By Ogar Monday The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has completed an operational visit to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) 305 Special Mobility Group (SMG) Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The CAS who commissioned 3 blocks of newly constructed one bedroom transit accommodation for it’s personnels serving at the
By Our Reporter Information reaching our newsroom has it that the Cross River State Police Command has arrested 8 suspects that allegedly murdered an Inspector of Police (name unkown) on Christmas day in Uyanga community in Akamkpa LGA. The information from our Police source reveal the body of the deceased was taken to a shrine
By CrossRiverWatch Admin On the 17th of January, 2017, the governor of Cross River State, Prof. Benedict Ayade, made what not a few Cross Riverians viewed as a shocking and bold statement. In that statement, governor Ayade, through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, damning every seemingly economic unevenness, courageously said that businesses earning
By Archibong Jeremiah CrossRiverWatch can confirm that Dr. Emem Moses Udoh Dr. Emem, a Senior Registrar in the Paediatrics unit, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) kidnapped on Monday 8th of January, 2018 has been rescued from her abductors on Thursday and reunited with her family. According to information available to our newsroom from the
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has revealed that he has lost interest in politics. The Governor bared his mind on Wednesday in Calabar while speaking at the launching of Ayade rice. While encouraging all to engage in farming he further revealed that he took loan from Central Bank to
By Margaret Adam The Management Consultant and Program Manager of the Central Bank of Nigeria South-South Entrepreneurship Development Center, Mr. Emeka Nnamani, has assured the public that the center is not folding up as speculated but that the five years agreement reached between the Cross River State Government, Central Bank and its implementing partners has
By Odey Ojeka The Obol Lopon of Ugep, Obol Ofem Ubana has declared that only graduates with certificates of discharge from the National Youth Service Corps will be allowed to contest in the next youth elections in Ugep, Yakurr local government area of central Cross River. The elections are billed for later in the year
By Margaret Adam Mr. Louis Ibok, General Manager, Investment Funding and Credit, Cross River State Microfinance and Enterprise Development Agency (CRS MEDA) has urged entrepreneurs to start with grants instead of loans. Mr. Ibok gave the counsel on Sunday as a guest on “The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo”, a topical issue radio program that holds