almost no difference in the estimates of 2019 and 2020 which despite announcing NGN1.043 trillion, turned out to be NGN1.148 trillion
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State 2020 budget is named “Budget of Olimpotic Meristematis”. The Sen. Ben Ayade administration pegged it at N1.1 trillion. See pictures, credit Daniel Williams. Details later…
By Ilam Patricia Stakeholders in the job creation industry have identified the need for continuous innovation, improvement on capacity and the honing of saleable skills as the panacea for the rising rates of unemployment. This was the focus of a one day youth capacity building and leadership training workshop themed “Building The Youths For An
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Amnesty International has declared human rights defenders Omoyele Sowore, Olawale Bakare and Agba Jalingo prisoners of conscience, as they have faced ongoing arbitrary detention and unfair trials solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression. The Nigerian authorities at both Federal and State levels have repeatedly targeted human rights defenders, activists
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade will be presenting the State 2020 budget tomorrow Thursday 21 November, 2019. This was contained in a press release by the Mr. Hope Obeten, Press Secretary to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Eteng Jonah Williams. Time is 10:00 am prompt
By Archibong Jeremiah The continuation trial of Citizen Agba Jalingo which was adjourned to today Wednesday 20 November, 2019 has been further adjourned to next Wednesday 27 November, 2019. Our reporter at the Court was informed that the Court wasn’t meant to seat today which led to the further adjournment. Our reporter also observed that
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The authority of Nigerian Correctional Service have refuted reports in one of the private television stations and some social media handles claiming sponsorship of a football competition by detained journalist, Agba Jalingo for inmates in the Afokang custody Centre of the service in Calabar, Cross River State. The Nation Newspaper reports that
By Patrick Obia And Kevin Ololo The Cross River State House of Assembly has ended a one day public hearing on the bill seeking to change State owned university (Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH) to a conventional institution. It is hoped that come January 2020, the process would have been completed. At the public