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Know Your Constituency Projects In The 2025 Budget (Part Three): Cross River North Senatorial District In Focus BY AGBA JALINGO

Kindly note that these projects do not include the ones budgeted separately in the SDGs and NDDC appropriations; and those that may come up in the supplementary budget. This is applicable to all members of the NASS. Both those I have written their projects and the ones I will still write.

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Know Your Constituency Projects In The 2025 Budget (Part Two): Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency In Focus  BY AGBA JALINGO 

Today, I move on to Ogoja Yala federal constituency projects budgeted for in the 2025 appropriate law. The Federal Constituency is ably represented by Honorable Godwin Offiono (Goffio). 1.ERGP20256884 SUPPLY OF AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT FOR SELECTED FARMERS AT OGOJA AND YALA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN OGOJA/YALA FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY, CROSS RIVER STATE Cost: N100,000,000 2.ERGP20256885 CONSTRUCTION AND

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Know Your Constituency Projects In The 2025 Budget (Part One): Obanlikwu/Bekwarra/Obudu Federal Constituency In Focus BY AGBA JALINGO

The 2025 budget has been passed and signed into law. As I promised, I will be extracting and serializing all the constituency projects of all the 8 members of the House of Representatives and all the three Senators from Cross River State. Today, I begin with the constituency projects budget for my own Federal Constituency,

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Call It Accountability Week… BY AGBA JALINGO

The past week has been very exhilarating for me for one major reason. How our representatives have unleashed their media aides to give an account of their various constituency interventions and projects. The week can rightly be called “accountability week” in Cross River State. Once we demanded that our representatives in the House of Reps

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Student Legislators Charged To Prioritize Welfare, Academic Growth

By Mary Bassey, House of Assembly Correspondent Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Elvert Ayambem in the 2025 Student Legislative Summit, has emphasized the crucial role of the students’ legislature in shaping campus policies and driving advocacy for student welfare and academic progress. Speaking in an event held at

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Accountability: Group Writes UNICROSS, Requests Financial, Other Key Records 

By CrossRiverWatch Admin A group of solicitors under the auspices of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) Alumni Association, has written officially to the instruction’s Governing Council, requesting for some key records from the institution under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011. The request was contained in

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IFAS Holds Annual Review, Sues Good Governance, Support For Victims Of Rape

By Godwin Otang The Cross River State Chapter of the Inclusive Forum for Accountable Society (IFAS) has held its annual and last quarter review meeting in Calabar the Cross River State capital, sues for good governance. Supported by Action Aid Nigeria, IFAS is a nonprofit making group that seeks to increase government effectiveness, accountability, and

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Demand Accountability From Your Leaders – A Well-Informed Adolescent Initiative Charge Youths In Cross River

By Godwin Otang Youths have been charged to demand accountability, civic participation among others from their leaders at all levels of governance especially in public offices. The charge was part of efforts to cultivate civic responsibility and empowerment among youths of Cross River State and Nigeria, by a non-profit organization – A Well-Informed Adolescent Initiative.

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