By Patrick Obia A former Attorney General and commissioner of justice of Cross River State, Attah Ochinke, has said that those cutting down trees planted by the government for no reason should be brought to book and made to pay heavily. The lawyer made this known on his Facebook handle on Thursday where he implored
For us in Cross River, it is yet another fiscal year, another budget and another tongue twisting confusion. Again as usual, the people would spend more time taking about, and trying to analyze the strange appellation of budget proposal presented to the House of Assembly. Definitely, the analyses would not dwell on its grave implications
By Patrick Obia Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has presented the 2020 financial estimates to the House of Assembly. He is proposing to spend NGN1,100,167,507.09 in the 2020 financial year. There is almost no difference in the estimates of 2019 and 2020 which despite announcing NGN1.043 trillion, turned out to be NGN1.148 trillion
By Patrick Obia The Cross River State 2020 budget is named “Budget of Olimpotic Meristematis”. The Sen. Ben Ayade administration pegged it at N1.1 trillion. See pictures, credit Daniel Williams. Details later…
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Amnesty International has declared human rights defenders Omoyele Sowore, Olawale Bakare and Agba Jalingo prisoners of conscience, as they have faced ongoing arbitrary detention and unfair trials solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression. The Nigerian authorities at both Federal and State levels have repeatedly targeted human rights defenders, activists
By Archibong Jeremiah The continuation trial of Citizen Agba Jalingo which was adjourned to today Wednesday 20 November, 2019 has been further adjourned to next Wednesday 27 November, 2019. Our reporter at the Court was informed that the Court wasn’t meant to seat today which led to the further adjournment. Our reporter also observed that
By CrossRiverWatch Admim Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has been named Champion Newspaper 2019 Governor of the Year. The choice of Ayade as Governor of the year was contained in a letter signed by the newspaper’s Managing Director and Editor-In-Chief, Mrs. Nwadiuto Iheakanwa. While justifying the choice of the Governor for the award,
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) – A former presidential candidate and journalist is being held by Nigeria’s security forces despite being twice granted bail, his lawyer told CNN. Omoyele Sowore, is an investigative journalist and founder of the New York-based news site Sahara Reporters, who was arrested in August by the country’s intelligence agency, the