By CrossRiverWatch Admin Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Thursday referred to Senator Gershom Bassey as a Governor. Mr. Gershom represents the southern senatorial district in the 8th Senate of the national assembly and is rumored to have been favored by former Governor Liyel Imoke as his successor, but for his promise to hand
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent A financial institution has donated 700 overall reflective vests to the Cross River State government in a bid to properly kit waste management personnel to ensure their safety. Making the presentation to Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade in his office on Wednesday, the General Manager, South South, South
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Short Memories Many citizens and well wishers including myself are appalled by the events that are unfolding at such a quick pace in a state once celebrated as a beacon of stability. Personally, I have followed the local politics since my one-year stint as a Youth Corper, and can claim with certain
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Government has signed a construction agreement with Chinese state owned company; China Harbour for preliminary works on its Bakassi deep seaport. The deep seaport is one of the signature projects of the administration of Governor Ben Ayade and despite being delayed, he said that the
By Jonathan Ugbal The Cross River University of Technology will on Saturday award 18 students first class degrees in its 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th combined convocation ceremony says the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Anthony Owan-Enoh. “We are quite happy as a University that after that after past failures of several attempts
By Ikwen Atuaka Motorists entering and exiting Calabar, the Cross River State capital now spend a minimum of 2 hours to move from Tinapa junction to Odukpani junction, a distance of less than 8 kilometers CrossRiverWatch authoritatively reports. Motorists for the past 10 days have been facing an uphill task navigating through the fallen and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin His Excellency Sir. I am moved to write you this open letter to express my desires and the desires of many Cross Riverians as it pertains to bringing development to Northern Cross River State. There’s a remarkable yearn for a more practical approach towards the development of the state. My initial intentions
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade yesterday turned up in a special golf kart for the second dry run of the 2017 Carnival Calabar. Revellers who were tired of waiting almost two hours for the flag off which was delayed due to a heavy downpour were awoken when Mr.