By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has barred Government House Correspondents of CrossRiverWatch, Hit FM, FAD FM and Sparkling FM from covering his activities. The Governor’s directive, CrossRiverWatch gathered, was given after the recent release of a video where he, alongside his deputy, Professor Ivara Esu were dancing to tunes
Do you know that budget allocations for LGAs, Houses of Assembly and State Judiciaries are all paid into a joint account which is controlled by the state Governor alone? In Cross River state for instance, 🖕The State House of Assembly only has a recurrent/expenditure bank account. 🖕Anytime the House has a need, an event or
The excellent positive reviews and responses that have flooded the Cross River social media space for the first delivery of seedlings from the Cross River Rice City to Bayelsa, is a testament of the acceptability of the project and citizens appreciation for completed projects. I am simply saying that we will all file out and
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