By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent The returned Governor and Deputy elect of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade and Professor Ivara Esu has outlined a week-long series of activities in readiness towards May 29, 2019 swearing-in. The programs which kick Governor Ayade and Deputy Ivara Esu attending a Ju’mat prayer service Friday, May 24th,
By David Nsa and Margaret John The Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jens-Petter Kjemprud has rated Cross River a ‘top-notch investment State’, says it has all the needed resources suitable for development. He stated this in his address at the two days International Collaboration and Investment Summit held at the Calabar International Conference Centre (CICC)
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
By Jonathan Ugbal The last may not have been heard of the decision of the Cross River State Government to construct a passenger and cargo airport in Obudu Local Government Area as one of the host communities has claimed that over five hundred million Naira worth of crops have been destroyed so far. One of
By Efa Sunday, Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has directed that the recent allocation of Cocoa farms undertaken by the State Cocoa Allocation Committee be cancelled. A statement in Calabar by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, quoted Professor Ayade instructing that the cancellation takes effect immediately.
By Philip Agba and Margaret John Cross River State has been noted as one of the States in Nigeria that have greatly benefitted from the mass media in terms of objective, impartial and balanced content due to its plurality of broadcast stations. The attribution was given at the one year anniversary lecture of Sparkling 92.3FM
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