By CrossRiverWatch Admin As Catholic youths across the country converge on the city of Calabar for the 2018 National Youth day, Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade, has charged them to play a greater role in the politics of the country ahead of the 2019 general elections. Speaking Wednesday, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Chief Press Secretary of the Cross River State Governor, Mr. Christian Ita has debunked insinuations that the gocernor is planning to cross carpet to the All Progressives Congress APC. In a statement released in Calabar yesterday, Ita said Ayade remains a committed member of the PDP and has no plans of
By CrossRiverWatch Admin When a leader endears himself to his people, followership comes naturally. Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade commands enormous followership in the state not because he holds the people spell bound with his flowery oratory but because he has dutifully fulfiled his own part of the social contract he signed with
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The gubernatorial election in Ekiti State which was held on Saturday 14th July, 2018 has gripped the attention of many stakeholders across the country and Cross River State is not left out. The Chief Returning Officer of the election, Professor Idowu Olayinka, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, announced the
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Long before his inauguration as governor on May 29, 2015, Professor Ben Ayade, had already developed an impressive developmental blueprint on how Cross River State under his stewardship would evolve. As a state that had for decades worn the badge of civil service like a second skin, Governor Ayade was determined to
By Ogar Monday The Director General of the Cross River State Due Process and Price Intelligence Bureau, Barrister Alphonsus Eba has stated that if Cross River State doesn’t develop under the administration of Senator Ben Ayade, development will elude the State. Barrister Eba who made this known while speaking to CrossRiverWatchTV in Calabar, the Cross
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State House of Assembly in plenary, Wednesday, gave the Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade the approval for the appointment of five more Special Advisers. The approval was given following a letter from the Governor through the Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Tina
By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has written to the Cross River State House of Assembly, seeking the House permission to withdraw 2 billion naira from the Cross River State Reserve Fund. The letter with reference number SSG/S/300/VOLXVII/1067, signed by Barrister Tina Banku Agbor, the Secretary