By Ushang Ewa The Cross River State chapter of the African Action Congress (AAC) on Monday in Calabar said it has obtained the details of Cross River Local Government allocations from 2015 to 2019. The party said this was in line with its resolve to ensure “promote accountability” in governance, a statement signed by the
The picture you are seeing there is not an old picture. It’s a very recent picture of machinery on site, tumbling-over people’s farmlands for the Obudu International Passenger and Cargo Airport, with only 14 Saturdays to the Obudu New Yam festival. Now, I have five reasons why in my opinion, the idea of another airport
A Cross River child that was born the year Donald Duke became governor in 1999, would have been 8 years old when Donald left office in 2007 and will be 20 years old, this year 2019. If that person is 30 years old today, he or she was only 10 years old when Donald Duke
In 1, 473 days from today, Governor Ayade will have finished his second tenure and another Governor will take-over. That is the tomorrow I am referring to… 1. When that tomorrow comes and the next Governor refuses to conduct LG elections, I shall have no moral ground to ask why? Because I couldn’t ask my
In the past 24 hours, the social media have been inundated with reports about a cold war brewing between Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade and a front line media activist and State Chairman of the AAC, Mr. Agba Jalingo over the later critical Facebook post about some activities of the Governor. Agba who
Now, let me make it clear that Ayade as Governor of Cross River State, has all it takes to arrest me and humiliate me and prosecute me and even put me in jail. I do not have any doubt about that in my mind. After all, he is Governor. Having said that, I also want
The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has taken a step that if followed through, will from June 1, 2019; make it very difficult for Governors to exert control over the utilization of LG allocations, as presently obtains. The Joint Allocation Accounts Committee (JAAC), where LG funds are paid into will now only exist for the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The AAC State Chairman had alleged in an opinion article that about N4billion Naira was withdrawn from the State and Local government joint accounts, just before the last elections, to fund what the governor called ‘quick win projects’ in the 18 LGAs and that the memo never made it to exco to