By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade, savoured uncommon popularity in the week, shortly after presenting his 2020 appropriation bill titled “Budget of Olimpotic Meristemasis”. He trended massively. Even though he too almost found it difficult pronouncing the grammatical jargons he put together, he had become a butt of jokes across the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Last year, according to the Cross River State 2019 budget, chart of account, general administration the State Needs Assessment Agency approved budget was 67,600,000.00. In the current budget for 2019 the Needs Assessment Agency got zero budget allocation. See exclusive document; Also, the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, Calabar maintains the 2018
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Our newsroom can exclusively report that the office of the Special Adviser Technical (COS) according to the 2019 budget of Cross River State is expected to spend N334,693,780,685.32. In 2018 N429,193,780,685.32 was approved and spent by the office. Dualization of Calabar-Odukpani inclusive of Odukpani-Spagheti flyover in 2018 cost the State N18,000,000,000.00 while
By Archibong Jeremiah There was mild drama during the Miss Africa 2018 beauty pageant which held at the Calabar International Conference Center as the third edition winner, Miss Dorcas Kasinde’s hair caught fire. The fire was caused by the fire works on the stage after she was announced winner. The fire which was surprising to
By Mary Umani Miss Congo Dorcas Kasinde has emerged Miss Africa 2018 thereby winning thirty five thousand dollars ($35,000), SUV as well as be the Ambassador of Africanism, the theme of this year’s Carnival Calabar and Festivals. Nigeria’s Chimamaka Goodness Nnaemeka and Miss Zambia Gladys Kayumba were the 2nd and 3rd runner up. After receiving
By Archibong Jeremiah The Cross River State Governor Senator Ben Ayade has postulated that “The Western world is the past, East Asia is the present and Africa indeed is the future. Therefore Africa holds a lot of promise to the world.” Governor Ayade made the foreshadowing in Calabar yesterday while declaring open the Carnival Calabar
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Follow @crossriverwatch The Government and the good people of Cross River State as has become the norm right from the administration of Mr. Donald Duke, closed the year 2017 with the largest, colorful, thrilling, and most famous street party in Africa, the Carnival Calabar. Last year’s edition of the Carnival Calabar has