By CrossRiverWatch Admin Follow @crossriverwatch The unending squabbles and infighting within the ranks of the All Progressives Congress APC in Cross River state, if not properly handled, will snowball into a gale of defections, multiple sources within the party have told CrossRiverWatch. Since the substantive State Chairman of the party, Pastor Usani Usani was appointed
By Jonathan Ugbal Follow @NaijaJonathan Legal activist, Mr. Ferdinand Isa has dragged Nigerian Secret Police; the SSS to court over the February 2, 2017 invasion of a unity college in Calabar, the Cross River State capital claiming NGN500 million in damages. Mr. Isa in a statement widely circulated on Friday lamented that the system wants
By Jonathan Ugbal Follow @NaijaJonathan and Elijah Ugani Follow @Elijah_ugani A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State and aspirant for the 2019 guber elections of the party has fingered the Cross River State Government after members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria attacked the party’s secretariat in Obudu which
Archibong Jeremiah Hon. Legor Idagbo, Member House of Representatives has co-sponsored a bill to create the Federal Character Tribunal. Hon. Legor, while proposing the motion on the floor of the Green Chambers, drew his reference from section 14, Sub 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Obudu/Obanlikwu/Bekwarra Constituency rep maintained that
By Archibong Jeremiah The member representing Obudu/Bekwarra/Obanliku constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Legor Idagbo has called on the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to expedite action to ensure that the dualization of Calabar – Ikot Ekpene road be captured in the 2018 budget. Hon. Legor, member House Committee on Works made
By Ogar Monday House of Assembly Correspondent Follow @ogar_monday Following the January 2017 court order that led to the ejection of the Calabar Urban Development Authority (CUDA) from its former office along IBB way in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the Executive Secretary, Mr. Joe-Mary Ekeng has said that the agency operated “from under
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent Follow @ogar_monday More suspicious items are continually revealed in the ongoing defense of the proposed 2018 spending of the Cross River State Government with the ministry of environment budgeting NGN300 million for an environmental impact assessment for projects completed by previous administrations. These includes the Calabar International Convention
By Aplefe Ojong It was a bumper-to-bumper stampede and a reenactment of a carnival like atmosphere yesterday in Calabar as the old capital city was grounded by a mamoth crowd of Cross Riverians from the Southern senatorial district who are asking the state Governor, Senator Ben Ayade to run again in 2019. Leaders, youths and